Oliver A Houck

Oliver Houck is the David Boies Chair in Public Interest law at Tulane Law School. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1960) and Georgetown Law Center (l967), with three intervening years in the US Army, predominantly Korea. He served as a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office in Washington DC until l971, when he became counsel to the National Wildlife Federation and part of the first wave of environmental law. His books include Downstream Toward Home, Down on the Batture, Waking up the Dream State, Taking Back Eden, and The Most Dangerous Branch (the Supreme Court and environmental law). He has also published a memoir of his service as a federal prosecutor called The Court of General Sessions. Uijongbu, also a memoir, is his latest work.