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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.
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 dfarber@law.berkeley.edu
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
I totally agree about the need for legislative action. Like you, I'm hopefully about the 2022 Senate races. However, I…
On Rebuilding Environmental Protection
You make a good point about the preemption issue. There's only a limited ability to affect this administratively, but it…
On Rebuilding Environmental Protection
You make a good point about the preemption issue. There's only a limited ability to affect this administratively, but it…
On Rebuilding Environmental Protection
I'm glad you found the post helpful.
On Battle for the Senate: Colorado
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