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Greg Johnson

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Professor of Law, Director of Legal Writing Program

JD, Notre Dame Law School, 1985;
AB, Cornell University, 1982

Phone: 802-831-1284
Email: gjohnson@vermontlaw.edu

Presentations

  • "Career Paths in LGBT Civil Rights Law," Dartmouth Law Journal Panel on Public Law, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 2012
  • "Don't Ask/Don't Tell Is No More!," Panel/Celebration, Vermont Law School, September 2011
  • "Panelist, Symposium on Feminist Legal Theory", Southeast Legal Writing Conference, Mercer Law School, Macon, Georgia, April 2011
  • "Bringing the United States Supreme Court Bar to a New England Village: Vermont Law School's Annual Appellate Advocacy Panel", Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Law School, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2011
  • "The Letter or the Spirit of the Law? Differing Approaches to Second-Parent Adoption Among Courts in the United States", Cross-Border Conference on LGBT Civil Rights, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, November 2010
  • "Lost In Translation: The Limits of Metaphor in Legal Writing", Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, University of Arizona Law School, Tucson, Arizona, March 2010
  • "In Defense of Vermont Law School=s Position on Military Recruiting", Solomon Amendment Panel Discussion, Vermont Law School, March 2010
  • "Finding a New and Dynamic Framework for Legal Writing Assignments in the Apprenticeship Tradition", Southeast Legal Writing Conference, Stetson University Law School, Gulfport, Florida, September 2009
  • "Recycling a Master: Lessons from Mary Lawrence's Groundbreaking Legal Writing Pedagogy", Northwest Legal Writing Conference, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, August 2009
  • "Credibility in Persuasive Writing: Humility as the First Step", Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, Kansas City, Missouri, July 2009
  • "We've Heard This Before: The Legacy of Interracial Marriage Bans and the Implications for Today's Marriage Equality Debates", Dartmouth College Law Day Symposium, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 2009
  • "Testimony on Marriage Equality Bill", Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee, March 2009, Vermont House Judiciary Committee, March 2009, Montpelier, Vermont
  • "Centering Sexual Orientation in the Legal Writing Curriculum", AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Legal Research, Legal Writing, and Moot Court, San Diego, California, January 2009
  • "Interstate Recognition of Civil Union and Same-sex Marriage," National Conference of State Legislatures, Annual Convention, New Orleans, La. (July 2008).
  • "Meet the New Boss: Reflections on the Growing Trend Towards Directorless Legal Writing Programs," New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers, Annual Conference, Vermont Law School (December 2007).
  • "The Legal And Social Differences Between Marriage and Civil Union," testimony before the Vermont Commission on Family Recognition, Vermont Law School (October 2007).
  • "May It Please the Classroom: Using Pending Supreme Court Cases to Teach Persuasive Writing and Appellate Advocacy," Association of Legal Writing Directors, Biennial Conference, Denver, Colo. (June 2007).
  • "The Merits of Clerking for State Courts," Judicial Clerkship Panel, Vermont Law School (September 2007).
  • "Civil Union: A Reappraisal," Forum for International Scholars, Woodstock, Vt. (September 2006).
  • "The Future of Gay Rights," Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (December 2005).
  • "Using Pending Supreme Court Cases to Teach Appellate Advocacy," Boston Legal Writing Conference (December 2002).
  • "Sexual Orientation and the Law," University of Massachusetts, Amherst (March 1999).
  • "The State of the Gay Rights Movement," VLS Sexual Orientation and the Law Conference (March 1999).
  • "Alaska's Same-Sex Marriage Case," Freedom to Marry Conference, Harvard Law School (February 1999).
  • "Sexual Orientation and the Law," University of Massachusetts, Amherst (March 1999).
  • "The State of the Gay Rights Movement," VLS Sexual Orientation and the Law Conference (March 1999).
  • "Alaska's Same-Sex Marriage Case," Freedom to Marry Conference, Harvard Law School (February 1999).