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Peter Huber Biography
Peter Huber is a senior fellow at the
Manhattan Institute’s Center for
Legal Policy, writing on the issues of science,
technology, and the law.
Peter Huber’s latest book, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the
Environmentalists (Basic Books, 2000), called “the richest contribution
ever made to the greening of the political mind” by William F. Buckley,
Jr., sets out a new conservative manifesto on the environment which
advocates a return to conservation and environmental policy based on
sound science and market economics.
In 1997 he authored two
books, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common
Law Rule the Telecosm, which is an examination of telecommunications
policy (Oxford University Press) and (with the University of
Pennsylvania’s Kenneth Foster) Judging Science, Scientific Knowledge and
the Federal Courts (MIT Press). Previous books include Orwell’s Revenge:
The 1984 Palimpsest, (Free Press, 1994), Galileo’s Revenge: Junk Science
in the Courtroom (Perseus Book Group, 1991); and Liability: The Legal
Revolution and its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988).
In addition to these books, Huber is author of The Geodesic Network
(U.S. Department of Justice, 1987), the report filed by the Department
of Justice on the occasion of the 1987 review of the AT&T divestiture
decree. He co-authored The Geodesic Network II: 1993 Report on
Competition in the Telephone Industry (Geodesic Publishing, 1992);
Federal Telecommunications Law (Little, Brown & Co., 1992) and Federal
Telecommunications Law 2nd Edition (Aspen, 1999). He also co-edited
Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT Press, 1993).
In addition to being a regular columnist in Forbes magazine, Huber has
also published articles in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Law
Review and the Yale Law Journal, as well as many other publications,
including Science, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Regulation, and National
Review. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs,
including Face the Nation and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Before joining the Manhattan Institute, Huber served as an assistant and
later associate professor at MIT for six years. He clerked on the D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then on the U.S.
Supreme Court for Sandra Day O’Connor. Huber also serves as Of Counsel
to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen and Todd.
Huber earned his law degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in
Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He lives and works in Bethesda,
Maryland.
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