Jonathan H. Adler (born November 3, 1969), is an American legal commentator and law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He contributes to the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy," is frequently cited in the American media, and has been recognized as one of the most cited professors in the field of environmental law.^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Books 3 Articles 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Adler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the only son of Jack and Marjorie Adler. He graduated from Friends' Central School before attending Yale University. While at Yale, Adler majored in History, graduating magna cum laude in May 1991 with distinction in (History). After working several years at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Adler attended law school at the George Mason University School of Law. He was the Articles Editor for the George Mason Law Review from 1998-1999. He graduated summa cum laude in May 2000 as the class valedictorian.

In 2001, Adler moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he met his wife, Cindy McThompson. He currently lives in Hudson, Ohio, with his wife and two daughters, Ellen Marie Adler and Madeline Joyce Adler.

Adler is currently a tenured professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, teaches courses in environmental, regulatory, and constitutional law. He is also Director of the law school's Center for Business Law & Regulation.

Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to “The Volokh Conspiracy," a popular legal blog founded by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh. Professor Adler blogged anonymously under the pseudonym "Juan Non Volokh" at "The Volokh Conspiracy" until May 1, 2006. Professor Adler serves on the advisory board of the NFIB Legal Foundation, the academic advisory board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, and the Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board of the Environmental Law Institute.

In 2004, Professor Adler received the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. In 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Professor Adler their annual “Distinguished Teacher Award.”

Before becoming an academic, 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 the Institute's environmental studies program, and worked on a wide variety of environmental policy matters.

[edit] Books

• Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader, Editor (2000).
• The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications, Editor (1997).
• Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America (1995).

[edit] Articles

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• When Is Two a Crowd: The Impact of Federal Action on State Environmental Regulation, 31 Harvard Environmental Law Review 67 (2007)
• The Green Costs of Kelo: Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection (with Ilya Somin), 84 Washington University Law Review (2006)
• Reckoning with Rapanos: Revisiting “Waters of the United States” and the Limits of Federal Wetland Regulation, 14 Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review 1 (2006)
• Back to the Future of Conservation: Changing Perceptions of Property Rights & Environmental Protection, 1 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 987 (2005).
• Jurisdictional Mismatch in Environmental Federalism, 14 NYU Environmental Law Journal 130 (2005).
• Is Morrison Dead? Assessing a Supreme Drug (Law) Overdose, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 751 (2005).
• Judicial Federalism and the Future of Federal Environmental Regulation, 90 Iowa Law Review 377 (2005).
• Conservation through Collusion: Antitrust as an Obstacle to Marine Resource Conservation, 61 Washington and Lee Lae Review 3 (2004).
• Fables of the Cuyahoga: Reconstructing a History of Environmental Protection, 14 Fordham Environmental Law Journal 89 (2002).
• Legal Obstacles to Private Ordering in Marine Fisheries, 8 Roger Williams University Law Review 9 (2002).
• Let 50 Flowers Bloom: Transforming the States into Laboratories of Environmental Policy, 31 Environmental Law Reporter 11284 (2001).
• The Ducks Stop Here? The Environmental Challenge to Federalism, 9 Supreme Court Economic Review 205 (2001). (Selected as a finalist for inclusion in Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, as one of the ten best articles on land use or environmental law in 2001.)
• Free and Green: A New Approach to Environmental Protection, 24 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 653 (2001). (Selected as a finalist for inclusion in Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, as one of the ten best articles on land use or environmental law in 2001.)
• Stand or Deliver: Citizen Suits, Standing, and Environmental Protection, 12 Duke Environmental Law & Public Policy Forum DUKE 39 (2001).
• The Cartagena Protocol and Biological Diversity: Biosafe or Bio-Sorry? 12 Georgetown University International Environmental Law Review 761 (2000).
• More Sorry than Safe: Assessing the Precautionary Principle and the Proposed International Biosafety Protocol, 35 Texas International Law Journal 173 (2000).
• Wetlands, Waterfowl, and the Menace of Mr. Wilson: Commerce Clause Jurisprudence and the Limits of Federal Wetlands Regulation, 29 Environmental Law 1 (1999).
• The Green Aspects of Printz: The Revival of Federalism at Its Implications for Environmental Law, 6 George Mason Law Review 573 (1998).

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings

[edit] External links

• Jonathan H. Adler's Homepage
• The Volokh Conspiracy website
• Jonathan H. Adler at Case Western University School of Law