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Benjamin Harris is the Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law for 2019-2021. He previously clerked for the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson for the United States District Court in the Central District of California and was a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Harris received his B.S. cum laude in Marine Biology with Departmental Honors and College Honors from UCLA. He returned to obtain a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where he received the Shepard Broad Award and was a Michael T. Masin Scholar. He also served as the Executive Editor for the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.

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