Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Professor Martin Lockman is a climate law scholar whose research sits at the intersection of property law and environmental law. His scholarship explores how legal systems respond to the physical, economic, and societal pressures of climate change and the energy transition, with a particular focus on the governance, finance, and regulation of infrastructure, public lands, and natural resources.
Professor Lockman’s recent and forthcoming publications include Environmental Repair in the Energy Transition, 114 Calif. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), The Private Litigation Impact of New York’s Green Amendment, 49 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 357 (2024), Climate Entrenchment in Unstable Legal Regimes, 118 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online (2023), and Fencing the Wind: Property Rights in Renewable Energy, 50 W.V. L. Rev. 27 (2022).
Professor Lockman’s work has been cited by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, among others, and he frequently appears in national media as an expert in climate law, including the New York Times, NPR, Politico, and Bloomberg.
Prior to joining the faculty at William & Mary Law School, Professor Lockman was a Climate Law Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2019, where he was a James Kent Scholar (2017-2019) and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (2016-2017). At Columbia, he served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and worked with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. Prior to law school, he worked as a community organizer in southern West Virginia and researched economic policy issues at a racial justice thinktank in New York. Lockman received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014.
In his spare time, Professor Lockman is an avid cook, a voracious reader, and enthusiastic (if amateur) Appalachian fiddler.