2009 News Archive
December 4, 2009
At the State House, Mentoring Young Advocates – Three Vermont teens, with the help of VLS Schweitzer Fellow Lisa Campion, have taken up the charge to lobby the stat's legislature to pass H.97, the no idling bill currently under discussion in the capitol.
November 24, 2009
Medlaw: At the Intersection of Law and Medicine – For Professor Susan B. Apel, leading Vermont Law School's Medlaw Seminar has been 10 years of continual change and re-creation. For two hours a week, students from VLS and Dartmouth Medical School work to understand complex issues at the intersection of medicine and law as they explore their own opinions and ethical positions. Issues center around new forms of family made possible by assisted reproductive technology.
November 17, 2009
Regulatory Takings Conference Highlights New Challenges Posed by Climate Change – Carbon sequestration was not on the minds of regulatory takings experts a decade ago, but as the world now searches for innovative ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the method of underground carbon storage presents a new and complex realm of property rights issues.
November 13, 2009
IEE Releases New Report: All Risk, No Reward for Taxpayers and Ratepayers – If Congress and the states do not follow the lead of Wall Street in declining to underwrite financially “risky and uneconomic” new nuclear reactors, the resulting taxpayer-backed loan guarantees and other subsidies could pave the way for the same kind of industry-wide meltdown that happened in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a major new study by Dr. Mark Cooper, a senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School.
October 14, 2009
China Partnership Announces Environmental Justice Young Fellows Exchange – Vermont Law School (VLS) has been awarded a federal grant to support a U.S.-China exchange program for young professionals working on environmental justice issues.
August 19, 2009
Small State Capital Provides Big Legal Opportunities – Within blocks of this downtown intersection, dozens of Vermont Law School graduates put their legal skills to work each day in state government, law firms, nonprofits and private businesses. The quaint look and feel of Montpelier belies the scope of the lawyers' reach.
July 15, 2009
MSEL Program Renamed Master of Environmental Law and Policy – The ELC is pleased to announce that, after thorough consideration, the faculty recently voted to change the name of the Master of Studies in Environmental Law degree program.
June 30, 2009
ENRLC Announces New Toxics Actions Fellowship – Vermont Law School's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) has announced a new two-year graduate fellowship designed to aid communities dealing with toxic pollution issues.
May 16, 2009
Commencement 2009 – Graduates, as you go forth into the world remember that you have a team behind you and with you. A team that will make you proud and will support you in difficult times.
April 18, 2009
Vermont Law School Schweitzer Fellow Warns Area Senior Citizens Against Scams – Vermont Law School Schweitzer Fellow Warns Area Senior Citizens Against Scams
March 12, 2009
Land Use Institute Hosts Scholar Joseph L. Sax – Is the current legal framework relating to regulatory takings fair? On February 5, noted land use scholar Joseph Sax explored this issue at Vermont Law School.
February 28, 2009
VLS Emphasizes Commitment to Legal Writing Skills – With a fortified faculty and an elegantly restored 1853 schoolhouse to serve as its new home, the Legal Writing Program at Vermont Law School is renewing its commitment to proficiency in legal research and writing.
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