About James
About James
About James
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Jim Salzman held joint appointments at Duke University as the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law at the Law
School and as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment.
In more than eight books and seventy articles and book chapters, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics
spanning drinking water, environmental protection in the service economy, trade and environment conflicts, and the
legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services.
A dedicated classroom teacher and colleague, Salzman was twice voted Professor of the Year by Duke students and
received two Blueprint Awards from the Law School for institutional service. He lectured on environmental policy
on every continent except Antarctica and served as a visiting professor at Columbia, Yale, Stanford, and Harvard (as
both the Leo Gottlieb and Jeremiah Smith Visiting Professors) as well as at universities in Australia, Sweden, Israel,
Portugal and Italy. He gave distinguished lectures at Florida State, Wyoming, Pace and Lewis & Clark, Dickinson,
among others.
An honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard University, Salzman was the first Harvard graduate to earn joint
degrees in law and engineering and was named a Sheldon Fellow upon graduation. He has both government and
private sector work experience. Prior to entering academia, he worked in Paris in the Environment Directorate of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 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 Bren Fellow at the Bren School of
Environment, UC Santa Barbara, a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future, and as a Bellagio Fellow at the
Rockefeller Foundation.
He published four casebooks, including International Environmental Law and Policy, Foundation Press (with D.
Zaelke and D. Hunter, 5th ed. 2015), the leading casebook in the field with adoptions at over 200 schools. His
articles appeared in the California, Duke, NYU, Penn and Stanford Law Reviews, as well as other legal, scientific
and popular journals. A national survey of environmental law professors has voted his work among the top articles
of the year on six separate occasions. Salzman is active in the fields of practice and policy, serving as a Member of
the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, a government-appointed body providing counsel to the
EPA Administrator and U.S. Trade Representative on trade and environment issues, as well as advising several
environmental non-profits.
In 2015 Salzman accepted permanent joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the UC Santa Barbara
Bren School of the Environment.