Randall S. Abate is the Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies The George Washington University Law School, an inaugural Rechnitz Family and Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy, and Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Monmouth University, New Jersey. In his twenty-five years of full-time law teaching, he has taught international and comparative law courses on environmental and animal law topics in several countries, with a recent emphasis on climate change law and justice. He is the author of thirty law journal articles and the editor of five books, including Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (2017), What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law? (2015), and Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. and International Perspectives (2015).
1. An Anthropogenic problem that requires an ecocentric solution
2. Climate change litigation in domestic courts and human rights commissions
3. Protection of future generations prior to and during the Anthropocene era
4. Legal personhood for wildlife: US and foreign domestic perspectives
5. Rights of nature: US and foreign domestic perspectives
6. Proposal for enhanced stewardship and rights-based protections for the voiceless
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