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Pamela A. Vesilind JD’08

Titles

  • Assistant Professor of Law

Degrees

  • LLM in Agricultural & Food Law, University of Arkansas School of Law, 2013
  • JD, Vermont Law School, 2008
  • BA, Guilford College, 1991

Contact

Webpage: http://ssrn.com/author=762256

Biography

Pamela Vesilind is an assistant professor at VLS, offering residential courses in Civil Procedure I and II, Administrative Law, Professional Responsibility, and courses in Animal Law (Law of Animals in Agriculture; Animals & the Law). She has taught and designed courses with the VLS online program since 2012, mostly in the area of food and agriculture. Prior to rejoining the VLS faculty in 2018, Pamela practiced animal law in North Carolina, representing individuals and nonprofit organizations, and focusing on the legal needs of pet owners in underserved communities. She earned an LL.M., with honors, in Food & Agriculture Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law, where she also visited to teach Remedies, Advanced Writing (Civil Pre-Trial Documents), Environmental Law, and Bar Exam Substance & Strategies. Between 2009-2012, Pamela designed and ran 1L programming as assistant director of the VLS Academic Success Program, and taught the Animal Law Seminar and Property. After receiving her J.D., cum laude, from Vermont Law School, she clerked for the Vermont trial court in the chambers of the Honorable Dennis Pearson. Pamela’s research and scholarship focuses on industrial animal production and the constitutional implications of regulating animal treatment at the federal and state levels. She is licensed to practice in Vermont and North Carolina. Pamela and her (mostly) four-legged family live in a log cabin at the top of a hill in South Royalton, VT.

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise

  • Animal Law
  • Civil Procedure
  • Ethics and Professionalism
  • Food Law and Policy

Departments

  • Animal Law

Courses Taught

  • Administrative Law
  • Animals & the Law
  • Civil Procedure I and II
  • Federal Regulation of Food & Agriculture
  • Global Food Security & Social Justice
  • Law & Policy of Food, Agriculture, & the Environment
  • Law of Animals in Agriculture
  • Legislation & Regulation
  • Professional Responsibility