Peter William Huber (November 3, 1952 – January 8, 2021)^[1] was a Canadian-American lawyer and author. He was a seniorfellow at theManhattan Institute and was a founding partner at the law firm ofKellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.^[2] He is credited with popularizing the term "junk science" in 1991,^[3] and articulating a conservative approach toenvironmentalism in his 2000 book,Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists.^[4]

Huber was born on November 3, 1952, inToronto, Canada, and grew up inGeneva, Switzerland.^[5] He entered theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at age 17. He received aPh.D. inmechanical engineering in 1976 at the age of 23 and joined the MIT faculty as a professor, receiving tenure two years later.^[6][7]

While a professor at MIT, Huber began attendingHarvard Law School. He was an editor of theHarvard Law Review and graduated in 1982 with aJuris Doctor,summa cum laude. Huber was the only Harvard Law graduate between 1975 and 1996 who received thesumma cum laude distinction.^[8]

Huber thenclerked first for judge (later Supreme Court justice)Ruth Bader Ginsburg of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1983, and then for JusticeSandra Day O'Connor of theU.S. Supreme Court from 1983 to 1984.^[9]

• 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.

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