Speaker Biography
Tim Canova is a law professor and activist who is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 23rd Congressional district. He ran last year for this House seat in a closed Democratic primary against a long-entrenched entrenched incumbent who was then chair of the Democratic National Committee. During his campaign, Tim was proud to sign the Now or Neverglades Declaration, which calls for restoring the natural flow of fresh water from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades and protecting the coastal estuaries and drinking water for millions of Floridians. Tim has refused to take any corporate money in his campaigns. Although he was a candidate for less than eight months last year, Tim’s campaign broke records for small online donations and came within a few thousand votes of winning.
In late 2016, Tim launched Progress For All, a community action group based in Hollywood, Florida to lobby for the public interest on a wide range of local, state and national issues. Among Tim’s top legislative priorities are efforts to protect the Everglades, ban fracking in Florida, stop the Sabal Trail Pipeline, and address climate change through a rapid conversion from fossil fuels to solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources.
Tim is a Professor of Law and Public Finance at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Davie, Florida. He previously served as a legislative assistant to the late U.S. Senator Paul E. Tsongas, practiced law in New York City with two large multinational law firms, and was a Swedish Institute Visiting Scholar at Stockholm University. His scholarly work has been published in dozens of peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, monographs, newspapers, and magazines in the U.S. and overseas. He argued for many years against the deregulation of banking and finance and warned of an impending crisis in the bubble economy prior to the 2008 financial collapse. In 2011, he was appointed by Senator Bernie Sanders to serve with leading economists on a select advisory committee on Federal Reserve reform.
Tim received his A.B. degree from Franklin and Marshall College and his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He previously taught at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, California, where he served as associate dean for academic affairs and the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law. He was first granted tenure at the University of New Mexico School of Law and has taught as a visitor at the University of Arizona College of Law and the University of Miami School of Law.
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In late 2016, Tim launched Progress For All, a community action group based in Hollywood, Florida to lobby for the public interest on a wide range of local, state and national issues. Among Tim’s top legislative priorities are efforts to protect the Everglades, ban fracking in Florida, stop the Sabal Trail Pipeline, and address climate change through a rapid conversion from fossil fuels to solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources.
Tim is a Professor of Law and Public Finance at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Davie, Florida. He previously served as a legislative assistant to the late U.S. Senator Paul E. Tsongas, practiced law in New York City with two large multinational law firms, and was a Swedish Institute Visiting Scholar at Stockholm University. His scholarly work has been published in dozens of peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, monographs, newspapers, and magazines in the U.S. and overseas. He argued for many years against the deregulation of banking and finance and warned of an impending crisis in the bubble economy prior to the 2008 financial collapse. In 2011, he was appointed by Senator Bernie Sanders to serve with leading economists on a select advisory committee on Federal Reserve reform.
Tim received his A.B. degree from Franklin and Marshall College and his J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He previously taught at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, California, where he served as associate dean for academic affairs and the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law. He was first granted tenure at the University of New Mexico School of Law and has taught as a visitor at the University of Arizona College of Law and the University of Miami School of Law.
https://timcanova.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TimCanovaFL/
https://twitter.com/Tim_Canova
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