VLGS Blog

The Vermont Law and Graduate School blog features insightful posts and articles written by JD, LLM and Master’s students, faculty members, and others. Explore engaging discussions on environmental law, energy law, food and agriculture law and policy, international law, human rights, and more. Our goal is to provide you with informative insights into the pressing issues shaping our world today.

GLOBAL REACH WITH JOSEPH KAIFALA JD’13

November 16, 2016 Raising Sierra Leone Born in Sierra Leone, educated in Norway and the U.S., Joseph Kaifala created the nonprofit Jeneba Project to rebuild schools and libraries in Sierra […]

Will Our Community Own Our Solar Power?

April 6, 2017

As community solar projects become increasingly popular around the country, there’s a question that any potential participants should be askin​​​g: will our community actually own our solar power?​​

Students Dive Into Summer Ocean Work

May 8, 2017 ​By Sarah M. Reiter, Associate Director, Career Serv​ices and Adjunct Faculty Our students will be traveling far and wide this summer to experience law for the community […]

Trump’s War on Science

May 12, 2017 As a candidate, Donald Trump famously dismissed climate change as a “hoax” invented by the Chinese to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. As President, […]

Not So Fast, Mr. Trump

June 5, 2017 By Pat Parenteau, Senior Counsel and Professor, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic​​ June 1, 2017,​ will go down as the day the United States turned its […]