Daniel A. Farber

Publications

• The Imperious Presidency: Brazen Power Plays and Executive Overreach
  53 PEPP. L. REV. 409 (2026) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2026
• Liability for Disaster Risks
  2025 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2025) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2025
• An Age of Statutes or an Age of Executive Orders? Conflicting Judicial and Presidential Visions of Policymaking
  77 UC L.J. 131 (2025) · UC Law Journal · 2025
• Turning Point: Green Industrial Policy and the Future of U.S. Climate Action
  11 TEX. A & M L. REV. 303 (2024) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2024
• Rewriting NEPA: Statutory Continuity and Disruption in a Polarized Era
  14 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 75 (2024) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2024
• Panel 3: Green Economy
  49 ECOLOGY L. Q. 889 (2023) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2023
• Our Colleague Stephen Sugarman: Teacher, Scholar, and Policy Entrepreneur
  109 CAL. L. REV. 393 (2021) · California Law Review · 2021
• Foreword
  47 ECOLOGY L. Q. 243 (2021) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2021
• Exceptional Circumstances: Immigration, Imports, the Coronavirus, and Climate Change as Emergencies
  71 UC L.J. 1143 (2020) · UC Law Journal · 2020
• The Long Shadow of Jacobson v. Massachusetts: Public Health, Fundamental Rights, and the Courts
  57 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 833 (2020) · San Diego Law Review · 2020

• Regulatory Review in Anti-Regulatory Times
  94 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 383 (2019) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2019
• Going Private: Climate Action by Businesses and Individuals
  71 VAND. L. REV. EN BANC (2018) · Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc · 2018
• Lincoln, Presidential Power, and the Rule of Law
  113 NW. U. L. REV. 667 (2018) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2018
• Murr v Wisconsin and the Future of Takings Law
  2017 SUP. CT. REV. (2017) · Supreme Court Review · 2017
• Agencies as Adversaries
  105 CAL. L. REV. 1375 (2017) · California Law Review · 2017
• Playing Favorites?: Justice Scalia, Abortion Protests, and Judicial Impartiality
  101 MINN. L. REV. HEADNOTES 23 (2016) · Minnesota Law Review Headnotes · 2016
• Separated at Birth? Addressing the Twin Crises of Biodiversity and Climate Change
  42 ECOLOGY L. Q. 841 (2016) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2016
• California Climate Law---Model or Object Lesson?
  32 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 492 (2015) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2015
• Gambling over Growth: Economic Uncertainty, Discounting, and Regulatory Policy
  44 J. LEGAL STUD. (2015) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2015
• Unpacking EME Homer: Cost, Proportionality, and Emissions Reductions
  4 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 213 (2015) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2015
• Coping with Uncertainty: Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Precautionary Principle, and Climate Change
  90 WASH. L. REV. 1659 (2015) · Washington Law Review · 2015
• Back to the Future? Legal Scholarship in the Progressive Era and Today
  100 MINN. L. REV. 1 (2015) · Minnesota Law Review · 2015
• Breaking Bad? The Uneasy Case for Regulatory Breakeven Analysis
  102 CAL. L. REV. 1469 (2014) · California Law Review · 2014
• Carbon Leakage Versus Policy Diffusion: The Perils and Promise of Subglobal Climate Action
  13 CHI. J. INT'L L. (2013) · Chicago Journal of International Law · 2013
• Introduction: Legal Scholarship, the Disaster Cycle, and the Fukushima Accident
  23 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. (2012) · Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2012
• The Fourteenth Amendment and the Unconstitutionality of Secession
  45 AKRON L. REV. (2012) · Akron Law Review · 2012
• Climate Justice
  110 MICH. L. REV. 985 (2012) · Michigan Law Review · 2012
• The BP Blowout and the Social and Environmental Erosion of the Louisiana Coast
  13 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 37 (2012) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2012
