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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.
Thanks for the positive feedback about this idea! Hopefully we can attract some broader attention to it.
On Let’s Make Tomorrow “National Climate Awareness Day”
Not wanting to get into a debate about this, but Trump's regulation czar, who's now on the D.C. Circuit, apparently…
On The D.C. Circuit and the Biden Power Plant Rule
Paul - There's obviously a lot of uncertainty, and you could well be right. It really all depends on how…
On Understanding Loper: The Grandfather Clause
Thanks, Ronnie. Fixed now.
On Understanding Loper: The Grandfather Clause
I'm not sure how much decisions about individual contaminated sites will be affected since Chevron was about regulations. But I…
On Is the Sky Falling? Chevron, Loper Bright, and Judicial Deference
Hi Jeremy -- Great questions. I'll be blogging about that next Monday. Dan Farber
On Losing Chevron: What Does It Mean for California?
Thanks for flagging that. I've added it to the post. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a349_0813.pdf
On The Supreme Court & Interstate Pollution
You're right that NEPA can be a potential issue for clean energy projects as well as for fossil fuels. However,…
On The 2023 NEPA Rewrite and the Supreme Court’s New Climate Case
I agree that the Supreme Court has been no friend of NEPA. I think the government is right, however, that…
On The 2023 NEPA Rewrite and the Supreme Court’s New Climate Case
I did enjoy being called languorous -- "characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind." I can't help…
On Hillary Clinton, Climate Change, and the ‘Sliding Doors’ of History