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Alan Ramo

Professor of Law
Director, JD Environmental Law Program
Director, LLM Environmental Law Program

Phone: 415-442-6654
E-mail: aramo@ggu.edu




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



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  • Environmental Law
  • Clinical legal education
  • Toxics in the urban environment
AREAS OF INTEREST
  • 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.
  • 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.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Note on Martin v City & County of San Francisco (2005) 135 CA4th 392, 37 CR3d 470, 29 Real Property Law Reporter 251 (2006).
  • Everyday Heroes Protect the Air We Breathe, the Water We Drink, and the Natural Areas We Prize ch. CEQA Promotes Environmental Justice (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.).
  • Energy Development Meets Environmental Justice, Environmental Law Section Newsletter (State Bar of California May 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).
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