2014-2015 Volume 62 Symposium Announced!
The UCLA Law Review invites you to attend the UCLA Law Review Symposium, "Examining The Roots of Human Trafficking and Exploitation."
California Constitutional Law: The Guarantee Clause and California’s Republican Form of Government
In the two decades since New York v. United States was decided, commentators have debated what should give rise to a justiciable Guarantee Clause claim. One common argument is that direct democracy inherently conflicts with the requirement, implicit...
Micro-Symposium on Competing Theories of Corporate Governance
On Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, 2014, the UCLA School of Law Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy sponsored a conference on competing theories of corporate governance. This conference provided a venue for distinguished...
Socio-Political Evaluation of Energy Deployment (SPEED): A Framework Applied to Smart Grid
Despite a growing sense of urgency to improve energy systems so as to reduce fossil-fuel dependency, energy system change has been slow, uncertain, and geographically diverse. Interestingly, this regionally heterogeneous evolution of energy system...
Energy and Climate Change: A Climate Prediction Market
Much of energy policy is driven by concerns about climate change. Views about the importance of carbon emissions affect debates on topics ranging from the regulation of electricity generation and transmission to the need for incentives to develop...
Regulating Domestic Carbon Outsourcing: The Case of China and Climate Change
The vast majority of the growth in greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades is expected to come from outside of the developed world. Yet on the whole, scholars have made only modest headway in identifying the distinctive features of effective...