Peter W. Huber

Peter William Huber (November 3, 1952 – January 8, 2021)[1] was a lawyer and author who served as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and was a founding partner at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.[2] He is credited with popularizing the term "junk science" in 1991,[3] and articulating a conservative approach to environmentalism in his 2000 book, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists.[4]

Peter W. Huber
Born(1952-11-03)November 3, 1952
Toronto, Canada
DiedJanuary 9, 2021(2021-01-09) (aged 68)
Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
Spouse(s)Andrea Huber
Academic background
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
Harvard University (JD)
ThesisElectric charging in liquid hydrocarbon filtration (1976)
Doctoral advisorAin A. Sonin
Other academic advisorsJames R. Melcher, Ronald F. Probstein

Life and career

Peter Huber was born on November 3, 1952, in Toronto, Canada, and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland.[5] He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at age 17. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1976 when he was only 23 and immediately joined its faculty as a professor, receiving tenure two years later.[6][7]

While a professor at MIT, Huber began attending the Harvard Law School. He became an editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 1982 with a Juris Doctor summa cum laude, becoming the only graduate between 1975 and 1996 to receive the summa distinction. Huber then clerked first for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1983, and then for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1983 to 1984.[8]

Books
  • Liability:The Legal Revolution & Its Consequences. Basic Books. 1988.
  • The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation. Brookings Institution Press. 1991. 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.
  • Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm. Oxford University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-511614-4.
  • Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts. MIT Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-262-56120-4. (with Kenneth R. Foster)
  • Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. MIT Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-262-56119-8.
  • Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists. Basic Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-465-03113-9.
  • Federal Telecommunications Law. Aspen Law. 2004. ISBN 978-0-7355-4261-7.
  • The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. Basic Books. 2005. ISBN 978-0-465-03117-7. (with Mark P. Mills)
  • The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining 21st Century Medicine. Basic Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-465-05068-0.

Notes
  1. https://www.kellogghansen.com/f-35.html, https://www.city-journal.org/peter-huber
  2. "Kellogg Hansen - Firm Overview".
  3. "Report of the Tort Policy Working Group on the causes, extent and policy implications of the current crisis in insurance availability and affordability" (Rep. No. 027-000-01251-5). (1986, February). Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED274437) p.39: "The use of such invalid scientific evidence (commonly referred to as "junk science") has resulted in findings of causation which simply cannot be justified or understood from the standpoint of the current state of credible scientific and medical knowledge."
  4. Chapman, Steve (February 13, 2000). "A WORTHWHILE ATTEMPT TO ADVANCE THE DEBATE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
  5. Hagerty, James R. (20 January 2021). "Peter Huber Provoked Debate on Medicine and the Environment". The Wall Street Journal.
  6. Hazlett, Thomas W. (22 January 2021). "The Magical Genius of Peter Huber". Reason.com.
  7. Mills, Mark P. (11 January 2021). "My Brilliant Friend". City Journal.
  8. "Peter W. Huber". Manhattan Institute. Retrieved 2009-11-03.


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