Robert Y. Shum: SUNY Brockport

Associate Professor: (585) 395-5673
rshum@brockport.edu
Office: Hartwell Hall 207 B

PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, 2011
M.P.P., Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 2001
LL.B., University of British Columbia, 1998
B.A., McGill University, 1995

PLS 312 Introduction to Public Administration
PLS 318 State and Local Government
PLS 327 Comparative Legal Systems
PLS 328 Politics of Energy
Robert Shum teaches courses at the intersections of politics with law and public policy. He applies a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches to his current research interests in energy and environmental policy, to which he also brings his prior experience of legal and policy processes in practice, as a participant in international trade negotiations with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and, before that, as a specialist in international trade and finance policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Recent Publications
- “Effects of economic recession and local weather on climate change attitudes,” Climate Policy, 2012, 12 (1): 38-49, doi: 10.1080/14693062.2011.579316.
- “Can attitudes predict outcomes? Public opinion, democratic institutions and environmental policy,” Environmental Policy and Governance, 2009, 19 (5): 281-295.
- “The Institutional Legitimacy of the International Trade System,” in Okafor and Aginam, eds., Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head, University of Toronto Press, 2003.