Student Consumer Information and ABA Required Disclosures
The following consumer information about Vermont Law and Graduate School is provided to prospective and current students.
Academic Regulations
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulation MPP May 2024
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulation MPP and section IV updates April 2024
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulations CJR March 2024
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulations Concentrations March 2024
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulations OHJD April 2024
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulation JD Externships February 2024
- Notice of Amendments to Academic Regulation Masters Externships February 2024
- Notice of Amendments to Academic Regulation Memo JD curricular updates Febraury 2024
- Notice of VLGS Amendment to the Academic Regulations III.A.2.a
- Notice of VLGS Amendment to the Academic Regulations III.A.2.c
- Notice of Amendment to Academic Regulations IX-V-IV
- Student Handbook
Curricular offerings and academic requirements for degree programs
Academic Course Catalogs for current and recent academic years
The Academic Catalog outlines all program offerings and degree requirements at Vermont Law and Graduate School. It contains course descriptions, academic policies, and other information relating to academic programs.
Certificates, joint degrees, dual-degree programs and exchange programs, both national and international, are summarized in the Academic Catalog. Students interested in these programs are encouraged to review the requirements and consult with their academic advisers early in their program. Students are encouraged to plan early in their academic career in order to be prepared for clinical and other experiential opportunities, certificates, exchange programs, and degree requirements as well as to meet their individual academic and professional goals. Specially trained advising teams assist students throughout the planning process.
Vermont Law and Graduate School is mission-driven, guided by its motto: “Lex pro urbe et orbe,” law for the community and the world, and its mission: To educate students in a diverse community that fosters personal growth and that enables them to attain outstanding professional skills and high ethical values with which to serve as lawyers and environmental and other professionals in an increasingly technological and interdependent global society.” This mission is apparent in the school’s longtime commitment to environmental law and policy and social justice and the varied careers its students have pursued in those fields.
The school offers a strong JD and graduate program, taught by talented and energetic full- and part-time faculty members. In addition to the traditional first-year and bar courses, the JD curriculum includes required legal writing and advocacy courses, an advanced writing requirement, and an experiential requirement of six credits ordinarily satisfied in a live-client clinic of a full- or part-time externship. The school also offers professional master’s degree programs in agriculture, energy, environmental law and policy, animal law, and public policy, a master’s of legal studies, and several LLM programs. It also offers a master’s and a professional certificate program in restorative justice. These degree programs prepare students for careers in environmental law and policy and in justice reform. Students also further develop their skills in a variety of law-related extra- and co-curricular activities and community service through organizations approved by the Student Bar Association.
- Academic Catalog 2023-2024 (PDF)
- Academic Catalog 2022-2023 (PDF)
- Academic Catalog 2021-2022 – pending update
- Academic Catalog 2020-2021 (PDF)
- Academic Catalog 2019-2020 (PDF)
- Bar Passage (PDF)
- Employment Data
- Standard 316
- Class Profile – JD
- Class Profile – Master’s
- Class Profile – LLM
- Student Handbook (includes Code of Conduct and Academic Regulations)
- Academic Regulations – Amendment for Master of Public Policy Degree
Vermont Law and Graduate School is an independent, nonprofit institution.
- Transfer Admissions
- Credit Transfer Policy
- Articulation Agreements
- The following institutions have established Articulation Agreements with Vermont Law. Students will be admitted into Vermont Law School’s Juris Doctor if they meet the admittance requirements listed in the agreement.
- Assumption College
- Castleton University
- Central State University
- Champlain College
- Dartmouth College
- Hampshire College
- Lake Forest College
- Middlebury College
- Morehouse College
- Northland College
- Sage Colleges
- Saint Michael’s College
- Schreiner University
- Spelman College
- Unity College
- University of Delaware
- Wilson College
- The following institutions have established Articulation Agreements with Vermont Law. Students will be admitted into Vermont Law School’s Juris Doctor if they meet the admittance requirements listed in the agreement.