Alex Wang

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

Professor of Law

385 Charles E. Young Dr. East

1242 Law Building, Room 3382

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476

United States

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1.

The Search for Sustainable Legitimacy: Environmental Law and Bureaucracy in China

37 Harvard Environmental Law Review 365 (2013), UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 13-31
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 12 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2017
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, rule of law, environmental law, administrative law, bureaucracy, adaptive authoritarianism, authoritarianism, developing countries

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Climate Change Policy and Law in China

Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, eds. Gray, Tarasofsky, Carlarne, 2016, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 14-16
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2017
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environment, climate change, law, policy, energy, pollution, global warming

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Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform

48 Environmental Law 699 (2018), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-39
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 13 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2019
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, Chinese Rule of Law, Climate Reform, Eco-Civilization Reform, Pollution, Climate Change, Chinese Law and Politics

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Explaining Environmental Information Disclosure in China

44 Ecology Law Quarterly 865 (2018) , UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-14
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2018
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environmental law, information, information disclosure, transparency, administrative law, governance, comparative law

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China's Environmental Tipping Point?

China In and Beyond the Headlines, Timothy Weston, Lionel Jensen, eds., Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-30
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2017
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environment, environmental protection, regulation, law, public participation, civil society, coal, natural resources, climate change

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Is U.S.-China Climate Action Possible in an Era of Mistrust?

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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climate change, U.S., China, competition, cooperation

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Environmental Courts and the Development of Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China

Journal of Court Innovation, Vol. 3, p. 37, 2010, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-39
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2018
Alex Wang and Jie Gao
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Independent
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China, environment, environmental protection, courts, public interest litigation, litigation, rule of law

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Chinese State Capitalism and the Environment

Regulating the Visible Hand? The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism (Curtis Milhaupt & Benjamin Liebman eds, 2015), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-52
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2017
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environment, environmental regulation, state-owned enterprises, environmental protection, legitimacy

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The Role of Law in Environmental Protection in China: Recent Developments

Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 8, 2006-2007, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 06-46
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2017
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environment, law, pollution

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Environmental Courts and Public Interest Litigation in China

43 Chinese L. & Gov't, Alex Wang & Jie Gao eds., No. 6, November-December 2010, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-40
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2018
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environment, law, rule of law, environmental courts, public interest litigation, litigation, translations

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Regulating Domestic Carbon Outsourcing: The Case of China and Climate Change

61 UCLA Law Review 2018 (2014), UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 14-14
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2017
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, climate change, environment, environmental law, administrative law, pollution, developing countries, economic disparities

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On the Evolution on Chinese Environmental Law and Governance

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Oct 2019
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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China, environment, environmental regulation, rule of law, legal reform

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Emissions Trading in California: Lessons for China

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 06 Jul 2022
Alex Wang, Daniel Carpenter-Gold, Siyi Shen and Andria So
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, UCLA School of Law - UCLA School of Law and UCLA School of Law - UCLA School of Law
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China, California, emissions trading, climate change

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Banning Coal: A Modest Proposal for U.S.-China Climate Change Cooperation

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2021
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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climate change, United States, China, coal, regulation, environmental law

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Coordinated Governance of Air and Climate Pollutants: Lessons from the California Experience

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2020
Alex Wang, David Pettit and Siyi Shen
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, Natural Resources Defense Council and UCLA School of Law - UCLA School of Law
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climate change, air pollution, environmental law, China, California

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Key Governance Issues in California's Carbon Cap-and-Trade System

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Jun 2022
Alex Wang, Daniel Carpenter-Gold and Andria So
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and UCLA School of Law - UCLA School of Law
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climate change, California, China, emissions trading, market measures

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Three Governance Challenges in the Era of Carbon Neutrality

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 17 Aug 2021
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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climate change, United States, China, environment, governance

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A Reply to Farber, Tsuji & Jing's 'Thinking Globally, Acting Locally'

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Jan 2023
Alex Wang
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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climate change, China, subnational action

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Risks of Decoupling from China on Low-Carbon Technologies

Science 2022, Vol 377, Issue 6612, pp. 1266-1269, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq5446, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 6926-22
Posted: 31 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2023
Michael R. Davidson, Valerie J. Karplus, Joanna Lewis, Jonas Nahm and Alex Wang
UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Independent, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law

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U.S., China, clean technologies, climate change, decoupling