Tim Duane

Tim Duane is an attorney with more than four decades of professional experience in the fields of natural resources, energy, climate, land use, water, and environmental policy, planning, and law. He began working in the renewable energy industry in 1979 and published his first reports discussing climate change in 1990. He is admitted to practice with all state and federal courts in California and the United States Courts of Appeal in both the 9th and 10th Circuits (covering the entire west).

Tim taught water law, climate change law and policy, land use regulation, public lands & resource management, and environmental law and policy at the University of San Diego School of Law from 2013-2022. Tim then served as a Senior Fellow and visiting professor of law at the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law from 2022-2024, where he taught renewable energy law as well as wildlife & biodiversity law. He was previously professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2009-2018 and associate professor of environmental planning and policy at the University of California, Berkeley from 1991-2009. Prof. Duane has also taught at the Seattle University School of Law, Vermont Law School, and China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. He holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (completing the environmental law specialization) as well as a Ph.D. in energy and environmental planning and an M.S. in infrastructure planning and management from the department of civil engineering at Stanford University.