About JELP

The UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, known informally as JELP, produces a high quality biannual journal on cutting-edge environmental legal and policy matters.  JELP is entirely run and produced by students at UCLA School of Law.  Articles in JELP are written by leading scholars throughout the country and often the world, and by students focusing on environmental law at UCLA.

JELP enjoys strong partnerships with the Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program and the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, often in the form of publishing special symposia issues of the Journal.  Together with the Environmental Law Society, JELP assists in hosting speakers and events that complement the environmental curriculum at UCLA School of Law and fosters the continued growth of the vibrant environmental community at UCLA.

Volume 1, Number 1 of JELP was released in the fall of 1980 (seen here). The issue presented conference papers from a symposium on the use of economic analysis in the teaching of land use and environmental law, with the first authors including Robert Ellickson, James Krier, Richard Stewart, and A. Dan Tarlock.  The founding Editor in Chief wrote in the introduction to that issue, “Our main goal is to confront those environmental problems which are currently before the public, and to provide a variety of opinions and suggested solutions to the problems.”  As we anticipate the release of Volume 27, that initial goal continues to drive the Journal as we seek to publish innovative solutions to the immense challenges confronting our society today.

Volume 27 Editorial Board, 2008-2009

Editor-in-Chief: DUSTIN J. MAGHAMFAR

Senior Editor: JOHN DARAKJIAN

Executive Editor: JONATHAN WIENER

Chief Managing Editors: DAVID SMITH/ BRENDAN KEARNS

Chief Articles Editors: ALEXA ENGELMAN/BAINE KERR

Chief Comments Editor: JACKIE PRANGE

Chief Production Editor: DEREK ISHIKAWA/ SETH COX

Business Manager: TREVOR FINNEMAN

Chief Symposium Editor: MAYA KUTTAN

Articles Editors: ANDREW BRADY, THOMAS LE, FIDELIA CHIENG, GINA MAREK,HANNAH HAMMERSMITH, HILARY LANDIS RAU, LINDA KLEIN, COURTNEY TOWNSEND

Managing Editors: NICK DOLJA, LAUREN ROSNER, MAX FEINSTAT, LAUREN TARANTELLO, ERIC LINDBERG, MICHAEL WILLIAMS, JOE LULLO, MARK WOODHEAD

Symposium Editors: FARAH KHAN, GORDON NG

Associate Editors: HAILEY ANDERSON, NICOLE DI CAMILLO, MATTHEW DE LIRA,
STEVE ANDREWS, LINDSEY FLETCHER, LAUREN MACHESKI, ELHAM ARDESTANI, KATHERINE HILL, MARGARET MANNING, ADAM BAILEY, TODD HOLMAN, PAUL MCREYNOLDS, KEVIN BALSTER, TIFFANY HSU, HARSH PARIKH, NEEL BHUTA, SEAN KINGSTON, STALEY PROM, BRETT BISSETT, JOHN KOHLER, JIMMY PURVIS, JENNIFER BRODER, STEVEN KRIEGER, COLIN ROLFS, CAROL CHAO, PETER KRZYWICKI, SIERRA SHIPLEY, CARSON COOPER, MARGARET LEE, ISAAC SILVERMAN, SHILPA COORG, KATHRYN LEONARD, MIRI YEH, ADAM LEVITAN

Faculty Advisor: PROF. SEAN HECHT