ELE 2007 Symposium participant biographies

Participant Biographies

David Adelman
David E. Adelman is an Associate Professor and Director of Law, Science & Technology Initiatives at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property law, and law & science. Professor Adelman’s research focuses on the many interfaces between law and science. His articles have addressed topics ranging from the implications of emerging genomics technologies for environmental regulation, to the parallels between legal and scientific judgment, to the influence of the rapid rise in patenting during the 1990s on biotechnology innovation. Professor Adelman’s articles have appeared in numerous books and journals, including the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Texas Law Review.

Professor Adelman holds a B.A. in chemistry and physics from Reed College, a Ph.D. in chemical physics from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Professor Adelman clerked for the Honorable Samuel Conti of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to entering academia, he was an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where he litigated patent disputes and provided counsel on environmental regulatory matters, and a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council in its Nuclear and Public Health programs.

Jim Boyd
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future and currently Lokey BusinessWire Visiting Professor, Stanford University.

Boyd's research is in the fields of environmental regulation and law and economics, focusing on the analysis of environmental institutions and policy. Specific areas of expertise include ecological benefit and damage assessment, water regulation, environmental and product liability law, and incentive-based regulation. Current research focuses the measurement and analysis of ecosystem services and the role of ecosystem services in both environmental management and national welfare accounting.

In the 2007-2008 academic year Boyd is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. Boyd has been a visiting faculty member at the Olin Business School, Washington University, St. Louis and currently serves on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board on Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services.

Boyd has been a consultant to, among others, the World Bank, National Academy of Sciences, the European Commission, and various other government agencies.

Bonnie Colby
Bonnie Colby is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Hydrology and Water Resources at The University of Arizona in Tucson, where she has been a faculty member since 1983. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and her undergrdaute degree form the University of Califonria-Davis. Her expertise is in the economics of water management, environmental conflict resolution, water rights transactions and valuation, energy markets and climate change. She has authored over one hundred journal articles and six books, including the books Braving the Currents: Resolving Conflicts Over the River Basins of the West, Water Markets in Theory and Practice, Arizona Water Policy and Negotiating Tribal Water Rights. In addition to her teaching and research, Dr. Colby advises public and private sector organizations on water acquisitions and valuation, strategies to enhance supply reliability, adaptation to climate change and crafting durable agreements to resolve disputes.

Kirsten Engel
Kirsten Engel joined the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona in 2005 with a broad background in environmental law and policy that spans academia and public sector practice. Engel is widely published on varied topics in her field, including environmental federalism and the potential for cooperative regional efforts to counteract the federal government’s stance on global climate change, solid waste landfill regulation, and the deregulation of electricity. Engel previously served as senior counsel for the Public Protection Bureau and acting chief of the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. She also has worked as a staff attorney for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As an associate professor at Tulane, she taught pollution control law, hazardous waste law, public and private regulation of toxic substances, international environmental law, and an environmental justice seminar. She earned her undergraduate degree at Brown University and her law degree at Northwestern University School of Law. She recently served as a member of Gov. Janet Napolitano’s Climate Change Advisory Group and sits on the board of directors of the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic.

Robert Deacon
Robert T. Deacon received his PhD in Economics from the University of Washington in 1972 is currently Professor of Economics and of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and University Fellow at Resources for the Future. He has held visiting positions at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, the University of Washington, Resources for the Future, Tilburg University in the Netherlands Osaka University in Japan and elsewhere. His research specialties are natural resource economics and political economy and his work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Public Choice, the Review of Economics and Statistics and elsewhere. He is past Managing Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) and has served on editorial boards for JEEM, Environment and Development Economics and Evaluation Review.

George Frisvold
George Frisvold joined the faculty at The University of Arizona in 1997. He is a professor in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and an Extension specialist. He has been a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Rural Development in Hyderabad, India, a lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University, and Chief of the Resource and Environmental Policy Branch of USDA's Economic Research Service. George completed his Ph.D at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research interests include domestic and international environmental policy, as well as the causes and consequences of technological change in agriculture. In 1995-96, Dr. Frisvold served on the Senior staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers with responsibility for agricultural, natural resource, and international trade issues. Currently, he serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Robert Innes
Robert Innes received his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. His research has focused on a variety of issues in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, finance, agricultural policy, environmental economics, and law. He has received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation (1987), Quality of Research Discovery (1994, 1999), and Distinguished Policy Contribution awards from the Agricultural Agricultural Economics Association, the Best Published Research Award (1999) from the Western Agricultural Economics Association, and the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal for outstanding research from the European Economic Association (1994). In 1994-95, Innes served on the Senior staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers with responsibility for agricultural, natural resource, and international trade issues.

