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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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On A Guide to Environmental Law Centers

Hi Roger -- I didn't include clinics in the list, but that's something I may come back to later. Dan

On A Guide to Environmental Law Centers

On Climate Policy in the World’s Fourth Largest Country

Thanks for catching this mistake! I've corrected it now.

On The Climate Crisis, the Tribes, and the IRA

Hi James. Interesting question. In this case, conservative views (or rather, certain conservative views).

On The Contradictory Attacks on Biden’s Climate Programs

On The Contradictory Attacks on Biden’s Climate Programs

Thanks for posting the link -- great paper.

On Constraints on Rollbacks

There are certainly a lot of reasons to worry about the effect of climate change on aquatic ecologies -- highlighted…

On Not Just About the Climate

Robert-- did you read the italicized quotation? How else do you read "The crisis has been, to some extent, co-opted…

On RFK Jr. and Climate Change

Anthony- Good question! There's provision allowing up to 300 pages in cases of exceptional complexity. Beyond that, the options are…

On CEQ and Permitting Reform

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