Affiliated Faculty

Carrie Downey, adjunct Professor of Law

Ms. Downey received a J.D. from Catholic University and an L.L.M. from the University of San Diego. She is currently a

City Councilwoman for the City of Coronado and chairs the San Diego Association of Governments, Energy Working Group (EWG) and Environmental Mitigation Program Working Group (EMPWG). She began her career as Navy Judge Advocate General and transitioned to environmental law providing CEQA and NEPA compliance advice to government entities including the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Irrigation District. After serving as an Assistant General Counsel to the IID, the electricity provider for the Imperial County, she moved into private practice as the principal at the Law Office of Carrie Anne Downey providing energy and environmental regulatory advice to government and private entities. Ms. Downey co-teaches EPIC's Energy Law and Policy course. (Full Bio)

Lesley K. McAllister, Professor of Law

Professor McAllister received a J.D. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. She writes and teaches in the areas of climate, environment and energy as well as comparative and international law. Before joining the University of San Diego law faculty, Professor McAllister clerked for the Honorable Fern M. Smith of the Northern District of California and also worked for Earthjustice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Regional Counsel. Professor McAllister is also an adjunct associate professor at the University of California at San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. (Full Bio)

Andrew Narwold, Professor of Economics

Professor Narwold received a Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.  He joined the faculty of the School of Business Administration at USD in 1990. Professor Narwold's research interests include housing market economics and consumer financial decisions. He is also affiliated with USD's Real Estate Institute. He has conducted several economic impact studies for local organizations such as the San Diego Padres, the Buick Invitational Golf Tournament, and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. In addition to teaching statistics and economics at USD, Professor Narwold has been an instructor with USD's Institute for Project Management and UCSD's Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers. (Full Bio)

RIck Olson, Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Professor Olson received a Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Olson joined the USD faculty in 1996.

Michael Reed, Adjunct Professor of Law

Mr. Reed received his J.D. from the University of Washington and completed graduate studies in public interest law at George Washing University Law School. He started his career with US Coast Guard's maritime pollution control program. Mr. Reed spent most of his career at the Department of Justice's Environment nd Natural Resources Division where for 34 years he litigated a wide variety of issues involving energy policy and production on federal upland and offshore lands.  He specialized in Supreme Court original actions concerning maritime jurisdiction and boundaries. He taught Environmental Law and Federal Land Law at USD School of Law for 13 years and lectures and publish on maritime jurisdiction and boundaries. M. Reed supervises EPIC's Energy Law and Policy Clinic.

Glen Sullivan, adjunct Professor of Law

Mr. Sullivan holds a B.A. degree in Economics and a J.D. degree from Stanford University. For the first six years of his legal practice, he was employed as a staff attorney for a trade association, representing its members before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). For the next 24 years he was employed as in-house counsel at Sempra Energy and its predecessors representing its utility subsidiaries (SoCalGas and SDG&E) in matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the CPUC. Mr. Sullivan co-teaches EPIC's Energy Law and Policy course.