Professor Barnhizer was Articles Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal where he received his JD summa cum laude. He then served as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow in the Colorado Springs Legal Services Office, a Ford Urban Law Fellow, and a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Law School from which he received a Masters of Law degree. He has been active in the areas of environmental law and policy and was Senior Advisor to the International Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He served as Executive Director of The Year 2000 Committee and consulted extensively with environmental organizations, including the World Resources Institute, the International Institute for Environment and Development, World Wildlife Fund, and the Center for Global Change. He served as a Visiting Professor with the School of Law of the University of Westminster in London (2003, 2009-2012) and as Senior Associate Research Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) at the University of London (2009-2012). He is the author of The Warrior Lawyer, a book on legal strategy, and has also published Strategies for Sustainable Societies, The Blues of a Revolution, Environment Cleveland, Hypocrisy & Myth: The Hidden Order of the Rule of Law, and edited the two-volume set Practical Strategies for Protecting Human Rights. He has also published more than fifty articles and book chapters in a wide variety of areas.