The Fifth Annual Colloquium on Environmental Law
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Regal University Hotel, Durham, North Carolina April 27- 28, 2000 |
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. . . . . CATHERINE ADMAY joined the Duke University School of Law faculty in September of 1996. She teaches comparative and public international law, and is Affiliate Faculty of the Center for International Development Research at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. Professor Admay's teaching and research interests are in the areas of public international law, international environmental law, jurisprudence, globalization, comparative property law, water law, and law and development. She is currently editing a collection of essays in international legal theory and international environmental law and writing a book on Rules of Relevancy in Public International Law. Professor Admay was born in South Africa and has maintained close contacts with the country through her work as a foreign attorney for the Legal Resources Center during the emergency period in the late 1980s, as a coordinator for a non-governmental organization's public health and education development program in Gazankulu (then a self-governing homeland within South Africa), and as an academic through the Duke Law School International Development Clinic, which she directs. She has worked with a number of developing countries seeking assistance on matters of public and international law including primarily South Africa, Namibia, Eritrea and Indonesia (Bali). Most recently she served as research consultant for South Africa in preparation for the Seattle Round of the WTO.
Professor Admay is a graduate of Yale College, of the University of Strasbourg's Faculty of Law, and Yale Law School. She began her teaching career at New York University Law School where she
was a co-director of the first international development law clinic in the US. She has also worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Office of Legal Advisor in the U.S. Department of
State, and with private law firms in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, Washington.
JOHN F. AHEARNE is an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Lecturer in Public Policy Studies at Duke University. He
is also director of the Sigma Xi Center. Professor Ahearne received his PhD in physics from Princeton University. He is President-elect of the national Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and
served from 1983-90 as Vice President of Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington DC. He is an expert on nuclear power and nuclear weapons. From 1973-1983 he was a Commissioner of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and served as Chairman from 1979-1981. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in the White House Energy Office from 1977-1978. From 1972-1977, he worked on
weapons systems analysis as Deputy and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Dr. Ahearne served in the US Airforce, has worked at the US Airforce Weapons Center and has taught at
the US Airforce Academy. He has also served on and chaired numerous government research and policymaking committees. Dr. Ahearne has authored numerous publications and journal articles
concerning the security of nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel disposal.
RICHARD N. (PETE) ANDREWS is currently the Chair of the Faculty and Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He has published numerous articles on environmental policy in the United States and in east and west Europe, and has recently completed a book on the history of American
environmental policy, published last year by Yale University Press. He is currently conducting research on the implementation of environmental management systems by both private- and
public-sector facilities, and will be on leave next year developing new research on environmental policy incentives in the global economy. A Fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has also chaired study panels for the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He received his PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning and his MRP Regional
Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by 1972, and his AB in Philosophy from Yale University in 1966.
WILLIAM L. ASCHER is a Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public
Policy, where he is also the director of the Center for International Development Research. He research on natural resource and environmental issues in developing countries can be found in
Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries (with Robert G. Healy, 1990); Communities and Sustainable Forestry in Developing Countries (1995); Why Governments Waste Natural
Resources (1999); The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security (with Natalia Mirovitskaya, 2000) and Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (with Natalia
Mirovitskaya, in press). He has also written two books on political-economic forecasting and was the project director of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and
Development.
MICHAEL BYERS currently serves as the Director of Duke Law School's JD/LLM Program in Comparative and International Law. Prior to joining the
faculty at Duke Law School in 1999, Professor Byers was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and
International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his PhD from Cambridge University (Queen's College) in 1996, both his LLB and BCL from McGill University in 1992, and his BA from the
University of Saskatchewan in 1988. His professional affiliations include membership on the International Law Association Committee on Refugee Procedures and the Organizing Committee of ILA
2000 (the 69th biennial conference of the International Law Association). He has also served as an adviser to a coalition of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, which
intervened before the House of Lords in the Pinochet case. Professor Byers has recently authored a book entitled Custom, Power and the Power of Rules (Cambridge University Press,
1999) and edited a collection entitled The Role of Law in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2000). He also regularly contributes to the London Review of
Books.
NORMAN L. CHRISTENSEN, JR. is the Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Professor of Ecology. He is interested in the
effects of disturbance on the structure and function of populations and communities. On-going studies include an analysis of patterns of forest development following cropland abandonment as
these are affected by environment, stand history, and plant demographic patterns. This research focuses on the historical data sets and resources of the Duke Forest. Dean Christensen is also
conducting research on the southeastern coastal plain and western Sierra Nevada focused on a comparison of biogeochemical and community responses to varying fire regimes. These studies are
aimed at an understanding of the evolutionary and ecosystem consequences of fire and the application of such information in the development of wilderness management and policy protocols. In
addition, Dr. Christensen is conducting research on the use of remote sensing systems, such as synthetic aperture radar, to evaluate long-term changes in forest ecosystems.