D. Bruce Johnsen
D. Bruce Johnsen is a Professor of Law at George Mason University, a leading center for Law & Economics scholarship. Professor Johnsen holds a B.A, an M.A., and a Ph.D., all in Economics, from the University of Washington, as well as a J.D. from Emory University. His scholarship focuses on the economics of property rights, which allows him to address topics as diverse as antitrust, competitive federalism, principal-agent relations, native American institutions, environmental practices, corporate finance and financial institutions, securities regulation, and business ethics. Professor Johnsen has held positions in the Department of Management at Texas A&M University, the Office of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commissions, and, before coming to George Mason University, the Department of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely in peer-reviewed social science journals, law reviews, and the popular press.

Jason S. Johnston
After graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth, Jason Johnston obtained both his J.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, where he was an Alcoa Fellow in Law and Economics and was elected to Order of the Coif. He served as law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Gilbert Merritt, was a civil liability fellow at Yale Law School, and in 1995 came to the Penn Law from Vanderbilt University Law School. Johnston is the founding Director of the Program on Law, the Environment, and Economics and in 2001 became the Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Public Law. Johnston’s research includes both theoretical and empirical projects exploring various aspects of natural resource and environmental law and policy, as well as more general studies of legal rights and entitlements. He is currently in the midst of book-length projects on the law and economics of corporate environmentalism and the centralization of environmental and natural resource regulation, and is organizing a first-of-its kind interdisciplinary conference on the law, economics and science of liability for global warming. Johnston has published dozens of articles, both in various major American law journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review and Columbia Law Review, as well as in peer-reviewed economics journals such as the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, and the Journal of Legal Studies. He has served as a Regent for the Policy Academy of the Multistate Working Group on Environmental Management Systems, on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association and on the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Science grant review panel. He was an Olin Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California Law Center and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Gary D. Libecap
Gary D. Libecap is Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. He also is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Research Fellow, Hoover Institution. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. from the University of Montana. He previously taught economics and law at the University of Arizona. He has authored or co authored five books, edits the series Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth; and has written more than 50 journal articles on property rights, natural resources, environmental and other issues. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Seagrant. He primarily is interested in property rights institutions—how they emerge, when they emerge, their structure, and how they affect resource use. He currently is working on issues of water rights and allocation; fishery ITQ allocation; and the efficiency advantages of the rectangular survey of property boundaries as compared to use of metes and bounds..

Dean Lueck
Dean Lueck is Bartley P. Cardon Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Professor Law at the James Rogers College of Law, and Co-director of the Program on Economics, Law and the Environment at The University of Arizona. He has been a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow in Law and Economics at Yale Law School, Yale University, Visiting Professor of Economics at Universitat Pampeu Fabra, Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law and Economics, University of Toronto. His research focus is on the economics of law, property rights, and organization and includes projects on agricultural land contracts, conservation easements, systems of property rights in land, right to farm laws, and the behavior of state wildlife agencies. He has a B.A. (Biology) from Gonzaga University and a PhD (Economics) from the University of Washington.

Anup Malani
Anup Malani is a Professor of Law and the Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago. He is also a Research Affiliate for the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago and an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics. Malani teaches Health Law, Food and Drug Law, Insurance law, Corporations, and Bankruptcy. His health-related research examines the control of infectious disease, placebo effects, antibiotic resistance, medical malpractice liability, and the conduct of and inferences from medical trials. His law and economics research examines methods for valuing legal reforms. Representative publications include “Valuing Law as Local Amenities,” forthcoming in Harvard Law Review and “Identifying Placebo Effects with Data from Clinical Trials” in the Journal of Political Economy. He received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2000–2001 and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2001–2002. Malani received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics in 2003. Between 2002 and 2006, He was an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and the Health Evaluation Sciences Department of the University of Virginia Medical School.

Thomas Merrill
B.A., with honors in history, Grinnell College, 1971; B.A., with first-class honors in philosophy, politics, and economics, Oxford University, 1973; J.D., cum laude, University of Chicago, 1977. Formerly John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, 1993-2003; Professor of law, 1986-93; associate professor of law, 1984-86; assistant professor of law, 1981-84; of counsel (1981-2003) and associate (1979-81) at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Law clerk, the Hon. Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, 1978-79; and the Hon. David L. Bazelon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1977-78. From 1987 to 1990 served as deputy solicitor general in the Department of Justice, where he represented the United States before the U.S. Supreme Court. Teaching and research interests include administrative law, property, and environmental law. Publications include "Agency Rules with the Force of Law: The Original Convention," Harvard Law Review (with Kathryn Watts, 2002); "Property: Takings," (with David Dana, 2002); "Chevron's Domain," Georgetown Law Journal (with Kristin Hickman, 2001); "Optimal Standardization in the Law of Property: The Numerus Clausus Principle," Yale Law Journal (with Henry Smith, 2000); "The Landscape of Constitutional Property," Virginia Law Review (2000); "The Economics of Public Use" Cornell L. Rev. 1986 and "The Making of the Second Rehnquist Court" St. Louis L. J. 2003.

