Education
Carlson attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science magna cum laude in 1982. She graduated from magna cum laude in 1989.
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She is an expert on United States. environmental law and policy with a particular focus on climate change and environmental federalism. Carlson joined the faculty of University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. She previously practiced law with the Los Angeles public interest law firm Hall and Phillips (now Phillips and Cohen), where she represented Stephanie Nordlinger in a challenge to California’s Proposition 13 in a case that reached the Supreme Court of the United States.
Her work representing Emil Stache and Almon Muelhausen in a case under the False Claims Acting against Teledyne Industries was featured in the book The Giantkillers.
Carlson’s scholarship examines unusual arrangements of federalism, evaluation of domestic environmental law and policy, and climate change. Carlson is the recipient of University of California, Los Angeles’s highest teaching honor, the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, and the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Carlson served as a panelist for the influential National Academy of Sciences committee on Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change.
