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[ + ]Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School
| Title | Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School |
| Description | The Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) website includes research and advocacy resources including Blueprint for a National Food Strategy, Farmland Access Legal Toolkit, the National Gleaning Project, the Healthy Food Policy Project, the Vermont Legal Food Hub, etc. as well as information related to VLS food and agriculture academic degrees and courses, and the CAFS Clinic. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/center-for-agriculture-and-food-systems |
[ + ]Energy Clinic
| Title | Energy Clinic |
| Description | Student energy clinicians work with faculty on projects focusing on clean energy advocacy, transactional law, regulatory policy, project finance and development and public education and resources. For example, The Energy Clinic’s work in community solar has evolved in response to changing law and policy. Student clinicians have worked with clients throughout New England to help shape state policy to advance community solar, and expand community solar outreach across New England and beyond. The Clinic also helps clients negotiate, draft, and review legal agreements for specific projects. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/Institute-for-Energy-and-the-Environment |
[ + ]Environmental Advocacy Clinic
| Title | Environmental Advocacy Clinic |
| Description | The Environmental Advocacy Clinic at VLS is an in-house clinic that operates as a public interest law office, providing students the opportunity to work on cases related to regional, national, and international issues. develop arguments and claims from the ground up, explore strategies and options, and communicate effectively with clients, courts, agency officials, scientific experts, and opposing parties. The Clinic also has a partnership with the National Wildlife Federation, one of the nation’s largest and most influential conservation organizations, to represent the Federation on its national legal advocacy work. The EAC site also includes case summaries with selected pleadings and faculty attorney bios. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/clinics-and-externships/environmental-advocacy-clinic |
[ + ]Environmental Justice Clinic
| Title | Environmental Justice Clinic |
| Description | The Environmental Justice Clinic is specifically devoted to environmental justice, an interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of civil rights and the environment. Students are involved in cases where they gain experience working on law and policy issues at the nexus of environment, race, and policy, while also learning essential community lawyering skills. The EJC website includes case summaries and EJC news.
Professor Marianne Engelman-Lado, the founding Director of the Clinic, built it into a national model before joining the Biden administration’s EPA where she, like VLS, continues the fight against racial and economic disparities in environmental policies. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/ej-clinic |
[ + ]Environmental Law Center
| Title | Environmental Law Center |
| Description | Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center (ELC) oversees the most comprehensive graduate environmental law program in the country. The VLS environmental law program includes 59 environmental law courses, four clinics, six centers and institutes, as well as six Master’s/LLM degrees, often earned in conjunction with a JD degree.
The website links to environmental courses, degrees, clinics, institutes, programs, news, upcoming events, recordings of lectures/webinars, and bios of the environmental faculty. |
| URL | http://www.vermontlaw.edu/ELC |
[ + ]Environmental Law Faculty
| Title | Environmental Law Faculty |
| Description | The environmental law faculty are experts and scholars in environmental law areas including climate change, environmental justice, energy, endangered species, green taxes, international environmental law, land use, animal law, food and agriculture law, national security and the environment, urban planning issues, water and wetlands, wildlife and wilderness, corporate environmental matters, etc. This site lists environmental law faculty at Vermont Law School with biographical information and curriculum vitae. |
| URL | http://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/specializations/environmental-law/faculty |
[ + ]Environmental Law Librarian
| Title | Environmental Law Librarian |
| Description | Christine Ryan is the Environmental Law Librarian and an Associate Professor at Vermont Law School. She provides expertise in environmental resources, research sessions for VLS environmental law courses and for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and teaches 1L Legal Research and Advanced Environmental Legal Research. She regularly meets with students, faculty, and staff to help meet their information needs and enhance their research skills. She also selects environmental resources for the library’s Environmental Collection. Christine Ryan can be reached at cryan@vermontlaw.edu. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/directory/person/ryan-christine |
[ + ]Environmental Tax Policy Institute
| Title | Environmental Tax Policy Institute |
| Description | The Environmental Tax Policy Institute “analyzes the ways in which taxation can be used to address environmental problems.” The Institute seeks to “better inform the public policy debate about the role of environmental taxes at the local, state and federal levels.” The site includes a helpful page called “What is Environmental Taxation?” The site also includes information about the Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation and related publications. It provides links to volumes of published, peer-reviewed papers from the Conference, which are edited by the Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Professor Janet Milne. Also, articles, books, reports, and websites. |
| URL | http://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/environmental-tax-policy-institute |
[ + ]Environmental Watch List
| Title | Environmental Watch List |
