Lesley K. McAllister
lmcallister@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-7623
Fax: (858) 534-3939
Office: #304A
UCSD School of Law
Warren Hall
Office Hours:
Education
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2004
J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000
B.S.E., Princeton University, 1991
Biography
Professor Lesley K. McAllister writes and teaches in the areas of climate, environment and energy as well as comparative and international law. Before joining the University of San Diego law faculty, Professor McAllister clerked for the Honorable Fern M. Smith of the Northern District of California and also worked for Earthjustice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Regional Counsel.
Professor McAllister's writings have focused on the implementation and enforcement of environmental regulation, both domestically and in other countries. Her recent publications related to climate change and emissions trading regulation include “The Enforcement Challenge of Cap and Trade”, 40 Environmental Law (forthcoming 2011); "The Overallocation Problem in Cap-and-Trade: Moving Toward Stringency," 34 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law (2009); “Regional Climate Regulation: From State Competition to State Collaboration,” 1 San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law (2009); and "Beyond Playing 'Banker': The Role of the Regulatory Agency in Emissions Trading," 59 Administrative Law Review 269 (2007). On environmental law and policy outside the United States, some of her most recent writings include, “Reorienting Regulation: Pollution Enforcement in Industrializing Countries," 32 Law & Policy 1 (2010) (with Benjamin van Rooij and Robert A. Kagan); "Sustainable Consumption Governance in the Amazon," 38 Environmental Law Reporter 10873 (2008); and her book Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2008).
