She is an environmental lawyer interested in evolving systems of domestic and international environmental law and governance. Dr Carlarne earned her JD at the University of California, Berkeley before reading for an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and the BCL in law as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford. She worked in private practice in Washington DC before returning to academia. She was the Harold Woods Junior Research Fellow in Environmental Law at Wadham College, University of Oxford before joining the University of South Carolina. Her current work focuses on comparative climate change law and policy-making, and global environmental governance.