DURHAM, N.C. – James Salzman has been named Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law by the 51±¬ÁÏ School of Law.

Salzman holds joint appointments at the law school and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, where he is Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy and Law and serves as chair of the faculty advisory committee for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

An award-winning teacher, Salzman was voted by Nicholas School students as Outstanding Faculty Member for classes of more than 30 students in 2007, and has lectured on environmental policy in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

In more than 50 articles and five books, his scholarship has addressed topics spanning trade and environment conflicts, the history of drinking water, environmental protection in the service economy, wetlands mitigation banking, and the legal and institutional issues involved in creating markets for ecosystem services.

He worked in the Environment Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 1990-1992, directing the work programs on environmental labeling and the green consumer. From 1992-1995, he served as the European Environmental Manager for Johnson Wax, supervising environmental issues in fourteen countries of operation with combined sales over $800 million. He has advised the OECD, UNEP, EPA and the US Trade Representative on a range of policy issues. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and named a Bren Fellow at the University of California at Santa Barbara), a McMaster Fellow at CSIRO Australia, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar.  He has served as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Macquarie University.