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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER...... 1 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGREE PROGRAMS...... 2–3 CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS...... 4 INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT...... 5 ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CLINIC...... 5 ...... 6 U .S .-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW...... 7 LAW LAB FOR INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT...... 7 ENVIRONMENTAL TAX POLICY INSTITUTE...... 8 HOTHOUSE EARTH PODCAST...... 8 FIELD STUDY CLASSES...... 8 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY...... 9 ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNSHIPS...... 9 THE CURRICULUM...... 10–11 ENVIRONMENTAL FACULTY AND TEACHING STAFF ...... 12–14 EMERITUS FACULTY...... 15 ADJUNCT, ONLINE, AND SUMMER FACULTY...... 16 SPECIAL EVENTS AND GUESTS...... 17

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Environmental challenges have never been more pressing or more complex. But at Vermont Law School, a new generation of leaders is stepping up to meet them. For nearly 50 years, Vermont Law School has educated “VLS ALLOWS YOU TO BE A STUDENT, law and policy students on the basis of one ideal: to develop COMMUNITY MEMBER, ACTIVIST, leaders who use the power of the law to make a difference. ADVOCATE . YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE JUST A STUDENT . YOU CAN DO Our dedicated and distinguished faculty cultivate a learning OTHER THINGS YOU’RE PASSIONATE environment rich in cooperative spirit. The Environmental ABOUT . YOU LEAVE HERE WITH Law Center is home to the most comprehensive graduate MORE THAN ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE TO HAVE THE IMPACT YOU WANT environmental law program in the country, consistently TO HAVE IN WHATEVER SPHERE OF ranked among the best by U.S. News & World Report. LAW YOU PURSUE .” With a multidisciplinary, hands-on education drawing —JAMESON DAVIS JD’20/MELP’19 from law, policy, science, economics, and ethics, our students are equipped to make an impact. Our graduates are on the frontlines of environmental advocacy, the clean energy revolution, and the sustainable food movement. They are trailblazers in environmental justice, fighting to ensure that environmental law serves all communities. They are skilled in working with environmental and public policy issues within the framework of the legal system— and they are prepared to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century. Environmental Justice Law Society students in the Hothouse Earth podcast studio

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 1 MASTER’S DEGREES ENVIRONMENTAL ■ The Master of Environmental Law and Policy (MELP) program is designed for students who want to develop DEGREE PROGRAMS expertise in environmental law and policy while obtaining interdisciplinary training in science, economics, and public In addition to the traditional Juris advocacy. Doctor degree, Vermont Law ■ The Master of Energy Regulation and Law (MERL) program responds to opportunities presented by the rapid growth School offers a number of master’s of the clean energy sector, as well as the environmental challenges associated with traditional energy production and degrees, LLM degrees, joint degrees, transmission, by offering intensive training in energy law, dual degrees with other academic regulation, markets, and policy analysis. ■ The Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy institutions, concentration programs, (MFALP) is designed for students who want to develop the and the renowned Summer Session legal infrastructure needed to support sustainable food and agricultural systems. program. These programs range from the Master of Environmental Law and LLM DEGREES Policy, which VLS has awarded to over ■ The LLM in Environmental Law offers post-JD students the opportunity to prepare for a career practicing environmental 2,500 students since the program’s law with a private firm, as a public interest environmental inception in 1978, to the LLM in Food litigator, or in academia. ■ The LLM in Energy Law allows those with a JD degree to and Agriculture Law, which welcomed specialize in the law of clean energy, regulation, markets, the first students in fall 2015. The and the environment. ■ The LLM in Food and Agriculture Law allows post-JD master’s degrees may be completed students to take advantage of our extensive food and in as little as one year or up to five agricultural law curriculum and develop a deep specialty in an important area of environmental law. years. Students have the choice and flexibility to complete a master’s or JOINT DEGREES LLM degree on campus or online, or a Vermont Law School students may combine the JD with a master’s or LLM degree to develop expertise in environmental, hybrid of both. energy, or food and agricultural law.

■ JD/Master of Environmental Law and Policy

■ JD/Master of Energy Regulation and Law

■ JD/Master of Food and Agriculture Law and Policy

■ JD/LLM in Environmental Law

■ JD/LLM in Energy Law

■ JD/LLM in Food and Agriculture Law

“VLS IS A SMALL SCHOOL, SO YOU HAVE CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH PROFESSORS AND CLINIC DIRECTORS, WHO WANT TO HELP YOU SUCCEED AT SOMETHING

Jerry Thomas JD/MELP’21 (right) and Cameron Humphrey of Yale’s School of YOU’RE INTERESTED IN, AND THEY PROVIDE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR THAT .” Forestry & the Environment, visit Alabama for the Environmental Justice Clinic —KORINA MATYAS, MELP’19

2 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS CONCENTRATIONS Vermont Law School students Concentrations are a tangible indication that students have can combine a JD or master’s mastered a specific subject area. The environmental program degree with degrees from other at Vermont Law School offers the following concentrations: institutions. ■ Concentration in Climate Law JD/Master of Environmental 1 ■ Concentration in Energy Law 1 Management with ■ Concentration in Food and Agriculture Law the Yale University School of Forestry and ■ Concentration in Land Use Law

Environmental Studies ■ Concentration in Water Law 2 JD/Master of Philosophy with the Department of Land Economy at the SUMMER SESSION 2 University of Cambridge Vermont Law School’s Summer Session is nationally recognized for its impressive range of courses taught by VLS professors 3 JD, LLM, or Master’s/ Sustainable and leaders from national and international nonprofit Entrepreneurship MBA environmental groups and research centers, federal and state with the University of agencies, academic programs at other law schools, and private Vermont School of Business practice. Attendees include VLS JD, LLM, and master’s students; Administration JD students from other law schools; nonlaw graduate students; 3 teachers; citizen advocates; practicing attorneys; planners; and MELP/Master of Science 4 state and federal agency personnel. Summer Session also includes in Natural Resources with the popular Hot Topics in Environmental Law lecture series. the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION (CLE) of Vermont Nondegree educational opportunities are available through the 5 MELP/MBA with the Tuck VLS Summer Session. Practicing attorneys can take summer 4 School of Business at courses or attend our summer lecture series for CLE credit. VERMONT JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW For over twenty years, the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 5 (VJEL) has published on all facets of environmental law. The journal staff seeks to provide a forum for enlightened SUMMERS-ONLY MASTER’S PROGRAM discussion on the emerging environmental issues affecting our JD students from any other law school may earn a master’s local, regional, and global communities. The journal is published degree from Vermont Law School with one summer of classes, exclusively online. VJEL is about environmental discourse and one summer externship, and at least one online course. Special environmental action, and online publication greatly embodies arrangements with the law schools at Boston College, Elon both. Please visit http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/. University, Northeastern University, Quinnipiac University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of South Dakota allow those students to transfer additional JD credits to the master’s degree and earn the degree at a lower cost.

