Peter William Huber
Is a partner at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, and an author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is credited with articulating a conservative approach to environmentalism in his 2000 book, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists, and (incorrectly) with coining the termJunk Science in 1991.
Huber earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1982, and a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Huber graduated number one in his class at Harvard while also working as a professor at MIT. He then clerked on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and on the U.S. Supreme Court forSandra Day O'Connor.
Books
- Huber, Peter (1988). Liability:The Legal Revolution & Its Consequences. Basic Books.
- Huber, Peter (1991). The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-3761-2.
- Huber, Peter (1993). Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science In The Courtroom. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02624-1.
- Huber, Peter (1994). Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-915335-2.
- Huber, Peter (1997). Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511614-4.
- Foster, Kenneth R.; Peter W. Huber (1999). Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-56120-4.
- Huber, Peter (1999). Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-56119-8.
- Huber, Peter (2000). Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-03113-9.
- Huber, Peter (2004). Federal Telecommunications Law. Aspen Law. ISBN 978-0-7355-4261-7.
- Huber, Peter; Mark P. Mills (2005). The Bottomless Well: The twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste and Why we will Never Run Out Of Energy. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-03117-7.
- Huber, Peter (2013). The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining 21st Century Medicine. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-05068-0.