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.

Honoring Judge Peter Hall

I am sad to inform the VLS community of Judge Peter Hall’s passing last Thursday.   A giant of the Vermont legal community, Judge Hall was the lone Vermonter on […]

Vermont Food Network, Paige Tomaselli ’04

August 13, 2016


VLS Alum Paige Tomaselli’s ’04 work for the Center for Food Safety has helped protect animals, the environment and public health, all while fighting “factory farms.”​​​​

Survey Says … Californians Can Have Their Pork and Let Pigs Move

Pork producers have been spuriously asserting that a California law allowing farmed animals room to move their limbs will spell the end of bacon. This blog presents survey data showing that grocery stores, restaurants, foodservice companies, and pork producers are in fact prepared to comply with the law when it goes into effect on January 1.

Q&A with Animal Law Program Director Delcianna Winders

September 23, 2021

Delcianna (“Delci”) Winders, a renowned animal law expert and advocate, joined the Vermont Law School faculty this fall as a visiting associate professor of law and director of the new program. We caught up with VLS’s newest environmental law faculty member to learn more about animal law and how students can get involved.