David
Takacs
Professor of Law
- Office 312-200
- Email Address takacsd@uchastings.edu
- Telephone (415) 565-4845
Biography
Professor David Takacs is a proud UC Hastings alumnus. He also holds an LL.M. from the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London, and a B.S. (Biology), M.A., and Ph.D. (Science & Technology Studies) from Cornell University.
His scholarly work addresses forest carbon offsetting, biodiversity conservation law, environmental and ecological democracy, rights for nature, and the human right to water. He is the author of The Idea of Biodiversity (Johns Hopkins U. Press). He has been a consultant for international NGOs and US government agencies, analyzing legal and policy issues pertaining to REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) and global climate change. In 2017, he received the Rutter Award for Outstanding Teaching at UC Hastings.
Before his legal career, David was a professor in Earth Systems Science & Policy at CSU Monterey Bay, a lecturer in the John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell, and a Peace Corps Forestry Volunteer in Senegal.
Expertise
Education
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University of California Hastings College of the Law
J.D., Law
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University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
LL.M., International Law
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Cornell University
Ph.D., Science & Technology Studies
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Cornell University
M.A., History and Philosophy of Science
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Cornell University
B.S., Biology
Selected Scholarship
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(Forthcoming) We Are the River 2021
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An Aye Aye for an Aye Aye: Making Biodiversity Offsets Sustainable 2020
45 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 519
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Environmental Law. Disrupted 2019
(with Inara Scott, Rebecca Bratspies, Vanessa Casado Pérez, Robin Kundis Craig, Keith Hirokawa, Blake Hudson, Sarah Krakoff, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan Rosenbloom, J.B. Ruhl, and Erin Ryan), 49 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10038
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Whose Voices Count in Biodiversity Conservation? Ecological Democracy in Biodiversity Offsetting, REDD, and Rewilding 2019
22 J. Env. Pol'y & Plan. 43
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Are Koalas Fungible: Biodiversity Offsetting and the Law 2018
26 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 161
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South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine 2016
34 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 55
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A Response to the IPCC Fifth Assessment 2015
45 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10027
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Environmental Democracy and Forest Carbon (REDD+) 2014
44 Envtl. L. 71
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Protecting Your Environment, Exacerbating Injustice: Avoiding 'Mandate Havens' 2014
24 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol'y F. 315
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Forest Carbon (Redd +), Repairing International Trust, and Reciprocal Contractual Sovereignty 2013
37 Vt. L. Rev. 653
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Forest Carbon: Law and Property Rights 2009
Conservation International
