James Salzman
Environmental law professor and author
James Salzman is an environmental law professor who writes about drinking water and ownership, including the bestselling Mine!
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About James Salzman
James Salzman teaches at both the law school at UCLA and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He moved to the University of California in 2015, after teaching at Duke University. He studied at Yale College and Harvard Law School, earning law and engineering degrees together, a first for Harvard. Before academia, he worked in Paris at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He also spent time in London as European Environmental Manager for Johnson Wax. He has served on a US Environmental Protection Agency advisory council on drinking water. He wrote Drinking Water: A History and often comments in the media on water issues. Mine!, published in 2021 by Doubleday, was a bestseller, and the Financial Times named it one of the year's five top nonfiction books.