J.
H. Huebert is an award-winning writer, a freelance photojournalist, a
webmaster, an explorer, and an attorney.
Mr.
Huebert's columns have appeared in various newspapers throughout the
United States. He has received two Morley Awards in Journalism for
his newspaper columns as well as his monograph, "Independent
Schools at Risk," published by the Foundation for Economic
Education, Irvington, New York.
While at the Foundation headquarters in New York, Mr. Huebert worked
with noted scholars and distinguished economists, and assisted the
senior editorial staff with publication of The
Freeman/Ideas on Liberty, the Foundation's monthly journal.
Mr. Huebert's agenda has taken him to various places across North
America, Latin America, England, and the continent. He has lived and
traveled extensively in Guatemala.
In addition to studying the mysterious Maya, he spent time there
personally exploring the pyramids and climbing the volcanoes, including
Volcan Tajulmulco, the highest peak in Central America, and paddling
through jungle waterways in a native dugout photographing
everything in sight.
During the summer of 2000, Mr. Huebert also met with scholars,
economists and prominent national business leaders at Francisco
Marroquin University in Guatemala City to gain greater insight
into the culture and economics of Guatemala.
In addition to inland towns and villages, Mr. Huebert explored the
Pacific coast of Guatemala at Monterrico, where he lived in a thatched
roof hut on the black-sand beach. On the Caribbean coast, Mr. Huebert
lived with a local family on the Rio Tatin. From there, he travelled by lancha
to the coastal village of Livingston to interview and photograph the
unique Garifuna
people and learn more about their culture.
During much of his backpack travels throughout Guatemala, Mr. Huebert
lived primarily in modest homes with local families who spoke no
English. At times, however, he did stay in small hotels, inns, and, for
a few days, even at the home of an accommodating expatriate American.
Mr. Huebert's agenda has also taken him to Peru, from the Pacific coast
to Lake Titicaca, from the Nazca
Lines, to the Inca
Trail, where, with a team of eleven, plus two guides and 13
porters, he made the three-day trek from Cuzco upward more than two and
a half miles into thin air on the trail to Machu Picchu, the legendary
lost city of the Inca, and lived
to tell about it.
Mr.
Huebert has also traveled and photographed extensively in Chiapas,
Mexico.
Mr. Huebert received his Juris Doctor from the University
of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Student
Fellow in Law & Economics, and his BA in economics with honors from Grove
City College.
Before entering private practice as an attorney, Mr. Huebert served as a law clerk to Judge Deborah L. Cook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Mr. Huebert has also worked on various projects for the Institute
for Justice.
As an attorney in private practice, he also serves as Vice Chairman, Appellate Practice Committee, of the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, and is a member of the Defense Research Institute, the American Bar Association, the Ohio Bar Association, and the Columbus Bar Association.
He is admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, all local, state and federal courts in Ohio, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit which, in addition to Ohio, includes Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. He has also been admitted to practice elsewhere pro hac vice.
His views have been solicited by the media, he has been interviewed on television and quoted in various print publications. In addition, he has lectured on academic as well as popular subject matter both in the United States and in Europe
Among other legal and academic works, his writing includes an encyclopedia entry titled, "U. S. Relations with Mexico," that deals with issues related to war and peace, treaty law, trade and diplomacy.
He is also a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the National Book Critics Circle and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
In addition to his native English, Mr. Huebert is conversant in German
and Spanish.
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