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Legal Writing Faculty Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Randy Abate is a member of the Legal Writing Faculty. In addition to teaching the first-year legal research and writing curriculum, he teaches International Environmental Law, Ocean and Coastal Law, Environmental Law and Business, and Hunter Moot Court. He also coaches the international environmental moot court team, the national moot court team, and the animal law moot court team at Rutgers.
Prior to joining the law faculty at Rutgers in 2001, he taught at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, PA from 1997-2001 and at Vermont Law School from 1989-1992. Between his years in academia at Vermont and Widener-Harrisburg, Abate worked on environmental law matters at two law firms in Manhattan. He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester and his J.D. and M.S.E.L. (Environmental Law and Policy) from Vermont Law School.
Professor Abate was selected as Professor of the Year by the Class of 2005.
Publications
Dawn of a New Era in the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Environmental Statutes: A Proposal for an Integrated Judicial Standard Based on the Continuum of Context, 31 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 87 (2006).
Kyoto or Not, Here We Come: The Promise and Perils of the Piecemeal Approach to Climate Change Regulation in the United States, 15 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol'y (forthcoming 2006).
Pestcides and Water Don't Mix: Addressing the Need to Close a Regulatory Gap Between FIFRA and the CWA, 35 Envtl. L. Rep. 10055 (2005) (with Matthew T. Stanger)
It's All About What You Know: The Specific Intent Standard Should Govern Knowing Violations of the Clean Water Act, 9 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 304 (2001) (with Dayna E. Mancuso)
The Biosafety Protocol and the World Trade Organization: Can the Two Coexist?, 12 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 107 (2000) (with Gretchen L. Gaston)
Rethinking Citizen Suits for Past Violations of Federal Environmental Laws: Recommendations for the Next Decade of Applying the Gwaltney Standard, 16 Temp. Envtl. L. & Tech. J. 1 (1997)
Constitutional Limitations on Anticompetitive State and Local Solid Waste Management Schemes: A New Frontier in Environmental Regulation, 14 Yale J. on Reg. 165 (1997) (with Mark E. Bennett)
Sovereign Immunity and Citizen Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws: A Proposal for a New Synthesis, 15 Va. Envtl. L.J. 1 (1995) (with Carolyn H. Cogswell)
Broadening the Scope of Environmental Standing: Procedural and Informational Injury-in-Fact After Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 12 UCLA J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 345 (1994) (with Michael J. Myers)