Robert Percival

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China's "Green Leap Forward" Toward Global Environmental Leadership, 12 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 633 (2011)

This article argues that China may be on the verge of a “Green Leap Forward”...

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**Environmental Law Goes Global: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World, by Oliver A. Houck**, 41 Environmental Law Reporter 10194 (2011)

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Global Law and the Environment, 86 Washington Law Review 579 (2011)

This article explores three areas in which globalization is profoundly affecting the development of a...

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Resolving Conflicts Between Green Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Law (with Alan Miller), 14 Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems Committee Newsletter 18 (2011)

This paper examines claims that intellectual property law, which is designed to create incentives for...

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Who's in Charge? Does the President Have Directive Authority Over Agency Regulatory Decisions?, 79 Fordham Law Review 2487 (2011)

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The Hidden Truths of the BP Oil Spill (美国环境法权威最新撰文披露：被刻意隐藏的BP漏油事故真相, South Weekly, Guangzhou, China, July 29, 2010 (2010)

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Liability for Environmental Harm and Emerging Global Environmental Law, 25 Maryland Journal of International Law 37 (2010)

Environmental law and policy are undergoing rapid change at the global, national, and even local...

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Strategies for Promoting Green Energy Innovation, Deployment, & Technology Transfer, AICGS Policy Report 45 (2010)

This paper surveys various strategies for promoting the development and deployment of green energy technologies.

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The Emergence of Global Environmental Law (with Tseming Yang), 36 Ecology Law Quarterly 615 (2009)

With the global growth of public concern about environmental issues over the last several decades,...

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The Globalization of Environmental Law, 26 Pace Environmental Law Review 451 (2009)

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21世纪环境法展望 (Environmental Law in the 21st Century), 2008 International and Comparative Environmental Law Review 204 (2008)

After reviewing the history of environmental law, this article discusses some important lessons that can...

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Massachusetts v EPA: Escaping the Common Law's Growing Shadow, 2007 Supreme Court Review 111 (2008)

In its first full Term with its newest member, the U.S. Supreme Court marched decidedly...

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The Challenge of Chinese Environmental Law, 10 International Environmental Law Committee Newsletter 2 (2008)

China faces some of the most difficult environmental problems in the world as rapid industrial...

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Environmental Law in the Twenty-First Century, 25 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1 (2007)

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Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights from the Blackmun Papers, 35 Environmental Law Reporter 10637 (2005)

The papers of the late Justice Harry A. Blackmun provide a remarkably rich archive that...

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Still Needed: Enforcement, Public Role, The Environmental Forum 44 (2005)

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Who's Afraid of the Precautionary Principle?, 23 Pace Environmental Law Review 21 (2005)

The precautionary principle – the notion that lack of scientific certainty should not foreclose precautionary...

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The Clean Water Act and the Demise of the Federal Common Law of Interstate Nuisance, 55 Alabama Law Review 717 (2004)

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"Greening" the Constitution - Harmonizing Environmental and Constitutional Values, 32 Environmental Law 809 (2002)

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Skeptical Environmentalist or Statistical Spin-Doctor?: Bjørn Lomborg and the Relationship Between Environmental Law and Environmental Progress, 53 Case Western Reserve Law Review 263 (2002)

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Escaping the Common Law's Shadow: Standing in the Light of Laidlaw (with Joanna B. Goger), 12 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 119 (2001)

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Presidential Management of the Administrative State: the Not-so-Unitary Executive, 51 Duke Law Journal 963 (2001)

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Separation of Powers, the Presidency and the Environment, 21 Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law 25 (2001)

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Environmental Legislation and the Problem of Collective Action, 9 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 9 (1998)

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Water Pollution Control: Lessons from Transnational Experience, Derecho del Medio Ambiente: Congreso Internacional 273 (1998)

Water is fundamental to life, as reflected in space scientists' compulsive search for signs of...

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Regulatory Evolution and the Future of Environmental Policy, 1997 University of Chicago Law Forum 159 (1997)

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Responding to Environmental Risk: A Pluralistic Perspective, 14 Pace Environmental Law Review 513 (1997)

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Environmental Federalism: Historical Roots and Contemporary Models, 54 Maryland Law Review 1141 (1995)

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Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights From the Marshall Papers, 23 Environmental Law Reporter 10606 (1993)

Justice Marshall served on the Court from 1967 until 1991. During that period, Congress passed...

