Land Use Institute

Institute Staff

Kinvin Wroth

Director

L. Kinvin Wroth, professor of law at Vermont Law School since 1996, served as the school's sixth dean from 1996 to 2004; from 2003 to 2004 he had the additional title of president. Previously, he had served as dean of the University of Maine's law school from 1978 to 1990 and was on the Maine faculty from 1964 until coming to Vermont. Professor Wroth is an expert in the areas of procedure, professional conduct, and legal history. At Vermont Law School, he has taught Comparative Law, The Canadian Legal System, Race and the Law, Civil Procedure, and Land Use Law. Since 2005, he has been director of the Law School's Land Use Institute. More...

Peg Elmer

Associate Director

Peg Elmer, AICP, has over 30 years of applied professional experience at local, regional and state levels of community planning inNew England. For the last 20 years she has played an active role in statewide land use and environmental planning progress in Vermont. She staffed the Governor’s Commission on Vermont’s Future that resulted in Act 200 in 1988. She was the Land Use Policy Program director at the Vermont Natural Resources Council prior to coming to the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Affairs where she served as planning director for close to ten years before joining the Land Use Institute in 2007. She is currently vice president/president-elect of the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association. More...

Katherine Garvey, LLM’10

LLM Fellow

Katherine Garvey is the Land Use Institute Fellow at Vermont Law School. She holds a law degree from the University of Missouri in Kansas City and has been practicing law for four years. She previously worked for the City of Lee's Summit, Mo., as the Environmental Coordinator and within EPA's Solid Waste and Pollution Prevention Division in Kansas City, Kans. Her land use experience includes siting a landfill and hazardous waste facility and working with local government to improve environmental review during the development process.