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Dan Farber
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.
Not sure I agree with your theology. If there is an act of impiety, isn't it continuing to burn fossil…
On Speaking Truth to Corporate Power
Lily- Just a few additional facts. Inoculation would never be approved by the FDA today. It involved live smallpox disease…
On Vaccination, Enlightenment Values, and the Founders
Dan- I totally agree that we need legislation in order to stabilize policy. If the Dems had a bigger majority,…
On Biden’s Dilemma: Limiting Carbon from Existing Power Plants
As I understand, the idea would be to issue the NAAQS and then immediately classify all states as non-attainment. I…
On Biden’s Dilemma: Limiting Carbon from Existing Power Plants
Prior to Trump, I think OIRA tended to operate fairly independently from OMB. To the extent there's a signal, Tanden's…
On Biden and Regulatory Review
Thanks for the reminder about brownfields. I didn't see much about that, but what you say sounds plausible.
On Trump’s Pro-Environmental Acts — A VERY Short List
Paul -- Let's discuss this off-line. My email is [email protected]
On Trump’s Biggest Anti-Environmental Fail
Robert-- It's true that the rollbacks are constrained to some extent by current law, but with a 6-3 conservative Supreme…
On What Could Trump Do with Four More Years?
Hi David. I'm actually less worried about that. Dormant commerce clause cases often produce scrambled alignments on the Court. The…
On Fighting Global Warming in a Chilly Judicial Climate
I'm happy that this came to your attention, given your enormous contributions to protecting the environment. I couldn't agree more…
On When Republicans Supported the Environment: Bush 41