• Sustainable Consumption, Energy Policy, and Individual Well-Being
  65 VAND. L. REV. 1479 (2012) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2012
• Pollution Markets and Social Equity: Analyzing the Fairness of Cap and Trade
  39 ECOLOGY L. Q. 1 (2012) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2012
• A Fatal Loss of Balance: Dred Scott Revisited
  39 PEPP. L. REV. (2011) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2011
• Navigating the Intersection of Environmental Law and Disaster Law
  2011 BYU L. REV. 1783 (2011) · BYU Law Review · 2011
• Sustainable Consumption and Communities: Bringing the American Way of Life into the Twenty-First Century
  29 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 344 (2011) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2011
• Introduction: Practical Reason and the Scholarship of Philip P. Frickey
  98 CAL. L. REV. 1111 (2010) · California Law Review · 2010

• Rethinking the Role of Cost-benefit Analysis (reviewing <i>Retaking Rationality: How Cost-benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health</i> by Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore)
  76 U. CHI. L. REV. (2009) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2009
• Climate Justice and the China Fallacy
  15 UC L. ENV'T J. 15 (2009) · UC Law Environmental Journal · 2009
• The Categorical Approach to Protecting Speech in American Constitutional Law
  84 IND. L.J. (2009) · Indiana Law Journal · 2009
• Quinney Lecture: The Case for Climate Compensation: Justice for Climate Change Victims in a Complex World
  2008 UTAH L. REV. (2008) · Utah Law Review · 2008
• The Ninth Amendment and Individual Rights: A Reply to Professor McAffee
  9 NV. L.J. FORUM 243 (2008) · Nevada Law Journal · 2008
• Introduction: The Role of Lawyers in a Disaster-Prone World
  31 NOVA L. REV. 403 (2007) · Nova Law Review · 2007
• Disaster Law and Inequality
  25 MINN. J. L. & INEQ. 297 (2007) · Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality · 2007
• When the Court Has a Party, How Many "Friends" Show Up? a Note on the Statistical Distribution of Amicus Brief Filings
  24 CONST. COMMENT. 19 (2007) · Constitutional Commentary · 2007
• The Supreme Court, the Law of Nations, and Citations of Foreign Law: The Lessons of History
  95 CAL. L. REV. 1335 (2007) · California Law Review · 2007
• Backward-Looking Laws and Equal Protection: The Case of Black Reparations
  74 FORDHAM L. REV. 2271 (2006) · Fordham Law Review · 2006
• Another View of the Quagmire: Unconstitutional Conditions and Contract Theory Daniel A. Farber
  33 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2006) · Florida State University Law Review · 2006
• The Rule of Law and the Law of Precedents
  90 MINN. L. REV. 1173 (2006) · Minnesota Law Review · 2006
• Supreme Court Selection and Measures of Past Judicial Performance
  32 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2005) · Florida State University Law Review · 2005
• Uncertainty as a Basis for Standing
  33 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2005) · Hofstra Law Review · 2005
• Did Roe v. Wade Pass the Arbitrary and Capricious Test
  70 MO. L. REV. (2005) · Missouri Law Review · 2005
• Conflicting Visions and Contested Baselines: Intellectual Property and Free Speech in the "Digital Millennium"
  89 MINN. L. REV. 1318 (2005) · Minnesota Law Review · 2005
• Earthquakes and Tremors in Statutory Interpretation: An Empirical Study of the Dynamics of Interpretation
  89 MINN. L. REV. 848 (2005) · Minnesota Law Review · 2005
• The Story of Boomer: Pollution and the Common Law
  32 ECOLOGY L. Q. 113 (2005) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2005
• Foreword
  32 ECOLOGY L. Q. 383 (2005) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2005
• Modular Environmental Regulation
  54 DUKE L.J. 795 (2005) · Duke Law Journal · 2005
• The Reliance Interests in Trade Law
  13 MINN. J. GLOBAL TRADE 173 (2004) · Minnesota Journal of Global Trade · 2004
• Dollars and Sense: A "New Paradigm" for Campaign Finance Reform?
  37 U. RICH. L. REV. 979 (2003) · University of Richmond Law Review · 2003
• What (If Anything) Can Economics Say About Equity?
