Randall S. Abate

Associate Professor of Law
Director, Center for International Law and Justice
Project Director, Environment, Development & Justice Program

Phone: 407-254-4044
Email: randall.abate@famu.edu

Professor Abate teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law, and constitutional law.  Professor Abate joined the FAMU College of Law faculty in 2009 with fifteen years of full-time law teaching experience at Vermont Law School, Widener University School of Law–Harrisburg, Rutgers School of Law–Camden, Florida Coastal School of Law, and Florida State University College of Law.  He also has taught International Environmental Law in summer abroad programs at the University of Nairobi Law School, the University of British Columbia Law School, and in Shimla, India, and International Ocean Law and Select Topics in U.S./Carribean Environmental Law in a winter intersession program at the Cayman Islands Law School.  He has published widely on environmental law topics, with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.  His climate change articles have been published in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (2006), Stanford Environmental Law Journal (2007), Connecticut Law Review (2008), William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review (2008), Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum (2009), Washington Law Review (2010), Pace Environmental Law Review (2010), Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (2010), and Seattle Journal of Environmental Law (2011).  Between his years in academia at Vermont and Widener, Professor Abate handled environmental law matters at two law firms in Manhattan.  He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. and M.S.E.L. (Environmental Law and Policy) from Vermont Law School.

Publications by Professor Abate:

Books

• Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies (Co-edited with Elizabeth Kronk) (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Jan. 2013)
• Directory of Environmental Law Education Opportunities at American Law Schools (Carolina Academic Press 2007)

Articles

• A Tale of Two Carbon Sinks: Can Forest Carbon Management Serve as a Framework to Implement Ocean Iron Fertilization as a Climate Change Treaty Compliance Mechanism?,  1 Seattle J. Envtl. L. 1 (2011).
• REDD, White, and Blue:  Is Proposed U.S. Climate Legislation Adequate to Promote a Global Carbon Credits System for Avoided Deforestation in a Post-Kyoto Regime?, 19 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 95 (2010) (invited symposium submission)
• NEPA, National Security, and Ocean Noise:  The Past, Present, and Future of Regulating the Impact of Navy Sonar on Marine Mammals, 13 J. Int'l Wildlife L. & Pol'y 326 (2010) (peer-reviewed journal)
• Public Nuisance Suits for the Climate Justice Movement: The Right Thing and the Right Time, 85 Wash. L. Rev. 197 (2010) (lead article, symposium issue)
• Sowing Seeds Uncertain: Ocean Iron Fertilization, Climate Change, and the International Environmental Law Framework, 27 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 555 (2010) (with Andrew B. Greenlee)
• A Green Solution to Climate Change: The Hybrid Approach to Crediting Reductions in Tropical Deforestation, 20 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol’y F. 87 (2009) (with Todd A. Wright)
• Marine Protected Areas as a Mechanism to Promote Marine Mammal Conservation: International and Comparative Law Lessons for the United States, 88 Or. L. Rev. 255 (2009)
• Massachusetts v. EPA and the Future of Environmental Standing in Climate Change Litigation and Beyond, 33 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 121 (2008) (invited)
• Automobile Emissions and Climate Change Impacts: Employing Public Nuisance Doctrine as Part of a “Global Warming Solution” in California, 40 Conn. L. Rev. 591 (2008) (lead article)
• Climate Change, the United States, and the Impacts of Arctic Melting: A Case Study in the Need for Enforceable International Environmental Rights, 26A Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3 (2007) (lead article, symposium issue)

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