Achieving Democracy

Sidney A. Shapiro is Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. Before beginning his teaching career, he served as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Professor Shapiro is a founding member and now Vice-President of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), a nonprofit research and educational organization of sixty scholars dedicated to protecting health, safety, and the environment through analysis and commentary. He has been a consultant to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), and he has testified in Congress on regulatory policy and process issues. He is the co-author of The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public and co-author of Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring a Pragmatic Approach. In addition, Professor Shapiro has published over 85 articles on regulatory policy and process topics, including a book on occupational safety and health law and policy. Joseph P. Tomain is Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert & Helen Ziegler Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He has held positions as Visiting Environmental Scholar at Lewis & Clark Law School; a Distinguished Visiting Energy Professor at the Vermont Law School; a Visiting Scholar in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame; a Visiting Fellow at the Harris Manchester College, Oxford University; and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in law in Cambodia. Dean Tomain serves on a number of civic organizations including Chair of the Board of the Knowledge Works Education Foundation; founder and principal of the Justice Institute for the Legal Profession; Board Member of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. He has written extensively in the energy law field, and his publications include: Regulatory Law and Policy; Energy Law and Policy for the 21st Century; Nuclear Power Transformation, among others. He authored Creon's Ghost: Law, Justice, and the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2009); Ending Dirty Energy Policy: Prelude to Climate Change.