Nicholas Targ

Adjunct Professor Nicholas Targ is a partner in Holland & Knight's West Coast Land Use and Environmental Practice Group. He has 18 years experience addressing environmental, land use and federal advocacy issues in the public and private sector. Professor Targ works with clients to address due diligence, entitlements, permitting, and environmental compliance, and state and federal advocacy needs. His practice focuses on complex redevelopment projects and environmental compliance.

Professor Targ co-founded the Howard University Environmental Law Program, where he taught environmental law and environmental justice as an adjunct professor for five semesters.  He has written more than two dozen scholarly and professional articles and book chapters. Under his leadership, the ABA's Environmental Justice Committee received the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section's Committee Excellence Award. Mr. Targ serves as Chair of the American Bar Association's Diversity Environmental Fellowship Program under the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He served in leadership positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a consultant to the Republic of Haiti, representing that country as a negotiator in the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (“Earth Summit”).

Professor Targ received his bachelor's degree from University of California, Santa Cruz and his law degree from Boston College Law School.  He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he received a merit based Technology Scholarship.