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Christopher DeMuth is president of the American Enterprise Institute. Before coming to AEI in 1986, he was managing director of Lexecon, Inc., an economics consulting firm, from 1984 to 1986; editor and publisher of Regulation magazine from 1986 to 1987; administrator for regulatory affairs at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1984. Before that he was a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and director of the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation and a lawyer in private practice. His articles on government regulation and other subjects have appeared in the Public Interest, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The American Enterprise, and elsewhere. Robert Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he served as a senior staff member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the American Economic Review, and the Yale Law Journal. In addition, Mr. Hahn is the cofounder of the Community Preparatory School-an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential. Lisa Heinzerling is a professor at Georgetown University Law School. She also served as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court and was a visiting professor at Yale Law School in the fall of 1997. Before joining Georgetown University, Ms. Heinzerling practiced environmental law in the Massachusetts attorney general's office and was a Skadden Fellow at Business & Professional People for the Public Interest. She has clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Heinzerling was as editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review and has contributed to numerous law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Chicago Law Review, and the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. Cass Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He formerly served as a law clerk to Thurgood Marshall and as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Sunstein has frequently testified before Congress on regulatory and constitutional issues and has advised many countries, including South Africa, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and China, on law reform and constitution-making efforts. His recent books include Free Markets and Social Justice (1999), The Cost of Rights (1999) (with Stephen Holmes), and One Case at a Time (1999). His current research focuses on the general phenomenon of social cascades. Jonathan Wiener is a professor at the Law School and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. In the spring of 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Before joining the faculty at Duke in January 1994, Mr. Wiener served as a senior staff economist for environmental and regulatory issues at the Council of Economic Advisers from 1992 to 1993 and as the policy counsel of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1992. Mr. Wiener also clerked for then-Judge Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston in 1988 and 1989 and for Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein on the U.S. District Court in New York in 1987 and 1988. Mr. Wiener has written extensively on the subject of environmental law and risk management including Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment (1995) (with John D. Graham) and numerous articles. |
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