08/28/2002
The NFIB Legal Foundation today announced the addition of Jonathan H. Adler to its advisory board. Adler is an assistant professor of law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and has a long record as an advocate of free-market legal principles, particularly in the area of environmental law.
Among his duties as a member of the board, professor Adler will help guide the Legal Foundation in choosing cases to pursue and recommend topics for legal advisory material for small-business owners. His distinguished colleagues on the advisory board include C. Boyden Gray and Dr. Wendy Gramm.
"America's small businesses will be well served by Jonathan Adler's experience in environmental law," said Karen Harned, executive director of the Legal Foundation. "When federal regulatory agencies overstep their bounds, entrepreneurs sometimes have nowhere to turn but to the courts. Professor Adler's expertise and judgment will be invaluable to the Legal Foundation as we continue our fight for small-business owners in the courts."
The Legal Foundation was founded in 2000 to protect the interests of small-business owners in the nation's courts. In 1996, Congress gave small-business owners an important legal tool - the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA). SBREFA opened the door for judicial review of agency decisions that affect small businesses. Through the NFIB Legal Foundation, small business can challenge agency decisions that do not adequately consider their impact on small business - the basic requirement of SBREFA.
Prior to joining the faculty at CWRU, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the 2000-01 term. Until May 2000, he was a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington, D.C. Prior to becoming a senior fellow, he directed CEI's environmental studies program, advancing free-market environmentalism. While at CEI Adler published numerous articles in academic and popular publications on a range of environmental and regulatory issues and produced three books: Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America; The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications; and Ecology, Liberty and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader.
"I'm excited about working with the NFIB Legal Foundation on behalf of the small-business owners who make America's economy and society work," Adler said. "Government regulations must be crafted to reinforce the entrepreneurial spirit, not smother it. The Legal Foundation ensures that government regulators are held accountable when they act in a way that unfairly impacts small business."
The NFIB Legal Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization created to protect the rights of America's small-business owners by providing advisory material on legal issues and by ensuring that the voice of small business is heard in the nation's courts. The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) represents the consensus views of its 600,000 members in Washington and all 50-state capitals. More information is available at www.nfiblegal.com.
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