The Vermont Law and Graduate School blog features insightful posts and articles about JD, LLM, and master’s degree students, faculty members, alumni, and others in the VLGS community. Explore engaging discussions on environmental law and policy, energy, food and agriculture, international law, animal protection, human rights, and more.
July 10, 2016
Betsy Baker, Professor of Law at VLS, is now a go-to expert on the Arctic. Through her work with the U.S. State Department and the Arctic Council, an international governing body for the Arctic, Baker has played an important role in elevating the status and understanding of the frozen north.
July 12, 2016
VLS alum, Jim Landis LLM’09, Counsel at Lowcountry Counsel Office U.S. Marine Corps in Beaufort, S.C., dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
The kelp forests and rare deep-sea corals off New England’s coast deserve preservation. MeghanJeans is involved with a campaign to protect marine species and habitats through a Marine National Monument […]
July 16, 2016
VLS alum, Stephanie Showalter Otts JD/MSEL’01, Senior Research Counsel and Director of Sea Grant Programs at the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Miss., dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
July 18, 2016
VLS alum, Zachary Lees JD/MELP’12, Staff Attorney at Clean Ocean Action in Sandy Hook, N.J., dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
July 20, 2016
VLS alum, Sarah Mooney Reiter JD’13, Ocean Policy Analyst at Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif., dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
July 22, 2016
VLS alum, Peter Van Tuyn JD/MSEL’89, Managing Partner at Bessenyey & Van Tuyn, LLC in Anchorage, Alaska, dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
July 24, 2016
VLS alum, Michelle Bender MELP’15, Earth Policy Fellow at Earth Law Center in Redwood City, California, dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
July 26, 2016
VLS alum, Tom Leary JD/MSEL’95, Deputy Legal Counsel to the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman at the Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia dives into the legal and policy issues related to protecting oceans and marine ecosystems.
July 28, 2016
VLS alum, Margaux Valenti JD’13, Staff Attorney at Riverkeeper in Buffalo, New York, helps gain access, through contractual agreements, to private and public lands to install river restoration projects.