Abate, Randall S.

GW Law Faculty Publications

July 18, 2022

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BOOKS

What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law? (Randall S. Abate ed., ELI Press, 2d ed., 2020).

Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (Randall S. Abate ed., ELI Press, 2016).

Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. and International Perspectives (Randall S. Abate ed., Oxford University Press, 2015).

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies (Randall S. Abate & Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013).

Directory of Environmental Law Education Opportunities at American Law Schools (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed., 2008).

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Litigation to Protect the Marine Environment: Parallels and Synergies with Climate Litigation, 47 Wm. & Mary Env't L. & Pol'y Rev. 595 (2023) (with Nadine Nadow & Hayley-Bo Dorrian-Bak).

"Fool Me Once, Shame on You": Promoting Corporate Accountability for the Human Rights Impacts of Climate Washing, 18 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (2023).

Youth and Indigenous Voices in Climate Justice: Leveraging Best Practices from U.S. and Canadian Litigation, 45 Pub. Land & Res. L. Rev. 77 (2022).

Anthropocene Accountability Litigation: Confronting Common Enemies to Promote a Just Transition, 46 Colum. J. Env’t L. 225 (2021).

Atmospheric Trust Litigation: Foundation for a Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate System?, 10 Geo. Wash. J. Energy & Env’t L. 33 (2019).

From Inside the Cage to Outside the Box: Natural Resources as a Platform for Nonhuman Animal Personhood in the U.S. and Australia, 5 Glob. J. Animal L. 54 (2017) (with Jonathan Crowe). 

Atmospheric Trust Litigation in the United States: Pipe Dream or Pipeline to Justice for Future Generations?, in Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges 543 (Randall S. Abate ed., ELI Press, 2016).

Banning Metal Mining in Guatemala, 40 Vt. L. Rev. 597 (2016) (with Raquel Aldana). 

Ocean Iron Fertilization and Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Food: Leveraging International and Domestic Law Protections to Enhance Access to Salmon in the Pacific Northwest, 20 UCLA J. Int’l L. & Foreign Affs. 45 (2016).

Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: Scientific Realities and Legal Responses, in Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. and International Perspectives 1 (Randall S. Abate ed., Oxford University Press, 2015) (with Sarah Ellen Krejci). 

Ocean Iron Fertilization: Science, Law and Uncertainty, in Climate Change Geoengineering: Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks 221 (Wil C. G. Burns & Andrew L. Strauss eds., Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Corporate Responsibility and Climate Justice: A Proposal for a Polluter-Financed Relocation Fund for Federally Recognized Tribes Imperiled by Climate Change, 25 Fordham Env’t L. Rev. 10 (2013).

International and Domestic Law Dimensions of Climate Justice for Arctic Indigenous Peoples, 43 Revue générale de droit 113 (2013) (with Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner). 

Commonality Among Unique Indigenous Communities: An Introduction to Climate Change and Its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples, 26 Tul. Env’t L.J. 179 (2013) (with Elizabeth Ann Kronk). 

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. Env’t L. 1 (2011).

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).

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 & Compar. L. 95 (2010).

Public Nuisance Suits for the Climate Justice Movement: The Right Thing and the Right Time, 85 Wash. L. Rev. 197 (2010).

Sowing Seeds Uncertain: Ocean Iron Fertilization, Climate Change, and the International Environmental Law Framework, 27 Pace Env’t 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 Env’t L. & Pol’y F. 87 (2010) (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 Env’t L. & Pol’y Rev. 121 (2008).

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).

Climate Change, the United States, and the Impacts of Arctic Melting: A Case Study in the Need for Enforceable International Environmental Rights, 26A Stan. Env’t L.J. 3 (2007).

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 369 (2006).

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. Env’t L. 87 (2006).

Pesticides and Water Don’t Mix: Addressing the Need to Close a Regulatory Gap Between FIFRA and the CWA, 35 Env’t L. Rep. News & Analysis 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. Env’t 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. Env’t 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 Regul. 165 (1997) (with Mark E. Bennett). 

Sovereign Immunity and Citizen Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws: A Proposal for a New Synthesis, 15 Va. Env’t 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. Env’t L. & Pol’y 345 (1994) (with Michael J. Myers).