CENTER FOR
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Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of four books on environmental policy and over a dozen book chapters. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, "The Volokh Conspiracy." A 2007 study identified Professor Adler as the most cited legal academic in environmental law under age 40, and his recent article, "Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Law Use Controls," published in the Boston College Law Review, was selected as one of the ten best articles in land use and environmental law in 2008.

Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and a J.D. summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law.

Professor Jonathan Entin has taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Courts, Public Policy, and Social Change, and a Supreme Court Seminar. Before joining the faculty in 1984, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. court of Appeals) and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, he is at work on a book about equal protection. Among his recent publications are "An Ohio Dilemma: Race, Equal Protection, and the Unfulfilled Promise of a State Bill of Rights," Cleveland State Law Review (2004), and "Judicial Selection and Political Culture," Capital University Law Review (2002).

Professor Entin's research has addressed a wide range of issues. They include the civil rights movement and litigation, environmental regulation, equal protection of the laws, legal issues regarding taxation, executive privilege, the federal budget process and legal education. He currently serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the CWRU School of Law. "When I was in practice," he has said, "I helped to free a man who came within hours of being executed for a crime he didn't commit. This experience showed me how lawyers can make a tremendous difference in peoples' lives, and I try to impart that lesson to my students."

Justin Buchler studies elections, with an emphasis on legislative elections. His primary line of research is about the effects of competitive elections on political institutions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, he argues that competitive elections create perverse incentives for candidates, and produce unrepresentative election outcomes. Thus, he argues that competitive elections are actually bad for democracy. His book, Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections, is under contract and being revised for Oxford University Press. He has also published several papers on the topic, including The Social Sub-Optimality of Competitive Elections (published in Public Choice), which received the 2007 Gordon Tullock Prize. His other papers on the topic focus on redistricting.

Professor Buchler's dissertation was a study of campaign finance, and in particular the relationship between political parties and political action committees (PACs). In other research he has studied the effects of parties on the positions candidates take in their campaigns; the influence of candidates' perceived personal characteristics such as competence and honesty on the support they receive; and the consequences of different technologies used to record and count votes.