Daniel Takash

Daniel Takash is a Legal Fellow at the Niskanen Center. His work with the legal team supports Niskanen’s efforts through legal analysis, legislative drafting, supporting public comments, and assisting with litigation as necessary.
Prior to returning to Niskanen, he worked as a legal fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation and the Public Interest Patent Law Institute. Before attending Michigan, he worked at the Niskanen Center as a regulatory policy fellow focused on intellectual property and regulatory policy and the Reason Foundation as a public sector pension policy analyst.
He has a law degree from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s of science in applied mathematics and statistics and political science from Johns Hopkins University. His last name rhymes with “brackish.”

Daniel Takash posts

Media
Social Policy

Takash on The Dynamist podcast: Artificial intelligence and copyright/intellectual property

20 Jun 2023 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Niskanen Center files amicus brief in support of narcolepsy patients in Jazz v. Avadel

24 Jan 2023 Daniel Takash, David Bookbinder
Commentary
Legal
Social Policy

Time to abandon mandatory deposit

01 Nov 2022 Daniel Takash, David Bookbinder
Commentary
Social Policy

Pressure at the patent office

10 Aug 2022 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Conservatives vs. the culture industry

12 May 2022 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Right to repair: serious solutions for an unserious age

05 May 2022 Daniel Takash
Media
Social Policy

Op-Ed: Want more affordable housing and health care? Here's a fix.

18 Nov 2021 Samuel Hammond, Daniel Takash, Steven Teles
Commentary
Social Policy
Health

There's "Regulation" and Then There's "Regulation"

02 Nov 2021 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

The Political Economy of Debt and Deficits

29 Sep 2021 Samuel Hammond, Daniel Takash, Steven Teles
Commentary
Social Policy

A Great Month for Drug Pricing Reform

22 Sep 2021 Daniel Takash
Studies
Abundance and Dynamism
Captured Economy

Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America's Fiscal Imbalance

09 Sep 2021 Samuel Hammond, Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Lots to love: the Biden competition executive order on intellectual property

29 Jul 2021 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Patent quality week: building on solid ground

20 Jul 2021 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Course-Correcting on Competition

20 Jul 2021 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

What Critics of the TRIPS Waiver Get Wrong

11 May 2021 Brink Lindsey, Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

Niskanen Center Praises Tai's Announcement In Support of TRIPS Waiver

06 May 2021 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Climate and Energy
Social Policy

Don't Exclude Green Tech

07 Apr 2021 Daniel Takash, Annabelle Swift
Commentary
Social Policy

An Ounce of copyright reform is worth a pound of competition law

19 Mar 2021 Daniel Takash
Commentary
Social Policy

The growing calls for vaccine liberalization

15 Mar 2021 Daniel Takash
Media
Social Policy

Op-Ed: Refill America's reservoir of goodwill with vaccine know-how

26 Feb 2021 Daniel Takash