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.
Workplace Hazards for Meat and Poultry Workers Scholars explore line speed and worker safety regulations governing meatpacking and poultry plants. “The Department of Agriculture’s decision to revoke some pig slaughterhouses’ […]
Vermont Law and Graduate School has, once again, been named among the top environmental law schools in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. The school earned this recognition […]
“The bald eagle. The humpback whale. The dusky gopher frog. These animals stand among the nearly 300 creatures great and small saved from extinction thanks to a half-century of protection […]
Read Loquitur, our award-winning alumni magazine. After a brief hiatus, we’re back with insights from Vermont Law and Graduate School’s new leadership team, a feature on our Animal Law and Policy […]
Vermont Law and Graduate School invites scholars and journalists in the fields of environmental, energy, agriculture, animal advocacy, and international environmental law and policy to serve as Distinguished Summer Scholars […]
Listen to the most recent episode of the Hothouse Earth Podcast featuring Professor Laura Fox, director of the Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic, along with host Laura Ireland.
Last weekend, VLGS students Drew McCormick, Taylor Rush, and Daria Bednarczyk made us proud while successfully competing in the National Animal Law Competitions held at Harvard Law School. The Brooks Institute for […]
On March 18th, two Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) teams competed in the revived National Animal Law Competitions. Coached by Professors Pamela Vesilind and Delcianna Winders, the appellate advocacy […]
Professor Laura Fox (JD/MELP’13), Professor Delcianna Winders, Jenny Bass (JD’24), Vanessa Kranz (JD’25), Daria Bednarczyk (JD’25/MELP’23), Professor Pamela Vesilind (JD’08), Emmanuel Omirin (LLM’24), Professor Laura Ireland, Lara Herrmann (JD/MAPP’26), and […]
Think like a lawyer. Report like a journalist. We welcome applications from journalists covering animal law and policy issues to join us this summer in beautiful Vermont. Selected journalists will participate […]
