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Dan Emmett and Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw Serve as Regents Lecturers
Regents Lecturer Dan Emmett (center)
Kim McLane Wardlaw meets with students during her visit.
During the fall and spring semesters, UCLA Law welcomed Regents Lecturers Dan Emmett, chairman of Santa Monica-based Douglas Emmett, Inc., and founder of the law school’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Kim McLane Wardlaw ’79, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Each spent two weeks at the law school, where they met with students and faculty members, participated in law school classes, conducted a dean’s roundtable and panel discussions, and presented a timely public lecture. Emmett led a lively conversation about one of the most critical issues facing California and the world: how to deal with the threat of climate change. As part of a panel of experts who brought perspectives from business, academia and government, he discussed ways to foster a productive relationship between environmental regulators and the business community. The event was moderated by Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law Ann Carlson, and the participants included Jeanne Clinton, special advisor to the governor for energy efficiency, Michael Crooke, former president and CEO of Patagonia, Inc., Mary Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board, and Tony Pritzker, managing partner of The Pritzker Group. Judge Wardlaw also led a discussion on judicial philosophy, with a panel of judges including Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen ’91 and Judge Richard Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The discussion was moderated by Professor Adam Winkler. Judge Wardlaw’s visit coincided with a special sitting of the Ninth Circuit, during which the court heard oral arguments in four cases in the law school’s Cappello Courtroom.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Holds Special Sitting at UCLA School of Law The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held a special sitting at UCLA Law in March. It was the court’s second sitting at the law school, and all of the participating judges were UCLA School of Law alumni. The first appellate panel consisted of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski ’75, Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw ’79 and Senior Circuit Judge Dorothy W. Nelson ’53. They considered appeals of cases decided by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California: Brown v. NFL Players Association and Grant v. NFL Players Association. The second appellate panel consisted of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, and Circuit Judges Sandra Segal Ikuta ’88 and Jacqueline H. Nguyen ’91, who considered the appeal of the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in Cortez v. USA and the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Long v. Playboy Enterprises International.
Judge Nguyen, Judge Nelson, Dean Moran, Judge Kozinski, Judge Wardlaw and Judge Ikuta
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