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Richard M. Frank
Education
- B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara 1971
- J.D., University of California, Davis School of Law 1974
Visiting Professor of Law
Richard M. Frank will return to King Hall as Visiting Professor of Law in January 2010. He is the Executive Director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Professor Frank also serves as a Lecturer in Residence at the Berkeley Law, where he teaches courses in environmental law and climate change.
Full Biography...Before coming to CLEE and U.C. Berkeley, Professor Frank practiced law with federal and state agencies for 32 years, most of that time with the California Department of Justice. Immediately before joining Berkeley Law, he served as California's Chief Deputy Attorney General for Legal Affairs.
In addition to his duties at Berkeley Law, Frank is Of Counsel to the Resources Law Group, an environmental law firm in Sacramento, California.
In 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Frank to the Delta Vision Task Force, an advisory body asked to develop policy recommendations for the Governor and Legislature, addressing environmental problems confronting the California Delta. He served in that capacity in 2007-08. In May 2009, the Chair of the California Air Resources Board appointed Frank Vice Chair of the Economic Allocation & Advisory Committee, an advisory body formed to assist the Air Resources Board in implementing California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).
... CloseSpecial Interests
Environmental Law, Land Use Planning (See Also Constitutional Law), Energy LawSelected Career Highlights
- Lecturer in Residence, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2006-present.
- Executive Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, U.C. Berkeley, 2006-present
- Professor, Lincoln Law School, Sacramento, California, 1982-2006
More Career Highlights...- California Department of Justice, Sacramento, CA 1977-2006
- Adjunct Professor, UC Davis Div. of Env. Studies & UC Davis School of Law
- Staff Counsel, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA (1976-77)
- Staff Attorney, Federal Energy Administration (precursor to U.S. Department of Energy), Washington, D.C. (1974-76)
Selected Publications
- E. Biber, H. Doremus, D. Farber, R. Frank & J. Sax, “Restoring the Public Trust in the Public Lands: An Agenda for the New Administration”, Ecology Law Currents (January 2009)
- The Takings Issue: Constitutional Limits on Land Use Control and Environmental Regulation [with Meltz and Merriam], (Island Press 1998)
- California & the Future of Environmental Law & Policy, Ecology Law Currents (Summer 2008)
- The Dog That Didn’t Bark, Imperial Water, I Love L.A., and Other Tales From the California Takings Litigation Front, 34 Ecology L.Q. 517 (2007)
More Publications...- Inverse Condemnation Litigation in the 1990s--the Uncertain Legacy of the Supreme Court's Lucas and Yee Decisions, 43 Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 85 (1993)
- Public Trust Doctrine, California Environmental Law (Matthew Bender 1989)
- The Scorpions' Dance: Judicially Mandated Attorney's Fees-The Legislative Response and Separation-of-Powers Implications, 1 Emerging Issues in State Constitutional Law 76 (1988)
- Forever Free: Navigability, Inland Waterways, and the Expanding Public Interest, 16 U.C. Davis Law Review 579 (1983)