“AS A SECOND-CAREER LAW STUDENT, I KNEW BEFORE COMING TO VLS WHAT I WOULD DO WITH A LAW DEGREE . I WOULD WORK RELENTLESSLY TO GET JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHOSE VOICES ARE SYSTEMICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED IN OUR LEGAL SYSTEM—NON-HUMAN AND HUMAN ALIKE . OUR SYSTEM CAN WORK FOR EVERYONE—INCLUDING THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF ALL LIFE—IT JUST TAKES ADVOCATES WILLING TO FIGHT VIGOROUSLY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN .” —ANDREW CLIBURN JD’21

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 3 Whitney Shields MFALP’17 (left) and Sophia Kruszewski JD’13

CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE CENTER INITIATIVES ■ Train students, in one of the first food and agriculture law AND FOOD SYSTEMS clinics in the nation, to develop law and policy solutions that support the food system The Center for Agriculture and Food ■ Assist farmers and food producers with new federal food Systems (CAFS) trains law and policy safety regulations for produce farmers through the Extension students to develop real-world solutions Legal Services Initiative for a more sustainable and just food system. CAFS offers a comprehensive array ■ Support the local food economy by connecting small-scale of residential, online, and experiential farms and food entrepreneurs with free legal assistance courses. These diverse course offerings, the through the Vermont Legal Food Hub Food and Agriculture Clinic, and varied degree options give ■ Provide legal resources and tools for farmers regarding land students the opportunity to explore food and agricultural access, including leasing, purchasing, and transferring land, law from a variety of perspectives and experiences. CAFS is through the Farmland Access Legal Toolkit also a center for research and advocacy. Student clinicians ■ Reduce food waste and address food insecurity through the and research assistants work with local, regional, national, National Gleaning Project, which supports and raises the and international partners to develop legal tools and policy visibility of gleaning organizations recommendations geared toward addressing food systems challenges related to the environment, public health, the ■ Elevate local food law and policy innovations that increase economy, food security, and animal welfare. The Center benefits access to healthy food through the Healthy Food Policy Project from an experienced legal and advocacy team, including ■ Enable consumers and food producers and entrepreneurs Laurie Beyranevand JD’03, Director; Sophia Kruszewski to understand the law of the food label through the Labels JD’13, Clinic Director and Assistant Professor; Emily Spiegel, Unwrapped project Assistant Professor; Lihlani Nelson, Associate Director and ■ Advocate for broad, transformative food law and policy change Research Fellow; Claire Child MELP’16, Assistant Director through the Blueprint for a National Food Strategy Project and Research Fellow; Francine Miller LLM’18, Senior Legal Fellow; Whitney Shields MFALP’17, Clinical Teaching Fellow; Cydnee Bence JD’20, LLM Fellow; and Molly McDonough, Environmental Communications Specialist.

“I FOUND VLS’S MASTER OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE LAW AND POLICY PROGRAM TO BE THE MOST ROOTED IN ACTIVISM, SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, AND A LAND ETHIC OF ANY OF THE OPTIONS I CONSIDERED .”

—ALYSSA HARTMAN MFALP’19, Executive Director, Artisan Grain Collaborative

4 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Institute for Energy and the Institute Environment (IEE) is a national and for Energy world energy policy resource focused Environmental Advocacy Clinic faculty and staff on the energy policy of the future. and the The IEE leads the nation in Environment preparing students for the clean energy transition. Its energy law program has the largest selection of clean energy law and policy courses available, ENVIRONMENTAL leading clean energy experiential opportunities, and a seamless integration with a world class environmental law and policy ADVOCACY CLINIC program, including unparalleled climate law course offerings. Since 2003, the Environmental Advocacy Clinic has provided The institute serves as a center for graduate research on the hands-on learning opportunities for law students, achieving transition to a clean energy future and maintains a unique environmental protection goals and often representing and vibrant student-staffed Energy Clinic, which works on clients who otherwise would not have the resources for legal developing and implementing legal and business models for representation. The clinic provides a structured, supportive community energy resources. In addition, a Research Associate setting in which students develop skills in environmental program works more broadly on energy issues ranging from advocacy, litigation, administrative processes, as well as client clean transportation policy to cybersecurity of the electric grid. interaction. In 2019, the clinic partnered with the National The IEE’s faculty includes Kevin Jones, PhD, the Institute’s Wildlife Federation and now represents the Federation on Director and Professor; Jeannie Oliver LLM’15, Assistant high impact legal and other matters to protect the resources Professor and Staff Attorney for the Energy Clinic; and that wildlife and people rely on. A faculty of experienced Tade Oyewunmi, LLD, Assistant Professor and Senior Energy environmental attorneys and professionals works closely Research Scholar. The Institute is also staffed by a program with the student teams on each case or project, including coordinator, two staff attorneys, a student LLM fellow, and Jim Murphy LLM’06, Director; Ken Rumelt LLM’12, Senior approximately twenty JD, LLM, and master’s students who Attorney; Patrick Parenteau, Senior Counsel; Rachel Stevens serve as research associates and clinicians. LLM’16, Staff Attorney;Mason Overstreet LLM’19, Staff Attorney; and Monica Litzelman MELP’12, Litigation Paralegal. INSTITUTE AND ENERGY CLINIC PROJECTS The students have worked on an impressive array of matters ■ Develop legal and business models promoting community in various federal and state courts, including the Vermont and renewables ownership with a focus on increasing low income United States Supreme Courts. solar ownership and advocating for climate justice ■ Collaborate with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems CLINIC PROJECTS on the Farm and Energy Initiative, which unites interests ■ Partnering with Earthjustice to advocate for an environmental in the economic health of farms and sustainable energy justice community in Newark, New Jersey, surrounded by production polluting facilities ■ Author books such as The Electric Battery: Charging Forward to a Low ■ Opposing Trump Administration rollbacks of key Carbon Future; A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Progress environmental laws from Smart Energy Policies and Technologies; and Global Energy Justice ■ Protecting air quality in Springfield, Massachusetts by helping ■ Research reports and publications on climate refugees, community members stop a proposed biomass facility community choice aggregation, cybersecurity of the electric grid, ■ Participating in a relicensing procedure for a nuclear power smart cities and microgrids, clean transportation policy, and facility in Miami to ensure climate change and water resources stakeholder governance in Regional Transmission Organizations concerns are addressed during the process

■ Litigating a Clean Water Act enforcement case “VLS HAS EMPOWERED ME TO PUSH FOR A FUTURE WHERE CLEAN ENERGY ■ Challenging illegal pesticide spraying in a Vermont community CAN BE DISTRIBUTED EQUALLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD . THE MERL HAS GIVEN ME TOOLS TO SEE THE BIGGER FIELD AT PLAY AND TO BE ABLE TO GO WHERE I WANT . A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE ENERGY FIELD DON’T HAVE “LEARNING BY DOING IS KEY TO BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL LAWYER . SUCH A SPECIALIZED LOOK AT IT ”. MY CLINICAL EXPERIENCE SET ME UP WITH THE TOOLS NECESSARY TO BECOME A TRUE ADVOCATE FOR THE WILD CREATURES AND WILD PLACES —CHARLES SPENCE MERL’19 THAT I—AND MY CLIENTS—HOLD MOST DEAR .”

