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July 23, 2010
VLS Professor Advocates Radical Steps in Response to Gulf Oil Spill – Pat Parenteau is fed up. One of the leading environmental scholars in the United States, Parenteau said America's environmental laws have proven miserably ineffective at preventing catastrophes such as the Gulf oil spill.
July 7, 2010
EPA Minority Fellows Kick Off Environmental Law Outreach Program at VLS – When they enrolled at North Carolina Central University Law School, Ilesanmi Adaramola, Chimezie Okobi, Jennifer Perez, Justin Anderson and Wendell Fortson didn't have a particular interest in the environment. They do now.
June 25, 2010
What’s Next for Public Lands in a Climate-Changed World? – With nearly one-third of U.S. soil under federal ownership, it's critical that Americans reconfigure their public and private lands to adapt to rising temperatures, altered habitat and other effects of climate change, a visiting scholar told a Vermont Law School audience on July 24.
June 18, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Remake Property Rights Law – If further proof were needed that appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court matter, it was provided today by the Court's decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
June 3, 2010
California Expands Ocean Protections – California is taking unprecedented action to prevent pollution, overfishing and development from further impacting its coastal waters, a Golden State official said at the June 3 kick off of Vermont Law School's 2010 "Hot Topics in Environmental Law" summer lecture series.
May 24, 2010
Dean Urges VLS Graduates to be Active Citizens – In his commencement address to Vermont Law School's Class of 2010, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., urged the new graduates to seek common ground rather than confrontation as they begin their legal careers.
May 24, 2010
Paul Ferber Retires, Lauded as Innovative Scholar – For more than two decades at Vermont Law School, Professor Paul Ferber earned the respect of faculty members and students, who admired not only his scholarship and legal skills but his kindness.
May 18, 2010
Erin Woolley Scholarship Fund Sets Record for VLS Class Gifts – The Vermont Law School Class of 2010 smashed the record for class gift funds by raising $83,757 for the Erin Woolley Scholarship Award.
May 10, 2010
Kagan a "High-Risk, High-Return" Choice for Justice, Hanna Says – Today, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Associate Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan is a high-risk/high-return nominee for President Obama.
April 23, 2010
VLS Opens Campus Arboretum – Vermont Law School established an arboretum on campus Tuesday as part of the school's Earth Week festivities.
April 23, 2010
VLS Starts Composting on Campus – As part of its activities marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Vermont Law School on Monday started a composting program on campus.
April 22, 2010
Speth Calls for a Radical Overhaul of Government, Economy, Environmentalism – The United States must replace its destructive "growth fetish" with a new economy based on sustainable policies if the nation is to survive, Vermont Law School Professor Gus Speth said Thursday.
April 19, 2010
Same-Sex Marriage No Threat to Traditional Marriage, Law Professor Says – Same-sex marriage poses no threat to heterosexual marriage, birth rates, raising healthy children or any other traditional cultural values, a Northwestern University scholar said April 15 at Vermont Law School.
March 26, 2010
Global Warming Requires Changes in Legal Framework, VJEL Speaker Says – To thrive in a world changed by global warming, people must move beyond a defensive posture, the keynote speaker said Friday at the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law's annual symposium.
March 19, 2010
Vermont Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Lake Champlain Pollution Case – At the Vermont Supreme Court's annual session at Vermont Law School, attorneys for the Conservation Law Foundation and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources argued March 17 over a permit for Montpelier's wastewater treatment plant.
March 19, 2010
VLS Panelists Defend School’s Ban on Military Recruiting – Vermont Law School's ban of military recruiting on campus upholds the school's anti-discrimination policy and should be retained until the "don't ask, don't tell" law is repealed.
February 20, 2010
Experts Promote Benefits of For-profit, Non-profit Hybrids – The world's financial system doesn't have enough money to fill the growing global need for philanthropic services, a problem that can be tackled through stronger collaboration between governments, corporations and non-profit groups.
February 10, 2010
Panel Questions Safety, Finances of Vermont Yankee – The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is unsafe and a planned spin off to put it under new ownership is financially questionable, according to panelists at a public forum Tuesday at Vermont Law School.
February 6, 2010
California’s Smog Czar Touts Golden State’s Efforts to Create Sustainable Communities – Mary Nichols acknowledged it took some chutzpah for California's smog czar to lecture Vermonters about sprawl, pollution and land-use planning given the differences in how the two states have handled those issues.
February 2, 2010
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Writer Chris Hedges Blasts Corporate America, Celebrity Culture – Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Chris Hedges criticized America's celebrity culture and major corporations at a January 28 speech on the VLS campus.
February 2, 2010
Brown-Bag Insights on Copenhagen – With the new semester under way, the Vermont Law School delegation to the U.N. Climate Conference shared their insights during a brown-bag presentation on campus on Jan. 28.
February 2, 2010
Cergy Students All Pass New York Bar Exam for the Third Straight Year – Before Xavier Leroux came to Vermont Law School, he looked at South Royalton on Google maps and found the satellite image to be disconcertingly green compared to the urban gray of Paris, where he attended the University of Cergy-Pontoise.
January 22, 2010
Howard Dean to Deliver Vermont Law School Commencement Address – Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., was announced Thursday as the speaker for Vermont Law School's 2010 graduation ceremony.
January 20, 2010
Perkins Urges VLS Students to Make a Difference – James Perkins, Jr., the first black mayor of Selma, Ala., marked Martin Luther King, Jr., Day on Tuesday by urging Vermont Law School students, faculty and staff to dedicate themselves to a cause for social justice.
January 12, 2010
CNN Names VLS Alumnus Hero of 2010 – CNN has named VLS alumnus Wynona Ward its first “CNN Hero” of 2010.
January 9, 2010
VLS Strengthens U.S.-China Partnership – December 2009 was a busy month for Vermont Law School's U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law, whose team took a number of steps to strengthen its thriving relationship with the Asian nation.
January 7, 2010
Leaving Copenhagen: Reflections on COP15 – While many of the media reports focused on the protests and pitfalls of the Copenhagen meeting, the VLS group agreed that despite the logistical challenges that marred the event, the experience provided a better understanding of complex negotiations and the role of diplomacy and law in the process.
IEE Awarded $450,000 Grant for Smart Grid Research
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch announces that Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment will recieve a $450,000 federal grant to research smart grid technologies.
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