Center Director
Victor Flatt
Thomas F. and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law
Office: 919.962.4118
flatt@email.unc.edu
Victor B.
Flatt is the Tom & Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in
Environmental Law, and the Director of the Center for Law, Environment,
Adaptation, and Resources.
He also has an appointment as a Distinguished Scholar in Carbon Markets
and Carbon Trading at the Global Energy Management Institute at the
University of Houston's Bauer College of Business, and is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.
Flatt teaches courses in environmental law, natural resources,
interagency environmental cooperation, international environmental law,
climate change, and the practice of carbon trading. In the summer, he
regularly co-teaches the Alaska Natives and Environmental Law course in
Anchorage, Alaska, which focuses on the intersection of Alaska Native
Law, Resource Extraction Law, the Endangered Species Act, and
Environmental Law. More ...
Affiliated Faculty
Don Hornstein
Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law
Office: 919.962.4133
dhornste@email.unc.edu
From 1982 to
1983, Hornstein clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1983, he
began work as an appellate attorney (Honors Program) in the Environment
and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of
Justice in Washington, D.C., where he concentrated on environmental
litigation and on litigation defending Native American fishing rights
in the Pacific Northwest. Between 1985 and 1986, he was an associate
with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., concentrating on
environmental and products liability matters. While with Arnold &
Porter, Hornstein represented, pro bono, a consortium of environmental
and animal welfare organizations in litigation in the United States
Supreme Court involving Japanese whaling in the Antarctic and northwest
Pacific oceans. He joined the faculty as a visiting associate professor
of law in 1987 and was appointed an associate professor in 1989, a full
professor in 1993, and associate dean of faculty in 1994. He won the
Frederick B. McCall Award for Teaching Excellence in 1989. For the
1996-97 academic year, Hornstein was a visiting professor of law at the
University of Asmara in Eritrea, Africa, under the auspices of the
Fulbright Scholar program. More ...
Joe Kalo
Graham Kenan Professor of Law
Office: 919.962.8518
jjkalo@email.unc.edu
When he
first joined the faculty, Professor Kalo's focus was civil litigation, but his
teaching and research interests shifted to environmental issues
associated with coastal and ocean resources development. In addition to
numerous articles on topics related to ocean and coastal resource
issues, he has co-authored a coastal and ocean law casebook, which is
in its fifth edition, and is teaching an environmental ocean and
coastal law course as well as a first-year course in property and an
upper class seminar in Advanced Property. He has also taught
international environmental law.
Professor Kalo is
the co-director of the North Carolina Coastal Resources Law, Planning
and Policy Center, a partnership of the law school, the North Carolina
Sea Grant Program, and the UNC Department and City and Regional
Planning.
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Maria Savasta-Kennedy
Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Externship Program
Office: 919.843.9805
mskenned@email.unc.edu
Maria
Savasta-Kennedy directs the Externship program and teaches Environmental Law, Environmental Law Practice and Policy, and Pretrial Litigation at the law school. She began her teaching career at NYU
School of Law's Lawyering Program. Before teaching, Professor
Savasta-Kennedy litigated federal and state environmental, civil rights
and commercial cases. She represented grass roots organizations in
complex environmental cases at both the trial and appellate level while
an associate attorney with Earth Justice.
Professor
Savasta-Kennedy has taught CLE programs on environmental law and
practical skills. Her research interests include social and
environmental justice, and exploring regulatory and market responses to
pollution control and climate change. She serves as a faculty adviser
for the Environmental Law Project, the Carbon Reduction Working Group,
the Low Income Weatherization Project, and the International
Environmental Moot Court Team. More ...