—KELLY NOKES JD’15, Shared Earth Wildlife Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 5 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Environmental law must serve all communities. Vermont Law School strives to arm our students with the full range of tools they might need to assist a community in overcoming an environmental challenge. Fall 2019 Environmental Justice Clinic students

ENVIRONMENTAL CLIMATE JUSTICE PRACTICUM JUSTICE CLINIC The Climate Justice Practicum is an innovative collaboration between Vermont Law School and the Yale School of Public Founded in 2019, VLS’s Environmental Justice Clinic focuses on Health. In the course, interdisciplinary student teams carry interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of civil rights and out applied projects that address issues of climate justice. the environment. Student clinicians work in partnership with Each team works with a partner organization – a state communities of color and low-income communities on projects agency, community organization, or other non-governmental to address racial discrimination and improve environmental organization. The course involves a weekly seminar as well quality. Students work in small teams on projects to address as fieldwork that affords the opportunity to have a real world inequality and discrimination in environmental decision-making impact on pressing issues. Projects focus on the ways in which as well as procedural inequities experienced by communities industry efforts to expand the use of biogas reinforce industrial as they try to assert their own vision for the future of their models of agriculture, analysis of transportation justice issues neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Marianne Engelman-Lado, in rural areas, and work on how to integrate questions of equity an environmental justice lawyer and advocate with civil rights into state climate action plans. experience from her work at Yale, Earthjustice, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., directs the clinic. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COURSES ■ Environmental Crimes ■ Native Americans and the Law CLINIC PROJECTS ■ Environmental Justice ■ Race and the Law Seminar ■ Representing five communities across the country living in the ■ Global Food Security shadow of polluting facilities in successful litigation against EPA, challenging its unreasonable delay in responding to their civil rights complaints about the placement of facilities in “IN THE EJ CLINIC AND THE CLIMATE JUSTICE PRACTICUM, WE TEACH OUR communities of color STUDENTS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL LAW MUST SERVE COMMUNITIES AND ■ Working with two Alabama communities of color fighting the ALIGN WITH JUSTICE . WE STRIVE TO DEVELOP THE SKILLS AND TOOLS harmful impacts of landfills that have disrupted their way of life THAT LAWYERS NEED TO ASSIST COMMUNITIES IN ACHIEVING THEIR ■ Partnering with community-based groups across Vermont and OWN VISION FOR THEIR FUTURE . OUR STUDENTS WORK TO ADVANCE THE other states to strengthen policies to achieve environmental justice and to ensure that states take the cumulative effects of ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT AND, AT THE SAME TIME, GAIN multiple sources of pollution into consideration in permitting EXPERIENCE WORKING ON LAW AND POLICY ISSUES AT THE NEXUS OF

■ Working with environmental justice activists to draft stronger ENVIRONMENT, RACE, AND POVERTY .” federal and state protections through legislation at federal and —MARIANNE ENGELMAN LADO, Director, Environmental state levels Justice Clinic ■ Challenging the disproportionate impacts of industrial animal production on communities of color and low-income communities

6 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL U .S .-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law (PEL) U.S.-Asia is a collaborative program PARTNERSHIPS FOR to advance environmental Environmental Law and energy law and policy AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL in China and throughout Southeast Asia. The goal of PEL, which is supported by a number of public and private organizations, is to strengthen the rule of law in environmental protection and to build capacity among individuals and academic, government, and private-sector institutions to solve environmental problems. At its inception in 2006, PEL’s goals were to strengthen the 2020 Environmental Mission Scholars in Kunming, China capacity of Chinese education, government, and civil society sectors to become effective environmental problem solvers; to improve China’s policies, laws, and regulations to advance the development of environmental law in China; and to enhance municipal, provincial, national, and international networks in LAW LABORATORY FOR China to advance best practices in environmental protection and INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE energy regulation. Building upon the success it has achieved in China, PEL has expanded its geographic scope in an effort DEVELOPMENT to respond to the environmental governance needs of the region. Siu Tip Lam, a former assistant attorney general in The Law Laboratory for International Sustainable Development the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts researches innovative law and policy instruments to promote Attorney General’s Office, is the Director. The program’s staff international sustainable development. The Lab seeks to promote includes Associate Director Professor Yanmei Lin, along with an integrated approach to economic law, environmental law, and a program coordinator, a project leader in Myanmar, a student development law under the umbrella of sustainable development fellow, and VLS faculty advisor Jack Tuholske. law and policy. The Lab works globally with research institutes, NGOs, and international development agencies, under the PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS direction of Sheng Sun MELP’18. ■ Provide environmental governance trainings in Myanmar, to give stakeholders a range of legal and policy tools that can be LAB RESEARCH PROGRAMS adopted to provide broad scale protection of the country’s key ■ The Research Initiative on International Law and Policy biodiversity areas Collaboration for Sustainability is a consortium of researchers, academic institutions, and policy practitioners working to ■ An Environmental Mission Scholars program that provides enhance international collaboration to promote sustainability. experiential training to young legal professionals from China to In 2020, the Law Lab, the World Resources Institute, and the become environmental advocates and stewards University of International Business and Economics organized ■ Train stakeholders, including judges and prosecutors, to apply a discussion of cross-agency coordination mechanisms to and enforce environmental laws and take steps to increase regulate trade to protect the global forest ecosystem. the role prosecutors could play in civil enforcement of ■ Partnerships with the Law School at China Central University environmental laws of Finance and Economics, the Institute of Ecology and ■ Provide opportunities for VLS students to work on cutting-edge Sustainable Development at Shanghai Academy of Social research projects relating to environmental issues in China Science, and China Agricultural University will bring diversified and throughout Southeast Asia research skills and expertise to the Law Lab, especially ■ Provide opportunities for regional dialogues among on green finance, rural development, and international stakeholders to share experiences and lessons learned in economics. developing an effective environmental governance system in ■ Professor Ping Wu from East China University of Technology, a light of local conditions PEL and Law Lab visiting scholar in 2019–20, studies ecological compensation law and policy benefiting farmers and rural communities.

■ The Law Lab hosts visiting scholar Professor Mingming Liu from China Agricultural University in 2020–21. Professor Liu is a leading scholar on China’s climate law and policy and the country’s experimental carbon trading scheme.

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 7 ENVIRONMENTAL TAX HOTHOUSE EARTH PODCAST POLICY INSTITUTE Vermont Law School’s podcast, Hothouse Earth, debuted in 2019. The Environmental Tax Policy Institute analyzes the ways in which Hosts Mason Overstreet LLM’19, taxation can be used to address environmental problems. By serving assistant professor and staff as a resource for the public and private sectors, nongovernmental attorney at the Environmental organizations, the press, and academia, the Institute seeks to better Advocacy Clinic, and Jeannie inform the public policy debate about the role of environmental Oliver LLM’14, assistant professor taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. Janet E. Milne, the and staff attorney at the Energy Institute’s director, has devoted her career to matters involving Clinic, speak with our faculty and taxation, the legislative process, and the environment. She has other experts on fast changing taught environmental tax policy at VLS since 1994. environmental law and policy developments like regulatory rollbacks and subsequent lawsuits. INSTITUTE INITIATIVES Our guests provide concise, accessible conversation on the most pressing issues of our time. Recent episodes included “Climate ■ Active participant in the Global Conferences on Environmental Migration—Not If, But When,” “On the Streets and In the Courts: Taxation; co-chair of the 21st Global Conference in September The Youth Climate Movement,” and “Environmental Justice.” 2020, a global virtual event Subscribe at hothouseearthpodcast.com. ■ Analysis of proposals for carbon taxes at the federal and state level, including key design issues, as well as the relationship between carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs FIELD STUDY CLASSES ■ Exploration of the ability to earmark carbon tax revenues, Vermont Law School offers students a number of opportunities published by Professor Milne as “How Durable is a Lockbox for to study environmental law and policy through hands-on, Carbon Tax Revenue?” in the Pittsburgh Tax Review immersive learning experiences. Our students meet with staff of ■ Sharing of knowledge about other countries’ use of carbon taxes international NGOs in Southeast Asia and serve as an observer delegation at the UNFCCC in Chile. They meet with tribal leaders ■ Development of The Handbook of Research on Environmental in Utah and hike in the public lands of Montana. They study Taxation, edited by Janet E. Milne and Mikael Skou Andersen, forestry and ecosystems in our own backyard in Vermont. and Environmental Taxation and the Law, edited by Professor Milne

