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.
As legal counsel for Animal Outlook, Will Lowrey JD’17 is standing up for farmed animal welfare in the courtroom and mentoring future animal advocates. One of those is 3L Ashely Monti, who reflects on his work and his recent victory in court.
The Center for Justice Reform is proud to announce this year’s Professional Certificate in Restorative Justice Scholarship Recipients. Read on to hear from each of these outstanding students.
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.
