Long before she came to UCLA School of Law, Ayisha Siddiqa ’27 left her mark on international environmental law. From advising the secretary-general of the United Nations to founding a groundbreaking legal tribunal, Siddiqa earned renown as a conscientious and dynamic climate advocate – so much so that Time magazine named her a woman of the year in 2023.
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J.D Environmental Law
Date: Monday, March 31
Time: 12:15 - 1:30pm
Location: Room 1314, UCLA School of Law
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Please join Allan Marks for a deep dive into the fast-changing US political and regulatory landscape for renewable energy, as the new Trump administration seeks to reshape the US energy sector. Marks will also discuss how the new direction of US energy policy will intersect with macro-economic and geopolitical trends and with the rising power demand from AI data centers, digital infrastructure and EVs.
Allan Marks is a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. He is a retired/consulting partner at Milbank LLP, where he practiced for over 30 years and was a partner in the firm’s Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance group. He has handled complex transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe with an aggregate value of over $100 billion across multiple sectors: power and renewable energy, transportation, water supply and water treatment, airports, rail, port terminals, alternative fuels, social infrastructure, and telecommunications and digital infrastructure. Many of his transactions focused on the energy transition, renewable energy, innovative clean technologies, and sustainability. He is a Contributor to Forbes and speaks frequently on energy, infrastructure, climate change, business strategy, financial markets, public policy, and international transactions and has been interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, POLITICO Pro, CNN Business, Bloomberg, S&P Global Market Intelligence, and other media outlets. He received a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Date: Tuesday, March 18
Time: 1:30pm-3:00pm
Location: Room 1314, UCLA School of Law
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The U.S. was struggling to reduce carbon emissions even before the second Trump administration and David B. Spence offers a compelling voter-centric explanation for the bitter partisanship that has complicated America’s clean energy transition. His timely new book Climate of Contempt: How to Rescue the U.S. Energy Transition from Voter Partisanship explores the effects of polarization and propaganda on energy policy and shows a path forward for cooperation on this crucial issue. Spence is an energy law and regulation professor from University of Texas at Austin. Join us Tuesday, March 18 for this lunch talk at UCLA Law with Professor Spence in conversation with UCLA Law Professors William Boyd and Ann Carlson .
Spence's book will be availiable for purchase at this event.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Saturday, March 15.
