Legal Research and Writing Faculty. Mr. Abate earned his B.A. cum laude in psychology and philosophy at the University of Rochester in 1986, and his J.D. and M.S.L. in environmental law and policy at Vermont Law School in 1989. From 1989- 1992, he was legal writing instructor at Vermont Law School. In 1997, he joined the faculty at Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as a legal methods professor and, from 1998- 2001, he was a visiting associate professor and director of the legal methods program at Widener-Harrisburg. In addition to teaching the first-year legal writing curriculum at Rutgers-Camden since 2001, Mr. Abate also teaches international environmental law and ocean and coastal law, and coaches the international environmental moot court team and the national moot court team. His most recent articles on environmental and international environmental law topics have appeared in the NYU Environmental Law Journal, Pace International Law Review, Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal, and Yale Journal on Regulation. Between his years in academia at Vermont and Widener-Harrisburg, Mr. Abate worked on environmental law matters at the Manhattan law firm Berle, Kass & Case and at the New York City office of Arnold & Porter.