  101 MICH. L. REV. 1791 (2003) · Michigan Law Review · 2003
• Why (And How) Fairness Matters at the IP/Antitrust Interface
  87 MINN. L. REV. 1817 (2003) · Minnesota Law Review · 2003
• Building Bridges over Troubled Waters: Eco-Pragmatism and the Environmental Prospect
  87 MINN. L. REV. 851 (2003) · Minnesota Law Review · 2003
• The Importance of Being Final
  20 CONST. COMMENT. 359 (2003) · Constitutional Commentary · 2003
• Rethinking Regulatory Reform after American Trucking
  23 PACE L. REV. 43 (2002) · Pace Law Review · 2002
• Rights as Signals
  31 J. LEGAL STUD. (2002) · Journal of Legal Studies · 2002
• Playing Without a Referee: Congress, the President, and Foreign Affairs
  19 CONST. COMMENT. 693 (2002) · Constitutional Commentary · 2002
• Toward a New Legal Realism (reviewing <i>Behavioral Law and Economics</i> by Cass R. Sunstein)
  68 U. CHI. L. REV. (2001) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2001
• Speaking in the First Person Plural: Expressive Associations and the First Amendment
  85 MINN. L. REV. 1483 (2001) · Minnesota Law Review · 2001
• "Nor Long Remember"
  18 CONST. COMMENT. 423 (2001) · Constitutional Commentary · 2001
• E Pluribus Unum?
  18 CONST. COMMENT. 243 (2001) · Constitutional Commentary · 2001
• Disarmed by Time: The Second Amendment and the Failure of Originalism
  76 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 167 (2000) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2000
• Pledging a New Allegiance: An Essay on Sovereignty and the New Federalism
  75 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1133 (2000) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2000
• Courts, Statutes, and Public Policy: The Case of the Murderous Heir
  53 SMU L. REV. 31 (2000) · SMU Law Review · 2000
• Liberalism Lost
  17 CONST. COMMENT. 137 (2000) · Constitutional Commentary · 2000

• Legal Formalism and the Red-Hot Knife
  66 U. CHI. L. REV. (1999) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1999
• Beyond the Formalism Debate: Expert Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic, and Complex Statutes
  52 VAND. L. REV. 1241 (1999) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1999
• Beyond All Criticism
  83 MINN. L. REV. 1735 (1999) · Minnesota Law Review · 1999
• The Trouble with Tarble's: An Excerpt from an Alternative Casebook
  16 CONST. COMMENT. 517 (1999) · Constitutional Commentary · 1999
• Shocking the Conscience: Pragmatism, Moral Reasoning, and the Judiciary
  16 CONST. COMMENT. 675 (1999) · Constitutional Commentary · 1999
• Adjudication of Things Past: Reflections on History as Evidence
  49 UC L.J. 1009 (1998) · UC Law Journal · 1998
• Public Choice Revisited
  96 MICH. L. REV. 1715 (1998) · Michigan Law Review · 1998
• The Legacy of Reserve Mining
  83 MINN. L. REV. 299 (1998) · Minnesota Law Review · 1998
• Book Review of Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years
  15 CONST. COMMENT. 571 (1998) · Constitutional Commentary · 1998
• Saving Overton Park: A Comment on Environmental Values
  146 U. PENN. L. REV. 1671 (1998) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1998
• Is the Supreme Court Irrelevant--Reflections on the Judicial Role in Environmental Law
  81 MINN. L. REV. 547 (1997) · Minnesota Law Review · 1997
• Environmental Federalism in a Global Economy
  83 VA. L. REV. 1283 (1997) · Virginia Law Review · 1997
• Parody Lost/Pragmatism Regained: The Ironic History of the Coase Theorem
  83 VA. L. REV. 397 (1997) · Virginia Law Review · 1997
• Hermeneutic Tourist: Statutory Interpretation in Comparative Perspective
  81 CORNELL L. REV. 513 (1996) · Cornell Law Review · 1996
• Whither Socialism?
