简介

Jim Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the Bren School and the UCLA School of Law. In more than eight books and eighty articles and book chapters, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning drinking water, trade and environment conflicts, policy instrument design, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. A 2012 study by Phillips and Yoo ranked him as the fifth most cited environmental law professor. A dedicated classroom teacher, Salzman was twice selected as Professor of the Year by students at Duke, where he held chairs in the Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment. He helped develop the environmental law curriculum at the Bren School and has taught the popular core course in that subject every spring for over a decade. He frequently appears as a media commentator and has lectured on environmental policy on every continent except Antarctica. He has served as a visiting law professor at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale as well as at universities in Australia, Sweden, Israel, Portugal, China and Italy. His most recent book, Drinking Water: A History, was praised as a “Recommended Read” by Scientific American and is in its third printing. His co-authored casebook, International Environmental Law and Policy, is in its 5th edition and the market leader with adoptions at over two hundred schools around the world.