Alejandro Camacho

Alejandro E. Camacho is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an award-winning author who writes on government regulation and environmental law, policy, and ethics, including books, chapters, and articles in leading law and science journals. He is a frequent public speaker and has contributed opinion pieces or interviews for various print and radio news outlets (including the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, The Australian, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Bloomberg, Businessweek, HuffPost, Mother Jones, The Hill, Washington Post, and National Public Radio stations. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, an elected fellow of the American Bar Foundation; and on the Board of Directors and a Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform.

He is the co-author of Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional Framework (NYU Press 2019); Property: Cases & Materials, Fifth Edition (Aspen 2022), Environmental Protection: Law and Policy, Ninth Edition (Aspen 2023); and Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law (NYU Press 2026).