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.
August 12, 2020
Introducing the Environmental Justice Clinic’s new blog series, in which student teams sit down with clients and partners from across the country. Over the next six weeks, we’ll hear their perspectives on the connections between environmental justice, the struggle for racial justice, and the Movement for Black Lives.
August 19, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinic students Rico Edwards JD’22/MARJ’19 and Blake Whitehead MARJ’20 interview Center for Whole Communities Senior Fellow and Vermont State Senate candidate Kesha Ram.
August 21, 2020 We’re thrilled to introduce the students who joined us (remotely) from law schools around the country as Summer Honors Interns at the Center for Agriculture and Food […]
August 26, 2020
Environmental Justice Law Society (EJLS) is proud announce the premier of Trace the Roots: Voices Left Out of Environmental Conversations, a short documentary featuring environmental justice leaders Mustafa Santiago Ali, Raya Salter, and Nadia Seeteram.
August 27, 2020 Even in his childhood, Michael Crouse JD’21 had values rooted in environmental stewardship. That is why environmental law was a natural choice for him when he decided to […]
August 19, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinicians John Kirkpatrick and Patrick Raya speak with Perry County, Alabama, Commissioner Benjamin Eaton.
August 31, 2020 California-based Monica Miller JD’12 fights for the separation of church and state. As legal director and senior counsel for the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center […]
August 31, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinicians Vanessa Romero JD/MELP’21 and Kendall Keelen JD’22 Talk with Naeema Muhammad, Director of Organizing at the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network.
September 11, 2020
Panelists from a recent Center for Agriculture and Food Systems event on structural racism in American agriculture discuss the books that inspire their work.
September 18, 2020
Environmental Justice Clinicians Sophia Battle JD’21 and Joel Nelson JD’21 talk with José Bravo, Executive Director of the Just Transition Alliance.
