Robert V. Percival

University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law

Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program

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Baltimore, MD 21201-1786

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1.

The Emergence of Global Environmental Law

Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 36, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-36, Vermont Law School Research Paper No. 09-09
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2009
Tseming Yang and Robert V. Percival
Santa Clara Law School and University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Global Environmental Law, comparative environmental law, international environmental law, globalization, environmental governance, law transplantation, law convergence

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Liability for Environmental Harm and Emerging Global Environmental Law

Maryland Journal of International Law, Vol. 25, p. 37, 2010, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-43
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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climate change, public international law

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Who's Afraid of the Precautionary Principle?

Pace Environmental Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, February 2006, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2005-62
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 25 Oct 2005
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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precautionary principle, environmental regulation

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Environmental Law in the Trump Administration

4 Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review 225 (2017), U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-5
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Feb 2017
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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EPA, environmental protection, greenhouse gas, Paris agreement, clean power plan, rulemaking, notice and comment, arbitrary and capricious, clean air, clean water, Trump administration, blood lead, Framework convention on Climate Change, climate change,

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The Globalization of Environmental Law

Pace Environmental Law (PELR) Review, Vol. 26, p. 451, 2009, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-34
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Sep 2009
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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environmental law, globalization

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Human Rights and the Evolution of Global Environmental Law

Subhram Rajkhowa and Stuti Deka, eds., Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, vol. 2. Eastern Book House, Guwahati, India, 2013, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-66
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Nov 2012
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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environmental concerns, environmental standards, human rights, international law

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The Role of Civil Society in Environmental Governance in the United States and China

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Vol. 24, 2014, p. 142, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-36
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2014
Robert V. Percival and Huiyu Zhao
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - KoGuan Law School
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environment, development, implementation, enforcement

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The Challenge of Chinese Environmental Law

International Environmental Law Committee Newsletter, Vol. 10, pp. 2-6, August 2008, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-40
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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environment law, China

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The Frictions of Federalism: The Rise and Fall of the Federal Common Law of Interstate Nuisance

U of Maryland, Pub-Law Research Paper No. 2003-02
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 09 Oct 2003
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights from the Blackmum Papers

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 35, No. 10, October 2005, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2005-45
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 25 Aug 2005
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Supreme Court, Environment, Blackmum, Environmental Federalism, Regulatory Takings, Environmental Standing

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Massachusetts v. EPA: Escaping the Common Law's Growing Shadow

Supreme Court Review, pp. 111-160, 2007, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-22
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 May 2008 Last Revised: 18 May 2008
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Supreme Court, climate change, Clean Air Act

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China's 'Green Leap Forward' Toward Global Environmental Leadership

Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 12, p. 633, 2011, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-50
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Nov 2011
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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People's Republic of China, environment, public health, fossil fuel, climate change, green technology

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Risk, Uncertainty and Precaution: Lessons from the History of US Environmental Law

Trade, Health and the Environment: The European Union put to the test, edited by Marjolein B.A. van Asselt, Michelle Everson and Ellen Vos. London, Routledge, 2014, p. 25-46, Forthcoming , U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-71
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Dec 2013
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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regulation, protection, precautionary principle

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Who's in Charge? Does the President Have Directive Authority Over Agency Regulatory Decisions?

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 79, pp. 2487-2540, 2011, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-29
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Jun 2011
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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directive authority, unitary executive theory, disunitary executive approach

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Resolving Conflicts Between Green Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Law

University of Maryland School of Law Working Paper No. 2011-27
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 20 Jun 2011
Robert V. Percival and Alan Miller
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law and World Bank - International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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Intellectual Property, Green Technology, Climate Technology Centre and Network

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The Emergence of Global Environmental Law (El Surgimiento Del Derecho Ambiental Global)

DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE: GOVERNANZA Y DERECHO: ACTAS DE LAS CURTAS JORNADES DE DERECHO AMBIENTAL, V. Duran, S. Montenegro & P. Moraga, eds., 2008 , U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-38
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Sep 2008
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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environment law, global law, environment

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Polar Opposites: Assessing the State of Environmental Law in the World's Polar Regions

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 59, Pg. 1655, 2018, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-35, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-28
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2018
Mark Nevitt and Robert V. Percival
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Environmental Law, International Law, Natural Resources, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Arctic Council, Antarctic Treaty System, Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, Madrid Protocol, Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

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Global Law and the Environment

Washington Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 579, 2011, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-49
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Nov 2011
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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globalization, litigation, regulatory norms, transparency

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Intellectual Property Rights and Green Technology Transfer: German and U.S. Perspectives

Johns Hopkins University American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Policy Report No. 45, University of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-11
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 12 Feb 2011
Robert V. Percival and Miranda Schreurs
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law and Free University of Berlin (FUB),Environmental Policy Research Center
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Green Energy Technology, Intellectual Property Law

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The 'Greening' of the Global Judiciary

Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Forthcoming, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-4
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Feb 2017
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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precautionary principle, public interest litigation, judicial activism, environmental courts, hot-tubbing, environmental law, nuisance, epa, constitutional law, Rio Declaration, Stockholm Declaration, sic utere, original jurisdiction, air pollution, wetlands

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Could Official Climate Denial Revive the Common Law as a Regulatory Backstop?

