Alan Ramo

Professor Alan Ramo is an Emeritus Dean and Professor of Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, where he directed its environmental law program and for many years its Environmental Law and Justice Clinic. Under his leadership, the Clinic won awards from the American Bar Association’s Section on Environmental Law, US EPA Region IX, the Environmental Law Foundation and the Clinical Legal Education Association, as well as a commendation from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Before becoming a professor and founding the GGU environmental justice clinic, he was the legal director for Communities for a Better Environment; prior to that he co-founded the Western States Legal Foundation addressing nuclear issues. Mr. Ramo received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and his law degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He also has a master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has served on a number of nonprofit boards, including San Francisco Baykeeper, the San Francisco Estuary Institute, the Impact Fund and the Jewish Film Festival, and the Los Angeles based Environment Now Foundation has awarded Mr. Ramo the Wells Family Award in the area of Urban Renewal.