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.