Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Center Faculty

Marcilynn A. Burke

Assistant Professor of Law

134 TUII

mburke@central.uh.edu
713.743.2336

Professor Burke teaches courses in Environmental Law and Property. She received her A.B. in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School where she was an editor for both the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and the Yale Journal of International Law. She also served as a teaching assistant for both undergraduate and law school classes.

After graduating from Yale, she clerked for the Honorable Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia. Following her clerkship, she joined the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. During her four years at the firm, her practice focused on environmental law, antitrust, and civil and criminal litigation.



Darren Bush

Associate Professor of Law

126 TUII

B.A. (Economics), 1991, California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D. (Economics), 1995, University of Utah;
J.D., 1998, University of Utah

Professor Bush writes and lectures on antitrust law & economics and regulated and deregulating industries with particular focus on electricity markets.

Professor Bush received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where he received a Teaching Fellowship, the Graduate Research Fellowship, and an award for outstanding teaching. While completing his J.D. at Utah, he consulted on issues regarding state deregulation of electric utilities, interned at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, taught various economics courses, and received a Marriner S. Eccles Fellowship in Political Economy.

After receiving his J.D., Professor Bush served as an Attorney General's Honor Program Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division's Transportation, Energy, & Agriculture Section, where his primary focus was the investigation of mergers and anticompetitive conduct in wholesale and retail energy markets. In 2001 Professor Bush returned to Utah as a Visiting Associate Professor, where he taught antitrust, law & economics, business organizations, and professional responsibility and consulted on numerous antitrust matters.



Victor Flatt

A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Law

128 TUII

VFlatt@central.uh.edu
713.743.2155

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 and has done extensive media commentary on this issue. He is also a leader in the gay and lesbian community and a commentator on gay and lesbian legal issues. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in Chemistry and Mathematics at Vanderbilt University in 1985, where he was a a Harold Stirling Vandrerbilt Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the analytical laboratory coordinator for the Student Environmental Health Project. He graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1988, where he was a John Henry Wigmore Scholar and Order of the Coif. After law school, Professor Flatt clerked for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked in private practice in complex environmental law in Seattle, Washington.

Professor Flatt came to the University of Houston Law Center in 2002 as the first permanent A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Law. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Law and head of the Environmental Law program at Georgia State University School of Law, and he has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, University of Washington and Seattle University. Professor Flatt has published numerous articles in environmental law, with particular attention to environmental administration. Four of his articles have been recognized as winners or finalists in the annual best of environmental and land use law compendium published annually by the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law.



Jacqueline Lang Weaver

A.A. White Professor of Law

122 TUII

B.A., Harvard University;
Ph.C., University of California at Los Angeles;
J.D., University of Houston

Professor Weaver is an alumna of the Law Center, having graduated magna cum laude in 1975. In 1977 she joined the faculty and has taught courses in Oil and Gas, Energy Law and Policy, International Petroleum Transactions, Natural Resources, Water, and Environmental law. She recently won the University of Houston Teaching Excellence award for 2005-2006.

Professor Weaver is a co-author of the leading treatise on Texas oil and gas law and of the casebook titled "Energy, Economics and the Environment." She has written numerous articles on oil and gas law and energy policy, including an article on Enron's effect on energy markets. She was the Director of the Russian Petroleum Legislation Project in 1990-1991, blending academic and organizational skills to draft a model petroleum code for the new Russian Federation, with the participation of the World Bank, the European Bank, major oil companies, and Russian academics and officials.