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Vermont Law School Presents Free ‘Hot Topics’ Summer Lecture Series On Environmental Issues

Thursday, May 30, 2019

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt.

Throughout the summer, Vermont Law School faculty, distinguished scholars, media fellows, and others will deliver one-hour "Hot Topics" lectures on a variety of current issues in environmental law and policy. Free and open to the public, the lectures will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 30-August 1, on the VLS campus in Oakes Hall Room 012. Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available.

The 2019 Hot Topics are:

  • Thursday, May 30: “The Challenges Of Adapting To Climate Change And Sea Level Rise In San Francisco Bay” with Tim Eichenberg, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.

  • Tuesday, June 4: “Farming Nemo: CAFOs of the Sea” with Pamela Vesilind ‘08, Vermont Law School.

  • Thursday, June 6: “Using Science and the Law to Achieve Coexistence in a Crowded Ocean” with Sarah Reiter ‘13, Vermont Law School.

  • Tuesday, June 11: “Negotiating the Value Chain: A Study of Surplus and Distribution in Indian Markets for Food” with Amy Cohen, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

  • Thursday, June 13: “The Mexican Border: Property Rights & The Environment” with John Echeverria, Vermont Law School.

  • Tuesday, June 18: “China’s Belt and Road Initiative: What Is It, and What Does It Mean For the Environment?” with William Schulte LLM '15, Vermont Law School.

  • Thursday, June 20: “What’s In Your Water?” with Jen Duggan, Conservation Law Foundation Vermont.

  • Tuesday, June 25: “Externalizing Europe’s Energy Policy in EU Free Trade Agreements: A Cognitive Dissonance Between Promoting Sustainable Development and Ensuring the Security of Supply?” with Anna Marhold, Tilburg Law School.

  • Thursday, June 27: “The Trump EPA and the Toxic Chemical in All of US” with Annie Snider, Politico.

  • Tuesday, July 9: “Confronting America’s Captive Tiger Crisis” with Delcianna Winders, Lewis and Clark Law School and Heather Rally, PETA.

  • Thursday, July 11: “Disclosing the Danger: State Attorney Ethics Rules Meet Climate Change with Victor Flatt, University of Houston Law Center.

  • Tuesday, July 16: “Climate Change in the Courts” with Ellen Gilmer, E&E News.

  • Thursday, July 18: “Lobster Wars, Vanishing Cod, and Other Effects of Warming in the Gulf of Maine” with David Abel, Boston Globe.

  • Tuesday, July 23: “Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene” with Carmen Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law.

  • Thursday, July 25: “Clean Energy Justice: Charting an Emerging Agenda” with Joel Eisen, University of Richmond School of Law.

  • Tuesday, July 30: “The Flint Water Crisis: A Case of Environmental Injustice” with Kathleen Falk, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Thursday, August 1: “Playing With Poison: The Toxic Legacy of Lead Contamination in America’s Urban Centers” with Yvette Cabrera, Huffington Post.

 

For more information, visit www.vermontlaw.edu/summer or contact Courtney Collins at 802-831-1371 or ccollins@vermontlaw.edu.