  73 DENV. L. REV. 1011 (1996) · Denver Law Review · 1996
• Statutory Interpretation and the Idea of Progress
  94 MICH. L. REV. 1546 (1996) · Michigan Law Review · 1996
• The Pariah Principle
  13 CONST. COMMENT. 257 (1996) · Constitutional Commentary · 1996
• The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay on the New Federalism and the Original Understanding
  94 MICH. L. REV. 615 (1995) · Michigan Law Review · 1995
• Our (Almost) Perfect Constitution
  12 CONST. COMMENT. 163 (1995) · Constitutional Commentary · 1995
• Is the Radical Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic
  83 CAL. L. REV. 853 (1995) · California Law Review · 1995
• Environmental Protection as a Learning Experience
  27 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 791 (1994) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1994
• Free Trade and the Regulatory State: A GATTs-Eye View of the Dormant Commerce Clause
  47 VAND. L. REV. 1401 (1994) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1994
• Missing The "Play of Intelligence"
  36 WM. & MARY L. REV. 147 (1994) · William & Mary Law Review · 1994
• Poverty and Discrimination: Notes on American Apartheid
  11 CONST. COMMENT. 455 (1994) · Constitutional Commentary · 1994
• Book Review of Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress
  11 CONST. COMMENT. 613 (1994) · Constitutional Commentary · 1994
• The Outmoded Debate over Affirmative Action
  82 CAL. L. REV. 893 (1994) · California Law Review · 1994
• Panel IV: Culpability, Restitution, and the Environment: The Vitality of Common Law Rules - Third Panelist
  21 ECOLOGY L. Q. 566 (1994) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 1994
• Revitalizing Regulation
  91 MICH. L. REV. 1278 (1993) · Michigan Law Review · 1993
• The Shadow of the Future: Discount Rates, Later Generations, and the Environment
  46 VAND. L. REV. 267 (1993) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1993
• Book Review of Privacy, Intimacy, and Isolation
  10 CONST. COMMENT. 510 (1993) · Constitutional Commentary · 1993
• Public Choice in Practice and Theory
  81 CAL. L. REV. 1657 (1993) · California Law Review · 1993
• The Jurisprudential Cab Ride: A Socratic Dialogue
  1992 BYU L. REV. 363 (1992) · BYU Law Review · 1992
• Hate Speech after R.A.V.
  18 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. (1992) · William Mitchell Law Review · 1992
• The Inevitability of Practical Reason: Statutes, Formalism, and the Rule of Law
  45 VAND. L. REV. 533 (1992) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1992
• Book Notes on The Urban Underclass
  9 CONST. COMMENT. 145 (1992) · Constitutional Commentary · 1992
• Public Choice and Just Compensation
  9 CONST. COMMENT. 279 (1992) · Constitutional Commentary · 1992
• "Terminator 2 1/2'': The Constitution in an Alternate World
  9 CONST. COMMENT. 59 (1992) · Constitutional Commentary · 1992
• Book Notes on The Logic of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process
  9 CONST. COMMENT. 146 (1992) · Constitutional Commentary · 1992
• Review Article
  90 MICH. L. REV. 1512 (1992) · Michigan Law Review · 1992
• In The Shadow of the Legislature: The Common Law in the Age of the New Public Law
  89 MICH. L. REV. 875 (1991) · Michigan Law Review · 1991
• Legislative Deals and Statutory Bequests
  75 MINN. L. REV. 667 (1991) · Minnesota Law Review · 1991
• Is Carolene Products Dead? Reflections on Affirmative Action and the Dynamics of Civil Rights Legislation
  79 CAL. L. REV. 685 (1991) · California Law Review · 1991
• Recurring Misses
  19 J. LEGAL STUD. (1990) · Journal of Legal Studies · 1990
• Book Review of The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism
  7 CONST. COMMENT. 492 (1990) · Constitutional Commentary · 1990
• The Deconstructed Grocery List
  7 CONST. COMMENT. 213 (1990) · Constitutional Commentary · 1990
• Beyond the Roe Debate: Judicial Experience with the 1980's "Reasonableness" Test
  76 VA. L. REV. 519 (1990) · Virginia Law Review · 1990

• Democracy and Disgust: Reflections on Public Choice
  65 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 161 (1989) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1989
• <i>Richmond</i> and Republicanism
  41 FLA. L. REV. 623 (1989) · Florida Law Review · 1989
• The "Unwritten Constitution" and the U.C.C.
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 217 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• The Bush Court
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 13 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• Book Review of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 564 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• Abortion After Webster
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 225 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• Statutory Interpretation, Legislative Inaction, and Civil Rights
  87 MICH. L. REV. 1 (1988) · Michigan Law Review · 1988
• Legal Pragmatism and the Constitution
  72 MINN. L. REV. 1331 (1988) · Minnesota Law Review · 1988
• Constitutional Scholarship: What Next?
