The student editors of Vermont Law Review at Vermont Law School this month announced publication of their most recent editions, Volume 39 Books 3 and 4, featuring articles on raising revenue to fund climate adaptation, litigating takings challenges to land use and environmental regulations, and other timely legal scholarship.
Vermont Law Review Vol. 39 Senior Articles Editor Kate Hambley '15 guided the editing process and worked with VLS Professor Janet E. Milne on her article, "Storms Ahead: Climate Adaptation Calls for Resilient Funding" (Vol. 39, Book 4, Summer 2015), which examines the role of environmental tax policy in addressing climate change adaptation. The piece "draws in particular on the adaptation implications of Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the eastern United States in October 2012, flooded New York City's subways and airports, left 8.5 million people without power, and prompted the United States Congress to appropriate $51 billion in disaster funding," Milne writes in her introduction.
"Professor Milne's article on raising revenue to fund climate adaptation is a perfect example of the kind of piece Vermont Law Review strives to publish," Hambley said. "It is not only thoughtful and meticulously researched, but it proposes practical solutions to a very real problem."
Book 3 of Vermont Law Review's most recent volume contains scholarship from the 17th annual Conference on Litigating Takings Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations, organized by VLS Professor John Echeverria. Takings litigation regularly makes national headlines, and is the subject of Echeverria's blog. The next takings conference is scheduled for Sept. 25 in Baltimore.
"Vermont Law Review is proud to publish the articles from this year's Takings Conference," said Hambley, who also attended the conference. "Professor Echeverria's Takings Conference assembles top scholars in takings law every year to discuss developments in this fast-evolving field, and the articles that come out of the conference are at the cutting edge of takings scholarship. This year was no exception. We're pleased to have the opportunity to publish on this important environmental topic."
Vermont Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by Vermont Law School students in consultation with VLS faculty and administration. Vermont Law Review's main objectives are to present readers with timely, topical information concerning the legal profession and legal scholarship, and to afford Vermont Law Review members an educational experience which shall hone their skills in research, writing, legal analysis, and leadership. For more information about Vermont Law Review, including archived editions, visit lawreview.vermontlaw.edu or email Vol. 39 Editor-in-Chief Marie Horbar '15 at mariehorbar@vermontlaw.edu.
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