Critics Slam USDA’s Fines for AWA Violations
Professor Winders and other experts share their frustrations in “Toothless and ‘paltry’: Critics slam USDA’s fines for animal welfare violations“
VLGS Blog
The Vermont Law and Graduate School blog features insightful posts and articles about JD, LLM, and master’s degree students, faculty members, alumni, and others in the VLGS community. Explore engaging discussions on environmental law and policy, energy, food and agriculture, international law, animal protection, human rights, and more.
Call for Applications: Animal Rights Law Lecturers’ Workshop
The Animal Law and Policy Institute has partnered with the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law to host a Lecturers’ Workshop for those interested in teaching an animal rights law […]
Daria Bednarczyk Presents at the ALDF Student Convention
In November of 2022, VLGS student Daria Bednarczyk (pictured far right) participated in the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Student Convention presenting her paper, “Behind Closed Doors—The Fettered Lives of Farmed Animals: […]
Global Sustainability Field Studies Students Travel to Cuba
Over Thanksgiving week, Kevin Jones, director of the Institute for the Energy and the Environment (IEE) and Professor of Energy Law and Policy, and Jill Martin Diaz, assistant professor and […]
JD Candidate Daria Bednarczyk Presents at the ALDF Student Convention
In November of 2022, VLGS student Daria Bednarczyk (pictured far right) participated in the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Student Convention presenting her paper, “Behind Closed Doors–The Fettered Lives of Farmed Animals: […]
FAAC Calls Out DNREC for Excluding Delaware Environmental Justice Community from Proposed Poultry Biogas Facility Approval Process
Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic (“FAAC”) assisted community members and public interest groups in submitting a public comment against the potential expansion of a Delaware biogas […]
Joaquin Phoenix Speaks Out About Importance of Animal Law
Watch Joaquin Phoenix’s video thanking Professor Winders, and encouraging VLGS animal law and policy students, in VegNews!
CAFS Alumni Spotlight: McKenna Hayes MFALP’16
One of the first students to enroll in the Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy degree at VLGS, McKenna Hayes MFALP’16 now directs the Food Hub at Food Connects, a nonprofit delivering local food, educational programs, and consulting services to the local Vermont food system.
FAAC Assists in Drafting a Groundbreaking Farmed Animal Protection Bill
New legislation regulating industrial animal agriculture will be before the Senate, and Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic (“FAAC”) assisted in researching and drafting some of the […]
Meet the 2022 CAFS Summer Honors Interns
This summer, six students from law schools around the country joined Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) for the Summer Honors Internship program, which ran from May 31 to August 5.