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February 20, 2010
Experts Promote Benefits of For-profit, Non-profit Hybrids – The world's financial system doesn't have enough money to fill the growing global need for philanthropic services, a problem that can be tackled through stronger collaboration between governments, corporations and non-profit groups.
February 10, 2010
Panel Questions Safety, Finances of Vermont Yankee – The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is unsafe and a planned spin off to put it under new ownership is financially questionable, according to panelists at a public forum Tuesday at Vermont Law School.
February 6, 2010
California’s Smog Czar Touts Golden State’s Efforts to Create Sustainable Communities – Mary Nichols acknowledged it took some chutzpah for California's smog czar to lecture Vermonters about sprawl, pollution and land-use planning given the differences in how the two states have handled those issues.
February 2, 2010
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Writer Chris Hedges Blasts Corporate America, Celebrity Culture – Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Chris Hedges criticized America's celebrity culture and major corporations at a January 28 speech on the VLS campus.
February 2, 2010
Brown-Bag Insights on Copenhagen – With the new semester under way, the Vermont Law School delegation to the U.N. Climate Conference shared their insights during a brown-bag presentation on campus on Jan. 28.
February 2, 2010
Cergy Students All Pass New York Bar Exam for the Third Straight Year – Before Xavier Leroux came to Vermont Law School, he looked at South Royalton on Google maps and found the satellite image to be disconcertingly green compared to the urban gray of Paris, where he attended the University of Cergy-Pontoise.
January 22, 2010
Howard Dean to Deliver Vermont Law School Commencement Address – Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., was announced Thursday as the speaker for Vermont Law School's 2010 graduation ceremony.
January 20, 2010
Perkins Urges VLS Students to Make a Difference – James Perkins, Jr., the first black mayor of Selma, Ala., marked Martin Luther King, Jr., Day on Tuesday by urging Vermont Law School students, faculty and staff to dedicate themselves to a cause for social justice.
January 12, 2010
CNN Names VLS Alumnus Hero of 2010 – CNN has named VLS alumnus Wynona Ward its first “CNN Hero” of 2010.
January 9, 2010
VLS Strengthens U.S.-China Partnership – December 2009 was a busy month for Vermont Law School's U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law, whose team took a number of steps to strengthen its thriving relationship with the Asian nation.
January 7, 2010
Leaving Copenhagen: Reflections on COP15 – While many of the media reports focused on the protests and pitfalls of the Copenhagen meeting, the VLS group agreed that despite the logistical challenges that marred the event, the experience provided a better understanding of complex negotiations and the role of diplomacy and law in the process.
December 4, 2009
At the State House, Mentoring Young Advocates – Three Vermont teens, with the help of VLS Schweitzer Fellow Lisa Campion, have taken up the charge to lobby the stat's legislature to pass H.97, the no idling bill currently under discussion in the capitol.
November 24, 2009
Medlaw: At the Intersection of Law and Medicine – For Professor Susan B. Apel, leading Vermont Law School's Medlaw Seminar has been 10 years of continual change and re-creation. For two hours a week, students from VLS and Dartmouth Medical School work to understand complex issues at the intersection of medicine and law as they explore their own opinions and ethical positions. Issues center around new forms of family made possible by assisted reproductive technology.
November 17, 2009
Regulatory Takings Conference Highlights New Challenges Posed by Climate Change – Carbon sequestration was not on the minds of regulatory takings experts a decade ago, but as the world now searches for innovative ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the method of underground carbon storage presents a new and complex realm of property rights issues.
November 13, 2009
IEE Releases New Report: All Risk, No Reward for Taxpayers and Ratepayers – If Congress and the states do not follow the lead of Wall Street in declining to underwrite financially “risky and uneconomic” new nuclear reactors, the resulting taxpayer-backed loan guarantees and other subsidies could pave the way for the same kind of industry-wide meltdown that happened in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a major new study by Dr. Mark Cooper, a senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School.
October 14, 2009
China Partnership Announces Environmental Justice Young Fellows Exchange – Vermont Law School (VLS) has been awarded a federal grant to support a U.S.-China exchange program for young professionals working on environmental justice issues.
August 19, 2009
Small State Capital Provides Big Legal Opportunities – Within blocks of this downtown intersection, dozens of Vermont Law School graduates put their legal skills to work each day in state government, law firms, nonprofits and private businesses. The quaint look and feel of Montpelier belies the scope of the lawyers' reach.
July 15, 2009
MSEL Program Renamed Master of Environmental Law and Policy – The ELC is pleased to announce that, after thorough consideration, the faculty recently voted to change the name of the Master of Studies in Environmental Law degree program.
June 30, 2009
ENRLC Announces New Toxics Actions Fellowship – Vermont Law School's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) has announced a new two-year graduate fellowship designed to aid communities dealing with toxic pollution issues.
May 16, 2009
Commencement 2009 – Graduates, as you go forth into the world remember that you have a team behind you and with you. A team that will make you proud and will support you in difficult times.
April 18, 2009
Vermont Law School Schweitzer Fellow Warns Area Senior Citizens Against Scams – Vermont Law School Schweitzer Fellow Warns Area Senior Citizens Against Scams
March 12, 2009
Land Use Institute Hosts Scholar Joseph L. Sax – Is the current legal framework relating to regulatory takings fair? On February 5, noted land use scholar Joseph Sax explored this issue at Vermont Law School.
February 28, 2009
VLS Emphasizes Commitment to Legal Writing Skills – With a fortified faculty and an elegantly restored 1853 schoolhouse to serve as its new home, the Legal Writing Program at Vermont Law School is renewing its commitment to proficiency in legal research and writing.
December 4, 2008
VLS Class Files Supreme Court Brief – As Professor Cheryl Hanna discussed the legal issues in State of Vermont v. Michael Brillon with students in her Women and the Law class, they had a revelation. Instead of just reading and dissecting the issues, why not get involved?
November 25, 2008
Tributes to the Life of Michael Mello – We are all deeply saddened by the death of Professor Michael Mello on Sunday afternoon. Michael, age 51, died at home while working on an article.
November 24, 2008
Vermont Law School Volunteers Host Community Thanksgiving – VLS's Marylin Labadie organizes an annual Thanksgiving feast for the school and town community.
November 24, 2008
The Rules of the Game – You might not see much of a connection between preparing for a career in law and appearing on a nationally televised game show, but Ugonma Achebe might just change your thinking on that.
October 12, 2008
Understanding Genocide – For 32 months Juan Méndez served as the United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide at the request of former Secretary General Kofi Annan. During that time, Méndez gained a stronger understanding of the strategies the world must employ to prevent future acts of genocide from occurring.
October 6, 2008
Lessons of Tyco: Just Say No – William B. Lytton remembers the aura of working in the White House in 1987, amidst the power and the personalities that surrounded President Ronald Reagan. Lytton had taken leave from his Philadelphia law firm for six months to act as Deputy Special Counselor for Reagan during the Iran-Contra investigation.
October 3, 2008
Set Up for Success – If there’s one goal common to all JDs on campus, it’s passing the bar, and Vermont Law School is devoting the resources and expertise required to help students achieve this goal.
September 19, 2008
An Arctic Revelation – Professor Betsy Baker flips through the multitude of images on her laptop, excitedly pointing out the tracking patterns of the U.S. Coast Guard Healy as it forged its way through the Arctic Ocean.
September 5, 2008
Spending the Summer with Summer Corps – Keeping in the VLS spirit of public service, Bryn Davies and Chris Davis, both members of the VLS Class of 2010, dedicated their summers to providing legal help to those who need it most.
August 20, 2008
Class of 2011 Gets Oriented to Vermont – From the dais of the House chamber, Gov. Jim Douglas looked out over nearly 200 first-year VLS students who filled the creaking wooden seats and he extolled the virtues of Vermont’s part-time, citizen legislature.
August 8, 2008
Arctic Mapping Project Combines Science and Law for VLS Professor Betsy Baker – When the USCG Icebreaker HEALY departs from Barrow, Alaska on August 14, VLS Professor Betsy Baker will be on board as the only lawyer among the group of 35 scientists and researchers setting out to help map the extended continental shelf in the U.S. Arctic.
August 3, 2008
A MacArthur Grant Supports VLS Graduate’s Madagascar Law Center – As a VLS student Lalaina Rakotoson viewed the Environmental Law Center as a model for what she hoped to create in her native Madagascar...
July 24, 2008
VLS Explores the Future of Farming – The buzz about sustainable agriculture and its possibilities—as well as frustration over policy hurdles—were front and center as VLS brought together farmers, policy makers, advocates and consumers
July 18, 2008
Richard Cowart, Distinguished Energy Scholar,Addresses Global Energy Demand – As the 2008 Distinguished Visiting Energy Scholar, Richard Cowart spent a portion of his summer at VLS, and on July 18 he delivered the keynote address at the Energy Summer Conference, Powering the 21st Century: Resource Choices in a Carbon-Constrained World.
July 18, 2008
A Closer Look at the Law for Visiting Chinese Students and Scholars – During his year of studies at VLS, Mark Qiu is harnessing a greater understanding of energy law and renewable energy policy in the United States, but it was a visit to the Vermont courts that brought that law and policy knowledge into sharper focus.
July 17, 2008
A Spring Break Well Spent: VLS Students Volunteer Backbreaking Work to Those In Need – The sunburned skin and glow of satisfaction found on the faces of several VLS students returning from spring break were not the result of lazy days on the beach or wicked runs down snowy mountain trails.
July 17, 2008
Two VLS Professors Offer Testimony On Racial Profiling in Vermont – When the Vermont Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights met at the State House on July 17, its members set out to determine the scope of the problem of racial profiling in Vermont—if indeed racial profiling is a problem.
May 16, 2008
Class of 2008 Gift Forges the Trail – The Class of 2008 blazed a trail for VLS and the Royalton community when they set about rebuilding the Kent's Ledge Trail as their gift to the law school.
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