David Barnhizer is a professor of law emeritus at Cleveland State University. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and worked in the International Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, was Executive Director of the Year 2000 Committee, and consulted with the World Resources Institute, IIED, the UNDP, the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, the World Bank, the UN/FAO, and World Wildlife Fund/US. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Ohio State University summa cum laude and a master’s of law degree from Harvard.