Robert V. Percival is the Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and the Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of Maryland School of Law. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Macalester College, a J.D. from Stanford Law School and an M.A. in economics from Stanford University. At Stanford Percival was named the Nathan Abbott Scholar for graduating first in his law school class. Following graduation, he served as a law clerk for Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. He joined the Maryland faculty in 1987 after serving as a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. Percival has served as a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, the China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing), and Comenius University (Bratislava). He is the principal author of a leading environmental law casebook, now in its 9th edition, and the author of several articles about the Supreme Court and presidential authority over executive agencies. Percival wrote one of the first articles on the propriety of consent decrees to effectuate and enforce federal law “The Bounds of Consent: Consent Decrees, Settlements and Federal Environmental Policymaking,” 1987 Univ. Chic. Leg. F. 327 (1987). He also is the author of the first comprehensive analyses of what the papers of the late Justices Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun reveal about the Supreme Court’s handling of environmental cases (“Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights from the Blackmun Papers,” 35 ELR 10637 (2005), and “Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: Highlights from the Marshall Papers,” 13 ELR 10606 (Oct. 1993)).
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Federal Consent Decrees: Good Governance, an Expansion of Federal Power, or Both?
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Agency Rulemaking: Unnecessary Delegation or Indispensable Assistance?
Article I Initiative and Regulatory Transparency Project
National Press Club, First Amendment Room529 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20045
Environmental Law without Congress
2017 National Lawyers Convention
They Mayflower Hotel - East Room1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
Do the EPA’s CO2 Rules Go Too Far?
2014 National Lawyers Convention
The Renaissance Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
A Seat at the Sitting - February 2022
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Federal Consent Decrees: Good Governance, an Expansion of Federal Power, or Both?
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
Federal Consent Decrees: Good Governance, an Expansion of Federal Power, or Both?
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
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