Daniel A. Farber

Professor Farber’s expertise is in the area of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Climate Change, and Constitutional Law.

Professor Farber has served on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, as a Law Clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court, as a Law Clerk for Judge Philip W. Tone, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and on the Litigation Committee, AAUP; AAUP Special Committee on Confidentiality in Tenure Review. Professor Farber was also an Associate at the firm Sidley & Austin (Washington DC).

Daniel Farber has written several books on environmental law, including Disasters and the Law, (Aspen Publishers, 2006, [with Jim Chen]), Eco-Pragmatism: Making Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Environmental Law in a Nutshell (West Pub. Co., 1st ed. 1983, 2d ed. 1988; 3d ed. 1992; Japanese translation, 1992; 4th ed. 1995; 5th ed. 2000 [with R. Findley]), and Environmental Law Cases and Materials (West Pub. Co., 1st ed. 1981, 2d ed. 1985, 3d ed. 1991, 4th ed. 1995, 5th ed. 1999; with 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1997 Supplements; Teacher's Manuals 1992 , 1995 and 1999) [with R. Findley], 6th ed. 2003 [with R. Findley and J. Freeman]; 7th ed. 2006 [with J. Freeman and A. Carlson]. Professor Farber’s recent articles include, Basic Compensation for Victims of Climate Change, 155 U. Pa. L. Rev.(2007), Controlling Pollution by Individuals and Other Dispersed Sources, 35 Env. L. Rep. 10745 (2005), Modular Environmental Regulation, 54 Duke L.J. 795 (2005), The Story of Boomer: Pollution and the Common Law, 32 ELQ 113 (2005), and Probabilities Behaving Badly: Complexity Theory and Environmental Uncertainty, 37 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 145 (2003).

Daniel Farber
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley CA
510.642.0340
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