GCN Associate
DURWOOD ZAELKE
      
Governance
Sustainable Development

Durwood Zaelke Co-founder/Co-director, Program on Governance for Sustainable Development Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Durwood Zaelke founded (1989) the Center for International Environmental Law, where he served as President until 2003. He founded and co-directed from 1989 until 2003 the International & Comparative Environmental Law Program at the American University law school. In addition to American University and the Bren School, he has taught at Yale Law School, Duke Law School, and Johns Hopkins.

Mr. Zaelke is the founding Director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement (www.inece.org), and the Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette, LLP. In April 2005, Mr. Zaelke published Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance & Sustainable Development (Cameron May London 2005) (with Kaniaru & Kružíková), a two-volume analysis of the best literature on compliance and enforcement. In July 2003, Mr. Zaelke joined Dr. Steven O. Andersen in publishing Industry Genius: Inventions and People Protecting the Climate and Fragile Ozone Layer (Greenleaf UK, 2003).

Industry Genius presents the inventiveness behind technological breakthroughs by ten global companies, including Honda, Seiko-Epson, Japan’s F-Center for Greenhouse Gas Alternatives, ST Microelectronics, Trane, Aviation Partners, Daimler Chrysler, and Alcoa Aluminum, and suggests how forward looking companies can pursue sustainable business strategies and avoid potentially costly liabilities. Mr. Zaelke is the author also of several other titles including the leading law school textbook on International Environmental Law & Policy (Foundation Press 2nd ed. 2002; with Hunter & Salzman).

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