Vermont Law and Graduate School

CAFS Lunch and Learn: Urban Agriculture and Local Policy
2026-04-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Yates Common Room at Vermont Law and Graduate School, 164 Chelsea Street, South Royalton, Vermont, 05068, United States
Join us for a Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) Lunch and Learn highlighting our Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Policy Project. Visiting Assistant Professor Liz Turner will share insights from “Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production: A Guide to Local Policy,” a CAFS resource developed through her research as a CAFS fellow. She will be joined by students to discuss what’s next for the project and how it has shaped her VLGS course, “Law and Policy of Urban Agriculture.”

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Information about joining virtually will be posted soon.

Intersectionality in Environmental Law Symposium
2026-04-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Chase Community Center, 164 Chelsea St., South Royalton, VT, 05068
The Environmental Justice Law Society, Energy Law Society, Environmental Law Society, Food and Agriculture Law Society, and Animal Law Society at Vermont Law and Graduate School proudly present the Intersectionality in Environmental Law Symposium.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

All times are listed below in ET.

Saturday, April 18

8 to 8:45 a.m. – Registration and Breakfast

8:45 to 9 a.m. – Introductory Remarks

9 to 9:30 a.m. – Morning Keynote: Dr. Zeyneb Magavi, HEET

9:35 to 11:05 a.m. – “Electrification in 2026 and Beyond” Moderated by Kirt Mayland LLM’05, Visiting Professor in the Institute for Energy and the Environment and Energy Clinic

Molly Armus JD’14, Friends of the Earth

Patrick Marass JD’17, Bernstein Shur

Austin Scarborough JD’21, Young/Sommer LLC

Veronica Ung-Kono JD/MERL’21, Environmental Defense Fund

Mark Zankel, Revision Energy

11:20 a.m. to 12 p.m. – “New England Resilience” Moderated by Christophe Courchesne, Director of the Environmental Law Center and Environmental Advocacy Clinic

Dr. Jamison Ervin, United Nations Nature for Development Programme

Jon Groveman, Vermont Natural Resources Council

Dr. Sarah H. Kelly, Dartmouth College

12 to 12:45 p.m. – Lunch

12:45 to 1 p.m. – Introductory Remarks

1 to 1:30 p.m. – Afternoon Keynote: Dr. Teresa Mares, University of Vermont

1:35 to 2:45 p.m. – “Cultivating Community – Migrant Farmworkers Across the Upper Valley” Moderated by Emma Scott, Director of the Food and Agriculture Clinic

Dr. Teresa Mares, University of Vermont

Douglas Moody, Dartmouth College

3 to 3:55 p.m. – “Harvesting Equity – Legal Frameworks of Migrant Farmworkers”

Moderated by Laurie Beyranevand JD’03, Director of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems

Maya McCann-Som, Central West Justice Center

Claudia Quintero, Central West Justice Center

Hannah Wolf, FarmSTAND

3:55 to 4 p.m. – Closing Remarks

4 to 5 p.m. – Cocktail Hour

This event will take place in-person, and an online option will also be provided upon registering. Continuing legal education (CLE) credits are available for practicing attorneys.

Alumni Weekend 2026
2026-06-26 08:00 - 2026-06-28 17:00 | Vermont Law and Graduate School, 164 Chelsea St., South Royalton, VT, 05068
Join Swans in South Royalton for a joyful summer gathering honoring 50 years of Vermont Law and Graduate School. Alumni from every class are invited to come together for a weekend of special events—including celebrations for milestone classes ending in 1s and 6s, a tribute to our inaugural Class of 1976, a reflection on our environmental law and policy legacy, and a Taste of Vermont event highlighting the best of the region. Come reconnect, reflect, and celebrate the community that has shaped generations.

Learn more by clicking here.

2026 Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship
2026-09-24 00:00 - 2026-09-26 23:59
Vermont Law and Graduate School will host the Seventeenth Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship on Friday September 25, 2026. Colloquium participants are environmental law faculty in the U.S. and abroad. This event offers environmental law scholars the opportunity to present their works-in-progress, to get feedback from their colleagues, and to meet and interact with those who are also teaching and researching in areas related to environmental and natural resources law, or any related specialty areas.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the colloquium, please submit a working title and abstract of 200-300 words no later than May 31, 2026. For an abstract to be eligible for submission, the author must anticipate that the paper will be a true working draft (neither published nor so close to publication that significant changes are not feasible) by the date of the colloquium. We will do our best to notify authors about acceptances by mid-June.

Stay tuned for more details!
