Peter Huber is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on the issues of drug development, energy, technology, and the law.

Huber is the author of the forthcoming book, The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law Is Undermining 21st Century Medicine (Basic Books, 2013.) He wrote The Bottomless Well, coauthored with Mark Mills, which Bill Gates said "is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy, its history and what it will be like going forward". Huber's previous book, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 2000), which was called "the richest contribution ever made to the greening of the political mind" by William F. Buckley, Jr., set out a new conservative manifesto on the environment which advocates a return to conservation and environmental policy based on sound science and market economics. In 1997 he authored two books, Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm, which is an examination of telecommunications policy (Oxford University Press) and (with the University of Pennsylvania's Kenneth Foster) Judging Science, Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (MIT Press). Previous books include Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest, (Free Press, 1994), Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (Perseus Book Group, 1991); and Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988).

Huber has also published articles in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, as well as many other publications, including Science, The Wall Street Journal, Reason, Regulation, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Before joining the Manhattan Institute, Huber served as an assistant and later associate professor at MIT for six years. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and then on the U.S. Supreme Court for Sandra Day O'Connor. Huber also is a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen and Todd.

Huber earned his law degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

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Business and Economy

Gotham’s Hidden Infrastructure Boom City Journal, Spring 1998

Telecosm NYC City Journal, Summer 1997

Bound to Burn City Journal, Spring 2009

Who Pays For Speed? Forbes.com, 02-27-06

A Power Portfolio Forbes.com, 04-11-05

Going Private Forbes.com, 10-27-03

Antitrust's Real Legacy Wall Street Journal, 12-26-02

Is a Breakup Next? Not Likely Wall Street Journal, 04-04-00

Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do Wall Street Journal, 11-10-99

Consumer Driven Health Care

The Patient's Right to Know Forbes.com, 07-24-06

Counter-Terrorism

Sniffing Backpacks Forbes.com, 08-15-05

Al Qaeda and the ACLU Forbes.com, 08-11-03

The Biosniffers Are Coming Forbes.com, 06-23-03

Crime

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Washington Created WorldCom Wall Street Journal, 07-01-02

Culture and Society

Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest Book, 1994

Drug and Medical Device Litigation

The Liability and Regulatory Threat to Biotech Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1988

Vaccines Are Scarce. Why? Forbes.com, 09-04-06

The Coming Plague Wall Street Journal, 04-10-07

Anthraxing New York RealClearMarkets, 11-16-09

Science on the Potomac Forbes.com, 12-31-09

The FDA and Methuselah Forbes.com, 04-12-10

Drug Importation and Price Controls

Science on the Potomac Forbes.com, 12-31-09

The FDA and Methuselah Forbes.com, 04-12-10

Drugs

Who Pays for a Cancer Drug? Forbes, 01-06-09

Conflicted Doctors Forbes.com, 04-07-08

The Coming Plague Wall Street Journal, 04-10-07

Of Pills and Profits: In Defense of Big Pharma Commentary, 07-01-06

Gouging The Drug Companies Forbes, 12-12-05

Economic Development

$3 Gas? We'll Shrug It Off Forbes.com, 05-09-05

Oil, Oil, Everywhere . . . Wall Street Journal, 01-27-05

Capturing Carbon is Our Only Option Dallas Morning News, 05-08-09

It's the End of Oil / Oil Is Here to Stay Time, 10-23-05

Got a Computer? More Power to You. Wall Street Journal, 09-07-00

My Tax-Free Roomba Forbes.com, 08-05-09

Kill Oil Wall Street Journal, 09-17-09

Heavy Iron = Energy Independence The New York Sun, 04-07-05

Energy

Energy Here and Now: New York’s Independent Future Event Transcript, September 2003

New York’s Energy Future: Looking Bright or Headed for a Blackout? Event Transcript, June 2003

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power City Journal, Winter 2005

The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste and Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy Book, 2005

The Million-Volt Answer to Oil Energy Policy & the Environment Report, October 2008

Bound to Burn City Journal, Spring 2009

Toyota's MPG game Forbes.com, 12-24-07

Follow the Money Forbes.com, 04-09-07

Love Uranium Forbes.com, 11-27-06

Crude Awakening Wall Street Journal, 02-03-06

Thermodynamics and Money Forbes.com, 10-31-05

The Art of Energy Slate, 02-01-05

The Virtue Of Waste Forbes.com, 12-13-04

Dig More Coal, The Hybrids Are Coming Forbes.com, 05-24-04

Brawn & Brains Forbes.com, 09-15-03

Buy (Some) Utilities Forbes.com, 02-17-03

Gasoline and the Grid Forbes.com, 11-25-02

It's Time for Greens to Go Nuclear Wall Street Journal, 04-21-01

A Green Manifesto Forbes.com, 01-24-00

How Non-Green Cities Are Rebuilding the American Forests Los Angeles Times, 12-29-99