■ Research on how environmentally related taxes might help finance climate change adaptation, published as “Storms ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD CLASSES Ahead” in the Vermont Law Review ■ Comparative U.S.-China ■ Global Sustainability Field Environmental Law Study: Havana, Cuba ■ U.S. contributor to a European project evaluating tax incentives that preserve cultural heritage ■ Ecology ■ International Climate Change: COP in Santiago, Chile ■ Investigation of the potential role of environmental pricing in ■ Environmental Governance the emerging digital economy in the Developing World: ■ Protected Public Lands and Southeast Asia Field Study Tribal Rights: Utah Field Study ■ Invaluable research by VLS students throughout these and other projects ■ Forest Law and Policy ■ Public Lands Management: Montana Field Study

Global Sustainability Field Study students at the University of Havana

8 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL EDUCATION ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES ■ International Dual Degree with University of Cergy-Pontoise in Paris: Dual JD/M1 and M2 Degrees, with eligibility to sit for the bar exams in US and France

■ International Dual Degree with University of Cambridge: Dual JD/MPhil in Environmental Policy

■ Semester exchanges at University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris; McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal; University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne); and University of Trento (Italy)

Old Chancelllor Day Hall, McGill University Faculty of Law ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNSHIPS An integral part of our environmental degree programs is gaining real-world experience through externships. Our master’s, LLM, and joint degree students explore environmental law, science, and policy in a wide variety of settings both locally and INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL worldwide. In the Semester in Practice program and the Judicial LAW AND POLICY Externship program, JD students spend a full semester off campus in a governmental, public interest, or private legal setting Environmental issues are global issues. The unique under the direct supervision of an experienced attorney or judge. opportunities at Vermont Law School prepare our graduates to be leaders in international environmental law and policy. RECENT EXTERNSHIPS A curriculum of over one dozen international environmental courses is further enhanced by study opportunities through ■ Animal Legal Defense Fund ■ New York State Energy Research and Development our partnerships with leading foreign universities. Hands-on ■ Blue Ocean Law learning through experiential courses, externships, and clinics Authority ■ Center for Biological rounds out the academic experience. ■ Diversity North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality ■ Center for International ■ INTERNATIONAL COURSES Environmental Law Seychelles Conservation and ■ Comparative U.S.-China ■ International Environmental Climate Adaptation Trust ■ City of New Haven, CT, Food Environmental Law Law and Policy ■ Systems and Policy Division Sierra Club ■ Global Energy Law and ■ International Law of Food ■ Texas Commission on ■ Conservation Law Policy ■ International Trade and the Foundation Environmental Quality ■ Global Food Security Environment ■ U.S. Department of Interior, ■ Earthjustice ■ International Climate Office of the Solicitor ■ Earthworks Change ■ U.S. Department of Justice, ■ Hawaiian Electric Environment and Natural EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THROUGH COURSES, ■ Massachusetts Land Court Resources Division ■ National Oceanic and ■ U.S. Environmental EXTERNSHIPS, AND CLINICS Atmospheric Administration Protection Agency ■ In the International Climate Change course, students serve ■ Nevada Attorney General, ■ Private law firms in multiple on VLS’s observer delegation, attending the Conference of Natural Resources Section states with environmental the Parties (COP) and supporting a Least Developed Country practices (LDC) state party delegation to engage in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations through a service-learning partnership “NOT ONLY DOES THE WORK I DO DAILY [AT MY EARTHJUSTICE EXTERNSHIP]

■ In JD Semesters in Practice and Masters Externships, students ALIGN WITH WHAT I WANT TO DO AS A PRACTICING ATTORNEY ONE DAY, have interned for a variety of international environmental law BUT THE ORGANIZATION, AND THEIR WORK, PROMOTES AND ADVOCATES actors, including the UN Economic Commission for Europe FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, WHICH IS WHY I CAME TO LAW (UNECE) in Geneva; Refugee Legal Aid Project in Cairo; UN SCHOOL . I WANT TO FIGHT FOR A MORE UNDERSTANDING AND EQUITABLE Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for NATION THAT ADDRESSES CHALLENGES AND INEQUITIES ON THEIR FACE Sustainable Development; and the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice INSTEAD OF SHYING AWAY FROM CHANGE BECAUSE IT MAY BE THE EASIER THING TO DO .” —MARIANA MUÑOZ JD’21

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 9 THE CURRICULUM ADMINISTRATIVE LAW CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS The implementation of IN HUMAN SYSTEMS AGRICULTURE POLICY AND MARKETS legislative policy through The legal challenges raised State and federal How market-based administrative agencies by the unavoidable need for conservation programs to tools to protect the our society to adapt to the assist farmers in achieving environment work, their ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS FOR impacts of global warming conservation compliance basic assumptions, and the ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES challenges they face during How to communicate CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION ECOLOGY implementation complex environmental The legal, policy, and A field course on an issues to a general audience economic issues in our integrative science that can ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT attempt to mitigate our provide insight into many AND COMPLIANCE ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL carbon footprint and reduce contemporary environmental The theory and practice of LEGAL RESEARCH greenhouse gasses problems enforcement of the federal The most useful, efficient pollution control laws strategies and resources for CLIMATE CHANGE: END USE ENERGY EFFICIENCY environmental law research THE POWER OF TAXES The reasons for, techniques ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE How tax systems can be of, and results from energy Discrimination and justice AGRICULTURAL used to reduce greenhouse efficiency measures around concerns about the ENVIRONMENTAL LAW gases and develop more the U.S. benefits and burdens of The regulatory and incentive- environmentally compatible environmental protection based programs that affect technologies ENERGY LAW AND POLICY and natural resource our agricultural crops, and Key issues in American management the environmental impacts of CLIMATE, EXTINCTION, energy policy, and ways these programs AND ADAPTATION to ease the strains that ENVIRONMENTAL LAW The ecological, social, and the policy puts upon The law pertaining to AIR POLLUTION LAW AND POLICY ethical consequences of environmental sustainability environmental issues such as A detailed reading of climate change and various population, economic growth, the Clean Air Act and an legal and policy options to ENERGY REGULATION, MARKETS, energy, and pollution exploration of the major address it AND THE ENVIRONMENT statutory provisions The legal, economic, and THE FARM BILL CLIMATE JUSTICE PRACTICUM structural issues involved in An introduction to the ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND Student teams and partner both energy regulation and breadth of policies and legal RENEWABLE ENERGY organizations carry out energy markets, focusing on authorities included in the The local, state, and federal applied projects that address electricity Farm Bill laws and policies that govern issues of climate justice the transition to renewable ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES FEDERAL REGULATION OF energy sources COMMUNICATIONS, ADVOCACY, An exploration of the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE AND LEADERSHIP most common federal An overview of the Farm ANIMALS AND THE LAW The skills to advocate, offense committed by U.S. Bill and other laws that A survey of American law counsel, investigate, corporations: environmental affect growing policy, affecting animals and the persuade, research, and crime animal husbandry, and food legal reforms underway educate production ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE CLEAN TRANSPORTATION COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOOD IMPACT LITIGATION LAW AND POLICY LAW RESEARCH SEMINAR How environmental laws The potential and limitations Clean transportation policy A seminar for students and policies interact with of litigation against the options and how electric interested in researching the business and private sector industrial agriculture system vehicles can support a environmental law systems behavior in adopting cleaner, smarter electricity of other countries environmentally-friendly FOOD REGULATION AND POLICY grid policies Current policies regarding COMPARATIVE U S. .-CHINA food regulation and how to CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LAW ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENVIRONMENTAL effectively advocate for policy How existing laws may The environmental DISPUTE RESOLUTION changes address climate change challenges for China’s 1.3 Alternative dispute resolution and how new, more billion people and efforts to processes for resolving FOREST POLICY AND LAW comprehensive laws may be address them through law complex, multiparty The policy and legal issues fashioned and regulation environmental disputes affecting forests and forest management

