James Salzman
Visiting Professor of Law
Fall 2024
Donald Bren Distinguished Professor at UCLA Law School and the UCSB School of the Environment. Professor Salzman’s broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning water law and policy, trade and environment conflicts, instrument design, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. One of the most widely read scholars in the field, his work has been translated into six languages with over 115,000 downloads. A popular teacher, students have twice voted him Professor of the Year and he has lectured on every continent (though not yet all seven seas).
Education
- B.A. History Yale College, 1985
- J.D. Harvard Law School, 1989
- M.Sc. Engineering Sciences Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1990
Representative Publications
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Favorite
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). - J.B. Ruhl & James Salzman, The Greens’ Dilemma: Building Tomorrow’s Climate Infrastructure Today, 73 Emory L.J. 1 (2023).
- Michael Heller & James Salzman, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (2022).
- James Salzman, Drinking Water: A History (2d ed. 2017).