Alan Ramo

• BA, Stanford University
• JD, Boalt Hall School of Law
• MJ, University of California, Berkeley

• Environmental Law
• Clinical legal education
• Toxics in the urban environment

• Community Activity:
• San Francisco Estuary Institute, Board of Directors 2010
• Impact Fund, Board of Directors 1993 to present
• Advisory Board, Rose Foundation 1994 to present
• Served as Interim Dean of the Law School 2008-2009.
• Director of the LLM in Environmental Law program and former Director of the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic.
• The Environmental Law and Justice Clinic under Ramo's direction received the following awards:
• Clinical Legal Education Association Award for Excellence 2006 in a Public Interest Case or Project for ELJC.
• EPA Region IX Earth Day Award for ELJC 1999
• SF Board of Supervisors Commendation for ELJC 1997
• Environmental Law Foundation Chappell Hayes Environmental Justice Award for ELJC 1995
• ABA SONREEL Law Student Clinic Award 1995
• Former legal director of Communities for A Better Environment.
• Has served as an advisory member of two Cal-EPA committees and as a consultant to the Department of Health Services.
• Won a landmark case enforcing SF Bay Area air pollution plans in the San Francisco Federal District court.
• Founder of the Western States Legal Foundation.
• Received the 2000 Wells Family Award in the area of urban renewal from the Environmental Now foundation.
• Member of the California Bar.

• Failure To Launch, The Recorder, 4/22/2011.
• Joan Blades - Fortune Cookie, ch. in Profiles in Prominence (Golden Gate University, 2009).
• Warding Off CEQA Lawsuits: Advice From a Plaintiff's Lawyer, 30 Real Prop. Law Rptr 101 (July 2007).
• Note on Martin v City & County of San Francisco (2005) 135 CA4th 392, 37 CR3d 470, 29 Real Property Law Reporter 251 (2006).
• CEQA Promotes Environmental Justice, ch. 5 in Everyday Heroes Protect the Air We Breathe, the Water We Drink, and the Natural Areas We Prize, p. 91, (Karen Douglas, et al., eds., Planning and Conservation League 2005).
• Court Says CEQA Covers Wal-Mart's Potential Contribution to Urban Decay, 28 Real Property Law Reporter 41 (2005).
• The Environmental Justice Clinic at the Golden Gate University School of Law: Profile of Environmental Justice Activism, Human Rights (ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Fall 2003).
• California's Energy Crises: the Perils of Crisis Management and a Challenge to Environmental Justice, 7 Albany Law Environmental Outlook Journal 1 (2002).
• Book Review, 40 Santa Clara L.R. 941 (2000) (reviewing The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice by Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.).
• Clean Up Your Act, Los Angeles Daily Journal (Oct. 15 1999). (Article on Environmental Citizen Suits)
• Deregulation Could Be a Mixed Bag, San Francisco Chronicle (July 2 1997).
• Hunters Point: Energy Development Meets Environmental Justice, 5 Envt'l Law News 28 (Spring 1996).
• Co-author, Landlord's Handbook: Guide to Promoting Lead Safe Housing (Golden Gate University Environmental Law and Justice Clinic 1995).
• Co-author, Tenant's Handbook: Your Legal Right to Lead Safe Housing (Golden Gate University Environmental Law and Justice Clinic 1995).
• Co-author, Report of the Environmental Justice Committee, in Toward the 21st Century: Planning for the Protection of California's Environment (California Comparative Risk Project Submitted to California Environmental Protection Agency May 1994).
• Will State Ignore Toxic Release Threat?, San Francisco Chronicle (Aug. 5 1993).
• Federal Clean Water Act's Prohibition on Toxic Discharges Applied for the First time to the Bay Area's Oil Refineries, San Francisco Barrister, Substantive Law Journal, Bar Association

• Civil Procedure
• Climate Change
• Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
• Environmental Law and Policy
• LLM in Environmental Law Seminar
• Renewable Energy