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.
March 6, 2020 Scarcity Training at Vermont Law School Growing up and living with scarcity impacts decision-making and judgment. On Friday, March 6, 2020, 50 people working in court diversion […]
April 6, 2020 In mid-March, Vermont Law School (VLS) made the tough-but-necessary decision to temporarily close campus, moving classes online for the rest of the semester. While no cases of […]
April 7, 2020 With workplaces upended during COVID-19, farms are in uncharted territory. The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems created a guide to employment law for Vermont farmers and farm workers covering some […]
April 21, 2020
Carrie Scrufari arrived at Vermont Law School in 2014 as a Food and Agriculture LLM Fellow. We caught up with Scrufari—who is now associate general counsel at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—to learn more about her time at VLS and how it served as a springboard into a food law career.
April 22, 2020
Vermont Law School students, faculty, and alumni share tips for incremental changes that make a difference.
April 30, 2020 Eva Moss (left) sells her flowers at a farmers market in North Carolina. After graduating from Vermont Law School’s Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy program, Eva […]
May 5, 2020
With courses taught by world-renowned visiting scholars and experts, Vermont Law School’s Summer Session is open to students from schools around the country. This summer the classes will move online due to the COVID-19 campus closure. But with 24 environmental law courses on deck, there is no shortage of exciting topics to choose from.
by Jerry Thomas JD/MELP’21 May 7, 2020 Jerry Thomas (right) with Cameron Humphrey of Yale’s School of Forestry & the Environment in Alabama As a member of Vermont Law School’s […]
May 12, 2020
Student attorneys in VLS’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic (EAC) take on real-world cases to protect natural resources and the environment. Since the clinic announced a new partnership with the National Wildlife Federation in late 2019, it’s been very busy: from tackling national cases for the leading conservation organization, to advocating on behalf of local community groups.
May 14, 2020
Does filling a person’s body with toxic chemicals constitute injury? That’s the question residents of Hoosick Falls, New York raised when they sought justice from the companies that contaminated their drinking water.
