Each summer the Environmental Law Center hosts the Hot Topics in Environmental Law lecture series. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon, VLGS faculty and invited experts host lectures on a variety of current issues in environmental law and policy. Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available.
Free and open to the public, all summer 2024 lectures will be streamed virtually at vermontlaw.edu/live.
Thursday May 30 – TBD
Tuesday June 4 – Christine Ro, freelance journalist and VLGS Animal Law Media Fellow, “Do Animals Get Bored? Does It Matter?”
Thursday June 6 – Mavis Gragg – HeirShares and VLGS Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Scholar, “”
Tuesday June 11 – Richard Wallsgrove – William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and VLGS Climate Law Scholar, “Restorative Energy Justice”
Thursday June 13 – Alex Barron, Smith College – “Transforming College Operations for Climate Justice”
Tuesday June 18 – Sean Donahue, Donahue & Goldberg, LLP – "The Stability of Environmental Precedent After the Supreme Court's 2023-2024 Term"
Thursday June 20 – Iselin Gambert, George Washington University and VLGS Animal Law Scholar, “The Milk Wars”
Tuesday June 25 – Gerald Torres, Yale Law School and VLGS Environmental Law Scholar, “”
Thursday June 27 – Zack Colman, Politico and VLGS Environmental Media Fellow, “The hidden economic costs of climate change”
Tuesday July 9 – David Wirth, Boston Law College, "UN Roadmap for a New Global Plastics Treaty"
Thursday July 11 – Josh Galperin, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University – “Towards Democratic Environmental Governance”
Tuesday July 16 – Anthony Moffa, University of Maine School of Law – “”
Thursday July 18 – JoVona Taylor – Bloomberg Law and VLGS Environmental Media Fellow – “How did the US legal framework allow and/or provoke disproportionate placement of polluting projects (and continues to do that) in minority, low-income communities?”
Tuesday July 23 – Heather Payne, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University and VLGS Energy Law Scholar, “How AI Can Help Transform the Electric Grid"
Thursday July 25 – Grace Hussain, Sentient Media and VLGS Animal Law Fellow, “Engaging Communities for Solutions to CAFOs”
Tuesday July 30 – Robert Percival, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, “How the U.S. Supreme Court Was Captured by Interests Hostile to Environmental Protection"
Thursday August 1 – Hoda Emam, independent journalist and filmmaker, and VLGS Food and Agriculture Media Fellow – “Unveiling America's Hidden Hunger: A Journey through Health Inequities in Early Childhood”
Visit our video archive to view lectures from past summers.