Replacing Oil with Substitutes Won't Put U.S. at Disadvantage Washington Examiner, 09-16-09

Kill Oil Wall Street Journal, 09-17-09

Kill Oil with Natural Gas and Electricity: A Carbon Strategy the World Can Afford Energy Policy & the Environment Report, September 2009

The Carbon Con Game Forbes.com, 10-15-09

Broadband Electricity and the Free-Market Path to Electric Cars Energy Policy & the Environment Report, March 2011

Environment

How Cities Green the Planet City Journal, Winter 2000

Why the U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power City Journal, Winter 2005

Bound to Burn City Journal, Spring 2009

Oil, Gas and Wires Forbes.com, 10-28-08

The Carbon Curtain Forbes.com, 07-17-08

The Forest Killers Forbes.com, 04-10-06

Getting Over Oil Commentary, 09-15-05

The End of the M.E.? American Society of Mechanical Engineering Magazine, 05-15-05

Making coal green Forbes.com, 07-08-02

Running Strong National Review Online, 04-17-00

Six Acres and a Deere Forbes.com, 03-20-00

Ecological Eugenics Wall Street Journal, 12-20-99

Tires, Bees and Expertise Wall Street Journal, 04-01-99

Replacing Oil with Substitutes Won't Put U.S. at Disadvantage Washington Examiner, 09-16-09

Kill Oil Wall Street Journal, 09-17-09

Kill Oil with Natural Gas and Electricity: A Carbon Strategy the World Can Afford Energy Policy & the Environment Report, September 2009

Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists Commentary, 04-01-98

Brand New Green City Journal, Spring 2010

Broadband Electricity and the Free-Market Path to Electric Cars Energy Policy & the Environment Report, March 2011

FDA Reform

Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine Book, November 2013

The Digital Future of Molecular Medicine: Rethinking FDA Regulation Project FDA Report, May 2013

Foreign Affairs

Cassandra v. Cassandra Forbes.com, 05-21-07

The Carbon Con Game Forbes.com, 10-15-09

Government Reform

Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm Book, 1997

Healthcare

Germs and the City City Journal, Spring 2007

Cherry Garcia and the End of Socialized Medicine City Journal, Autumn 2007

Curing Diversity City Journal, Autumn 2008

How The New Medicine Renders Universal Health Care Impossible Investor's Business Daily, 10-26-07

Medicine Gets Cheaper Forbes.com, 03-01-04

Anthraxing New York City Journal, Autumn 2009

Homeland Security

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Anthraxing New York City Journal, Autumn 2009

Legal Issues

Canute's Revenge: Proposition 103 and its Aftermath | Proposition 106 and the Incompetent Consumer Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1989

Manufacturing the Audi Scare Civil Justice Memo/Forum, January 1990

Putting Punitive Damages into Perspective Civil Justice Memo/Forum, March 1990

Who Will Protect Us from Our Protectors? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, July 1987

The Liability and Regulatory Threat to Biotech Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1988

Joiner, Scheffer and Kumho: Refining the Standards for Expert Evidence Civil Justice Memo/Forum, December 1998

Science in the Courts Civil Justice Memo/Forum, September 1997

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Assessing the Impact of the Daubert Decision: Junk Science: A Turnaround in the Courts? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1995

Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences Book, 1988

Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom Book, August 1991

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law Book, June 1993

Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts Book, May 1997

The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation Book, July 1991

Media

Smile, You're on Googcam Forbes.com, 02-07-07

The Death of Old Media Albuquerque Journal, 01-11-00

New York City

Telecosm NYC City Journal, Summer 1997

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

Guns, Tobacco, Big Macs—and the Courts Commentary, 06-15-99

NYC Economy

Telecosm NYC City Journal, Summer 1997

Don't Close Indian Point New York Daily News, 07-20-03

NYC Politics

Anthraxing New York RealClearMarkets, 11-16-09

Privatization/Competitive Contracting/Budgets

Good Data Make Good Fences Forbes.com, 05-19-08

Products Liability

Who Will Protect Us from Our Protectors? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, July 1987

Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences Book, 1988

Manufacturing the Audi Scare Civil Justice Memo/Forum, January 1990

Reform Proposals

Canute's Revenge: Proposition 103 and its Aftermath | Proposition 106 and the Incompetent Consumer Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1989

Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom Book, August 1991

Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts Book, May 1997

Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences Book, 1988

Regulation

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Revitalizing First Amendment Protection For Electronic Speech Event Transcript, December 3, 2002

Germs and the City City Journal, Spring 2007

Cherry Garcia and the End of Socialized Medicine City Journal, Autumn 2007

Curing Diversity City Journal, Autumn 2008

Bound to Burn City Journal, Spring 2009

Anthraxing New York City Journal, Autumn 2009

Regulation through Litigation

Putting Punitive Damages into Perspective Civil Justice Memo/Forum, March 1990

Who Will Protect Us from Our Protectors? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, July 1987

