Peter Huber, who died in 2021, was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he wrote on drug development, energy, technology, and the law. He was the author of The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining 21st Century Medicine (2013); The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (2005), coauthored with Mark P. Mills, which Bill Gates said “is the only book I’ve ever seen that really explains energy, its history and what it will be like going forward”; and Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (2000), which William F. Buckley, Jr., called “the richest contribution ever made to the greening of the political mind” and which set out a new conservative manifesto on the environment that advocates a return to conservation and environmental policy based on sound science and market economics.
Huber’s other books included Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (1999), Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm (1997), Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (1994), Galileo’s Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (1991), and Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences (1988). He published articles in scholarly journals, such as the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal, and in such publications as Science, Wall Street Journal, Reason, Regulation, and National Review. He appeared on numerous TV and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Before joining MI, Huber was an associate professor at MIT. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for Ruth Bader Ginsburg and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Sandra Day O’Connor. Huber was a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm Kellogg, Huber, Hansen and Todd. He held a J.D. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT.
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Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists
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Panel III: Innovation and Health Care
2015 National Student Symposium
University of Chicago Law School1111 E 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Biotechnology & the New Environmental Regulatory Paradigm
2000 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel - Cabinet Room1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
Luncheon Address by Dr. Peter Huber [Archive Collection]
1991 Annual Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
Luncheon Address by Dr. Peter Huber [Archive Collection]
1991 Annual Lawyers Convention
On September 13-14, 1991, the Federalist Society hosted its fifth annual National Lawyers Convention at...
Luncheon Address by Dr. Peter Huber [Archive Collection]
1991 Annual Lawyers Convention
On September 13-14, 1991, the Federalist Society hosted its fifth annual National Lawyers Convention at...
Debate: Liability: The New "New Property" [Archive Collection]
1989 National Student Symposium
On March 10-11, 1989, the Federalist Society's University of Michigan student chapter hosted the eighth...
Debate: Liability: The New "New Property" [Archive Collection]
1989 National Student Symposium
On March 10-11, 1989, the Federalist Society's University of Michigan student chapter hosted the eighth...
Panel III: Innovation and Health Care
2015 National Student Symposium
Given that everyone is getting older and more prone to disease, medical innovation is one...