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SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Animal Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Animal Storytelling\,” will be presented by Stephanie Hanes\, environmental journalist and VLGS Animal Law Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nReporting and writing about non-human animals creates unique challenges for journalists. We can’t quote them. We can’t interview them. So how do we pick what stories to tell about them—and how do we adjust our work to ensure we are accurately and effectively communicating about our natural world? In this talk\, Hanes will discuss some of the pitfalls and potential of covering animals for mainstream media. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-14
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T120000
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SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Someone
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session will be presented by Kristen Stilt from Harvard Law School and a VLGS Distinguished Animal Law Summer Scholar. \n\n\n\nAn assumed division between human and nonhuman animals (and most of nature) has long been baked into most of Western culture and law. As effects of the Anthropocene bring humans and animals in closer and more frequent contact\, increasingly in emergency and catastrophic situations\, we are beginning to see more signs of awareness that humans and animals are not only ecologically but profoundly interdependent—and that each animal should not be categorized something\, but as someone. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-13
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T120000
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UID:10002699-1752753600-1752757200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | One Big Beautiful Bill and How it Will Disrupt the Clean Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session will be presented by Valerie Volcovici from Thomson Reuters and a VLGS Environmental Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-12
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250715T120000
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UID:10002695-1752580800-1752584400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Universal Ownership\, Systematic Stewardship: Whatever You Call It\, Where Do We Stand?
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Universal Ownership\, Systematic Stewardship: Whatever You Call It\, Where Do We Stand?”\, will be presented by Madison Condon from Boston University School of Law and the VLGS Distinguished Climate Law Summer Scholar. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-11
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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UID:10002694-1752148800-1752152400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | A Just Transition for Whom? Understanding the Opportunities and Limitations of a Just Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “A Just Transition for Whom? Understanding the Opportunities and Limitations of a Just Energy Transition\,” will be presented by Mijin Cha from University of California Santa Cruz and the VLGS Distinguished Energy Law Summer Scholar. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-10
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Federal Environmental Law After Trump II
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Federal Environmental Law After Trump II” will be presented by Sean Donahue of Donahue\, Goldberg & Herzog\, and Robert Percival from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-9
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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SUMMARY:Alumni Weekend 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join other Swans in South Royalton\, Vermont\, this summer for an exciting weekend of events! All alumni are invited to attend\, regardless of your graduation year\, and we’ll have special celebrations for class years ending in 0s and 5s. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, including the registration link\, please click here. \n\n\n\nWe can’t wait to see you!
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/alumni-weekend-2025
LOCATION:VLGS Campus\, 164 Chelsea Street\, South Royalton\, Vermont\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T120000
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CREATED:20250619T180154Z
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UID:10002692-1750939200-1750942800@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Challenges of Barcelona's Waste Tax in Light of the New European Requirement for Pay-As-You-Throw Systems
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Challenges of Barcelona’s Waste Tax in Light of the New European Requirement for Pay-As-You-Throw Systems\,” will be presented by Rodolfo Boix from Pompeu Fabra University. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-8
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250624T120000
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UID:10002698-1750766400-1750770000@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | The Radioactive Shadow Workers of the Oil and Gas Industry: An Environmental Journalism Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for the Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “The Radioactive Shadow Workers of the Oil and Gas Industry: An Environmental Journalism Perspective\,” will be presented by Julia Sklar\, science journalist and a VLGS Environmental Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-7
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T120000
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UID:10002691-1750161600-1750165200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | A Dog is a Chimp is a Mouse is a Rabbit? How Charismatic Species Shape Lab Animal Welfare Laws and Policies
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “A Dog is a Chimp is a Mouse is a Rabbit? How Charismatic Species Shape Law Animal Welfare Laws and Policies\,” will be presented by Larry Carbone. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Carbone will explore the effect of using charismatic species (such as dogs\, primates\, and rabbits) to advance welfare reforms. Do new laws and practices crafted to accommodate interests of one species have a ripple effect that improves the lot of other animals? Or do special protections for one type of animal come at the expense of others? Carbone shows how both outcomes have occurred through the years\, and argues that activists should be mindful of arguments that elevate species we care about at the expense of those without a human constituency advocating for their interests. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-6
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T120000
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CREATED:20250523T142124Z
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UID:10002690-1749729600-1749733200@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Our Plastic Problem and What the Law Can Do About It
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Our Plastic Problem and What the Law Can Do About It\,” will be presented by Sarah Morath from Wake Forest Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-5
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083442
CREATED:20250523T141041Z
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UID:10002689-1749556800-1749560400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Access to Beaches and Other Public Lands: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Access to Beaches and Other Public Lands: Past\, Present\, and Future\,” will be presented by Josh Eagle from the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-4
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250605T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083442
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UID:10002688-1749124800-1749128400@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Sustaining Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Sustaining Environmental Justice\,” will be presented by Sharmila Murthy from Northeastern University School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-3
