Peter W. Huber
{{Short description|American writer, lawyer, and engineer (1952–2021)}}
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| education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
Harvard University (JD)
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Peter William Huber (November 3, 1952 – January 8, 2021)https://www.kellogghansen.com/f-35.html, https://www.city-journal.org/peter-huber was a Canadian-American lawyer and author. He was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and was a founding partner at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Kellogg Hansen - Firm Overview|url=https://www.kellogghansen.com/firm.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} He is credited with popularizing the term "junk science" in 1991,[http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED274437 "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." and articulating a conservative approach to environmentalism in his 2000 book, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-02-13-0002130407-story.html|title=A WORTHWHILE ATTEMPT TO ADVANCE THE DEBATE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION|last=Chapman|first=Steve|date=February 13, 2000|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-11}}
Life and career
Huber was born on November 3, 1952, in Toronto, Canada, and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland.{{cite web |last1=Hagerty |first1=James R. |title=Peter Huber Provoked Debate on Medicine and the Environment |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-huber-provoked-debate-on-medicine-and-the-environment-11611154800 |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=20 January 2021}} He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at age 17. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1976 at the age of 23 and joined the MIT faculty as a professor, receiving tenure two years later.{{cite web |last1=Hazlett |first1=Thomas W. |title=The Magical Genius of Peter Huber |url=https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-magical-genius-of-peter-huber/?fbclid=IwAR2OF-PIv61bXwsLwApdTH0dwQjFMUONWUG4VpAvjNO6tBJfnZTFCS7hJjg |website=Reason.com |date=22 January 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Mills |first1=Mark P. |title=My Brilliant Friend |url=https://www.city-journal.org/peter-huber |website=City Journal |language=en |date=11 January 2021}}
While a professor at MIT, Huber began attending Harvard Law School. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 1982 with a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude. Huber was the only Harvard Law graduate between 1975 and 1996 who received the summa cum laude distinction.{{Cite web |last=Hazlett |first=Thomas W. |date=2021-01-22 |title=The Magical Genius of Peter Huber |url=https://reason.com/2021/01/22/the-magical-genius-of-peter-huber/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Reason.com |language=en-US}}
Huber then clerked first for judge (later Supreme Court justice) 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.{{cite web
| title = Peter W. Huber
| publisher = Manhattan Institute
| url = http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/huber.htm
| access-date = 2009-11-03}}
Books
- {{cite book
| title = Liability:The Legal Revolution & Its Consequences
| publisher = Basic Books | date = 1988 }}
- {{cite book
| title = The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation
| url = https://archive.org/details/liabilitymazeimp0000unse
| url-access = registration
| publisher = Brookings Institution Press | date = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-8157-3761-2}}
- {{cite book | last = Huber | first = Peter | author-link = Peter W. Huber | title = Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science In The Courtroom | publisher = Basic Books | date = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-465-02624-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/galileosrevenge00pete }}
- {{cite book | last = Huber | first = Peter | author-link = Peter W. Huber | title = Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest | publisher = Free Press | date = 1994 | isbn = 978-0-02-915335-2 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/orwellsrevenge1900hube }}
- {{cite book
| title = Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm
| publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1997 | isbn = 978-0-19-511614-4}}
- {{cite book
| title =Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts
| publisher = MIT Press | date = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-262-56120-4}} (with Kenneth R. Foster)
- {{cite book
| title = Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law
| publisher = MIT Press | date = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-262-56119-8}}
- {{cite book
| title = Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists
| publisher = Basic Books | date = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-465-03113-9}}
- {{cite book
| title = Federal Telecommunications Law
| publisher = Aspen Law | date = 2004 | isbn = 978-0-7355-4261-7}}
- {{cite book
| title = The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
| url = https://archive.org/details/bottomlesswelltw00hube
| url-access = registration
| publisher = Basic Books | date = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-465-03117-7}} (with Mark P. Mills)
- {{cite book
| title = The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining 21st Century Medicine
| publisher = Basic Books | date = 2013 | isbn = 978-0-465-05068-0}}
See also
Notes
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External links
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- Peter Huber [https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/peter-w-huber at MIT Press].
- Peter Huber [https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/peter-w-huber_86 at Manhattan Institute's City Journal quarterly magazine].
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