2026 Ecology Law Quarterly Banquet

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About Professor Claudia Polsky

Proceeds from the Banquet directly support students by:

  • Providing direct funding for ELQ and other environmental student groups.
  • Enabling students to pursue public interest/public service summer fellowships.
  • Subsidizing student attendance at the Banquet.
  • Supporting students going to the Yosemite Environmental Law Conference and the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.
  • Fostering student research and dialogue through the ELQ Symposium.

Banquet Host Committee

Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute
William Chamberlain, J.D. ’71, Founding ELQ Editor-in-Chief 
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law
Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley Sho Sato Professor of Law
Rick Frank, founding Executive Director of CLEE
Dave Jones, California Insurance Commissioner Emeritus
Michael A. Mantell, B.A. ’73, Founder, former CEO of the Resources Legacy Fund and the Resources Law Group
William Mumby, J.D. ’18, Kaplan Kirsch LLP
Julia Olson, Founder & Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children’s Trust
Robert “Perl” Perlmutter, J.D. ’94, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP
Harrison Pollak, J.D. ’98
Nancy Skinner, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Chloé F. Smith, LL.M. ’24, CLEE Climate Change Research Fellow
Meredith Williams, Director (former), Department of Toxic Substances Control
Candice Youngblood, J.D. ’19, Earthjustice
Mitch Zuklie, J.D. ’96, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orrick

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William Chamberlain

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Michael Mantell

Nicholas Josefowitz

GOLDEN GATE

Matt Armsby
Gretta Goldenman
Laurie Goldman & Joshua Rider
Susan Hori
Jarrod Ingles
Marcy Kates & David Oppenheimer
Christopher Locke
Letitia Moore
Paul & Jasmine Nguyen
Harrison Pollak
Alan Ramo
Terry Watt
Marc Zeppetello