10 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL GLOBAL ENERGY LAW AND POLICY Energy policy frameworks, policies implementing global and regional climate commitments, and emerging issues outside of the U.S

GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY The legal landscape of global hunger

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY FIELD STUDY: CUBA A field course focused on An Energy Clinic team visits a net zero energy model home sustainable energy and agriculture in Cuba

INTERNATIONAL LAND TRANSACTIONS AND FINANCE OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CLIMATE CHANGE LAW How land is divided and The natural components The range of state and local A study of the UN Framework transferred, including an of estuarine, coastal, and government authority, as well Convention on Climate introduction to the title marine ecosystems and some the constitutional, statutory, Change and its Kyoto system, title insurance, and of the conservation issues and practical limitations on Protocol; students represent land contracts confronting them its exercise VLS at COP as members of its Observer Delegation LAW AND POLICY OF OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND THE THREE ESSENTIALS OF THE LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT ELECTRIC GRID INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL A study of policies that The major contracts used Fundamental legal, LAW AND POLICY affect distribution of food to explore for and produce engineering, and business The structure and basic and state-level initiatives to oil and gas in the U.S. and knowledge for energy principles of international bolster local food markets internationally professionals environmental law and policy NATIVE AMERICANS PROTECTED PUBLIC LANDS AND WATER QUALITY THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF FOOD AND THE LAW TRIBAL RIGHTS: UTAH FIELD STUDY The Clean Water Act, the Safe An analysis of contemporary The constitutional, statutory, A Utah-based study of federal Drinking Water Act, and the international legal and policy and jurisprudential rules of laws governing public lands, Ocean Dumping Act issues related to food law which make up the field tribal treaty rights, and of Federal Indian Law other legally protected tribal WATER RESOURCES LAW INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE interests in federal lands The allocation of water AND FOOD LAW AND POLICY NATURAL RESOURCES LAW among competing A survey of American law The statutes and regulations RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT claimants—for consumptive affecting agriculture and food governing the management FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT uses, waste disposal, and the traditional divisions of the federal lands and their Legal and policy issues recreation, and other between agriculture, food, resources associated with the purposes and environmental regulation development and project NEGOTIATING ENVIRONMENTAL financing of renewable LAND CONSERVATION LAW AGREEMENTS energy projects The legal issues around The skills to effectively donation of conservation negotiate and develop SCIENCE FOR easements and private/ mutual gains solutions in the ENVIRONMENTAL LAW public partnerships for land environmental context The science most relevant to conservation environmental law, including NEW FRONTIERS IN climate science, air and LAND USE REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES water pollution, toxicology, The traditional legal controls A new American and endangered species available to regulate the environmentalism is needed management use of land, including local and with it new environmental Available online and on campus zoning ordinances and policies and laws Available online only subdivision regulations

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 11 ENVIRONMENTAL FACULTY AND TEACHING STAFF The environmental faculty members at Vermont Law School are MARIANNE ENGELMAN-LADO teachers who know the law, work at their craft, and care about ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, their students; scholars who challenge conventional wisdom and ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CLINIC push the envelope of knowledge; and professionals who respect JD, University of California at Berkeley; MA, environmental values, enjoy what they do, and devote their Princeton University; BA, Cornell University. talents to making the world a better place. Professor Engelman-Lado is the Douglas Costle Chair in Environmental Law at VLS for 2019–20. She is on the faculty of Yale’s School of Public Health and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has been Chair LAURIE BEYRANEVAND ’03 of the Environmental Health Practice Group at Earthjustice and PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR she served for 10 years as General Counsel at New York Lawyers AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS for the Public Interest, a non-profit civil rights law firm. JD, Vermont Law School; BA, Rutgers College. Before joining the faculty at VLS, she was a DAVID FIRESTONE staff attorney with the Disability Law Project PROFESSOR OF LAW of Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. She has served JD, Harvard University; BS, Wayne State as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Marie E. Lihotz, PJFP, in University. Former attorney, U.S. Department New Jersey and in the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, of Housing and Urban Development; visiting Environmental Unit. She was appointed to serve on the Food and fellow in the faculty of laws, King’s College, Drug Law Institute’s Academic Programs Committee for a three England; and seminar leader for the U.S. year term. She teaches Food Regulation and Policy. Information Agency in Eastern Europe, Austria, and Micronesia. The fifth edition of his book Environmental Law for Non-Lawyers was GENEVIEVE BYRNE published in 2014. He teaches Environmental Law. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF ATTORNEY, FARM AND ENERGY INITIATIVE HILLARY HOFFMANN JD, Lewis and Clark College of Law; BA, Vassar PROFESSOR OF LAW College. She has worked as an attorney at JD, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Byrne Law, PC, and at EcoLaw. She was a Utah; BA . She serves on the Natural Resources Law Clerk at the Vermont Sierra Club Litigation Committee, the Native Legislative Council, a Consultant Sustainability Analyst for American Rights Fund Supreme Court Working the Sustainability Roundtable, Inc., and a legislative intern at Group, and she has written numerous articles, American Farmland Trust. blog posts, and general commentary on energy, tribal land and resource rights, and climate adaptation in natural resources law JENNY CARTER ’87 and policy. She is a visitor at Indiana University School of Law ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF ATTORNEY, in the fall semester. She teaches Native Americans and the Law, ENERGY CLINIC Natural Resources Law, and Protected Public Lands and Tribal JD, MSEL, Vermont Law School; BA, Rollins Rights: Utah Field Study. College. She is the co-founder and general counsel for American Indoor Air Quality KEVIN JONES Assessment Services, and the co-founder and PROFESSOR OF ENERGY LAW AND POLICY; DIRECTOR, general counsel of Calypso Continuing Education, a multi-media INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT online professional education C-Corp. She was the co-owner and PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally director of regulatory compliance for Alllstate Home Inspection School of Management and Technology; and Household Environmental Testing. Master’s, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin; BS, University of JOHN D . ECHEVERRIA Vermont. Dr. Jones has been the Director of Power Market Policy PROFESSOR OF LAW for the Long Island Power Authority and the Director of Energy JD, Yale University; MSF, Yale School of Policy for the City of New York. His book The Electric Battery was Forestry and Environmental Studies; BA, published in 2017. He teaches Energy Regulation, Markets, and the Yale College. He was the executive director Environment; Environmental Economics and Markets; and Global of the Georgetown Environmental Law and Sustainability Field Study: Cuba. Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center from 1997–2009. He has produced several books and SOPHIA KRUSZEWSKI ’13 numerous articles on the private property rights issue, land use ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, management, and natural resource management. He organized FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CLINIC the annual conference on Litigating Takings Challenges to Land JD, Vermont Law School; BS, University Use and Environmental Regulations for twenty years. He teaches of Michigan. At the National Sustainable Water Resources Law and the LLM Graduate Seminar. Agriculture Coalition, she focused on the Food Safety Modernization Act, Farm Bill, and Clean Water Act. She has worked for the Center for Food Safety and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and interned with the Honorable Judge Paul L. Friedman of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia.