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Overcoming Interpretive Formalism: Legislative Reversals of Judicial Constructions of Sovereign Immunity Waivers in the Environmental Statutes, 43 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 221 (1993)

The Ecology of Environmental Conflict: Risk, Uncertainty and the Transformation of Environmental Policy Disputes, 12 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 209 (1992)

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Checks Without Balance: Executive Office Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency, 54 Law and Contemporary Problems 127 (1991)

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Protecting Coastal and Estuarine Resources - Confronting the Gulf Between the Promise and Product of Environmental Regulation, 47 Maryland Law Review 341 (1988)

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The Bounds of Consent: Consent Decrees, Settlements and Federal Environmental Policy Making, 1987 University of Chicago Law Forum 327 (1987)

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The Processing of Felonies in the Superior Court of Alameda County 1880-1974 (with Lawrence M. Friedman), 5 Law and History Review 413 (1987)

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The Role of Attorney Fee Shifting in Public Interest Litigation (with Geoffrey P. Miller), 47 Law and Contemporary Problems 233 (1984)

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A Tale of Two Courts: Litigation in Alameda and San Benito Counties (with Lawrence M. Friedman), 10 Law & Society Review 267 (1976)

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Who Sues for Divorce? From Fault through Fiction to Freedom (with Lawrence M. Friedman), 5 Journal of Legal Studies 61 (1976)

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Environmental Law: Statutory & Case Supplement with Internet Guide, 2011-2012 (with Christopher H. Schroeder), Book Gallery (2011)

The 2011-2012 Edition:

includes the new Supreme Court decision in American Electric Power v....

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Environmental Law: Statutory and Case Supplement with Internet Guide, 2010-2011 (with Christopher H. Schroeder), (2010)

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Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, 6th edition (with Christopher H. Schroeder, Alan S. Miller, and James P. Leape), Book Gallery (2009)

As the Obama administration and the courts change the course of federal environmental law and...

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Law and the Environment: a Multidisciplinary Reader (with Dorothy C. Alevizatos), (1997)

Law and the Environment: A Multi-disciplinary Reader brings together for the first time some of...

The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910 (with Lawrence M. Friedman), (1981)

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Law, Society and the Environment, Law, Society and History: Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman (2011)

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El Surgimiento del Derecho Ambiental Global, Desarrollo Sustentable: Gobernanza y Derecho (2008)

Legal systems across the globe are responding to environmental concerns in surprising new ways. As...

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Resolución de Conflictos Ambientales: Lecciones Aprendidas de la Historia de la Contaminación de las Fundiciones de Minerales, Prevencion y Solucion de Conflictos Ambientales Vias Administrativas, Jurisdiccionales y Alternativas (2004)

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Global Environmental Accountability: The Missing Link, The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making: Sustainability, Democray and Normanative Argument in Policy and Law (2002)

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Restoring Regulatory Policy to Serve the Public Interest, Winning America: Ideas and Leadership for the 1990s (1988)

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Conservation and Renewable Energy Sources as Supply Alternatives for New York's Electric Utilities, The Future of Electrical Energy: a Regional Perspective of an Industry in Transition (1986)

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The Frictions of Federalism: The Rise and Fall of the Federal Common Law of Interstate Nuisance, (2003)

Prior to the erection in the 1970s of a comprehensive federal regulatory infrastructure to protect...

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La Responsabilidad por Daño Ambiental Global y la Evolución en las Relaciones entre el Derecho Público y Privado (Liability for Global Environmental Harm and the Evolving Relationship between Public and Private Law), (2010)

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Testimony of Robert V. Percival Regarding the Scope of Federal Jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, Congressional Testimony (2007)

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Risk Based Decision-making at the Environmental Protection Agency, Congressional Testimony (1994)

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SelectedWorks of Robert Percival

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China's "Green Leap Forward" Toward Global Environmental Leadership, 12 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 633 (2011)

Environmental Law Goes Global: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World, by Oliver A. Houck, 41 Environmental Law Reporter 10194 (2011)

Global Law and the Environment, 86 Washington Law Review 579 (2011)

Resolving Conflicts Between Green Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Law (with Alan Miller), 14 Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Ecosystems Committee Newsletter 18 (2011)

Who's in Charge? Does the President Have Directive Authority Over Agency Regulatory Decisions?, 79 Fordham Law Review 2487 (2011)

The Hidden Truths of the BP Oil Spill (美国环境法权威最新撰文披露：被刻意隐藏的BP漏油事故真相, South Weekly, Guangzhou, China, July 29, 2010 (2010)

Liability for Environmental Harm and Emerging Global Environmental Law, 25 Maryland Journal of International Law 37 (2010)

Strategies for Promoting Green Energy Innovation, Deployment, & Technology Transfer, AICGS Policy Report 45 (2010)

The Emergence of Global Environmental Law (with Tseming Yang), 36 Ecology Law Quarterly 615 (2009)

The Globalization of Environmental Law, 26 Pace Environmental Law Review 451 (2009)

21世纪环境法展望 (Environmental Law in the 21st Century), 2008 International and Comparative Environmental Law Review 204 (2008)

Massachusetts v EPA: Escaping the Common Law's Growing Shadow, 2007 Supreme Court Review 111 (2008)

The Challenge of Chinese Environmental Law, 10 International Environmental Law Committee Newsletter 2 (2008)

Environmental Law in the Twenty-First Century, 25 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1 (2007)

Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights from the Blackmun Papers, 35 Environmental Law Reporter 10637 (2005)

Still Needed: Enforcement, Public Role, The Environmental Forum 44 (2005)

Who's Afraid of the Precautionary Principle?, 23 Pace Environmental Law Review 21 (2005)

