Bruce Pardy is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He has written extensively on matters of environmental law and governance, including ecosystem management, environmental assessment, civil and regulatory liability, climate change and water law. He has taught at law schools around the common law world, including Canada, the United States and New Zealand. Professor Pardy practiced litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, and sits on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal as an adjudicator and mediator.
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Matthew Turner is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. His current research focuses on the economics of land use and transportation and he is broadly interested in understanding the economics of environmental regulation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, a Ph. D. in economics from Brown University, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Hoover Institution, and is an associate editor at the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Economic Geography and Regional Science and Urban Economics. His research appears in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and is regularly featured in the popular press.
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David Haddock has been Professor of Law and Economics at Northwestern University since 1989, and a Senior Fellow of PERC since 1997. Beginning with his Oklahoma childhood, Haddock has maintained an interest in the economics, law, history, and geography of American Indians, and has held sole responsibility for teaching American Indian law at the Northwestern Law School since his arrival. Haddock teaches law and economics in both the economics department and the law school, with special emphasis the application of property rights economics to legal questions. In addition, Haddock has published articles that apply economic tools to the study of several legal areas in addition to Indian law, such as antitrust, torts, corporations, and family law.In addition to Northwestern, Haddock has held faculty positions in economics departments at UCLA, Emory, and Ohio State, at the Emory Law School, and as a Peace Corpsman in Ethiopia. He has held visiting positions at Yale University, the University of Chicago, and Cornell University. He holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago in industrial organization economics and economic history.
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Ronald Bailey is the award-winning science correspondent for Reason magazine and Reason.com, where he writes a weekly science and technology column. Bailey is the author of the book Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution (Prometheus, 2005), and his work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. In 2006, Bailey was shortlisted by the editors of Nature Biotechnology as one of the personalities who have made the "most significant contributions" to biotechnology in the last 10 years. Bailey is the editor of several books, including Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death (Prima Publishing 2002) and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including the NBC Nightly News and PBS' Newshour. He has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Morehouse University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others. He has testified before a congressional committee on "The Impact of Science on Public Policy" and his articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications.
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David Zetland David Zetland is the S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California-Berkeley. He had begun his Ph.D. in development and ended in environmental and natural resources. Throughout, he studied market and government failure using institutional and experimental methods. Since he finished his Ph.D., he has spent most of his time communicating economics to the public by blogging at aguanomics.com, giving public talks, and meeting with policy makers. He acts as a consultant to California American Water and Scott River Water Trust. David holds a Ph.D. (2008) and M.S. (2003) in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California- Davis.
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Jonathan Klick is Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School where he is an expert in empirical law and economics. His work focuses on identifying the causal effects of laws and regulations on individual behavior using cutting-edge econometric tools. Specific topics addressed by Klick's work include the relationship between abortion access and risky sex, the health behaviors of diabetics, the effect of police on crime, addiction as rational choice, how liability exposure affects the labor market for physicians, as well as a host of other issues. His scholarship has been published in numerous peer-reviewed economics journals, including The Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and The Journal of Legal Studies. Klick is a senior economist with the RAND Corporation and has a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D. from George Mason University.
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Martin Doyle is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is an environmental geographer with training in hydrology and engineering, specializing in rivers. His research is at the interface of science, economics and policy of environmental management and restoration, particuarly focusing on the use of market mechanisms for environmental management and restoration. Doyle has developed long-term research programs in which he and his students work alongside entrepreneurial mitigation bankers in order to more fully understand the realities and financial motivations for private investment in environmental markets. Doyle holds a Ph.D. in Earth Science from Purdue University, and a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Ole Miss. He has won several awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named the first Frederick J. Clarke Scholar by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Pierre Desrochers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Toronto-Mississauga. His main research interests are economic development, environmental and urban policy, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, international trade, business-environment and business-university interactions. He has published papers in both academic journals and articles in the popular press. Desrochers spent two years at Johns Hopkins University as a post-doctoral fellow and the Montreal Economic Institute's Research Director from September 2001 to July 2003.
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Robert Deacon is a Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara as well as Affiliated Faculty for the university's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and the Environmental Studies Program. He has written three books and published dozens of articles in professional journals. His lectures have taken him to universities and conferences around the globe. He has often spoken on protecting marine environments and improving efficiency by assigning harvest rights and on the provsion of public goods in a democracy. His research focus is natural resource economics, environmental economics, and political economy. Most recently, Deacon has focused on the use of property rights systems to manage fisheries and marine habitat protection. Other interests include examination of the effects that different political systems have on the use of natural resources, environmental quality and the provision of public goods.
