Free Market Environmentalism

Cleveland Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• James Huffman, Emeritus Professor and Dean of Lewis & Clark Law School 

Speaker:

• James Huffman, Emeritus Professor and Dean of Lewis & Clark Law School  

James Huffman Emeritus Professor and Dean of Lewis and Clark Law School will be speaking to our chapter on Free Market Environmentalism, which is an approach to environmental problems that focuses on improving environmental quality using property rights and markets. Free Market Environmentalism emphasizes three important points:

•Markets, property rights, and the rule of law are fundamental to economic growth, and economic growth is fundamental to improving environmental quality.

•Property rights make the environment an asset rather than a liability by giving owners an incentive for stewardship.

•Markets and the process of exchange give people who have different ideas and values regarding the use of natural resources a way of cooperating rather than fighting.

Dean Huffman has been a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School since 1973, after graduating from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1972. He served as Dean of the law school from 1993 to 2006. Huffman also serves as a visiting fellow of the Hoover Institution and sits on the boards of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, the Western Resource Legal Center and the Classroom Law Project. He is the author of dozens of published articles and book chapters on environmental and administrative law, and most recently authored two books published in 2013: Private Property and State Power and Private Property and the Constitution.

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