October 20, 2004
Speaker Biographies
Terry Anderson is the executive director of PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center, a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through markets; a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and professor emeritus at Montana State University. His publications include Free Market Environmentalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991) and Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997), both coauthored with Donald Leal; Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law, coedited with Fred S. McChesney (Princeton University Press, 2003); and The Not So Wild, Wild West, coauthored with P. J. Hill (Stanford University Press, 2004). His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fly Fisherman.
David D. Haddock is a senior associate at PERC, as well as a professor of law and economics at Northwestern University. He teaches several courses, including a course on federal Indian law from an economic perspective. Mr. Haddock's current research focuses on the economic history of property rights, evolution and devolution, on tribal law, and on externalities. He has cowritten a book titled Grain Futures Contracts: An Economic Appraisal, with S. Craig Pirrong and Roger Kormendi (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), and articles in The Political Economy of the American West (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994), Sizing Up Sovereigns: Federal Systems, Their Origin, Their Decline, Their Prospects (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), and Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict and Law (Princeton University Press, 2003).
James Huffman joined the faculty of the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in 1973 and was appointed as dean in 1994. Mr. Huffman has been a visiting professor at Auckland University in New Zealand, the University of Oregon, the University of Athens in Greece, and Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. He was also a fellow at the Institute for Human Studies and a Distinguished Bradley Scholar at the Heritage Foundation. He is a member of the Montana Bar Association and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U. S. Supreme Court. He is the author of more than 100 articles and chapters on a wide array of legal topics.
Ronald N. Johnson joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor, moved to Montana State University in 1981, and retired as full professor in 2001. He spent the winter of 2002 as a visiting professor at the Economics Education and Research Consortium of the National University of Ukraine Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, has been affiliated with national committees on environmental issues, and has consulted on natural resource issues in Central America, the Philippines, and New Zealand. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Economic Inquiry, and numerous other journals.
Maurice McTigue joined the Mercatus Center as a distinguished visiting scholar after completing his term as New Zealand's ambassador to Canada and non-residential high commissioner to Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. Before his arrival in Canada in April 1994, Mr. McTigue was deeply involved in the economic reform process in New Zealand. As a cabinet minister and a member of Parliament, he played an instrumental role in New Zealand's path-breaking reforms of the last decade. In 1999, he received the prestigious Queen's Service Order, one of the highest honors for civil service in New Zealand. He is currently working with U.S. policymakers and federal agencies on applying the principles of results-based management in the public sector.
Robert J. Miller is an associate professor of law at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches Indian law, cultural resources protection, and civil procedure. He also taught Indian law courses at Lewis and Clark from 1993 to 1998 and at Portland State University in 1996 and 1999 and practiced Indian law with Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker from 1995 to 1999. He has served as a tribal judge for various Northwest tribes since 1995 and is now the chief justice of the Court of Appeals for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. He was appointed by his tribe to be on the Circle of Tribal Advisers to the National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial. Mr. Miller is a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. He has published numerous articles on Indian law issues and has spoken at dozens of federal, state, and private training sessions and conferences across the country.
Dominic P. Parker is a senior research fellow with PERC where he has been working since March 2001. At Montana State University, he studied the factors that influence state fish and wildlife agency budgets. Mr. Parker has worked as a consultant for the accounting firm KPMG in Portland, Oregon, and has authored several publications analyzing the financial state of Oregon’s high-technology industry. While at PERC, he has been researching the costs of preserving and enhancing environmental amenities with conservation easements. He is the author of Cost-Effective Strategies for Conserving Private Land: An Economic Analysis of Land Trusts and Policy Makers (PERC 2002).
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