12 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL SIU TIP LAM JANET E . MILNE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL U .S .-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW TAX POLICY INSTITUTE JD, Northeastern University School of Law; JD, Georgetown University Law Center; BA, AB, Harvard University. She was an assistant Williams College. She has served as an attorney attorney general in the Environmental Protection for the Washington Post, as an attorney with the Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Washington firm of Covington and Burling, Office, where she handled a variety of cases enforcing environmental and as Senator Lloyd Bentsen’s staff member responsible for tax, laws and regulations. She worked as a litigation associate at the international trade, and health care issues. She is the editor of Boston law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer. Environmental Taxation and the Law. She teaches Climate Change: The Power of Taxes and Land Use Regulation. MARK LATHAM PROFESSOR OF LAW JAMES MURPHY LLM’06 JD, University of California—Berkeley; BSN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, Illinois Wesleyan University. Prior to joining ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CLINIC the VLS faculty, he was a partner and chair of LLM in Environmental Law, Vermont Law the environmental practice group at Gardner, School; JD, Boston College Law School; BA, Carton, and Douglas (now Drinker, Biddle . He is senior counsel for and Reath) in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He specializes in the National Wildlife Federation’s Climate and a wide range of environmental issues that arise in corporate Energy Program, where he coordinates NWF’s nationwide legal and commercial real estate transactions and brownfields and policy advocacy on energy development and climate change redevelopment. He teaches Environmental Issues in Business related issues. Prior to joining NWF in 2003, he did work with the Transactions. Conservation Law Foundation and was in private practice. YANMEI LIN JEANNIE OLIVER LLM ’14 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF ATTORNEY, U .S .-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENERGY CLINIC LLM, New York University; Master of Law, LLM in American Legal Studies, LLM in Fudan University; BA, Fudan University. Ms. Environmental Law, Vermont Law School; LLB, Lin was a program officer for the American University of Auckland. She served as a judge’s Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative’s China clerk at the New Zealand Court of Appeal; as program for more than 3 years, managing and implementing legal counsel for the New Zealand Commerce Commission; and in projects in the areas of environmental law, open government private practice in a corporate law firm in Auckland. Most recently, information and civil society development in China. Prior to she was a staff attorney at the Vermont Department of Public that, she was a lecturer and researcher for China Institute of Service where she focused on renewable energy facilities. She is Environment and Resources Protection in Minority Areas at the the cohost of VLS’s Hothouse Earth podcast. Central University for Nationalities. She teaches Comparative Environmental Law Research and Ecological Governance and Law MASON OVERSTREET LLM’19 in China. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF ATTORNEY, ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CLINIC REED ELIZABETH LODER LLM, JD, MELP, Vermont Law School; BS, PROFESSOR OF LAW University of Alabama. Formerly an LLM Toxics PhD, Boston University; JD, University of Fellow with the EAC, he has clerked with the Connecticut; AB, MA, Boston University. She Vermont Attorney General Environmental clerked for the Honorable Thomas P. Smith of Protection Division and served as a Fall Associate with the United States District Court in Bridgeport, Conservation Law Foundation and a Research Associate with the Connecticut. She then practiced law at the firm Earth Law Center. Prior to law school, he was the Conservation of Peckham, Lobel, Casey and Tye, in Boston, while teaching at Director for Friends of the West Shore in Lake Tahoe, California. Boston College Law School. Professor Loder joined the VLS faculty He is the cohost of VLS’s Hothouse Earth podcast. in 1989. Her article “Animal Dignity” appeared in Animal Law (Lewis and Clark, 2017). She teaches Animals and the Law. TADE OYEWUNMI ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND SENIOR ENERGY THOMAS MCHENRY RESEARCH SCHOLAR PROFESSOR OF LAW; PRESIDENT AND DEAN LLM, Oil and Gas Law, University of Aberdeen; JD, New York University Law School; MSF, Yale LLD, University of Eastern Finland; BL, Nigeria School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Law School. Professor Oyewunmi came to VLS BA, Yale College. He is a former partner at in 2019. Previously, he was a Research Fellow Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is Los Angeles, where at Tulane University Law School. He has been a Senior Researcher he practiced general environmental law with in International and European Energy Law and Policy at the Centre an emphasis on air quality, climate change, hazardous waste, for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law, at UEF, environmental diligence, land use, and energy issues. He served Finland, and Senior Counsel at Adepetun Caxton Martins Agbor & as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton, Chief United Segun in Nigeria. He teaches Energy Law and Policy and Oil and States District Judge of the Eastern District of California, in Gas Development and the Environment. Sacramento. He teaches Forest Policy and Law and New Frontiers in Environmental Policies.

