About

Ann Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and the Faculty Co-Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. She is also a faculty member at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Professor Carlson is recognized as one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy. Her work has been published in prominent law reviews and she is a co-author of the casebook Environmental Law. She has served on panels such as the National Academy of Sciences’ America’s Climate Choices and is currently involved with an American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel studying the future of America’s energy systems. Carlson is a frequent commentator and speaker on environmental issues, particularly climate change, and she blogs at Legal Planet. She teaches courses including Property, Environmental Law, Climate Change Law and Policy, and a Climate and Energy Law workshop. Her academic achievements include receiving the University of California’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Law School's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Art
• Aesthetics
• Psychiatry
• Law
• Economics
• Medicine
• Anthropology
• Linguistics
• Gender studies
• Psychology
• Literature
• Audiology

Selected publications

• FOR PKU BY PKU, A PATHWAY TO PROGRESS: INTEGRATING PATIENT VOICE WITH RESEARCH ON ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

  Molecular Genetics and Metabolism · 2022

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Audiology
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• Whiteness of a Darker Shade: Reclassifying Italian-Americans in the Trials of Maria Barbella

  Western Journal of Communication · 2020 · 3 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Gender studies

  It has been established that racial categories are constituted by rhetoric as much as reality and that whiteness occupies the position of greatest power in the resulting hierarchy. Prior research has demonstrated the symbolic constructions that defend the boundaries of whiteness. Those boundaries, however, have historically been unclear and fluid in their application to immigrants. This essay examines that fluidity during the two trials of an Italian immigrant for murder. An immigrant community successfully shifted the borders of white America to encompass Mediterranean immigrants by turning rhetorical strategies of whiteness against themselves through a complex relationship of multiple narratives arising from at least three different communities. It concludes by discussing the opportunities, limitations, and risks for liminal communities seeking to alter their relationship to whiteness.

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• Conclusion

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2019-04-30

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• Finding Connections Between Teacher Motivation And Professional Development In Pursuit Of Mastery In Practice

  Digital Commons - Hamline (Hamline University) · 2019-01-01

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  This qualitative case study investigated the connections between teacher motivation and high quality professional development. The research focused on two elementary schools in one large suburban school district in the upper Midwest. Surveys, individual interviews, focus group interviews, and document analysis were all used to collect data. This study identified the attributes of high quality professional development, which include collaboration, sustainability, and active teacher learning (Darling-Hammond, Hyler, & Gardner, 2017; Desimone & Pak, 2017; Macias, 2017; Parsons, Parsons, Morewood & Ankrum, 2016; Steeg & Lambson, 2015). The study explored current research around intrinsic and extrinsic motivation (Deci et al. 1991; Pink, 2009) and strove to determine which types of professional learning best support teachers in the continuous pursuit of developing their pedagogy. One conclusion is that when teachers are intrinsically motivated, the pursuit of mastery is ongoing and raised student achievement can be the outcome.

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• Burkean Dramatistic Analysis

  2019-08-20

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  Dramatistic theory arises from the ontological claim that human beings create, and are created by, complex symbolic structures that alter their perception of the world. Rhetorical manipulation of these symbols is thus an important tool to challenge preconceived notions and open the mind to new possibilities of action. Analysis of the means of manipulation enables us to evaluate the world view promoted by any narrative. The narratives of a culture not only reflect societal attitudes, they also play a role in reshaping them. This essay will demonstrate how symbolic structures can either dismantle or reinforce stereotypes through an analysis Maya Lopez (Echo/Ronin) a recurring character in the Marvel Universe. Lopez is a deaf, Native American, Latina woman. The essay focuses on a pivotal text, Vision Quest, by David Mack. It will demonstrate how the expanded symbolic arsenal of comics has the potential to normalize diversity and provide counter-stereotypes of people with disabilities.

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• Index

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• Introduction

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• Talitha L. LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South.

  The American Historical Review · 2018-04-01

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  The American Civil War effectively ended the South’s access to the slave labor traditionally relied upon in its agrarian economy. It did not eliminate the racial, political, social, and economic factors that facilitated the exploitation and abuse of black labor. The result of this toxic combination was the shift of that exploitation from slave state to carceral state, where prisons supplied a stream of black captive laborers. The evolution of this practice is documented in Douglas A. Blackmon’s landmark book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008). Talitha L. LeFlouria both narrows and expands the existing scholarship by bringing to life the experiences of the women who worked in that system. Although the vast majority of prison laborers were male, a significant number were female. Their experiences were in many ways radically different from those of their male counterparts. LeFlouria provides a much-needed addition to scholarship on the convict labor by focusing upon this often-ignored set of prisoners. Specifically, she examines the role of female prisoners in the creation of the modern industrialized economy of Georgia. In so doing, she provides two important insights into the still-fraught relationship between black women and the carceral state. First, she reveals the major contributions of black women’s labor to the creation of the New South. Second, she offers insightful analysis on how the system created a unique tension between enslavement and freedom for these women.

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• LibGuides: Ruzicka - Civil Rights in the 21st Century: Assignment

  2018-05-16

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• LibGuides: Martin - Research Paper: Home

  2017-04-06

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Frequent coauthors

• Ann D. Carlson

  3 shared

• Hannah J. Wiseman

  3 shared

• Joseph E. Aldy

  3 shared

• Eric M. Patashnik

  Providence College

  3 shared

• Barry G. Rabe

  3 shared

• William Boyd

  3 shared

• Dallas Burtraw

  2 shared

• John E. Hocking

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Law

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1990

• Other, Law

  University of California, Berkeley

  1985

• B.A., Political Science

  University of California, Berkeley

  1981

Awards & honors

• 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Eby Award for the…
• UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award
• 2006 Law School's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel