Robert Sand

Robert L. Sand is the elected State’s Attorney for Windsor County, Vermont, and an adjunct professor of criminal law at Vermont Law School. He is a 1980 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1987 graduate of the Vermont Law School, magna cum laude, where he served as the managing editor of the Vermont Law Review. He is a past member of the Vermont Law School Board of Trustees.

As a prosecutor, he oversees all criminal matters arising within Windsor County. He has extensive trial and appellate experience and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the only prosecutor in the state to hold that designation. He is an outspoken advocate for reform of the nation’s drug laws and has written and spoken extensively in support of drug policy reform. He is a frequent witness before the Vermont House and Senate Judiciary committees on a variety of criminal justice matters.

As a professor, he seeks to combine doctrine and appellate cases with primary source materials from the criminal justice system, giving his students a hands-on approach to criminal law. His students are asked to explore and challenge their own opinions about crime and punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, justice, limitations on police power, and fair and effective ways to promote public safety.