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 13 PATRICK A . PARENTEAU CHRISTINE RYAN PROFESSOR OF LAW; SPECIAL COUNSEL, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW CLINIC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW LIBRARIAN JD, Creighton University; LLM, Environmental MA, Dartmouth College; MS in library Law, George Washington University; BS, Regis science, Simmons College; BA, University College. Former commissioner, Vermont of Connecticut. She is an experienced legal Department of Environmental Conservation; research instructor. She has created and general counsel for the Regional Office of U.S. EPA; continues to expand the VLS Environmental Law Research vice president for conservation, National Wildlife Federation; Guide, which links to carefully selected Internet resources that environmental counsel with Perkins Coie in Portland, Oregon; and support the practice of environmental law. She develops the former director, Environmental Law Center at VLS. He spent the environmental law collection of electronic resources and books fall 2018 semester on a Fulbright Fellowship at University College for VLS, and provides information services to the VLS community. Cork, Ireland. Professor Parenteau teaches Climate Change and the She published LibGuide, “Archived Environmental Information Law; Climate, Extinction, and Adaptation; and Water Quality. deleted from Federal Government Web Sites,” in 2017. Professor Ryan teaches Advanced Environmental Legal Research. SARAH REITER ’13 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; FACULTY DIRECTOR MELISSA SCANLAN OF ONLINE LEARNING PROFESSOR OF LAW JD, Vermont Law School; MS, College of JD, MS, University of California—Berkeley; BA, Charleston; BS, U.S. Naval Academy. A Catholic University of America. Prior to joining former meteorologist, Professor Reiter was VLS, she was the University of Wisconsin Law a commissioned United States Air Force School’s Water Law and Policy Scholar. She Officer. She has worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric received a competitive Equal Justice Works Administration, Stanford University’s Center for Ocean Solutions, Fellowship and an Echoing Green Fellowship to found and direct and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. She holds an Honorary Research Midwest Environmental Advocates. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Associate position at the University of Oxford. She teaches Associate Dean for the Environmental Law Program and Director Environmental Dispute Resolution, International Climate Change of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School. She Law, and Ocean and Coastal Law. spent the spring 2019 semester on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Alicante Law School in Spain. She is a visitor at JONATHAN ROSENBLOOM Boston College Law School in 2020. PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT EMILY SPIEGEL LLM, Economic Development, Sustainability, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW and Planning, ; JD, JD, Duke University; BS, Georgetown University New York Law School; BArch, Rhode Island School of Foreign Service. Before joining the School of Design. Professor Rosenbloom Center for Agriculture and Food Systems was the Dwight D. Opperman Distinguished Professor of Law at Vermont Law School in 2017, she was at Drake University Law School. He founded the Drake Law a consultant and law fellow at the Duke Fellowship in Sustainability and Local Ordinance Project. He co- University Environmental Law and Policy Clinic; a Development directs the Sustainable Development Code, which includes the Law Service Intern at the Food and Agriculture Organization best sustainability practices in land use through an evaluative in Rome, Italy; and an International Agricultural Development framework. He teaches State and Local Government. Specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. She teaches Introduction to Agriculture and KENNETH RUMELT LLM’12 Food Law and Policy. PROFESSOR OF LAW; SENIOR ATTORNEY, ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CLINIC RACHEL STEVENS LLM’16 JD, St. Louis University; LLM, Vermont Law ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF ATTORNEY, School; BA, University of Colorado. He has ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY CLINIC worked as a contract attorney with firms in St. LLM in Environmental Law, JD, Master of Louis, Missouri and Denver, Colorado on toxic Environmental Law and Policy, Vermont tort claims. Before law school, Mr. Rumelt spent two years as an Law School; BA, University of Georgia. She intern with the EPA National Hazardous Waste and Superfund previously worked as a law clerk at Stack & Ombudsman in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the VLS faculty, Associates P.C., a boutique environmental law and land use law Professor Rumelt served as a clinic fellow with the EAC. firm in Atlanta; at the Witcher Law Firm in Decatur, Georgia; and as an intern at the Office of the Georgia Capital Defenders. At JENNIFER RUSHLOW Vermont Law School, she received the Clinical Legal Education ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; ASSOCIATE DEAN, Association Outstanding Student Award. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM; DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER JD, Northeastern University School of Law; “WE ARE FACING A NEW LANDSCAPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES— Master’s in Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine; BA, Oberlin College. FROM GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TO OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, FROM FOOD Previously, she was a senior attorney for Conservation Law POLICY TO ENERGY IN A CARBON CONSTRAINED WORLD . OUR FACULTY Foundation and Director of Farm & Food. Prior to joining CLF in ARE TRAINING STUDENTS TO USE LAW AND POLICY TO ADDRESS THESE 2011, she was an associate at Anderson & Kreiger LLP. She argued and won a major climate change case before the Massachusetts CHALLENGES .” Supreme Judicial Court (Kain v. Department of Environmental Protection) in 2016. She teaches Air Pollution Law and Policy. —THOMAS MCHENRY, President and Dean, Professor of Law

14 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL EMERITUS FACULTY RICHARD O . BROOKS MARC MIHALY PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS LLB, Yale University; PhD, Brandeis University; JD, University of California—Berkeley; BA, BA, MA, University of Chicago. The founding Harvard University. He is the founding partner director of the Environmental Law Center and of the environmental law firm of Shute, former executive director of Thames Valley Mihaly and Weinberger in San Francisco, Council for Community Action, Inc., he is where his practice emphasized environmental, the author of Ecology and Law; coauthor of the environmental law regulatory, land use, appellate law, and complex negotiations. He book, Green Justice; author of a book on planning law, New Towns and was the President and Dean of Vermont Law School from 2012 to Communal Values; and author of a comprehensive book on Act 250, 2017. He teaches Land Transactions and Finance. Vermont’s landmark development-control law. L . KINVIN WROTH MICHAEL DWORKIN PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS; FOUNDING DIRECTOR, LLB, Harvard University; BA, Yale University. INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT He came to VLS as dean in 1996, after having JD, Harvard Law School; BA, Middlebury served as dean of the University of Maine College. He is past chair of the Vermont Public School of Law. As reporter and consultant to Service Board. He clerked for the D.C. Court of the ’s rules advisory Appeals and represented US EPA in appellate committees since 1969, he has drafted many of Vermont’s rules litigation. He has served as chair of the National Association of of procedure, evidence, and professional and judicial conduct, Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Committee on Energy Resources including rules to implement the expanded jurisdiction of the and the Environment. Environmental Court. STEPHEN DYCUS PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS LLM, Harvard University; BA, LLB, Southern Methodist University. Former visiting professor, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and visiting scholar, Natural Resources Defense Council. Former member of the Vermont Water Resources Board. Professor Dycus cowrote the casebook, National Security Law. He is the author of National Defense and the Environment and coauthor of Counterterrorism Law, 3rd ed.