The Clean Water Act and the Demise of the Federal Common Law of Interstate Nuisance, 55 Alabama Law Review 717 (2004)

"Greening" the Constitution - Harmonizing Environmental and Constitutional Values, 32 Environmental Law 809 (2002)

Skeptical Environmentalist or Statistical Spin-Doctor?: Bjørn Lomborg and the Relationship Between Environmental Law and Environmental Progress, 53 Case Western Reserve Law Review 263 (2002)

Escaping the Common Law's Shadow: Standing in the Light of Laidlaw (with Joanna B. Goger), 12 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 119 (2001)

Presidential Management of the Administrative State: the Not-so-Unitary Executive, 51 Duke Law Journal 963 (2001)

Separation of Powers, the Presidency and the Environment, 21 Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law 25 (2001)

Environmental Legislation and the Problem of Collective Action, 9 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 9 (1998)

Water Pollution Control: Lessons from Transnational Experience, Derecho del Medio Ambiente: Congreso Internacional 273 (1998)

Regulatory Evolution and the Future of Environmental Policy, 1997 University of Chicago Law Forum 159 (1997)

Responding to Environmental Risk: A Pluralistic Perspective, 14 Pace Environmental Law Review 513 (1997)

Environmental Federalism: Historical Roots and Contemporary Models, 54 Maryland Law Review 1141 (1995)

Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights From the Marshall Papers, 23 Environmental Law Reporter 10606 (1993)

Overcoming Interpretive Formalism: Legislative Reversals of Judicial Constructions of Sovereign Immunity Waivers in the Environmental Statutes, 43 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 221 (1993)

The Ecology of Environmental Conflict: Risk, Uncertainty and the Transformation of Environmental Policy Disputes, 12 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 209 (1992)

Checks Without Balance: Executive Office Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency, 54 Law and Contemporary Problems 127 (1991)

Protecting Coastal and Estuarine Resources - Confronting the Gulf Between the Promise and Product of Environmental Regulation, 47 Maryland Law Review 341 (1988)

The Bounds of Consent: Consent Decrees, Settlements and Federal Environmental Policy Making, 1987 University of Chicago Law Forum 327 (1987)

The Processing of Felonies in the Superior Court of Alameda County 1880-1974 (with Lawrence M. Friedman), 5 Law and History Review 413 (1987)

The Role of Attorney Fee Shifting in Public Interest Litigation (with Geoffrey P. Miller), 47 Law and Contemporary Problems 233 (1984)

A Tale of Two Courts: Litigation in Alameda and San Benito Counties (with Lawrence M. Friedman), 10 Law & Society Review 267 (1976)

Who Sues for Divorce? From Fault through Fiction to Freedom (with Lawrence M. Friedman), 5 Journal of Legal Studies 61 (1976)

Books

Environmental Law: Statutory & Case Supplement with Internet Guide, 2011-2012 (with Christopher H. Schroeder), Book Gallery (2011)

Environmental Law: Statutory and Case Supplement with Internet Guide, 2010-2011 (with Christopher H. Schroeder), (2010)

Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, 6th edition (with Christopher H. Schroeder, Alan S. Miller, and James P. Leape), Book Gallery (2009)

Law and the Environment: a Multidisciplinary Reader (with Dorothy C. Alevizatos), (1997)

The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870-1910 (with Lawrence M. Friedman), (1981)

Chapters in Books

Law, Society and the Environment, Law, Society and History: Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman (2011)

El Surgimiento del Derecho Ambiental Global, Desarrollo Sustentable: Gobernanza y Derecho (2008)

Resolución de Conflictos Ambientales: Lecciones Aprendidas de la Historia de la Contaminación de las Fundiciones de Minerales, Prevencion y Solucion de Conflictos Ambientales Vias Administrativas, Jurisdiccionales y Alternativas (2004)

Global Environmental Accountability: The Missing Link, The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making: Sustainability, Democray and Normanative Argument in Policy and Law (2002)

Restoring Regulatory Policy to Serve the Public Interest, Winning America: Ideas and Leadership for the 1990s (1988)

Conservation and Renewable Energy Sources as Supply Alternatives for New York's Electric Utilities, The Future of Electrical Energy: a Regional Perspective of an Industry in Transition (1986)

Working Papers

The Frictions of Federalism: The Rise and Fall of the Federal Common Law of Interstate Nuisance, (2003)

Presentations

La Responsabilidad por Daño Ambiental Global y la Evolución en las Relaciones entre el Derecho Público y Privado (Liability for Global Environmental Harm and the Evolving Relationship between Public and Private Law), (2010)

Congressional Testimony

Testimony of Robert V. Percival Regarding the Scope of Federal Jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act, Congressional Testimony (2007)

Risk Based Decision-making at the Environmental Protection Agency, Congressional Testimony (1994)

The Role of the Council on Competitiveness in Regulatory Review, Congressional Testimony (1993)

**Environmental Law Goes Global: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World, by Oliver A. Houck**, 41 Environmental Law Reporter 10194 (2011)