Government Accountability & Oversight
By Chris Horner As Climate Litigation Watch noted earlier this week, a Friday document production from UCLA sheds further light on that public institution’s law school and its role in the Climate Litigation Industry. In it we see UCLA Prof. Ann Carlson cite to “Involvement of sophisticated environmental tort lawyers” as one reason to expect […]
Frumhoff and Sher provide Carlson her materialAs Climate Litigation Watch noted earlier this week, a Friday document production from UCLA sheds further light on that public institution’s law school and its role in the Climate Litigation Industry – which is now spawning calls for a “Legion of Lawyers”. In it we see UCLA Prof. Ann […]
By Chris Horner CLW readers recall Oregon State University’s (and State Climatologist) Phil Mote writing not once but twice about a “secret meeting at Harvard” at which he presented, along with other academics, activists and plaintiffs lawyers advancing their case for “potential state causes of action against major carbon producers.” Earlier open records litigation had […]
UCLA law professor Ann Carlson is thankful for the role wealthy plaintiffs’ attorneys play in advancing climate change litigation across the country. She is also grateful for the significant funding her UCLA law clinic receives to focus on climate litigation efforts. But what’s not always clear is Carlson’s own position and her ties to lawyers […]
For Immediate Release: November 8th, 2018 Contact Dave Mohel: (703)217-2660 [email protected] GAO Files Suit against University of California on behalf of CEI for Information on UCLA Law School Involvement with Climate Litigation Industry WASHINGTON, November 8th, 2018 – Government Oversight & Accountability’s (GAO) today filed suit against the Board of Regents of the University of California […]