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 15 ADJUNCT, ONLINE, AND SUMMER FACULTY DAVID ABEL KATHLEEN FALK STEVEN LETENDRE DANYA RUMORE Advanced Communications for Environmental Law Natural Resources Law Negotiating Environmental Environmental Advocates Former Regional Director, U.S. Principal Associate, Synapse Agreements Reporter, The Boston Globe Department of Health and Energy Economics Director, Environmental Dispute Human Services Resolution Program, Wallace CHRIS ADAMO ’04 EMILY LEVIN Stegner Center, University of The Farm Bill VICTOR FLATT End Use Energy Efficiency Utah Vice President for Federal and Environment and the Managing Consultant, Vermont Industry Affairs, Danone North Private Sector Energy Investment Corporation KATHLEEN SHEEHAN America Distinguished Scholar of Energy Regulation and Carbon Markets, Global JOHN D . MILLER, JR . ’09 the Environment ESTHER AKWII LLM’20 Energy Management Institute, Communications, Advocacy Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law Law and Policy of Local University of Houston Law and Leadership School Food Systems Center Vice President for Enrollment LLM Fellow, Center for Management, Marketing and ADRIENNE SOLER ’87 Agriculture and Food Systems, JOSEPH HALSO Communications, Vermont Law Administrative Law Vermont Law School Three Essentials of the School Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law Electric Grid School DON BAUR Staff Attorney, Sierra Club CLAYTON MITCHELL ’96 Ocean and Coastal Law Alternative Fuels and ALISON STONE Partner, Perkins Coie, LLP ANDREW HANSON Renewable Energy Energy Law and Policy Renewable Energy Project Partner, Revolution Energy LLC Assistant Attorney General, ARTURO BRANDT LLM’04 Finance and Development Environmental Division, Office Global Energy Law and Policy Senior Counsel, Environmental DAVID MURASKIN of the Vermont Attorney General Senior Broker, Latin American and Energy Regulatory Group, Food Impact Litigation Environmental Markets, Perkins Coie LLP Food Project Litigation Director, HOLLY GENEVA STOUT LLM’14 Tradition Green Public Justice Administrative Law DEBORAH L . HARRIS Attorney, California Department CHRISTOPHER BROOKS ’10 Environmental Crimes ROBERT PERCIVAL of Water Resources, California Environmental Law; Legislation Chief, Environmental Crimes Comparative U.S.-China Water Commission and Regulation Section, U.S. Department of Environmental Law Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law Justice Director, Environmental Law JOSHUA STURTEVANT School Program; Robert F. Stanton Alternative Fuels and BARRY E . HILL Professor of Law, University of Renewable Energy JENNIFER BYRNE MELP’19 Administrative Law; Maryland Francis King Carey Director of Acquisitions, Conservation Agriculture Policy Communications, Advocacy School of Law Nexamp Manager, White River Natural and Leadership Resources Conservation District Visiting Scholar, Environmental JESS PHELPS JOHANNA THIBAULT LLM’15 Law Institute Agriculture and the LLM Graduate Seminar; JAMES CATER Environment Oil and Gas Development Three Essentials of RANDOLPH HILL Associate General Counsel, The and the Environment the Electric Grid Environmental Enforcement Lyme Timber Company Associate, Plains Justice Independent Consultant and Compliance Director, Enforcement Targeting WALTER POLEMAN JACK TUHOLSKE ELIZABETH CHANT and Data Division, Office of Ecology Climate Change and the Law, End Use Energy Efficiency Compliance, EPA Senior Lecturer, Rubenstein Climate Change Mitigation, Managing Consultant, Optimal School of Environment and Water Resources Law Energy CARRIE JAMES LLM’16 Natural Resources, University of Attorney, Missoula, Montana Introduction to the Law and Vermont JONATHAN COPPESS Policy of Agriculture, Food, MADHAVI VENKATES, PHD The Farm Bill and the Environment BRIAN POTTS ’04 Environmental Economics Clinical Assistant Professor of Associate Chief Counsel, U.S. Renewable Energy Project and Markets Law and Policy, University of Food & Drug Administration Finance and Development Academic economist and Illinois Partner, Environmental and environmental activist MARK JAMES LLM’16 Energy Regulatory Group, ALANA DEGARMO Energy Law and Policy Perkins Coie LLP SAMANTHA WILLIAMS ’05 Communications, Advocacy Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law Three Essentials of the and Leadership School HEATHER D . RALLY Electric Grid Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law Animal Welfare Law Midwest Director, Climate and School JESSICA JAY ’97 Supervising Veterinarian, Clean Energy Program, Natural Land Conservation Law Captive Animal Law Resources Defense Council VERONICA EADY Founding Partner, Conservation Enforcement, PETA Environmental Justice Law, P.C. DELCIANNA WINDERS Assistant Executive Officer, CARI RINCKER Animal Welfare Law California Air Resources Board ROSS JONES ’00 Introduction to the Law and Assistant Clinical Professor; Science for Environmental Policy of Food and Agriculture Director, Animal Law Litigation TIM EICHENBERG Law; Natural Resources Law; Owner, Rincker Law, PLLC Clinic, Lewis & Clark Law School Ocean and Coastal Law Environmental Law Former Chief Counsel, San Senior Lecturer, Dartmouth CHRIS ROOT DAVID A . WIRTH Francisco Bay Conservation and College Three Essentials of the International Trade and Development Commission Electric Grid the Environment RYAN KANE Chief Operating Officer, Vermont Professor of Law, Boston College Environmental Law Electric Power Company Law School Assistant Attorney General, Environmental Division, Office of the Vermont Attorney General

16 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL SPECIAL EVENTS AND GUESTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020: The eleventh annual Colloquium on The Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use and Environmental Scholarship offers the opportunity for Planning Law series began in 2006. Featured speakers have environmental law scholars to present their works-in-progress included: and recent scholarship. The 2020 Colloquium takes place online. 2020: ANITA EARLS, Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme SEPTEMBER 24–25, 2020: The 21st Global Conference on Court, “Implications of Implicit Racial Bias for Environmental Taxation, for which VLS’s Environmental Tax Environmental Justice” Policy Institute is a lead organizer, is a virtual global event this year. The central theme of GCET21 is “Environmental Taxation in 2019: JOHN NOLON, Professor of Law, Pace University, “From the an Era of COVID-19.” More information about the conference is Ground Up: Local Water Legislation that Works” available at www.vermontlaw.edu/gcet21. 2018: THOMAS MITCHELL, Interim Dean and Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law, “How to Address Racial Disparity in Property Ownership”

The Environmental Law Center’s Distinguished Environmental UMA OUTKA, Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Summer Scholars spend two weeks meeting with students and 2017: Law, “Shifting Energy Landscapes” faculty and presenting lectures on their current work. The 2021 scholars will be: 2016: PATRICIA SALKIN, Dean and Professor of Law at Touro Law BLAKE HUDSON, A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies; Center, “Gaming the Future: A Winning Strategy for Land Professor of Law, and Co-director of the Environment, Energy, and Use and Sustainable Development” Natural Resources Center, University of Houston Law Center 2015: MICHAEL GERRARD, the Andrew Sabin Professor of NATACHA MESA TEJEDA, Professor of Law, Universidad de la Habana, Professional Practice, Associate Chair of the Earth Institute, Cuba Columbia Law School, “Climate Change and Land Use Law: A Strategy to Avoid the Worst Impacts” EMILY M . BROAD LEIB, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Deputy Director of the Center 2014: LEE ANN FENNELL, Max Pam Professor of Law and Herbert for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar at the University of DAVID TAKACS, Professor of Law, University of California Hastings Chicago Law School, “Co-location, Co-location, Co-location: College of the Law Land Use and Housing Priorities Reimagined”

2013: ROBERT L . LIBERTY, Director of the Urban Sustainability Accelerator at Portland State University, “Rising to the Land Use Challenge: How Planners and Regulators Can Help Since 2003, Environmental Law Media Fellows have been Sustain Our Civilization” spending two weeks attending summer classes and giving lectures as part of our Hot Topics in Environmental Law brown bag lecture 2012: VICKI BEEN, Professor and Director of the Furman Center series. The 2021 fellows will be: for Real Estate and Urban Policy, NYU School of Law, “Explaining the Motivations Behind Land Use Regulation: PAMELA KING, E&E News New York City’s Rezonings of Almost One Quarter of ALEJANDRA BORUNDA, National Geographic Its Land” LISA HELD, Civil Eats

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