Casey Weissman-Vermeulen

Associate Teaching Professor Director, Housing Clinic (315)443-4582 mcweissm@syr.ed Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Casey Weissman-Vermeulen joins the College of Law in Spring 2025 as an Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Housing Clinic.

Prior to joining Syracuse Law, Weissman-Vermeulen worked as a staff attorney at CNY Fair Housing, Inc., a fair housing advocacy and enforcement organization committed that serves residents throughout Central and Northern New York. At CNY Fair Housing, Weissman-Vermeulen litigated a variety of cases in federal and state court and before government agencies. He also contributed to the organization’s policy work, helping to research and draft reports on barriers to affordable housing opportunities for minority and low-income households in the Syracuse area.

Before his time at CNY Fair Housing, Weissman-Vermeulen served for seven years as a trial attorney in the Fair Housing Enforcement Division of the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. There, he worked on a variety of fair housing investigations and enforcement actions, assisted in drafting fair housing regulations and guidance, and contributed to government briefs in cases raising important questions of statutory interpretation under the Fair Housing Act.

During law school, Weissman-Vermeulen interned at anti-poverty, civil rights, and environmental organizations, as well as in North Carolina local government. Before his legal career, Weissman-Vermeulen helped coordinate national environmental policy campaigns at a Washington, D.C.-based environmental health organization.  

Weissman-Vermeulen received his J.D. and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.S. in natural resources from Cornell University.