Editor and Contributor Biographies

• Author: Randall S. Abate
• Profession: Editor
• Pages: 9-24

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Editor and Contributor

Biographies

Editor

Randall S. Abate is the associate dean for ac ademic aairs and a professor

of law at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law in

Orlando, Florida. Professor Abate teaches climate change law and justice,

international environmental law, climate change a nd indigenous peoples,

climate change impacts on ocean and coastal law, constitutional law I and

II, and animal law. Professor Abate joined the Florida A&M College of Law

faculty in 2009 with 15 years of full-time law teaching experience at Ver-

mont Law School, Widener Law School-Harrisburg, Rutgers School of Law-

Camden, Florida Coa stal School of Law, and Florida State College of Law.

He has taught international and comparative environmental law courses in

Argentina, Ca nada, the Cayma n Islands, China, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzsta n,

Spain, Ukraine, and the United K ingdom. Professor Abate was awarded a

Sustainability Institute faculty fellowship from Florida A& M University for

the 2016/2017 academic year.

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 the Stanford Environ-

mental 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, Tulane

Journal of International and Comparative Law, Seattle Journal of Environmen-

tal Law, Ottawa Law Review, Tulane Environmental Law Journal, Fordham

Environmental Law Review, and UCLA Journal of International Law and

Foreign Aairs. He is the editor of W C A L  L  F

E  L (ELI Press 2015) and C C I

 O  C L: U.S.  I P 

(Oxford University Press 2015) and c o-editor of C C 

I P: T S  L R (Edward Elgar

2013). Early in his career, Professor Abate ha ndled environmental law mat-

ters at two law rms in Manhattan. He holds a B.A . from the University of

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Rochester and a J.D. and M.S.E.L. (environmental law and policy) from

Vermont Law School.

Contributing Authors

Nadia B. Ahmad is an assistant professor of law at Barry University Dwayne

O. Andreas School of Law. Previously, she wa s the visiting assistant profes-

sor of environmental law at Pace Law School. Professor Ahmad’s research

explores the intersections of energ y law and the environment and draws on

international investment law, energy justice, corporate best practices, a nd

corporate social responsibility. Alongside her scholarship on energy law and

the environment, Professor Ahmad also writes about women’s legal rights in

South Asia and the Middle East. Prior to joining Pace Law School, Professor

Ahmad worked for a multinat ional oil and gas company. Additiona lly, as a

legal fellow with the Colorado -based nongovernmental organization Sus-

tainable Development Strategies Group, Professor A hmad analy zed foreign

mining and natura l resource development laws for compliance with sustain-

able development principles. Pre viously, Professor Ahmad was a n attorney

in private practice in Florida and handled civil litigation, real property, land

use and zoning, corporate, and employment law matters. Professor Ahmad

earned a B.A. in comparative l iterature with language emphases in L atin

and English f rom the University of California at Berkeley with high hon-

ors, a J.D. from the University of Florida L evin College of L aw, and an

LL.M. in environmental and natural resources law from the University of

Denver Sturm College of Law. She is a member of the state ba rs of Florida

and Colorado. She has delivered presentations at Columbia Law School,

Harvard Law School, Yale University, University of Georgia School of L aw,

University of Washington School of Law, A lbany Law School, A merican

University in Cairo, Texas A&M School of Law, and George Washington

University Law School.

Naysa Ahuja is a senior a ssociate at Enviro Legal Defence Firm, the rst

environmental law rm in India. She works as a consu ltant on the inter-

face of natural resource mana gement, forest and landscape governance,

community access rights, gender justice, and environmental rule of law

in India, the United States, a nd other Asian countries. She is interested in

studying the implications of international climate change discussion on

resilience-building actions and nancing at the national and village levels.

Ms. Ahuja ha s worked with environmental law rms, U.N. agencies, and