TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Robert V. Percival, JD, MA

Lights! Camera! Action!

These are hardly terms you expect to hear in your average Environmental Law course. But then again, Robert Percival isn’t your average law professor. His students become
documentary filmmakers as well as lawyers. Percival, the Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law, directs the School of Law's Environmental Law Program. He founded the Environmental Law Clinic when he came to the University in 1987 after working at the Environmental Defense Fund. Since then, Percival has molded the program into one of the most well-respected and innovative in the country.

Percival's students choose an environmental issue that is important to them and make
a documentary film about it. The student documentaries have been so successful—and thought-provoking—that the law school showcases them during an annual film festival.

Percival’s influence extends beyond the classroom, too. He has taken his environmental law expertise all over the world, including Mongolia, Russia, Iran, China, Uganda, and Chile, where he helped establish South America’s first environmental law clinic. He is also the principal author of the pre-eminent environmental law casebook, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science & Policy.