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James Salzman

James Salzman is an American legal scholar focused on environmental law, policy, property, and consumer decision-making. A professor at UCLA School of Law, he is known for books including Drinking Water: A History and Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, and for widely influential scholarship on regulation and resource governance.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

James Salzman has built a career at the intersection of environmental law, public policy, and everyday life. Educated first in history at Yale and then in law and engineering at Harvard, he became the first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering. Before entering academia, he worked in Paris in the Environment Directorate of the OECD and in London as European environmental manager for Johnson Wax, experiences that gave him an unusually broad view of how rules are made, applied, and contested across governments, markets, and institutions. ((https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/james-salzman?utm_source=openai))

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Ownership rules the sandbox
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We assume ownership is natural, obvious, simple
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Ownership is always up for grabs
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People drink water
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How we see drinking water and how we think of it has a lot to do with how we manage it
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Ownership provides the scaffolding that our society uses to decide who gets the stuff we all want
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