Speaker Biographies
Jonathan H. Adler is a professor of law and the director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, regulatory, and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of three books on environmental policy, including Environmentalism at the Crossroads, and several book chapters. A prolific writer, his articles have appears in numerous publications, ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. His television and radio appearances span an even broader spectrum, from CNN’s World News and NPR’s Talk of the Nation to the Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online, for which he covers environmental and legal topics, and is a regular contributor to the popular legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where he concentrates on appellate litigation, administrative law, constitutional law, general litigation, and environmental law. Mr. Clark rejoined Kirkland & Ellis in September 2005 after spending four years working in the George W. Bush administration. He served from 2001–05 as the deputy assistant attorney general in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, in which capacity he supervised the division’s Appellate Section, and briefed and argued several important cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeal, including an appearance before the D.C. Circuit in Massachusetts v. EPA. Since 2000, Mr. Clark has also been an adjunct professor of law at George Mason University, where he has taught two classes: law, science, and technology; and environmental law. In private practice, Mr. Clark has also worked on several cases implicating climate change issues in various federal courts.
Joel Schwartz researches air pollution, vehicle emissions, and chemical risks to the environment as a resident fellow at AEI. He was formerly in charge of the California state agency charged with evaluating the state’s vehicle emissions inspection program and making policy recommendations to the governor and the state legislature. Schwartz has also worked at RAND, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the Coalition for Clean Air.
Lisa Heinzerling is a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She was editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law School’s law review. 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 Yale and Harvard University Law Schools, and is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, a think tank devoted to promoting the affirmative case for health, safety, and environmental protection. She is the coauthor of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (The New Press, 2004).
Mark Moller is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and the editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Mr. Moller oversees, and occasionally authors, Cato’s Supreme Court briefs. He also speaks frequently about the Supreme Court on television and radio, appearing on Fox News, ABC News, CNN, Court TV, Bloomberg, BBC, NPR, and CBS Radio. Prior to joining Cato, Mr. Moller was an appellate lawyer with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he served on the team that successfully litigated Bush v. Gore.
David Schoenbrod is a member of the American Law Institute and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Schoenbrod previously worked for Hubert Humphrey when he both a senator and vice president. After law school, he clerked for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III, Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. He began law practice at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, established by Robert F. Kennedy, where he concentrated on issues of environmental justice. As staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council during the 1970s, he led the environmental movement’s efforts to get lead out of gasoline. His most recent book is Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (Yale, 2005). He has also published articles on environmental law, remedies, and the law and politics of regulation in numerous scholarly journals and newspapers.
Kenneth P. Green studies public policy in air pollution and climate change; energy and environment; transport and environment; and environmental chemicals as a resident fellow at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies; newspaper and magazine articles; several encyclopedia and book chapters; and a textbook for middle-school students titled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate, published by Enslow Publishers. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California’s Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at Canada’s Fraser Institute.
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