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Grant Carlisle and Arjun Krishnaswami from Natural Resources Defense Council presents "Building Back Smarter: A Post COVID America" Each lecture is worth one VBA CLE credit. Lectures are free and open to the public. Watch it at: vermontlaw.edu/live Mark your calendar for this installment of the Vermont Law School Virtual brown bag summer lecture series […]
Heather Rally from PETA Foundation and Delcianna Winders from Lewis & Clark Law School present "Protecting Pigs in an Era of De-regulation" Each lecture is worth one VBA CLE credit. Lectures are free and open to the public. Watch it at: vermontlaw.edu/live Mark your calendar for this installment of the Vermont Law […]
Watch a recording of this event here. Kristen Cooksey-Stowers, UCONN Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity; and Amanda Karls, Public Health Law Center present Healthy Food Access Policies and Prioritizing Equity Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis Each lecture is worth one VBA CLE credit. Lectures are free and open to the public. Mark your calendar […]
On Thursday, July 23, at 6 PM, please join Professor Mark Latham, and special guests Chief Loretta Stalnaker, South Royalton Police Department, Colonel Matthew Birmingham, Vermont State Police, and Sheriff Bill Bohnyak, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, for the next panel in our Embedded Racism in the Law Series. This will be the fourth panel in […]
Robert Percival from University of Maryland Carey School of Law presents "Greening China’s “Belt and Road” Through New Measures to Promote Transnational Environmental Accountability" Each lecture is worth one VBA CLE credit. Lectures are free and open to the public. Watch it at: vermontlaw.edu/live Mark your calendar for this installment of the […]
Maya van Rossum, Founder of Green Amendments For the Generations and the Delaware Riverkeeper presents "The Green Amendment: A Bold New Strategy for Environmental Protection" Each lecture is worth one VBA CLE credit. Lectures are free and open to the public. Watch it at: vermontlaw.edu/live Mark your calendar for this installment of the […]
Watch a recording of this event here. Hosted by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, the next installment in Vermont Law School's Embedded Racism in the Law Panel Series brings together lawyers fighting structural racism in agriculture. Join us to discuss Black land loss, the connection between agriculture and environmental justice, and the role […]
This panel will explore the implicit and unconscious biases and microaggressions that are embedded in law school classrooms. The panelists will give the audience tips on how to identify and address these biases and microagressions. Panelists: Dean Shirley Jefferson, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Law Mel DeFlorio, former […]
Constitution Day is the day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in Philadelphia. This federal observance also honors those who have become U.S. citizens. You can learn more about Constitution Day here. Celebrating Constitution Day, with the pomp and circumstance that it deserves, is a long standing VLS tradition. Thanks to […]
Zoning and development codes have enabled and exacerbated racial inequity in wealth distribution; while economic assumptions can reinforce prevailing dominant norms. This discussion will highlight embedded racism in land-use law and the application of economics to crime policy. Panelists: Professor Jonathan Rosenbloom Professor Madhavi Venkatesan MELP'16 […]
Embedded Racism in the Law Panel Discussion: Restorative Justice Can No Longer Be Blind There is a growing awareness restorative justice as a movement historically failed to take into consideration racial discrimination in the United States, and a current recognition of the urgent need to be involved and offer ways to seek true understanding, […]
As our energy consumption continues to degrade the planet, the next decade becomes increasingly critical to how society transitions to, lives in, and protects a decarbonized world. This symposium will foster a proactive discussion around the value of transitioning to clean energy. Keynote Speaker: Raphael Heffron, Professor, University of Dundee This event […]