Marc Mihaly

Marc Mihaly is a professor emeritus at Vermont Law School where he served as the  School’s eighth president and dean from 2012 to 2017. He previously as associate dean for VLS’s Environmental Programs and director of its Environmental Law Center where he initiated the VLS Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, the Institute for Energy and the Environment, and VLS on-line Masters degrees. He also serves as chair of the board of the Vermont Land Trust, and is a member of the board of directors of Stone Environmental, a national consulting firm based in Montpelier.

Mihaly received his BA degree from Harvard College and his JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. After service in the U.S. Peace Corps in Central America, he served with the San Mateo County Legal Aid Society and the environmental unit of the California Attorney General’s Office. In 1980, he co-founded Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger in San Francisco, one of the nation’s leading and largest public interest environmental law firms, served as its managing partner for 17 years, and oversaw its growth to 25 attorneys and planners. There he represented farmers, environmental community groups, progressive cities, environmental state, regional and local agencies, and Native American tribes. He is an expert in the areas of land use, land conservation, urban planning and development, and energy law and policy.