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Jeffrey Bennett is Professor of Economics at Australia National University's Crawford School of Economics and Government. He is also the director of the Environmental Economics Research Hub, which brings together leading environmental economists, scientists, educators and policy makers to face the challenges of sustainable water use, soil loss and salinity, biodiversity loss and adaptation to climate change. The Hub’s approach encompasses the establishment of markets to achieve environmental goals and environmental valuation. Bennett is leading several major studies of land use change in China, on-farm vegetation management in New South Wales, and private sector conservation enterprises in Australia. Professor Bennett has 30 years experience researching, consulting and teaching in the fields of Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics and Applied Micro-Economics and is a co-editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
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H. Spencer Banzhaf is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously he was a fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington D.C. and taught undergraduates at Georgetown, Duke, and North Carolina State universities. Banzhaf is a graduate of Duke University with three degrees, a B.A., M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics awarded in 2001. His primary field of study is environmental policy analysis, especially related to topics of air pollution and energy and local land uses. One common theme in my work is the interactions among local environmental amenities, local real estate markets, and the demographic composition of cities. For example, he has studied the way these social mechanisms interact to drive the correlations between pollution and poor households, as described by the “Environmental Justice” movement.
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Robert Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy at the James E. Rogers College of Law and a member of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona. He has a J.D. from Boston college Law School and a Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University. During his career he has taught courses in American Legal History as it relates to the Civil Rights Movement and the Colorado RiverHe has also taught Constitutional Law and Water Law. Glennon is actively involved in water resources and policy issues including Colorado River water rights and the legal relationship between surface and groundwater. He has taught constitutional law, American legal history, and water law. His recent water law writings involved interdisciplinary collaboration with hydrologists and economists. He has written journal aricles on water scarcity, groundwater pumping, water markets, and privatization. His book Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters was published in 2002, followed by another book on water, Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It in 2009. Most recently he was a member of a consulting team to draft water law for Saudi Arabia.
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Henry N. Butler is the Executive Director of the Searle Center for Law, Regulation and Growth at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. Previously he taught at Texas A&M University, George Mason School of Law, University of Kansas where he was the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics. While at Chapman University, he served as Dean of the Argyros School of Business and Chairman of the Chapman University Law and Organizational Economics Center. Butler earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech (M.A., 1979; Ph.D. 1982), where he was a student of Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan, and a law degree from the University of Miami (J.D., 1982), where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Throughout his career he has been active in the development of Law & Economics as an academic discipline throughout his professional career and has also dedicated time to improving our nation's civil justice system through judicial education programs. Butler is an expert on the economic analysis of law, and he has published numerous articles and several books on a variety of topics. His articles have appeared in leading economics journals and law reviews.
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Ross B. Emmett is associate professor of political theory and constitutional democracy at James Madison College, Michigan State University. He conducts research on classical economic thought and the history of economics at the University of Chicago between the 1920's and the 1980's. He has edited the three-volume Great Bubbles: Reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme and the Tulip Mania Affair (Pickering & Chatto, 2000); a two-volume collection of The Selected Essays of Frank H. Knight (University of Chicago, 1999); and the eight- volume collection The Chicago Tradition in Economics, 1892-1945 (Routhledge, 2001). He is an editor of the research annual Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
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F. Andrew Hanssen is associate professor of economics at Clemson University in South Carolina. Andy's research focuses on institutions, law and economics, industrial organization, and political economy. He served on the faculty at Montana State University from 1995-2009, and Colby College in 2009-2010. He was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution in 2001, and received the Julian Simon Fellowship from the Property and Environement Research Center in 2005. His papers have been published in the American Economic Review; the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; and the Journal of Legal Studies. He currently serves on the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly.

Robert K. Fleck is professor of economics at Montana State University. Fleck's research combines theoretical and statistical analysis, and his major fields of interest include political economy, public finance, economic history, and development economics. Much of his work focuses on the central issue of why so many countries fail to adopt successful political and economic reforms. His research has provided new insights into a wide range of topics, including the origins of democracy in ancient Greece, the performance of electoral systems, the rise of women's rights, the downfall of communism, and the operations of the World Bank. Fleck has won awards for both research and teaching. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego, and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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Jonathan H. Adler is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental and constitutional law. Professor Adler's research focused on the intersection of environmental and constitutional law and examines alternatives to federal environmental regulation. In 2004, he received the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually to an academic under the age of 40 for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching, from the Federalist Society of Law and Public Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program. He is currently a contributing editor to National Review Online, and serves on the Board of Directors for the America's Future Foundation and the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court Review.
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Bruce Benson is DeVoe Moore and Distinguished Research Professor, Chair of the Department of Economics, and a Courtesy Professor of Law at Florida State University. Benson is internationally recognized as one of the foremost figures in the areas of public choice and law and economics. His books include The Enterprise of Law (1990), co-author of The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War (1994), and To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice (1998). A member of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Economic Association, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Regional Science. The recipient of the Ludwig von Mises Prize, and the Adam Smith Award, he is the author of nearly one hundred articles and reviews in scholarly journals and a contributor to twelve books. Professor Benson received his Ph.D. from Texas A & M University, and he has taught at Pennsylvania State University and Montana State University.
