Events Calendar

Stay informed and stay engaged with the VLGS Events Calendar. Expand your knowledge with stimulating discussions from our symposiums, webinars, and weekly info sessions. Our calendar is your go-to resource for staying ahead of the latest happenings within the VLGS community. 

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Reunion 2024

Please mark your calendars to join us on Friday, June 28, through Sunday, June 30, for Reunion 2024! All alumni are encouraged to attend. Swans from class years ending in a four and nine will be celebrating milestones with a class dinner and more. An exciting lineup of events, including old favorites and brand new […]

Hot Topics: UN Roadmap for a New Global Plastics Treaty

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free, open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience. This session, "UN Roadmap for a New Global Plastics Treaty," will be presented by David […]

Hot Topics: Towards Democratic Environmental Governance

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free, open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience. This session, "Toward Democratic Environmental Governance," will be presented by Josh Galperin, Elisabeth Haub School […]

Hot Topics: TBD

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free, open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience. This session, "TBD," will be presented by Anthony Moffa, University of Main School of Law. […]

Hot Topics: How did the US legal framework allow and/or provoke disproportionate placement of polluting projects (and continues to do that) in minority, low-income communities?

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free, open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience. This session, "How did the US legal framework allow and/or provoke disproportionate placement of polluting […]

Hot Topics: How AI Can Help Transform the Electric Grid

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free, open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience. This session, "How AI Can Help Transform the Electric Grid," will be presented by Heather […]

Hot Topics: Engaging Communities for Solutions to CAFOs

Join us online for this summer’s Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, brought to you by the Environmental Law Center at VLGS. The series is free, open to the public, and includes a live Q&A with the audience. This session, "Engaging Communities for Solutions to CAFOs," will be presented by Grace Hussain, Sentient […]

Veterans Advocate Training Program Presented by the Thomas M. French Veterans Advocacy Fund

The South Royalton Legal Clinic’s Veterans Legal Assistance Project, with the generous support of the Thomas M. French Veterans Advocacy Fund, is honored to provide this introductory Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program focused on preparing attorneys and appointed representatives. Attorneys and other advocates must be accredited to practice before the VA. Within 12 months after […]

Presidential Conversations, Episode 1 – Constitutional Issues and Election 2024: Presidential Immunity, the Insurrection Clause, and the Electoral College

VLGS President Rod Smolla, a noted constitutional law scholar and litigator, will present a town meeting forum in which he explains constitutional issues germane to the coming 2024 Presidential Election, including such topics as presidential immunity, the Fourteenth Amendment’s “Insurrection Clause,” “Faithless Electors,” and other matters relating to the powers of states to influence outcomes […]