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Faculty Profile

David E. Adelman

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Law
E-mail:  David E. Adelman
Office Number: 236
Office Phone: (520) 626-3698
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140

Courses Taught:
Environmental Law Law and Science Patent Law Advanced Topics in Environmental Law and Advocacy

Education

Stanford Law School, J.D. (1996) Graduated with Distinction; Stanford Kennedy Public Service Summer Fellowship; Executive Editor, Stanford Environmental Law Journal
Stanford University, Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (1993) National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship 1993; NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship 1990 - 1993
Reed College, B.A. (1988) Phi Beta Kappa; Reed College DuPont Graduate Scholar in Chemistry, 1998; American Institute of Chemists Student Research and Recognition Award of Merit, 1988

Personal Work Experience

Associate Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2001 - present
Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C., 1998 - 2001
Associate, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., 1997 - 1998
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Samuel Conti, United States District Court, San Francisco, CA, 1996 - 1997

Representative Publications

Patent Metrics: The Mismeasure of Innovation in The Biotech Patent Debate, __ Tex. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2006) (co-author, with Kathryn L. DeAngelis).
A Fallacy of the Commons in Biotech Patent Policy, 20 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 985 (2005).
The False Promise of the Genomics Revolution for Environmental Law, 29 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 117 (2005).
Scientific Activism and Restraint: The Interplay of Statistics, Judgment, and Procedure in Environmental Law, 79 Notre Dame L. Rev. 497 (2004).
Complete List of Publications

Presentations

Testimony, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Oversight of the Implementation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (Sen. Subcomm. on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property & Nuclear Safety of the Comm. on Environ. & Public Works, Hearing on Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Jul. 25, 2000). 
Testimony, Legislation To Improve Safety and Security in the Department of Energy (H.R. Subcomm. on Energy & Power of the Comm. on Commerce, Mar. 22, 2000). 
Testimony, Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Proposed Rule on the Unrestricted Release and Recycling of Radioactively Contaminated Materials (Sen. Subcomm. on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property & Nuclear Safety of the Comm. on Environ. & Public Works, Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Regulatory Reforms, Mar. 9, 2000). 
Testimony, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Authorization Act for FY2000 (H.R. Comm. on Energy and Power, Jul. 21, 1999). 
Complete List of Presentations

Public Service

Member, U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Environmental Management Advisory Board
Member, National Research Council's Committee on Building a Long-Term Environmental Quality Research and Development Plan
Member, National Research Council's Committee on Alternatives for Controlling the Release of Solid Materials from Nuclear Regulatory Commission-Licensed Facilities

Biography

Prof. Adelman has an Author Page on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), at http://ssrn.com/author=109393.

 

Updated: 09/29/2011