Randall S. Abate

Associate Professor of Law
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 taught International Environmental Law in a summer abroad program at the University of Nairobi Law School in 1998, and International Ocean Law and Select Topics in U.S./Carribean Environmental Law in a winter intersession program at the Cayman Islands Law School in January 2008 and 2009.  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), and Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum (2009).  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.