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Lesley K. McAllister is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, and Associate Adjunct Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego.
Professor McAllister teaches and writes in the areas of environmental, energy, and climate law, with a 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 a member of the Law and Society Association, Latin American Studies Association, American Society of Comparative Law, the California Bar, and the American Bar Association, where she currently serves as the liaison of the Section of State & Local Government Law to the Standing Committee on Environmental 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 Enforcement Challenge of Cap-and-Trade Regulation,” 40 Environmental Law (2011); “Dimensions of Enforcement Style: Factoring in Regulatory Capacity and Autonomy,” 32 Law & Policy 61 (2010); “The Overallocation Problem in Cap-and-Trade: Moving Toward Stringency,” 34 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 396 (2009); “Regional Climate Regulation: From State Competition to State Collaboration,” 1 San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law 81 (2009); “Sustainable Consumption Governance in the Amazon,” 38 Environmental Law Reporter 10873 (2008); and “Beyond Playing ‘Banker’: The Role of the Regulatory Agency in Emissions Trading,” 59 Administrative Law Review 269 (2007).
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.
Lesley K. McAllister
Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law;
Associate Adjunct Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego
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