The Liability and Regulatory Threat to Biotech Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1988

Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences Book, 1988

School Curriculum and Programs

Assignment: Wombats Forbes.com, 12-25-06

Scientific Evidence

Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom Book, August 1991

Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law Book, June 1993

Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts Book, May 1997

Assessing the Impact of the Daubert Decision: Junk Science: A Turnaround in the Courts? Civil Justice Memo/Forum, February 1995

Manufacturing the Audi Scare Civil Justice Memo/Forum, January 1990

Science in the Courts Civil Justice Memo/Forum, September 1997

Joiner, Scheffer and Kumho: Refining the Standards for Expert Evidence Civil Justice Memo/Forum, December 1998

Tech and Environment

Gotham’s Hidden Infrastructure Boom City Journal, Spring 1998

New York, Capital of the Information Age City Journal, Winter 1995

Taking the Long View Pays Off Civil Justice Memo/Forum, May 1995

Telecosm NYC City Journal, Summer 1997

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest Book, 1994

Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists Book, January 2000

How Cities Green the Planet City Journal, Winter 2000

Germs and the City City Journal, Spring 2007

Uncle Sam, Tech Investor Forbes, 03-29-09

Warning--Tsunami Forbes.com, 06-30-08

Techno-Optimism Forbes.com, 01-31-08

The PalmPilot-JDAM Complex Forbes.com, 05-12-03

The Silicon Car Forbes.com, 12-25-00

Al Gore is No Conservationist Washington Post, 04-01-00

The Bug That Didn't Bark Wall Street Journal, 01-04-00

Fear Nature, Not Technology Wall Street Journal, 08-18-99

My Tax-Free Roomba Forbes.com, 08-05-09

Blueprint for the Earth Forbes.com, 09-20-04

Truck-Size Transistors Forbes.com, 07-26-04

Brand New Green City Journal, Spring 2010

Technology

How Cities Green the Planet City Journal, Winter 2000

Gotham’s Hidden Infrastructure Boom City Journal, Spring 1998

Telecosm NYC City Journal, Summer 1997

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Germs and the City City Journal, Spring 2007

Cherry Garcia and the End of Socialized Medicine City Journal, Autumn 2007

Curing Diversity City Journal, Autumn 2008

Web 50.0 Forbes.com, 11-12-07

Blunder 2007 Forbes.com, 10-01-07

Secure I.D.s and the Net Forbes.com, 08-13-07

The Inegalitarian Web Forbes.com, 02-17-07

Data in Motion Forbes.com, 02-14-05

Crossed Wires Forbes.com, 10-18-04

Reflections on a Master Forbes.com, 04-26-04

Trading on Secrecy Forbes.com, 03-29-04

That's Showbiz Forbes.com, 01-06-03

Military-Industrial Complex, 2003 Forbes.com, 05-12-03

A Brave New Digital World Forbes.com, 10-14-02

The Next Killer App Forbes.com, 12-10-01

The Vision Thing Forbes.com, 01-07-02

Deregulation Will Survive Enron Wall Street Journal, 12-06-01

Spread the Wealth Forbes.com, 03-19-01

Blueprint for the Earth Forbes.com, 09-20-04

Truck-Size Transistors Forbes.com, 07-26-04

Digital Innovators vs. the Patent Trolls Wall Street Journal, 04-18-11

Telecommunications

Revitalizing First Amendment Protection For Electronic Speech Event Transcript, December 3, 2002

Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm Book, 1997

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 Book, January 1996

The Government’s Role in Promoting the Future of the Telecommunications Industry and Broadband Deployment Testimony, October 1, 2002

Attack of the 'Cuisinart' Regulators Wall Street Journal, 02-26-04

Data on the Move Forbes.com, 12-23-03

Telecom undone—a cautionary tale Commentary, 01-26-03

Forget Federalism National Review Online, 02-18-03

Digital Innovators vs. the Patent Trolls Wall Street Journal, 04-18-11

Terrorism

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Anthrax and Lawyers Forbes.com, 10-16-06

Panic and Terrorism Forbes.com, 03-31-03

Anthraxing New York City Journal, Autumn 2009

Transportation

The Efficiency Paradox Forbes.com, 08-20-01

Urban Issues

Germs and the City City Journal, Spring 2007

Value of Medicine

The FDA and Methuselah Forbes.com, 04-12-10

The Digital Future of Molecular Medicine: Rethinking FDA Regulation Project FDA Report, May 2013

War on Terror

Can Terrorists Turn Out Gotham’s Lights? City Journal, Autumn 2004

How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism City Journal, Winter 2002

Anthraxing New York City Journal, Autumn 2009