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.
The Center for Legal Innovation at VLS is partnering with the Vermont Small Business Development Center and Vermont Bar Association to support the post-pandemic recovery of underserved small businesses in Vermont.
There is no shame, there is no embarrassment, there is no weakness in seeking out ways to make our present life different or better!
Vermont Law School 2L will work on projects aiming to improve legal protections for farmed animals.
The founding director of Vermont Law School’s U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law reflects on the program as it turns 15 years old.
February 26, 2021 It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of former Dean Maximilian W. Kempner. Dean Kempner led VLS from 1991 to 1996, and […]
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 […]
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.”
May 11, 2021
From this summer’s selection of 23 environmental law courses, we asked Associate Dean and Professor Jenny Rushlow to weigh in on the three she’s most excited about.
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.
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.
