JONATHAN
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I am Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. At Case, I teach several environmental law courses, including the introductory survey, an advanced seminar, and international environmental law, as well as a section of first-year constitutional law and administrative law. I have also an election law seminar. For my faculty profile, click here. For a complete curriculum vitae, click here. For more information on some of the courses I teach, click here.
In addition to serving on the faculty at Case, I am currently a contributing editor to National Review Online, where I write occasionally on legal and environmental subjects, as well as a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. In 2004 I was the proud recipient of the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society to an academic under 40 for excellence in scholarship, teaching, and commitment to students, and In 2007 I received the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association's Distinguished Teacher Award.
Prior to joining the faculty at Case, I clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the 2000-01 term. Until May 2000, I was a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. Prior to becoming a senior fellow, I directed CEI's environmental studies program, focusing on market and property rights approaches to environmental problems. I started at CEI in 1991. While at CEI I published numerous articles in academic and popular publications on a range of environmental and regulatory issues and produced three books: Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America; The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications; and Ecology, Liberty and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader. I have also made numerous appearances on television and radio programs, ranging from CNN World News and NPR's Talk of the Nation to Fox News' O'Reilly Factor and Entertainment Tonight -- I even debated environmental policy with the Beach Boys on national TV. [It's quite the experience to have a has-been pop star lecture you about excessive consumption on national television while he's trying to promote his new album, especially when he offers investment advice off camera.]
While at CEI, I was a contributing editor to Intellectual Ammunition, a publication of the Heartland Institute, a periodic book columnist for the Sunday Washington Times, and I served as a vice chair for the Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group of the Federalist Society. During the summer of 1998, I was the Broadbent research fellow at the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. PERC is a think tank that focuses on developing market approaches to environmental and natural resource issues. I also was a Simon fellow at PERC in the summer of 2004. In spring 1999, taught an honors seminar in "Environmental Politics and Policy" at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (The syllabus is available here.) I also served for several years on the board of directors of the America's Future Foundation.
Today, I am once again on the executive committee of the Federalist Society Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Group. I am also on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, and the advisory board of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Legal Center.
I was born and raised in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and currently live in Hudson, Ohio with my wife Christina and daughters Ellen Marie and Madeline Joyce. I received my B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and my law degree summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law, where I was also the Class Valedictorian.