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.
August 31, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinicians Vanessa Romero JD/MELP’21 and Kendall Keelen JD’22 Talk with Naeema Muhammad, Director of Organizing at the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network.
September 11, 2020
Panelists from a recent Center for Agriculture and Food Systems event on structural racism in American agriculture discuss the books that inspire their work.
September 18, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinicians Sophia Battle JD’21 and Joel Nelson JD’21 talk with José Bravo, Executive Director of the Just Transition Alliance.
October 2, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinicians interview Kerene Tayloe, Director of Federal Legislative Affairs at WE ACT for Environmental Justice
October 12, 2020
Read about Act H.833, a new bill that will protect Vermont surface waters and make the state more resilient against climate change. The bill became law last week, thanks to a coalition of environmental organizations represented by VLS’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic.
October 26, 2020 Hometown: Oakland Valley, New York Why Vermont Law School?: Vermont Law School offers an unparalleled quantity and quality of courses taught by established industry experts. Plus, its […]
October 28, 2020
The Black Lives Matter movement and the spread of COVID have once again raised the question: How much pollution can a community tolerate?
November 5, 2020 By Meg York, Staff Attorney and Assistant Professor Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court has caused many Vermonters to fear that their rights are in […]
November 16, 2020 By Karla Barron MARJ’21 Everyone is feeling something. The uplifted weight of the false and negative rhetoric that now lies in defeat. It is a sigh of […]
November 19, 2020
Environmental law professor Jonathan Rosenbloom studies how local municipalities can step up to build sustainability, resilience, and equity.
