Donald T. Hornstein

Professor Hornstein writes on risk analysis, political theory, administrative law, water law, and science policy. He teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Administrative Law, and Insurance Law. His most recent work focuses on game theory, the policy aspects of complexity theory, watershed governance, and financial mechanisms for environmental protection.

In 1996-1997, Professor Hornstein was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to teach at the University of Asmara in Eritrea, East Africa. Previously, he served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, and to the federal Office of Technology Assessment. He has testified in Congress on comparative risk analysis. For the past five years, Professor Hornstein has also convened a widely-attended annual Environmental Law Symposium for North Carolina attorneys.

Prior to joining the UNC faculty, Professor Hornstein clerked for Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, worked as an appellate attorney at the U. S. Department of Justice, and worked as an attorney specializing in environmental law at the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter.

Professor Hornstein's articles have appeared, among other places, in the Columbia Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, and in Duke's Law & Contemporary Problems. He is the author of two book chapters on, respectively, comparative risk analysis and political influence on science.

Professor Hornstein has won the Law School's McCall Award for Teaching Excellence five times and, in 1999, became the first law professor to win the University's overall prize for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching.

Donald T. Hornstein
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Law
Chapel Hill, NC
919.962.4133
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