ROBERT T. CLEMEN is Professor of Decision Sciences at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He has also served as Senior Scientist
at Applied Decision Analysis, Inc. in Menlo Park, California and prior to 1995, he was a senior researcher at Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon and an Associate Professor at the University
of Oregon. Dr. Clemen received his PhD from Indiana University (1984), his MBA from the University of Colorado (1981) and his BA from Stanford University (1973). During his career, Dr. Clemen
has received several awards, including the Outstanding Teacher Award at the University of Oregon; the Award for Best Decision Analysis Publication from the Operations Research Society of
America in both 1990 and 1991; and the Award for Best Forecasting Publication in International Journal of Forecasting, 1985-1991, from the International Institute of Forecasting. Recently,
Professor Clemen has been active in a variety of projects in which he has applied decision-analysis methods to environmental problems, most recently the development of a decision-analytic
model for managing water quality in the lower Neuse River and estuary in North Carolina.
GERALD ANDREWS EMISON is the senior advisor to the chief financial officer of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In previous positions
he directed the EPA stationary source air program, managed EPA's Pacific Northwest regional office, and directed EPA's program evaluation division. He has served as a management consultant to
state governments and as legislative staff to a county council. Jerry holds a B.Eng. degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Science in Engineering degree in
engineering management from Catholic University. He also has been awarded the degrees of Master of Regional Planning and Master of Arts in political science from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will receive in May 2000 a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a registered professional engineer, a
member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. His research interests concern environmental effectiveness of
public organizations and growth management of urban areas. RONIE GARCIA-JOHNSON is Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. She teaches courses in global environmental politics and policy, resource and environmental policy, and transnational environmental actors. Garcia-Johnson received a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Political Science. Garcia-Johnson has just published a new book on multinational corporations and their environmental management activities in the chemical industry. The book, Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico, will appear in the Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation Series published by the MIT Press in June, 2000.
Garcia-Johnson's research interests include the diffusion of environmental management codes and the creation of global industry institutions with environmental mandates. Garcia-Johnson is
currently writing an article on the implications of the activities of multinational corporations for International Relations theory. She is also leading an interdisciplinary, international
project to assess the effectiveness of an agreement involving United States and Brazilian transgovernmental actors, multinational corporations, and domestic companies. Finally, with Gary
Gereffi and Erika Sasser, she is working to describe and evaluate efforts to create environmental and social certification institutions in a variety of global industries.
ROBERT HEALY is Professor of Resource and Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Professor of Public Policy
Studies. He was director of the Center for International Studies at Duke from 1994-1996 and has been active with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for North American
Studies. Dr. Healy works on land-use and environmental policy in the United States and developing countries. Before coming to Duke in 1986, he was senior associate at The Conservation
Foundation/World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C. His past research has resulted in books on state land-use planning, coastal zone management in California, rural land markets, national
forest policy, resource and environmental problems of agriculture, and environmental policy in developing countries. He has a continuing interest in land use policy in fast- growing areas,
particularly the U.S. South and rural areas affected by rapid migration or by tourism. Dr. Healy teaches courses on land-use and environmental policy and on conservation and sustainable
development in the Third World. Dr. Healy received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. DONALD T. HORNSTEIN is the Reef Ivey, II, Research Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and his J.D. from the University of Oregon. From 1982 to 1983 Professor Hornstein served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1983 he began work as an appellate attorney (Honors Program) in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. where he concentrated on environmental litigation and on litigation defending Native American fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest. Between 1985 and 1986 Professor Hornstein worked as an associate with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., concentrating on environmental and products liability matters. While with Arnold & Porter, he represented, on a pro bono basis, a consortium of environmental and animal welfare organizations in litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court involving Japanese whaling in the Antarctic and northwest Pacific Oceans. Professor Hornstein joined the faculty of the UNC Law School as a visiting associate professor of law in 1987 and was appointed an associate professor in 1989, a full professor in 1993, and associate dean of the faculty in 1994. He is the author of "Reclaiming Environmental Law: A Normative Critique of Comparative Risk Analysis," Columbia Law Review (1992).
PANAGIOTIS B. KARAMANOS is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for International Development, Sanford Institute of Public
Policy at Duke University. He holds a PhD in Public Affairs from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University with a concentration in Environmental Policy. He teaches
courses in Policy Analysis, Economic Development, and Environmental Policy. His research focuses on environmental policy.
