Jim Salzman joined the Duke Law Faculty in 2004 and holds a joint appointment as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara; at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford Universities; and at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and Lund University in Lund, Sweden. He has lectured on environmental policy to audiences in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Salzman worked for the OECD in Paris and served as the European Environmental Manager for Johnson Wax in London. The first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering, he was named a Sheldon Fellow upon graduation.

Since 1996 he has served as a principal liaison for the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, providing counsel to the EPA and the U.S. Trade Representative on issues relating to trade and the environment. Elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London in 1995, he was a McMaster Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia in 2002-2003, and a Bren Fellow at the Bren School in January 2004.

Professor Salzman serves on the editorial board of three professional journals and on the advisory board of three environmental non-profits. His recent books include: Natural Resources Law and Policy (with J. Rasband and M. Squillace, Foundation Press 2004), Concepts and Insights in Environmental Law (with Barton Thompson, Jr., Foundation Press 2003), and International Environmental Law and Policy (with D. Zaelke and D. Hunter, Foundation Press 1998, 2nd ed. 2002), the leading casebook in the field. His published articles include "Creating Markets for Ecosystem Services: Notes from the Field" (NYU Law Review, forthcoming), "The Red Queen, Mozart, and Regulatory Accretion in the Administrative State" (with J. B. Ruhl, 91 Georgetown Law Journal 75, 2003), and "Environmental Tribalism" (with Doug Kysar, 87 Minnesota Law Review 1099, 2003).

Professor Salzman earned his B.A. in history from Yale College in 1985, graduating magna cum laude with distinction. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989, and his M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 1990.