James Salzman, the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and a member of the Emmett Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law, has been appointed to the U.S. National Drinking Water Advisory Council. The federal advisory committee supports the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its duties and responsibilities to the national drinking water program.
Salzman, the author of “Drinking Water: A History” (Overlook Duckworth, 2012), also serves on the U.S. Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, reporting to the EPA Administrator and U.S. Trade Representative on issues involving the intersection of trade policy and environmental protection.
He has published more than eight books and 80 articles on topics spanning drinking water, trade and environment conflicts, policy instrument design and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. He has previously served as a visiting law professor at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and Yale and has also taught at universities in Australia, Sweden, Israel, Portugal, China and Italy.
An honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard University, Salzman was the first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering.