Vermont Law and Graduate School Welcomes NYU Law Professor as This Year’s Guest Speaker
SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (April 6, 2026) — Katrina M. Wyman of New York University School of Law will deliver the 21st annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law.
Hosted by Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Law Center, the event will take place on Tuesday, April 7, at 5 p.m. ET, both on campus in Oakes Hall Room 012 and online.
Wyman will discuss the potential for local governments to address climate change in the current moment, drawing on her recent book “Local Greens,” co-authored with Danielle Spiegel-Feld.
She will focus on the incentives that cities have to deploy their authority over land use and the built environment to promote decarbonization and limit the harms from climate risks such as flooding and fires. Using New York City as a case study, Wyman will also highlight the challenges cities face in tackling climate change.
As the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law at NYU School of Law, Wyman teaches and researches in the areas of property, environmental law and natural resources law, among other subjects.
Wyman is the faculty director of NYU Law’s Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Law Use Law, as well as the law school’s LLM program in environmental and energy law.
The Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law series is named for Norman Williams, who came to Vermont Law and Graduate School in 1975 after a long and distinguished career in public service and teaching, particularly in the area of land use planning. Professor Williams played a key role in founding the Environmental Law Center. The lecture series is a gift of Frances Yates, former trustee of VLGS, in memory of Professor Williams, Charles Yates JD’93 and Anya Yates JD’94.
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