Reed Elizabeth Loder

Professor Reed Elizabeth Loder is an accomplished ethicist. The courses she has taught at Vermont Law School include Environmental Ethics, Legal Profession, Moral Philosophy for Professionals, and Property Law. She also has taught Ethics in the Professions at Dartmouth College.

Professor Loder received her AB, MA, and PhD degrees, all in philosophy, from Boston University. As a law student, Professor Loder received the Connecticut Law Tribune Award, the Cornelius W. Wickersham Jr. Award (by the Federal Bar Council to the student judged most proficient in constitutional law), and American Jurisprudence Book Awards, among others. After receiving her JD degree, magna cum laude, in 1983 from the University of Connecticut, she clerked for the Honorable Thomas P. Smith, Magistrate of the United States District Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She did legal work part time for the firm of Peckham, Lobel, Casey and Tye in Boston while teaching Legal Writing, Professional Responsibility, and Trial Advocacy at Boston College Law School. In 1988, she was an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School, while also an assistant professor of research and writing at Boston College Law School. Loder joined the Vermont Law School faculty in 1989. From 1990 to 1993, she was a visiting professor at Dartmouth College, concurrent with VLS service. Professor Loder’s presentations have included "Lawyer Confidentiality" at Dartmouth College, "Ethics of the Government Lawyer" for Vermont attorneys-general, "Ethical Discretion and Lawyers" at the Indiana School of Law, and panels at Vermont Law School on pro bono services, religion and environment, independence of the judiciary, and judicial ethics. She was a commentator for New Hampshire Public Television during a judicial impeachment trial. In addition to other publications in the field of ethics, she is currently writing a book, Lawyers and Virtue.

Professor Loder is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Philosophical Association, and the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics, She was selected as a 2006-2007 Fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism. She has served by Court appointment on the New Hampshire Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics since 2001.