States Can Lead the Way to Improved Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards, CPR White Paper 1210, August 2012, by CPR Member Scholars Alexandra B. Klass and Lesley K. McAllister, and CPR Policy Analyst Wayland Radin.

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Lesley McAllister

Lesley K. McAllister was a Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law. She passed away in August 2017.

Professor McAllister taught and wrote in the areas of environmental, energy, and climate law, with a research emphasis on the roles of regulatory and legal institutions in environmental compliance and enforcement.

Before joining the UC Davis law faculty in 2013, she held appointments at the University of San Diego School of Law and the UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her work focused on environmental, natural resources, property, and energy law, both domestic and international. Much of her scholarship focused on innovative regulatory approaches, such as cap-and-trade regulation, public-private governance, and citizen enforcement.

Professor McAllister’s publications included her book “Making Law Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil” (Stanford University Press, 2008), as well as various book chapters and articles including “The Enforcement Challenge of Cap-and-Trade Regulation,” 40 Environmental Law (2011); “Dimensions of Enforcement Style: Factoring in Regulatory Capacity and Autonomy,” 32 Law & Policy 61 (2010); “The Overallocation Problem in Cap-and-Trade: Moving Toward Stringency,” 34 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 396 (2009); “Regional Climate Regulation: From State Competition to State Collaboration,” 1 San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law 81 (2009); “Sustainable Consumption Governance in the Amazon,” 38 Environmental Law Reporter 10873 (2008); and “Beyond Playing ‘Banker’: The Role of the Regulatory Agency in Emissions Trading,” 59 Administrative Law Review 269 (2007).

Professor McAllister received a B.S.E., magna cum laude, in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1991; a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School in 2000; and a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.

Alexandra Klass

Alexandra Klass is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is on leave from that position while she serves in the Biden administration.

Professor Klass teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, natural resources law, environmental law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric transmission grid, siting and eminent domain issues surrounding interstate electric transmission lines and oil and gas pipelines, and applications of the public trust doctrine to modern environmental law challenges.

She is a co-author of Energy Law and Policy (West Academic Publishing 2015) (with Davies, Osofsky, Tomain, and Wilson), The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2017) (with Ruhl, Salzman, and Nagle), Energy Law: Concepts and Insights (Foundation Press 2017) (with Hannah Wiseman), and Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (Aspen, 4th ed. 2018) (with Klein, Cheever, Birdsong, and Biber). Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law and land use litigation. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

She was a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. She is a Fellow and Faculty Leadership Council member at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. She served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Minnesota Law School from 2010-2012. She was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 2015.

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