Researching James Salzman
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4 people with the Salzman surname? In that year Salzman was ranked number 3575 for popularity in the UK. |

The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Salzman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Salzman and the Salzman Family History
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 51 people with the Salzman surname in the UK? Salzman is now ranked number 3994 for popularity in the UK. |
Salzman Genealogy Databases
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James Salzman
James Salzman (born 1963) is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Salzman graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, the first Harvard graduate to earn joint degrees in law and engineering. Prior to joining the University of California in 2015, he taught as a chaired professor with joint appointments to the environment and laws schools at Duke University and American University, and as a visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and Yale and at universities in Australia, China, Israel, Italy, Portugal and Sweden. Publishing twelve books and over 100 articles, he is the fifth most cited scholar in environmental law, with over 110,000 downloads of his articles.
Prior to entering academia, he worked in Paris in the Environment Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and in London as the European Environmental Manager for Johnson Wax. His honors include election as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, as well as appointments as a McMaster Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia, a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future, and a Bellagio Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. Twice voted Professor of the Year at Duke, he has lectured on every continent.
He is the author of Drinking Water: A History, and a frequent commentator in the media on drinking water issues. He has served on the EPA's National Drinking Water Advisory Council and on the EPA/USTR Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee. His bestselling book, Mine: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, was published in 2021 by Doubleday and positively reviewed in the The New Yorker,, New York Times, and the Financial Times among others.
Source: James Salzman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Salzman
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