David B. Firestone

Professor David Firestone is an expert in environmental law, contracts, and international and comparative environmental law. The courses he has taught at Vermont Law School include Contracts, Commercial Law, Environmental Law, and Income Taxation.

Professor Firestone earned his BS degree in mechanical engineering, cum laude, from Wayne State University in 1965 and his JD degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1969. Prior to law school, he worked as an associate engineer-scientist with Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica, California. After receiving his law degree, he served as an attorney with the Boston Regional Counsel's Office of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Professor Firestone joined the faculty of Vermont Law School in 1973. Examples of his activities during his tenure at Vermont Law School include serving as a lecturer in Madagascar on environmental law in developing nations; as a visiting law fellow at King's College in London, where he researched international and comparative environmental law; and as a consultant for the World Bank on using environmental issues as a vehicle for judicial reform in developing countries. Professor Firestone has lectured and served as seminar leader for the Federal Judicial Center and the American Bar Association; for USAID and USIA/State Department programs in Madagascar, Micronesia, Austria, and Eastern Europe; and at New York University; McGill Law School; Hawaii Law School and Hawaii Pacific University; King's College, London; University of Mysore and Cochin University of Science and Technology, India; and Petrozavodsk State University Law School, Russia, and gave the keynote address at the inaugural seminar of the Center of Environmental Law Studies at the University of the Andes, Chile.  Professor Firestone has also served "of counsel" to private law firms and govenmental entities on a wide variety of legal issues.