James Salzman

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James Salzman
Occupation(s)Legal academic and author
TitleProfessor of Environmental Law

James Salzman (born 1963) is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara [1] .

Salzman graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, the first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering. Prior to joining the University of California in 2015, he taught as a chaired professor with joint appointments to the environment and laws schools at Duke University [2] and American University, and as a visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and Yale and at universities in Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Portugal and Sweden. Publishing twelve books and over 100 articles, he is the fifth most cited scholar in environmental law, with over 110,000 downloads of his articles. [3]

Prior to entering academia, he worked in Paris in the Environment Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and in London as the European Environmental Manager for Johnson Wax. His honors include election as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, as well as appointments as a McMaster Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia, a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future, and a Bellagio Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. Twice voted Professor of the Year at Duke, he has lectured on every continent.

He is the author of Drinking Water: A History, and a frequent commentator in the media on drinking water issues. He has served on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Drinking Water Advisory Council [4] and on the Environmental Protection Agency/United States Trade Representative's Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee. [5] His bestselling book, Mine: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, was published in 2021 by Doubleday and positively reviewed in The New Yorker,, [6] New York Times, [7] and the Financial Times [8] among others.

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References

  1. "James Salzman". UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. Retrieved 2024-03-20.
  2. "Faculty Profile: Duke University". duke.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  3. Phillips, James Cleith; Yoo, John Choon (2012). "The Cite Stuff: Inventing a Better Law Faculty Relevance Measure". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2140944. ISSN   1556-5068.
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  5. "Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC)". Office of US Trade Representative. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  6. Elizabeth Kolbert, What’s Mine is Mine, The New Yorker (March 15, 2021)
  7. David McCraw, "Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat?", New York Times (March 18, 2021)
  8. Gavin Jackson, Mine! — degrees of possession, The Financial Times (August 18, 2021)