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Environmental Law Center:
The Environmental Law Center
Vermont Law School has placed first in environmental law eleven times since U.S. News & World Report began ranking the speciality in 1991; in the other years we came in second. The speciality rankings are based on nomination by legal educators at peer institutions. |
Students learn from experienced litigators who have fought and won crucial environmental cases and from “superstars” in energy law and other cutting-edge legal disciplines. At Vermont Law School, students learn how to effect change and take leadership positions in corporations, government, nonprofits, and private practice. Vermont Law School's environmental programs are respected around the world, and with good reason.
- VLS’s Environmental Law Center offers the nation’s largest, graduate, environmental law program, and has received the American Bar Association Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy
- VLS has placed first 11 times since the U.S. News & World Report environmental specialty rankings began in 1991 and has never placed lower than second.
- Our faculty features national and international leaders in the field, including litigators involved in major cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; scholars whose books, articles, and law journal articles are cited by legal peers; and researchers who collaborate with other noted authorities across the nation and around the world.
- Our world-renowned summer faculty features experts from the EPA, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the World Bank (to name just a few).
- Vermont Law School has welcomed the world’s top energy law scholars and environmental taxation experts, in 2001 and 2002 respectively.
- In 2006, VLS and the University of Vermont co-hosted the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, which attracted over 800 attendees from top U.S. media (AP, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.), in addition to international reporters. VLS faculty experts were featured in sessions that ranged from “green taxes” and endangered species, to U.S. national parks and international trade.
The Environmental Law Center is composed of specialized institutes and programs, and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law (Litigation) Clinic.
The Environmental Law Center has been honored with the American Bar Association's Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy. The center offers two degree programs: the Master of Studies in Environmental Law (M.S.E.L.), for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, and the Master of Laws in Environmental Law (LL.M.), for attorneys who wish to specialize. Both take advantage of the nation's most extensive environmental law and policy curriculum.
...is to educate for stewardship and an understanding of underlying environmental issues and values. Environmental law and policy are about change, and since change is often threatening to those who benefit from the status quo, it is no surprise that consensus on environmental issues is difficult to achieve. An environmental professional must understand that sound environmental policy is formed at the intersection of politics, law, science, economics, and ethics.
In the Environmental Law program students explore the ethical basis for environmental policy, develop a knowledge of ecological concepts, and consider both international issues, and standards and processes embodied in U.S. environmental law. Students learn political, cultural, institutional, and scientific mechanisms which shape environmental policy, as well as recognize the role and effects of hazard, risk, and uncertainty in policy development.
Vermont Law School's Environmental Law Center produces graduates who serve as policy analysts, environmental managers, lawyers, and community leaders throughout the world.
For more about ELC happenings, read our latest newsletter.
To contact us:
1-800-227-1395
admiss@vermontlaw.edu
Last Updated: Mar 19, 2008
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