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083442
CREATED:20250523T135637Z
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UID:10002687-1748952000-1748955600@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Toxic Sewage Sludge: How the Biosolid Fertilizer Industry is Poisoning Farm Animals
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Toxic Sewage Sludge: How the Biosolid Fertilizer Industry is Poisoning Farm Animals\,” will be presented by Marin Scotten\, VLGS Animal Law Media Fellow. \n\n\n\nUsing human biosolids\, also known as sewage sludge\, as farmland fertilizer has been hailed as a climate-friendly and efficient way to fertilize crops and dispose of waste. But a growing body of research now suggests sewage sludge application—which is largely unregulated and controlled by just a handful of companies—is contaminating food and water with PFAS\, poisoning farm animals and creating major public health risks. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-2
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Hot Topics,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083442
CREATED:20250522T130731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T135758Z
UID:10002686-1748520000-1748523600@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Hot Topics | Advancing Environmental Justice in a Chaotic Time
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series\, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free and open to the public. In addition to featuring live Q&A with the audience\, each installment is eligible for Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. \n\n\n\nThis session\, “Advancing Environmental Justice in a Chaotic Time\,” will be presented by Marianne Engelman-Lado from New York University School of Law. \n\n\n\nTune into the livestream by clicking the button below.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/hot-topics-2025-1
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083442
CREATED:20250507T163938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T112705Z
UID:10002682-1747409400-1747413000@www.vermontlaw.edu
SUMMARY:Commencement 2025: Honorary Degree Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Julia Olson\, co-executive director and chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust\, will present\, “Children’s Climate Rights: Foundation of Democracy.” \n\n\n\nOlson founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010 to empower young people to secure their climate rights\, protect their futures\, and save our planet. In August 2023\, they made history with Held v. State of Montana\, the first children’s constitutional climate trial resulting in a landmark win for youth. In June 2024\, with Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation\, Our Children’s Trust achieved the first settlement agreement of a youth-led constitutional climate case directed at decarbonizing transportation.  \n\n\n\nToday\, Olson directs the organization’s cutting-edge legal strategy and has served as lead counsel on the pathbreaking federal cases\, Juliana v. United States and Genesis v. EPA. Olson has received numerous awards\, including the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism (2017)\, Rose-Walters Prize for Global Activism (2018)\, Katharine & George Alexander Law Prize (2022)\, and Berkeley Law’s Environmental Leadership Award (2024). In 2023\, TIME100 Climate called her one of the world’s most influential leaders driving climate action. Olson received her JD from University of California College of the Law\, San Francisco\, and her BA from University of Colorado. \n\n\n\nYou can also tune into the livestream by clicking here. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/commencement-2025-honorary-degree-lecture
LOCATION:Oakes Hall\, Room 012\, 164 Chelsea Street\, South Royalton\, Vermont\, 05068\, United States
CATEGORIES:Commencement,Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T083442
CREATED:20250319T150906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T103816Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Advocate Training Program
DESCRIPTION:The South Royalton Legal Clinic’s Veterans Legal Assistance Project\, with the generous support of the Thomas M. French Veterans Advocacy Fund\, is honored to provide this introductory continuing legal education (CLE) program focused on preparing attorneys and appointed representatives to advocate for veterans. \n\n\n\nAttorneys and other advocates must be accredited to practice before the VA. Within 12 months of accreditation\, attorneys and other advocates are required to complete three hours of qualifying CLE credits. This program is offered to satisfy that requirement. It is also an excellent primer for any attorney considering representing veterans before the VA. \n\n\n\nThis program—which is eligible for up to four Vermont CLE credits—will provide an introduction to advocating for veterans before the VA\, a review of the VA benefits appeals process\, and an update on current trends in veterans advocacy. New this year\, we are offering an extra session on VA compensation claims that will highlight initiation\, review\, evidence development\, and decisions. This session is highly recommended for any new-to-VA-law practitioner or advocate. \n\n\n\nAttorneys and other advocates who become accredited will be listed on a national VA list\, and are entitled to represent veterans in their initial claims for VA benefits on a pro bono basis\, and on VA benefits appeals for attorney’s fees. \n\n\n\nThe session is being offered free of charge to attorneys and appointed representatives in exchange for their commitment to assist at least one pro bono VA benefits client in the year following the program. \n\n\n\nPlease register in advance by clicking here or emailing communications@vermontlaw.edu. \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE:8 a.m. In-Person Registration Opens \n\n\n\n8:30 a.m. VA Benefits: Nuts and BoltsDon Hayes JD’10\, South Royalton Legal Clinic\, VLGS \n\n\n\n9:30 a.m. Working Claims at the RO: Evidence Development and AppealsTim Mercer\, Esq.\, The Bluestein Group \n\n\n\n10:30 a.m. Break \n\n\n\n11 a.m. Obtaining a Character of Service Determination: Review of New StandardsAndrew Thibault JD’22\, The Bluestein Group \n\n\n\n12 p.m. Remarks from Thomas French \n\n\n\n12:10 p.m. Practitioner Q&A \n\n\n\n12:30 p.m. Lunch \n\n\n\n1 p.m. Beyond the RO: Appellate Process from CAVC to the Supreme CourtDavid Giza\, Esq.\, Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/veterans-advocate-training-program
LOCATION:Chase Community Center\, 164 Chelsea St.\, South Royalton\, VT\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton
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SUMMARY:20th Annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Planning and the Law: Navigating an Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law and Graduate School invites you to hear from Dr. Sarah Mills\, director for the Center for EmPowering Communities at the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute. \n\n\n\nThe U.S. has only just begun to see the rapid expansion of renewable energy on our landscapes. Technological advancements and reductions in costs for renewable energy have energy models showing that wind and solar may impact as much as 15% of the continental U.S. land area by 2050. The lion’s share of the energy infrastructure that has already been built—and will need to be built—for this energy transformation is sited in rural places.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Dr. Mills will dig into how this infrastructure impacts rural residents and local governments. She will also discuss how a web of state policy choices—from siting/zoning authority to property tax policy to utility policy—shape the impacts that renewable infrastructure has on rural communities and the ability to deploy renewables with community goals in mind. \n\n\n\nThe livestream can be accessed via the button below or by clicking here.
URL:https://www.vermontlaw.edu/event/20th-annual-norman-williams-distinguished-lecture-in-land-use-planning-and-the-law-navigating-an-energy-transition
LOCATION:Oakes Hall\, Room 007\, 164 Chelsea Street\, South Royalton\, Vermont\, 05068
CATEGORIES:Events in South Royalton,Livestream Calendar,VLS Events
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