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Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
Vermont Law School is actively seeking a faculty director for its newly established Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. The job description is available here:
Director, VLS Center for Agriculture and Food Systems
Building on Vermont's reputation for small-scale agricultural innovation and ethos of environmental and social sustainability, the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems will provide support, research, and leadership for community-based agricultural systems, sustainable agriculture advocates, agencies, food hubs, incubators, and farmers.
During its initial launch, the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems will:
- Expand on the law school's curriculum in agriculture and food policy. The current courses include: Agricultural Biotechnology and the Law, Agricultural Policy and the Environment, Ecology of Food and Agriculture, Food Regulation and Policy, and Public Health Implications of U.S. Agriculture and Food Policy.
- Continue research and education projects such as The Farmer's Handbook for Energy Self-Reliance, distributed to over 4,000 farmers and taken to over a dozen farmers' forums and conferences nationally.
- Host, together with the Vermont Law Review, the inaugural Vermont Law School Conference on Agriculture and Food Systems on September 28, 2012. The conference will bring together national and state policy leaders, scholars, farmers, and public policy advocates to discuss cutting-edge issues related to the law and policy of food and agriculture.
In addition, the Center will support research by leading scholars in sustainable agriculture and food issues. This summer we welcome the Center's second Sustainable Food Systems Summer Scholar, Stephanie Tai, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. The 2011 summer scholar was Professor Mary Jane Angelo of the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law.
Students have the opportunity to work with professors at Vermont Law School on a variety of research projects related to food and agriculture law and policy. In addition, students are invited to join the Food and Agricultural Law Society, one of the largest independent student groups at Vermont Law School. Students interested in working in agriculture and food issues may contact the Environmental Law Center's associate director at 802-831-1338.
Sustainable Food Systems Summer Scholar
Stephanie Tai, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Law
Professor Tai joined the University of Wisconsin law school faculty in 2006, after serving for several years as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and, prior to that, as law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Her scholarly research has focused on the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law and the issue food sustainability. Professor Tai received her BS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD in Chemistry from Tufts University, and JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as Editor in Chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.
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