About Myanna Dellinger

An award-winning attorney, legal researcher, and Fulbright Scholar, Myanna Dellinger, M.Sc., J.D., PhD, graduated at the top of her law school class, Order of the Coif in 2008. She then worked for state- and federal-level judges at the trial and appellate levels including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Myanna was a tenured law professor teaching business law and public international law for more than a decade.

Myanna currently practices law part time and serves as a temporary judge for the Counties of Riverside and Los Angeles, presiding over both civil and criminal cases on an ad hoc basis. An excellent researcher and writer, she has published more than 500,000 words on climate change risks to people, corporations, governments, and ecosystems. She has been ranked at the top 10% of all authors by download on SSRN for four years consecutively. She won the “Best Legal Article of the Year” award in 2019 for an article analyzing electric utility liability for wildfires in California under California tort law. More than 100 judges, attorneys, and scientists have cited to Myanna’s publications. See her also at www.professordellinger.com.

Awards:

Order of the Coif for my academic performance.

Won “Best Article of the Year” in 2019 for this
· Electric Utility Wildfire Liability Reform in California, 49(11) Env’t L. Rep. 11003 (Nov. 2019) (Winner, Best Article of the Year)