ROBERT O. KEOHANE is James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Dr. Keohane's research focuses on the role of
international institutions, including international environmental regimes such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and organizations such as the Global
Environment Facility. He is interested in the conditions under which such institutions form and gain membership and authority. His research is also designed to explore how such institutions
can become effective in promoting concern about the environment, facilitating international environmental cooperation, and strengthening national environmental policies. A recent project,
Institutions for Environmental Aid (ed. Keohane and Levy) explored the operation of institutions designed to promote environmental protection in poor countries by transferring resources from
richer ones. His current research includes participation in a project on global environmental assessments, which is designed to explore the conditions that affect these exercises, and their
effects on environmental policy and behavior. Professor Keohane also works on other issues involving the roles played by institutions in American foreign policy and world politics more
generally. He received his undergraduate degree from Shiner college and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard.
RANDALL A. KRAMER is Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics, Nicholas School for the Environment, Duke University. Professor
Kramer's research area is environmental economics with a focus on environmental valuation, benefit-cost analysis, and natural resource management in developing countries. His current research
projects include: (1) human migration and coastal resource use in Indonesia, (2) economics of wetlands restoration in North Carolina, (3) innovative approaches to financing biodiversity
conservation. Professor Kramer holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina; an M.E. in Economics from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural
Economics from the University of California, Davis.
FRANCES LYNN is on the faculty in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the School of Public Heath. She founded and directs the Environmental
Resource Program (ERP), a 15-year-old outreach and service joint unit between the School of Public Health and the Carolina Environmental Program. The Environmental Resource Program provides
technical assistance and training to North Carolina citizen and environmental groups, and has an active teacher-training program. She is also the Director of Outreach and Public Service for
the Carolina Environmental Program. Dr. Lynn's research focuses on the role of citizen participation and community involvement in scientific and technological decisions and the interplay of
science and values in policy. She received her AB from Goucher College, her MA in International Affairs from Columbia University; and her DrPH in Health Policy and Administration from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
LYNN MAGUIRE is Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Management and Director of Professional Studies at the Nicholas School
of the Environment. Dr. Maguire's current research uses a combination of methods from decision analysis, environmental conflict resolution and social psychology to study environmental
decision making. Dr. Maguire focuses on collaborative decision processes where values important to the general public and stakeholders must be combined with technical analysis to determine
management strategies. These studies evaluate both the substance of environmental decisions - how well the resulting management actions reflect public values and available science - and the
process of environmental decision making - how well the mechanisms used to involve the public achieve social justice goals. Dr. Maguire and her students have been applying these approaches to
collaborative decision processes for public land management and for water quality management in North Carolina and elsewhere. Dr. Maguire received her A.B. in Biology from Harvard University,
her M.S. in Resource Ecology from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in Ecology from Utah State University.
MARGARET McKEAN is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
Professor McKean has worked on Japanese environmental problems and has for some years been doing research on common-pool resources and property rights, in Japan and elsewhere. Her particular
interests have to do with cooperation as well as the formation and definition of property rights on environmentally significant resources, their evolution in response to externalities and
rent-seeking, and their environmental consequences. She has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on Common Property and Environmental Management (1983-87), helped to
launch the International Association for the Study of Common Property in 1989, and was that organization's fifth president in 1995-1996. She received her Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley. MARIE LYNN MIRANDA is Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Dr. Miranda's primary research is in resource and environmental economics, environmental health sciences and environmental justice, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary, policy-oriented perspectives. Her most recent work combines economic theory with environmental chemistry and ecology to develop better methods for monetizing the environmental costs associated with alternative energy choices. Dr. Miranda also holds a deep interest in children's special vulnerability to environmental toxicants. She has developed courses and conducted research on issues of environmental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive and developmental toxicants and childhood lead exposure. Dr. Miranda has also conducted extensive research on the effectiveness of market-based incentives and pollution prevention policies on the management of domestic solid waste. She teaches courses on introductory environmental policy, United States environmental policy and a senior capstone course titled "Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment." Dr. Miranda received her A.B. in Economics and Mathematics from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. MICHAEL C. MUNGER is Professor, and Chair, of Political Science at Duke University. He is also the past President of the Public Choice Society. He received his M.A. and Ph.D.degrees in economics at Washington University in St. Louis following his B.A. from Davidson College. While an analyst at the Center for the Study of American Business in St. Louis, he published