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Walter Thurman is Professor of Agricultural and Resource economics at North Carolina State University. He conducts research in the economics and political economy of agricultural and natural resource policy and has published widely on this topic. His published work includes empirical studies of quota schemes in the United States for peanuts and tobacco, analysis of the effects of the Clean Water and Clear Air Acts, and compensation schemes in the poultry industry. He currently is studying land trusts and the rise of markets for crop pollination services. Thurman was the first recipient of the American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award in 1996 and the first recipient of the NCSU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award in 1994-1995. He acts as a consultant for the Research Triangle Institute's Center for Economics Research and the Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuary Society. Thurman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
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Gary D. Libecap is the Anheuser Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Economics, and Law and director of the Karl Eller Center at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Libecap has published extensively on property rights and regulation as they relate to natural resources, the environment, and agriculture. He has been coeditor of the Journal of Economic History and member of the Economics Panel of the National Science Foundation.
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B. Delworth Gardner is emeritus professor of economics at Brigham Young University and professor emeritus of agricultural economics at University of California, Davis. A highly respected agricultural economist, Gardner is known for his path-breaking analyses of the impact of government policy on issues such as water allocation, livestock grazing, and oil shale development. He has taught at numerous universities and served as president of the Western Agricultural Economics Association. He has been a consultant to many organizations, including the Agency for International Development; the Ford Foundation, India; the California Department of Water Resources, and others.

R. David Simpson works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. where his research focuses on the economics of biological diversity, including the valuation of diversity for its use in new product research and development, and alternative conservation strategies, including market-based incentives. He also has investigated the relationship between industrial and environmental policy and issues related to land use, sustainable development, and technological innovation. Simpson has edited two books and written many journal articles and book chapters on the economics of biodiversity, conservation policy, environmental regulation, and industrial competition. Simpson frequently consults on biodiversity and conservation policy for foreign governments and international aid institutions. Before joining the EPA, Simpson was a senior fellow in Resources for the Future's Energy and Natural Resources division. He received his bachelor's degree from Whitman College and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert McCormick is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Clemson University. He was honored as the BB&T Scholar at Clemson University starting in the Fall of 2000 and was chosen as the MBA Professor of the Year for 2001. McCormick has served as a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. He regularly consults and advises companies on financial matters and provides expert courtroom testimony. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the S.C. legislature on telecommunications and electricity deregulation and the future of these markets and has served as a consultant to the Treasury of New Zealand and the Canadian government. McCormick has been an associate editor of the academic journals, Journal of Corporate Finance and the Southern Economic Journal. He has published in a broad range of academic books and journals on public policy, managerial and financial economics, telecommunications and electricity markets, sports and economics, antitrust and industrial organization. McCormick received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Clemson and received his Ph.D. degree in economics from Texas A&M University.

Seth W. Norton is Aldeen Professor of Business at Wheaton College. He holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in finance and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Norton has published in a variety of areas -- development economics, industrial organization, finance, marketing, and strategic management. Publications include works in the Cato Journal, Contemporary Political Economy, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Business, Journal of Law & Economics, and Strategic Management Journal. As a Julian Simon Fellow at PERC in 2001, Norton studied the links between economic institutions and human well- being across countries.
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Roger A. Sedjo is a Senior Fellow and Director of Forest Economics and Policy Program (FEPP) at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington, D.C., where he has been responsible for the direction, administration, coordination, and fundraising for the FEPP. The program is responsible for public policy research in forestry and related areas, leading to publication of books, articles and reports. Sedjo received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington and began his career as assistant professor of economics at Utah State University. Later, he was a technical advisor to the Economic Planning Board of the Republic of Korea for the construction of the Third Five-Year Economic Development Plan. He then joined the Department of State's Asia Bureau, Agency for International Development as program economist. Before joining RFF, Sedjo was tenured associate professor of economics at Utah State University, specializing in international development and resource economics. He is editor of a number of books on forestry including a A Vision of the Forest (RFF, May 2000) and Global Forests: Issues for Six Billion People (McGraw-Hill, 1991), among other books. He has published chapters in books and articles in professional journals such as Journal of Forestry, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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Indur Goklany works for the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and has over twenty-five years of experience addressing science and policy aspects of environmental and natural resource policy issues. At the EPA, he helped develop air pollution control strategies and regulations. Subsequently for the National Commission on Air Quality, he analyzed national impacts of pollution and its control. In Washington, he helped develop the EPA's first ever new source bubble (emission trade,) for which he was awarded an EPA bronze medal. At the Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Analysis, he has served on various national and international panels and groups dealing with global climate change and acid rain. He has published extensively in scholarly journals on air pollution, climate change, biodiversity, global food security, and the role of technology, economic growth, and trade in creating, as well as solving environmental problems. His book, Clearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution, documents the history and origins of air pollution control in the U.S. While serving as a Julian Simon Fellow at PERC, Goklany was on leave from the U.S. Department of the Interior and his work was conducted as an independent scholar.
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