Lesley K. McAllister is an Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego, and an Associate Adjunct Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Unirversity of California San Diego.
Professor McAllister teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental law, property law, and comparative and international law, with an research emphasis on the roles of regulatory and legal institutions in environmental compliance and enforcement.
Before joining the University of San Diego law faculty, Professor McAllister worked for Earthjustice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Regional Counsel. At Earthjustice, she focused on the intersection of environmental law and human rights, and at the EPA, she specialized in US-Mexico border environmental enforcement issues. She also clerked for the Honorable Fern M. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Professor McAllister is an member of the Law and Society Association, Latin American Studies Association, American Society of Comparative Law, and the American Bar Association, where she currently serves as the chair of the Environmental Law Committee for the Section of State & Local Government Law.
Professor McAllister’s publications include her book “Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil” (Stanford University Press, 2008), as well as various book chapters and articles including “The Overallocation Problem in Cap-and-Trade: Moving Toward Stringency,” 34 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 395 (2009); “On Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: A Reply to Professor Crawford’s Review of ‘Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil,’” 40 George Washington International Law Review (forthcoming 2009); “Sustainable Consumption Governance in the Amazon,” 38 Environmental Law Reporter 1087; “Revisiting a “Promising Institution”: Public Law Litigation in the Civil Law World,” 24 Georgia State University Law Review 693 (2008); “Beyond Playing ‘Banker’: The Role of the Regulatory Agency in Emissions Trading,” 59 Administrative Law Review 269 (2007); and “Judging GMOs: Judicial Application of the Precautionary Principle in Brazil,” 32 Ecology Law Quarterly 149 (2005).
Professor McAllister received a B.S.E., magna cum laude, in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1991; a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School in 2000; and a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.
