Abstract

Robert V. Percival is the Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and the Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center and a Fulbright Scholar at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and Comenius University Law School in Bratislava. The principal author of the leading environmental law casebook in the US, Percival has lectured in 25 countries on six continents. He maintains a website and blog on global environmental law at www.globalenvironmentallaw.com.