Dan Farber

UC Berkeley School of Law

Sho Sato Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment

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Dan Farber has written and taught on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. Currently at Berkeley Law, he has also spent time at Minnesota Law School (where he became the first Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law in 1987), Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School (where he was named McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law in 2000). He is also a pioneer in the emerging field of Disaster Law, which examines legal issues related to society’s ability to deal effectively with the aftermath of catastrophes and the risk of future disasters.

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Dan Farber

UC Berkeley School of Law

Sho Sato Professor of Law Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment

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Sho Sato Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment