James E. Salzman

James E. Salzman
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law
Winter and Spring Terms 2021
Biography
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor at UCLA Law School and the UCSB School of the Environment, in more than one hundred articles and eleven books, Professor Salzman's broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning trade and environment conflicts, the history of drinking water, environmental instrument design, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. There have been over 100,000 downloads of his articles.
Mark Wu & James Salzman, The Next Generation of Trade and Environment Disputes: The Rise of Green Industrial Policy, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. 401 (2014).
Categories:
International, Foreign & Comparative Law
, Environmental Law
Sub-Categories:
Climate Change
, International Law
, International Trade
, Trade Regulation
Abstract
This paper examines the extent to which the international trade regime impacts the international investment regime. While commentators have identified rich areas of cross-fertilization and suggested increasing convergence between the two regimes, the evidence reveals only a limited and selected degree of influence. Specific attention is paid to four areas: the design and architecture of the investment regime; the patterns of investment treaty formation; the substance of investment treaty provisions; and treaty interpretation. Across these four areas, interactions between the two regimes remain sporadic and decentralized. Given the different normative orientations of the two regimes, one should not expect growing rapprochement in the foreseeable future between the two regimes.
Education History
- B.A. (magna cum laude) History Yale College, 1985
- J.D. (cum laude) Harvard Law School, 1989
- M.Sc. Engineering Sciences Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1990
Current Courses
- International Environmental Law, Winter 2021
- Select Topics in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, Spring 2021