a series of articles on the costs of trade barriers and voluntary restraint agreements. He then worked as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., with a particular focus on industry regulation and the effects of trade barriers on manufacturing employment. He has now been in academics, at Dartmouth College, the University of Texas, the University of North Carolina, and Duke University for the past thirteen years. His primary current research interests are formal theories of ideology and political cognition, especially as these theories relate to comparative economic development. He also has a continuing interest in the regulation and management of radioactive waste. In addition to a variety of articles in refereed journals, Professor Munger recently published two books with Dr. Melvin Hinich, Ideology and Theory of Political Choice (Michigan University Press, 1994), and Analytical Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Besides his academic pursuits, Professor Munger served as Director of the nationally-ranked Master of Public Administration Program at the University of North Carolina, which trains municipal managers from the southeastern U.S. in methods of management and policy analysis.MICHAEL ORBACH is Professor of Marine Affairs & Policy and Director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory and the Coastal Environmental Management Program in the School of the Environment at Duke University. He has performed research and has been involved in coastal and marine policy on all coasts of the U.S. and in Mexico, Central America, the Carribean, Alaska, and the Pacific. He has published widely on social science and policy in coastal and marine environments. Dr. Orbach's research interests are in the application of social and policy sciences to coastal and ocean policy and management. His work uses a cultural, or human, ecology perspective to analyze human behavior in coastal and ocean environments. His current research projects include (1) the development and application of limited entry and effort management systems to marine fisheries; (2) the formation and socioeconomic impact of marine minerals policy; (3) marine mammal and endangered species-fisheries conflicts; and (4) citizen involvement in coastal and ocean policy. Dr. Orbach received his a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. MICHAEL ROGERS is a senior member of the Forward Studies Unit (Cellule de Prospective) of the European Commission in Brussels. The Unit advises the President of the Commission on longer term issues relating to the European Union. Within the Unit he focusses on issues of risk, technology, and regulation. During 1999-2000 he has been a Visiting Fellow at Duke University." EIRKA N. SASSER is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. She received her A.B. in The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1993, and completed her Ph.D. in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke in 1999. She teaches courses on U.S. environmental policy and North American environmental policy. Within the field of environmental and natural resource policy, her major areas of research interest are 1) land use and property rights; 2) the role of ideas in shaping environmental policymaking decisions; 3) the emerging environmental profile of North America; and 4) environmental and natural resource issues in developing countries. Most recently, she has begun working with Gary Gereffi and Ronie Garcia-Johnson on studying the emergence of environmental and social codes of conduct in industries worldwide. In the fall (2000) she and Garcia-Johnson will teach a new course on Business and the Environment which will incorporate this research. CHRISTOPHER H. SCHROEDER is Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, and the Director of the Program in Public Law at Duke Law School. His areas of research and scholarship include environmental and administrative law, democratic theory, legislative institutions and separation of powers. Professor Schroeder has written widely on environmental regulation of toxic substances, on judicial interpretation of environmental statutes and regulations, and judicial and statutory responses to risk. He co-authors a leading environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy (3rd Edition, 2000), published by Aspen Publishing. Several of Professor Schroeder's current projects concentrate on improving the ability of Congress to structure sound and flexible public policy in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, environmental policy. Mr. Schroeder has served as Acting Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for providing legal advice to the Attorney General, the Executive Office of the President, and other executive branch agencies on a broad range of issues, including separation of powers, other constitutional issues and matters of statutory interpretation and administrative law. He has also worked at various times for the Senate Judiciary Committee, most recently in 1992 as its Chief Counsel. Professor Schroeder received his B.A. degree from Princeton University, a M. Div. From Yale, and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) where he was editor-in-chief of the "California Law Review." MARVIN S. SOROOS is professor of political science and public administration at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he has taught courses on global problems and policies, with emphasis on environmental problems, since he joined the faculty there in 1970. He served as department head from 1986 to 1998. Professor Soroos' publications have made a significant contribution to extending the field of policy studies to the international and global levels of political organization. His best known book, Beyond Sovereignty: The Challenge of Global Policy (University of South Carolina Press, 1986) received his university's Distinguished Research Publication Award in the Social Sciences in 1987. His most recent book, The Endangered Atmosphere: Preserving a Global Commons (University of South Carolina Press, 1997) examines the evolution of international law pertaining to the atmosphere and specific efforts to address the problems of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer, and global climate change. Dr. Soroos has also published several journal articles and co-edited a book in 1979 (University of North Carolina Press). He is an active member of the International Studies Association and has served as president of the Southern Regional Section, chair of the Environmental Studies Section and liaison to the International Human Dimensions of Global Environment Change Program (IHDP). He currently serves on the scientific