JAMES V. DeLONG is a writer, lawyer, and consultant in Washington, D.C., concentrating on property rights and environmental issues. He is also active in the areas of regulatory reform, intellectual property, industrial and government management, and legal reform. He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Competitive Enterprise Institute of Washington, D.C., and writes for scholarly, professional, and popular publications.
He has appeared as a witness before Congress and state regulatory agencies, and he speaks frequently at professional and trade association meetings.
His prior professional positions include service as Research Director of the Administrative Conference of the United States; Assistant Director for Special Projects in the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission; Director of Programs for the Drug Abuse Council (a private foundation); Staff Analyst in the Office of Program Evaluation of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget; and Litigation Associate in a large law firm.
Mr. DeLong is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School in 1963, where he was Book Review Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a cum laude graduate of Harvard College in 1960. He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the State of California, and the Supreme Court of the United States, and has served on the Committee on Scholarship of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association. He received a Senior Executive Service (SES) Outstanding Award in 1981, while working for the Administrative Conference of the United States.