The Wyss Scholars Program

Taylor Newton Wurts

yale university - Law

Taylor Newton Wurts is a second-year law student at Yale Law School who graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Economics. He is interested in developing novel litigation strategies to solve conservation and climate change issues. At Yale Law School, he is the co-president of the Yale Environmental Law Association, vice president of the Yale Urban Law & Policy Society, and executive policy editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He is also an advanced student intern in the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative and an advanced clinical student in the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project's Environment Working Group. He was a legal intern in the California Attorney General's Office Land Use & Conservation and Environment Sections. He will aid similar efforts with the Conservation Law Foundation while exploring creative litigation and policy levers to hasten the green transition and protect land across New England. Taylor is eager to use law and policy to further equity in conservation and climate action. He hopes to increase access to conservation land in historically overburdened and under-resourced communities through legal tools that can help fund remediation and restoration.