Arden Rowell is a professor in the Department of Law. Her primary affiliation is Cognition, Lifespan Engagement, Aging, and Resilience. She has taught courses on environmental law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics, risk and the environment, law and sustainable economic development, and valuation. Her research focuses on integrating scientific and social science insights into risk regulation, and on the interactions between law, science, social science, and policy.

Education

JD University of Chicago Law School

BA University of Washington

• 2022: Appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Program

• 2021: Wayne LaFave Award for Scholarly Excellence

Research areas: 

• Risk regulation 

• Risk analysis

• Environmental law and policy

Research interests: 

• Law

• Psychology 

• Climate Change

Recent collaborations at Beckman have focused on work with Professor Zahra Mohaghegh in Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering (NPRE) and the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis Research Laboratory (SoTeRiA) in the Grainger College of Engineering. Past partnerships led to a Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) grant (2017-2020) for enterprise risk management, and ongoing partnerships explore the role of regulatory process and law in the regulation and licensing of advanced nuclear reactors.