Faculty Strategy Committee

Professor James Salzman (B.A. 1985, Yale College, magna cum laude with distinction in history; J.D. 1989, cum laude, Harvard Law School; M.Sc. 1990, Engineering Sciences, Harvard University) joined the Duke Law Faculty in 2004 and holds a joint appointment as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of Environment. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford Universities, as well as at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Professor Salzman has lectured on environmental policy in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. He has served since 1996 as a principal liaison for the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, providing counsel to the EPA and US Trade Representative on trade and environment issues. Prior to entering academia, he worked for the OECD in Paris and as the European Environmental Manager for Johnson Wax in London. The first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering, Professor Salzman was named a Sheldon Fellow upon graduation. Elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, in 1995, he was a McMaster Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia in 2002-2003. In January 2004, he was a Bren Fellow at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara. Professor Salzman serves on the Editorial Board of three professional journals and on the Advisory Board of three environmental non-profits. His more recent books include: Natural Resources Law and Policy, Foundation Press (2004, with J. Rasband and M. Squillace); Concepts and Insights in Environmental Law, Foundation Press (2003, with Barton Thompson, Jr.); and International Environmental Law and Policy, Foundation Press (with D. Zaelke and D. Hunter, 1998, 2nd ed. 2002), the leading casebook in the field. His articles include "Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services: Notes from the Field," NYU Law Review (forthcoming), "The Red Queen, Mozart, and Regulatory Accretion in the Administrative State," 91 Georgetown Law Journal 75 (2003, with J. B. Ruhl); and "Environmental Tribalism," 87 Minnesota Law Review 1099 (2003, with Doug Kysar).
salzman@law.duke.edu