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 96, Pg. 441, 2018, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-7
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2018
Mark Nevitt and Robert V. Percival
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Environmental law & policy, regulation, climate change, anthropogenic global warming, AGW, greenhouse gas emissions, GHG, torts, public nuisance, interstate nuisance, Clean Air Act, CAA, AEP v. Connecticut

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Environmental Law in the 21st Century (21 Shiji Huanjingfa Zhanwang)

International and Comparative Environmental Law Review, pp. 204-228, 2008, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-39
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Oct 2008
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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environment law, China

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Environmental and Occupational Interventions for Primary Prevention of Cancer: A Cross-Sectorial Policy Framework

Environmental Health Perspectives, February 5, 2013. Advance Publications, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-11
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Mar 2013
Carolina Espina, Miquel Porta, Joachim Schüz, Ildefonso Aguado, Robert V. Percival, Carlos Dora, Terry Slevin, Juliette Guzman, Tim Meredith, Philip Landrigan and Maria Neira
World Health Organization, Dept of Public Health & Environment, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Hospital del Mar Institute of Medical Research, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law, World Health Organization, Cancer Council Western Australia, El Bosque University, Occupational Health Program, World Health Organization, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dept of Preventive Medicine and World Health Organization (WHO), Dept of Public Health and Environment
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cancer, environmental health, occupational, primary prevention, policy, public health

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CERCLA in a Global Context

Southwestern Law Review, Vol. 41, 2012, p. 727, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-53
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Sep 2012
Robert V. Percival, Katherine Cooper and Matthew Gravens
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, remediation, environmental contamination, hazardous substances

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Presidential Power to Address Climate Change in an Era of Legislative Gridlock

Virginia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 32, 2014, p. 134, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-35
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Aug 2014
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Clean Air Act, greenhouse gas emissions

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Restating Environmental Law

Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 40, 2015, Forthcoming, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2516075
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Oct 2014
Tracy Hester, Robert V. Percival, Irma S. Russell, Victor Byers Flatt and Joel A. Mintz
University of Houston Law Center, University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law, University of Houston Law Center and Nova Southeastern University
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environmental, law, natural resources, energy, American Law Institute, ALI, Restatement, Project, Principles

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Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Next 40 Years of Environmental Law

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 43, 2013, p. 10492-, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-69
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Nov 2013
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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forecasting, future, predictions, environment

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Murr v. Wisconsin and the Supreme Court's Regulatory Takings Jurisprudence

Presentation at the Fall Meeting of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-04
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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regulatory takings, swing vote, swing justice, Lucas, Dolan, Palazzolo, Tahoe-Sierra, Lingle, property law, Supreme Court, zoning, land use, Kelo

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Comparative Environmental Governance in China and the United States: Federalism in an Era of Globalism

6 Transnational Environmental Law 531 (2017), U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-05
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Huiyu Zhao and Robert V. Percival
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - KoGuan Law School and University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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pollution, environmental quality, environmental protection, environmental federalism, TSCA, FIFRA, Clean Air Act, RCRA, race to the bottom, five year plan,

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Of Coal, Climate and Carp: Reconsidering the Common Law of Interstate Nuisance

U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-12
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Mar 2012
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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pollution, regulation, transboundary environmental problems

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Environmental Laws

Oxford Bibliographies in Public Health (2017)., U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-06
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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rationales for environmental law, history of environmental law, risk regulation, control of toxic substances, preservation of biodiversity, air pollution control, enforcement of environmental law

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Setting the Bar for 'Injury' in Environmental Exposure Cases: How Low Can it Go?

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 42, No. 9, 2012, p. 10785+, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-52
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Sep 2012
John Cruden, Carla Burke, John Guttmann and Robert V. Percival
Environmental Law Institute, Baron & Budd, P.C., Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. and University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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toxic tort litigation, property damage, claims, environmental contamination, medical monitoring, toxicological harm

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The Judge Who Climbed Mountains

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 69, March 2017, U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-8
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 15 Mar 2017
Robert V. Percival
University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law
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Judge Hufstedler, Department of Education, Ninth Circuit, Feeder Judges, Federal Judges, Civil Rights