Speaker biographies
Jonathan H. Adler is professor of law and co-director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. Prior to joining the Case faculty, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He also worked as the director of Environmental Studies for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Mr. Adler’s writing focuses primarily on environmental and regulatory policy issues. He is the author or editor of three books, including The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), and over two dozen scholarly articles. His work has appeared in publications ranging from Environmental Law and the Supreme Court Economic Review to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He is also a contributor to the popular legal blog the Volokh Conspiracy, and a contributing editor to National Review Online. In 2004, Mr. Adler was awarded the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society to an academic under forty-years-old for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. Professor Adler participated as an amicus curiae on behalf of the EPA in Massachusetts v. EPA.
Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he directs the Federalism Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.
Lisa Heinzerling is professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan Jr. on the United States Supreme Court. She served as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, specializing in environmental law. She has been a visiting professor at the Yale and Harvard law schools. She is the author, with Frank Ackerman, of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (New Press 2004).
Barry Rabe is a professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School at the University of Michigan, where he also holds appointments in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Program in the Environment. Professor Rabe is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of four books, including Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Policy (Brookings, 2004), which received the 2005 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association as the best book published on environmental politics and policy in the past three years. Much of his ongoing research examines questions of environmental federalism, including comparative analysis between the United States and other federal systems of governance. In 2006, he became the first social scientist to receive a Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of his scholarly contributions on state climate policy formation and implementation.
Edward W. Warren is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where he specializes in appellate and environmental litigation. He has extensive litigation experience under federal health, safety, and environmental statutes and has participated in oral arguments in more than forty significant cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals, state supreme courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Warren was a law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Luther M. Swygert and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, and George Mason University.
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