advisory committee for the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Program, which is affiliated with the IHDP. Dr. Soroos is a world traveler, who has lectured and attended conferences and workshops in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America, Japan, China, Australia, and the former Soviet Union/Russia. He has participated in Fulbright programs in India, Japan and Peru. A frequent visitor to Finland, he has on several occasions taught short courses at the University of Tampere, as well as the Lapland University (Rovaniemi) and the University of Turku. PAUL STEINBERG is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Dr. Steinberg studies the political dynamics of environmental policymaking in developing countries, particularly with respect to issues of global concern. His topical interests include biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, transnational social movements, political science research methods, and the role of developing countries in international environmental affairs. Dr. Steinberg is currently writing a book entitled, Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries, based on an analysis of biodiversity policy-making in Costa Rica and Bolivia over the past four decades. Another recent project provides a logical and empirical critique of the assumption that developing countries are too poor to care about environmental protection absent foreign financial inducements. Dr. Steinberg has served as an advisor to the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the California Institute for Public Affairs and has worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Pesticide Action Network International and the US Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa. Dr. Steinberg received his B.A. in Biological Sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara, his MPA in Environmental Policy at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies (Political Economy and Policy Analysis) at the University of California at Santa Cruz. DOUGLAS P. WHEELER is a partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC. Mr. Wheeler has worked exclusively with natural resource and environmental issues since joining the Department of the Interior in 1969, where he served for seven years as Assistant Legislative Counsel and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Mr. Wheeler also served as a senior executive of several non-profit environmental and conservation organizations, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Executive Director, 1977-80), American Farmland Trust (President, 1980-85), Sierra Club (Executive Director, 1985-87), and the World Wildlife Fund (Vice President, 1987-91). From 1991-1999, Mr. Wheeler served as Secretary for Resources for the State of California, with responsibility -- as a member of the Governor's Cabinet -- for all of the State's natural and cultural resource programs, administered through 18 departments, conservancies, boards and commissions with combined budgets of nearly $2 billion and a total staff of 13,000. During his tenure, Mr. Wheeler developed nationally recognized strategies to integrate economic and environmental goals, and to effectively manage the state's natural resources in the face of rapid growth and development. At Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Mr. Wheeler practices principally with the Environmental Group on federal regulatory issues, with emphasis on issues pertaining to land use and growth management; endangered species habitat, wetlands, and watershed management; water supply and distribution, including infrastructure development; management of agricultural and timberland resources; and historic preservation. Mr. Wheeler has helped to shape many of the laws and programs which now constitute national environmental policy including habitat conservation planning pursuant to the Endangered Species Act, conservation and mitigation banking, and transferable development rights. He is a frequent lecturer at law schools and contributor to environmental publications. He serves on the Board of Visitors of the Duke University School of Law, and the Dean's Advisory Committee of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Wheeler received his LL.B. from the Duke University School of Law in 1966 and his A.B. from Hamilton College in 1963. Mr. Wheeler is a member of the D.C. Bar and North Carolina Bar. JONATHAN B. WIENER is Professor at the School of Law and the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, and director of the annual Colloquium on Environmental Law & Institutions at Duke. In 1999 he was a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has taught Environmental Law, Global Environmental Law, Risk Regulation, Mass Torts, and Property Law. In 1998 Professor Wiener served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Research Triangle Chapter, and began a term on the Editorial Board of the journal Risk Analysis. Professor Wiener's publications include "Global Environmental Regulation" in the Yale Law Journal (1999), "Managing the Iatrogenic Risks of Risk Management" in Risk: Health Safety & Environment (1998), "Law and the New Ecology" in the Ecology Law Quarterly (1995); and the book Risk vs. Risk (Harvard University Press 1995) (with John D. Graham). Before coming to Duke in 1994, Professor Wiener served for five years in the Executive Branch, at the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1988-89 he was project reporter for the Hazardous Air Pollutant Strategy Group convened by Resources for the Future. Professor Wiener clerked for Judge Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston in 1988-89, and for Chief Judge Jack Weinstein on the U.S. District Court in New York in 1987-88. With Judge Weinstein he devoted special attention to the Agent Orange litigation. While in Law School, Professor Wiener served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and chaired its Centennial celebration in 1987. In 1985 he coached the national collegiate debate champions. Professor Wiener is also deeply committed to national and community service: he was an aide to the CEO of the Americorps-National Service program in 1993, and from 1994-98 was a member of the North Carolina State Commission on National Service and a board member of the national Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL). He helped launch city-wide community service events in Boston and Washington DC, and founded Duke Law School's "Dedicated to Durham" twice-annual community service day. He received both his B.A. degree in economics (1984) and his J.D. degree (1987) from Harvard University. |
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