Randall S. Abate is a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law in Orlando, Florida. Professor Abate teaches International Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law and Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law, Public International Law, Constitutional Law, and Animal Law. Professor Abate has 21 years of full-time law teaching experience at six U.S. law schools. He also has taught international and comparative environmental law courses in Argentina, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Kenya, India, and Ukraine. In June 2015, he taught a Comparative Animal Law course in Granada, Spain; and in February 2016, he delivered a two-week lecture series at six law schools in Australia on his book, What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?

Professor Abate has published and presented widely on environmental law topics, with a recent emphasis on climate change law and justice. His articles on climate change law and justice have appeared in several law reviews including the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Connecticut Law Review, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Washington Law Review, William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Ottawa Law Review, Fordham Environmental Law Review, and UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. He is the editor of Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (ELI Press, forthcoming Jan. 2017), What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law? (ELI Press 2015), Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. and International Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2015) and co-editor of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies (Edward Elgar 2013). Early in his career, 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.