Please join us for the Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy by Victor Flatt on "Act Locally, Affect Globally: Local Government's Role in Addressing Climate Change and Other Large-Scale Environmental Harms." No RSVP is necessary.
Victor B. Flatt
is the A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Houston Law
Center. He is a nationally recognized expert in environmental legal and policy
matters, including environmental administration. Peers have selected several of his articles
as among the best in environmental and land use law nationally. Prior to his appointment at Houston, he was a Professor of Law and head
of the Environmental Law program at Georgia State University School of Law. Professor Flatt lived in Louisville early in his legal career, as a
judicial law clerk for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs of the U.S. Sixth Circuit
Court of Appeals. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude & Phi Beta Kappa, in Chemistry and Mathematics
from Vanderbilt University, and his J.D., Order of the Coif, from Northwestern
University School of Law. He practiced
complex environmental law in Seattle.