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The Technology and Law Program at MIT

Nicholas A. Ashford

Professor of Technology and Policy
Director, Technology & Law Program

Center for Technology, Policy & Industrial Development
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E40-239, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA

Email: nashford@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-1664; Fax: (617) 452-2265
http://web.mit.edu/ctpid/www/tl

Updated: 6/22/2008


EDUCATION

J.D., The Law School, University of Chicago

Substantial completion of program requirements for the MBA in Business and Labor Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Chicago

B.A., Chemistry, Washington University

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

 


HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1990

Recipient of the Macedo Award of the American Association for World Health for the most outstanding contribution to public health funded by a state health department.

1980

Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1975

Lawrence R. Klein Award for the outstanding contribution to the Monthly Labor Review.

 


PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Technology and Policy, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with MIT since 1972).

Faculty Associate, Environmental Policy Group, MIT Urban Studies Department

Faculty Associate, the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the MIT Sloan School of Management

Adjunct Faculty in Occupational Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health, Department of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine, Boston University School of Public Health

 


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

US-Greek Joint Council on Technology Cooperation with the Balkans, Co-chair (1999-present)

American-Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow (1980-Present), Chair-elect, 2002; Chair, 2003, Section on the Societal Impacts of Science and Technology.

United Nations Environment Programme, Member of the Advisory Committee on Environmental Technology Assessment.

EPA National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, Chairman of the Committee on Technology, Innovation and Economics (1988-1992)

American Public Health Association, Member of the Governing Council (1989-1991)

National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, former Chairman and Public Member (1976-1982)

Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Measurements Committee) (1978-1982)

American Chemical Society (Division of Chemical Safety), Founding Member

Society for Occupational and Environmental Health, Governing Council; Vice President (1985-1986)

Collegium Ramazzini, Member of Council of Fellows

Council for Responsible Genetics, Member of Board of Directors

Journal of Cleaner Production, Editorial Board

Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, Editorial Board

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Editorial Board

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Editorial Board

 


TEACHING ACTIVITIES: MIT

Environmental Law & Policy: Pollution Prevention and Control

1.811J/ESD.133J/11.630J

Regulation of Chemicals, Radiation and Biotechnology

1.812J/ESD.134J/11.631J

Technology, Law, and the Working Environment

10.805J/ESD.135J

Law, Technology, and Public Policy

ESD.132J/15.655J

Sustainability, Trade, and the Environment

ESD.137J/15.657J
11.466J/1.813J

 


LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

DUTCH

Spoken and written

GERMAN

Spoken and written

GREEK

Spoken and written

 


FIELDS OF INTEREST

Regulatory policy, law, and economics

Governmental policy affecting technological innovation

Environmental/Occupational health and safety

Environmental law and economics

Labor law and economics

Technology assessment

Technological innovation

Pollution prevention

Sustainability, trade and the environment

Environmental justice

 


Professor Ashford's home page.

Technology and Law publications listed by subject area and by publication type.

 


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