Marc Miller
Marc L. Miller is the Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law. Miller teaches and writes on issues of criminal law and procedure, and on issues of environmental policy with a focus on public lands and natural resources. Miller taught at Emory Law School from 1988-2005, where he served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Scholarship (2003-2005). Miller is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Pomona College. Before teaching he served as law clerk to Chief Judge John Godbold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Special Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York. Miller is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and an advisor to various criminal justice and environmental publications and organizations.

Barak Orbach
Barak Orbach is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, and a member of the Faculty Committee of the Hanson Film Institute. He specializes in antitrust, regulation, intellectual property, and the motion picture industry. Professor Orbach's works on box-office pricing are among the most cited studies of the motion picture industry in recent years. These works have also been featured in columns and articles in many newspapers, including the Washington Post, Forbes, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His major research project is a book on the motion picture industry: Reel Law: A Legal History of the American Motion Picture Industry (Yale University Press). Professor Orbach holds undergraduate degrees in law and economics from Tel Aviv University and masters and doctorate degrees from Harvard Law School. He has been awarded numerous fellowships and awards for his works in the field of economic analysis of law, including multiple John M. Olin Fellowships in Law, Business and Economics at Harvard Law School, a Humphrey Fellowship in Law & Economic Policy at the University of Michigan Law School, and a Wagner Fellowship in Law & Business at New York University. Prior to his academic career, Professor Orbach served as the Advisor for Law and Economics to the Israeli Antitrust Commissioner and as an attorney with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York.

Tauhid Rahman
Tauhidur Rahman came to AREC and the University of Arizona in 2004. He is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist: Development Economics, Welfare Economics, and Econometrics. His current research interests include globalization, economic development, and the economics of happiness. Tauhidur completed his Ph.D at Washington State University.

Carol M. Rose
Carol M. Rose is the first occupant of the Lohse Chair for Water and Natural Resource Law at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, and the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization at Yale Law School (Emerita). Professor Rose's research focuses on history and theory of property, and on the relationships between property and environmental law. Her writings include two books, Property and Persuasion (1994), and Perspectives on Property Law (3rd ed. 2002, with R.C. Ellickson and B. A. Ackerman), and numerous articles on traditional and modern property regimes, environmental law, natural resource law and intellectual property. She has degrees from Antioch College (BA Philosophy), the University of Chicago (MA Political Science, JD Law), and Cornell University (Ph.D. History), and an Honorary Degree from the Chicago Kent College of Law. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is on the Board of Editors of the Foundation Press.

Roger Sedjo
Roger Sedjo is a senior fellow and the director of RFF's forest economics and policy program. His research interests include forests and global environmental problems; climate change and biodiversity; public lands issues; long-term sustainability of forests; industrial forestry and demand; timber supply modeling; international forestry; global forest trade; forest biotechnology; and land use change. He has written or edited 14 books related to forestry and natural resources.
Sedjo has served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Committee of Scientists and has cochaired the committee of authors who wrote the chapter on biological sinks for the International Panel on Climate Change's Third Assessment Report on climate change mitigation through forestry and other land use measures.

Sedjo also has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other international organizations in more than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, Russia, Romania, Estonia, and Thailand.

Kathy Segerson
Kathleen Segerson is Professor (and former department head) in the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Segerson’s research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments. Specific research areas include: the impact of legal liability for environmental damages in a variety of contexts, including groundwater contamination, hazardous waste management, and workplace accidents; land use regulation and the takings clause; voluntary approaches to environmental protection; the impacts of climate change on U.S. agriculture; and incentives to control nonpoint pollution from agriculture. Her work has been published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), Land Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE), Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, and other scholarly journals and books. She received her PhD in agricultural and natural resource economics from Cornell University in 1984.

Dr. Segerson is currently a member of the Chartered Executive Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), and is vice-chair of the SAB’s Committee on Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services. She has also served on the SAB’s Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and on committees for the National Academy of Sciences. She was a co-editor of the AJAE, and as an associate editor for both AJAE and JEEM. She was also previously co-editor of the Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and is a member of the editorial boards of the International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics and Contemporary Economic Policy. She has been Vice-President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), and has served on several subcommittees for AERE and the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA).

Henry Smith
Henry E. Smith is the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches property, intellectual property, natural resources, and taxation. He holds an A.B. from Harvard, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford, and a J.D. from Yale. He clerked for the Hon. Ralph K. Winter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has taught at Northwestern University School of Law, and has visited at the University of Chicago Law School, Yale Law School, and Harvard Law School. He has written primarily on the law and economics of property and intellectual property.

Chris Stefanadis
Chris Stefanadis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Before joining the University of Arizona in 2004, Chris held positions as a visiting assistant professor in the Jones School of Management at Rice University, and as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His current research interests lie in industrial organizations, financial institutions, and political economy. Chris completed his Ph.D at New York University.

Katrina Wyman
Katrina Wyman is an Associate Professor at New York University School of Law, where she has taught since 2002. She has a BA, MA, and an LLB from the University of Toronto and an LLM from Yale Law School. She teaches property, torts and natural resources law among other subjects.

Her research interests include the evolution of property rights in natural resources such as fisheries.