| Description | Each year, the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the VLS Environmental Law Center release a list of noteworthy environmental law and policy issues. The Top 10 issues are chosen based on their significance to the environment and public well-being, and whether a key development is expected in the coming year. VJEL staff editors and VLS professors collaborate to produce the collection of articles. |
| URL | https://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/current-watch-list |
[ + ]Farmland Access Legal Toolkit
| Title | Farmland Access Legal Toolkit |
| Description | VLS's Center for Agriculture & Food Systems Toolkit explains legal arrangements that provide farmers affordable and equitable farmland access, explores creative arrangements that make farmland access more affordable, explains methods and strategies for transferring a farm to the next generation, and makes additional legal information available to farmer and landowner advocates. Related projects include the Extension Legal Services Initiative, the Farm Animal Welfare Certification Program, and the Vermont Legal Food Hub. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/center-for-agriculture-and-food-systems/projects/farmland-access-legal |
[ + ]Library Collection – Environmental Collection
| Title | Library Collection – Environmental Collection |
| Description | Located on the loft level of the library the ever-expanding Environmental Collection includes physical books in the Collection as well as access to thousands more ebooks. Subjects include climate change, environmental justice, energy law and policy, food and agriculture law, planning and zoning, hazardous waste, international environmental law, biodiversity, sustainability, water law, environmental economics, and more. |
| URL | http://julien.vermontlaw.edu/ |
[ + ]Summer Session
| Title | Summer Session |
| Description | The Environmental Law Center offers approximately 40 environmental law and policy courses each summer for students, practicing attorneys, agency personnel, and citizen advocates, taught by VLS professors, national and international law scholars, government attorneys, leaders of non-profit advocacy groups, and private practitioners, all experts in their fields. VLS also invites distinguished summer scholars and media fellows to serve in residency during the summer.
Resources: The site includes the current summer course catalog, course schedule, course descriptions, and bios for the summer faculty. The site includes links to various resources available for summer visitors. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/environmental-law-center/summer |
[ + ]U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law
| Title | U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law |
| Description | The U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law is a program hosted by Vermont Law school that works collaboratively with government institutions, non-government organizations, lawyers, judges, lawmakers and others to promote effective environmental governance in Asia. The partnership’s mission is to generate scholarship and research on Asian and global environmental policy while providing academic programming and educational exchanges. The program launched a model in China that addresses critical environmental and energy challenges, improves policy, laws and regulations, and develops best practices in environmental protection and energy regulation. This successful model has been further applied to the Mekong Sub-region, including Myanmar, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Resources include, publications, articles, presentations, collaborative research projects, and seasonal newsletters. The program also provides fellowship and research opportunities and academic residencies for students, in addition to faculty exchanges. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/us-asia-partnerships-environmental-law |
[ + ]Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL)
| Title | Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) |
| Description | VJEL is the environmental law journal at Vermont Law School. VJEL publishes articles on contemporary environmental legal issues of local, national, and international importance. The site includes the current and archived issues, features an EcoPerspectives blog, the annual Vermont Law Top 10 Environmental Watch List, and information about VJEL’s annual symposium. |
| URL | http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/ |
[ + ]Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment
| Title | Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment |
| Description | Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE) is a national and world energy policy resource focused on current and emerging energy policies. The IEE has the largest selection of clean energy courses available, leading renewable energy experiential opportunities, new clean transportation classes, and research options. Recent projects include the Farm and Energy Initiative, Clean Transportation, Securitization and Energy Justice, and Virtual Power Plants etc. The Institute also offers a vibrant student energy clinic which works on legal and business models for community energy development. The website includes program descriptions, clinic information, publications, news, information about Institute faculty and staff, and links to Energy Course offerings. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/Institute-for-Energy-and-the-Environment |
[ + ]Vermont Legal Food Hub
| Title | Vermont Legal Food Hub |
| Description | The Vermont Legal Food Hub connects farmers, food entrepreneurs, and food system organizations with free legal services. As primary administrator of the hub, the VLS Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) places clients with volunteer attorneys. Some cases are placed with the in-house CAFS Clinic, which offers students the chance to work under the supervision of licensed attorneys on cases that support Vermont’s local food system. Attorneys and law firms who join the program gain expertise in a quickly growing practice area. Resources include the CAFS Legal Trends for Farm and Food Operations in the New England Region report and a Guide for Lawyers in the Legal Food Hub. Related projects include the Farmland Access Legal Toolkit, Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide, and Extension Legal Services Initiative. |
| URL | https://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/center-for-agriculture-and-food-systems/projects/vermont-legal-food-hub |
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