Faculty

 

 

Richard B. Whisnant Name: Richard B. Whisnant
Title: Professor of Public Law and Government
Phone: 919.962.9320
E-mail: whisnant@sog.unc.edu
Areas of Interest: Environmental protection and natural resources management; administrative law; Principal collaborator, UNC Environmental Finance Center

Richard Whisnant joined the Institute of Government in 1998. Prior to that, he was general counsel with the NC Department of Environment, Health & Natural Resources. He had previously practiced environmental law with Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was a clerk for the Hon. Sam J. Ervin III on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Whisnant earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MPA and JD from Harvard University.

Return to Deans and Faculty Directory