A UNC-Chapel Hill professor may oversee consumer product safety.

President Obama has nominated Robert S. Adler, a professor of legal studies and ethics at UNC, to be commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Adler's research and teaching focus on consumer protection, product liability, ethics, regulation and negotiation.

Before joining the UNC faculty, Adler served as counsel on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, adgvising on legislative and oversight issues relating to the commission and as an attorney-advisor to two commissioners.

He has been elected six times to the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.

He also served on the presidential transition team.

Hat Tip: David Ingram