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Professor Anthony Chavez, who teaches Environmental Law, focuses much of his legal research and writing in public policy areas involved in attempts to mitigate effects of global warming. He joined the Chase faculty in 2009, after serving as director of legal research and writing at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
Prior to his academic career, he was involved extensively in the field of voting rights. He primarily litigated cases under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and received a special achievement award from the U.S. Department of Justice for his work in the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section. He later served as director of voting rights litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. As a result of his work, the United States Secretary of Commerce appointed him to serve on an advisory committee to help reduce the minority undercount for the 2000 Census. He has testified on both voting rights and census issues before the U.S. House of Representative Judiciary Subcommittee, the California State Assembly and local governments.
Professor Chavez earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Loyola Marymount University. He is licensed in California as both a lawyer and a certified public accountant.
MUSY Takes Flight: Multiple-Use: Regulation of Climate Intervention, 62 WASHBURN L.J. 25 (2022) SSRN
Turning Carbon into Gold – Incentivizing CCU, the New Alchemy, 32 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 1 (2021) SSRN
Using Renewable Energy Policies to Develop Carbon Dioxide Removal, in CLIMATE GEOENGINEERING LAW AND GOVERNANCE (Wil Burns, David Dana, Simon Nicholson, eds.) (2021)
Lessons from Renewable Energy Diffusion for Carbon Dioxide Removal Development, 32 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 46 (2020) SSRN PDF
Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emissions Technologies, 43 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 1 (2018) SSRN PDF
Using Legal Principles to Guide Geoengineering Deployment, 24 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 59 (2016) SSRN PDF
Exclusive Rights to Saving the Planet: The Patenting of Geoengineering Inventions, 13 Nw. J. Tech & Intell. Prop. 1 (2015) SSRN PDF
A Napoleonic Approach to Climate Change: The Geoengineering Branch, 5 Wash. & Lee J. of Energy, Climate, and the En't. 93 (2014) SSRN PDF
The Red and Blue Golden State: Why California's Proposition 11 Will Not Produce More Competitive Elections, Vol. 14, No. 2 Chap. L. Rev. 311 (2011) SSRN PDF
Prop. 11 Won’t Solve California’s Problem of Partisanship, San Jose Mercury News, October 21, 2008
Census Bureau’s Latino Quandary, Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003
Lessons from Renewable Energy Diffusion for CDR Development, 2nd International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden (June 15, 2022)
Environmental Issues and Accounting, California Lutheran University (May 4, 2022)
Climate Change Issues and Questions, Northern Kentucky University (April 23, 2021)
United States Voter Suppression in Context: Past and Current Efforts to Reduce VotingStrength, 6@6 Lecture Series, Newport, Kentucky (October 2020)
Presenter, “Lessons for CDR Development from Renewable Energy Diffusion,” Achieving Net Zero Conference, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (September 2019)
Using Laws to Encourage Carbon Utilization Research, 2019 Carbon Management Technology Conference, Houston, Texas (July 2019)
Incentivizing Carbon Utilization Research, 17th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization – ICCDU 2019, Aachen, Germany (June 2019)
Incentivizing Negative Emission Technologies (NETs), NKU Spotlight on Scholarship, Northern Kentucky University (October 2018)
Using Renewable Energy Policies to Accelerate Development of NETs, International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden (May 2018)
Using Renewable Portfolio Standards to Accelerate Development of Negative Emissions Technologies, 2017 Climate Engineering Conference, Berlin, Germany (October 2017)
The Interrelation between Human Rights and Geoengineering, 2017 Climate Engineering Conference, Berlin, Germany (October 2017)
The Politics and Governance of Negative Emissions Technologies: Between the Paris Agreement and the Anthropocene, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands (June 2017)
Risk, Innovative Technology, and Climate Change (the Law of Climate Engineering), Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute 2017, Banff, Canada (June 2017)
Presenter, “Law and Deploying Geoengineering,” Solar Radiation Management Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (March 2015)
Playing God - Reversing Extinction, Creating New Life, And Remaking The Planet: Should We Use Technology To Undo Our Environmental Damage?, 2014 Vermont Law School Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship (October 2014)
Legal Ethics in the World of Electronically Stored Information, 2014 Kentucky Environmental Law CLE Seminar - KBA Environment, Energy & Resources Law Section (April 2014)
The Threat of Invasive Species (CLE), Kentucky Bar Association, Environment, Energy & Resources Law Section, Frankfort, Kentucky (2013)
A Napoleonic Approach to Climate Change, Vermont Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship (2012)
Not Up to Standard? HB 167 and Kentucky's Reluctance to Adopt a Renewable Portfolio Standard (CLE), Kentucky Bar Association, Environment, Energy & Resources Law Section, Frankfort, Kentucky (2012)
Environmental Regulation of Geoengineering in the United States, Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, Faculty Exchange Program (2012)
The Endangered Species Act and Invasive Species in Kentucky (CLE), Louisville Bar Association (2011)
The Future of the Voting Rights Act, University of California at Davis School of Law (2010)
Race, Ethnic and Gender Diversity in the Legal Profession, Salmon P. Chase College of Law (2010)
The Red and Blue Golden State: Why California's Proposition 11 Will Not Produce More Competitive Elections, University of Kentucky School of Law, Faculty Exchange Program (2010)
