Victor Flatt
Distinguished Scholar in Carbon Markets and Carbon Trading
Bio
Victor B. Flatt holds an appointment as Distinguished Scholar in Carbon Markets and Carbon Trading at the Global Energy Management Institute at UH Bauer College of Business, where he co-teaches the Practice of Carbon Trading course with Professors Kumar and Pirrong. His permanent appointment is as the Tom and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Law School. From 2002-2009, he was the first A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Law and Director of the Center for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources at the University of Houston Law Center. He received his undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Math, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University, where he was a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar, and his JD degree, cum laude and order of the coif, from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was a Wigmore Scholar. Professor Flatt began his academic career at the University of Washington in 1993, and in addition to his permanent appointments has visited at other law schools and taught in several environment and energy related programs. He has published extensively on environmental and energy law issues in specialty and general law reviews. Six of his articles have been finalists or selected as one of the top environmental law articles of the year in the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law. He consults with government and non-profit agencies on environmental, energy, and gay and lesbian legal issues. He represented Congressional Amici Boxer, Clinton, Kerry, Jeffords, Leahy and Reed in the Clean Air Act New Source Review case, New York v. EPA. He is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.