  5 CONST. COMMENT. 71 (1988) · Constitutional Commentary · 1988
• The Facts on Abortion
  5 CONST. COMMENT. 285 (1988) · Constitutional Commentary · 1988
• The Zapp Complex
  5 CONST. COMMENT. 13 (1988) · Constitutional Commentary · 1988
• Legislative Intent and Public Choice
  74 VA. L. REV. 423 (1988) · Virginia Law Review · 1988
• Statutory Interpretation, Legislative Inaction, and Civil Rights
  87 MICH. L. REV. 2 (1988) · Michigan Law Review · 1988
• Brilliance Revisited
  72 MINN. L. REV. 367 (1987) · Minnesota Law Review · 1987
• Toxic Causation
  71 MINN. L. REV. 1219 (1987) · Minnesota Law Review · 1987
• Post-Modern Dental Studies
  4 CONST. COMMENT. 219 (1987) · Constitutional Commentary · 1987
• Teaching Law a Century Ago
  4 CONST. COMMENT. 7 (1987) · Constitutional Commentary · 1987
• Two Cheers for Warren Burger
  4 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (1987) · Constitutional Commentary · 1987
• Teaching the Commerce Clause: A Problem Approach
  4 CONST. COMMENT. 223 (1987) · Constitutional Commentary · 1987
• The Case against Brilliance
  70 MINN. L. REV. 917 (1986) · Minnesota Law Review · 1986
• An Economic Analysis of Abortion
  3 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (1986) · Constitutional Commentary · 1986
• Gresham's Law of Legal Scholarship
  3 CONST. COMMENT. 307 (1986) · Constitutional Commentary · 1986
• Book Review of Ideals, Beliefs, Attitudes and the Law: Private Law Perspectives on a Public Law Problem
  3 CONST. COMMENT. 282 (1986) · Constitutional Commentary · 1986
• The Third Death of Federalism?
  3 CONST. COMMENT. 293 (1986) · Constitutional Commentary · 1986
• State Regulation and the Dormant Commerce Clause
  3 CONST. COMMENT. 395 (1986) · Constitutional Commentary · 1986
• Beyond Promissory Estoppel: Contract Law and the "Invisible Handshake"
  52 U. CHI. L. REV. (1985) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1985
• But Cf. ...
  2 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (1985) · Constitutional Commentary · 1985
• Poverty, Earnings, and Discrimination
  2 CONST. COMMENT. 13 (1985) · Constitutional Commentary · 1985
• Murray's Modest Proposal--Abolishing Welfare and Affirmative Action
  2 CONST. COMMENT. 287 (1985) · Constitutional Commentary · 1985
• Justice Harlan and the First Amendment
  2 CONST. COMMENT. 425 (1985) · Constitutional Commentary · 1985
• California's "Social Content" Guidelines for Textbooks
  2 CONST. COMMENT. 301 (1985) · Constitutional Commentary · 1985
• Observations: The Canadian Constitution
  1 CONST. COMMENT. 7 (1984) · Constitutional Commentary · 1984
• Book Review of Equality Under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
  1 CONST. COMMENT. 376 (1984) · Constitutional Commentary · 1984
• But Cf. ...
  1 CONST. COMMENT. 3 (1984) · Constitutional Commentary · 1984
• Editors' Preface
  1 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (1984) · Constitutional Commentary · 1984
• The Ideological Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment
  1 CONST. COMMENT. 235 (1984) · Constitutional Commentary · 1984
• Why Are Blacks Paid Less?
  1 CONST. COMMENT. 191 (1984) · Constitutional Commentary · 1984
• The Misleading Nature of Public Forum Analysis: Content and Context in First Amendment Adjudication
  70 VA. L. REV. 1219 (1984) · Virginia Law Review · 1984
• National Security, the Right to Travel, and the Court
  1981 SUP. CT. REV. (1981) · Supreme Court Review · 1981
• Civilizing Public Discourse: An Essay on Professor Bickel, Justice Harlan, and the Enduring Significance of Cohen v. California
  29 DUKE L.J. 283 (1980) · Duke Law Journal · 1980
• Reassessing the Economic Efficiency of Compensatory Damages for Breach of Contract
  66 VA. L. REV. 1443 (1980) · Virginia Law Review · 1980