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Since its establishment in 1973, Vermont Law School has educated thousands of students on the basis of one ideal: “ALMOST EVERY ISSUE provide an expansive and challenging legal education rooted BEARS ON THE ENVIRONMENT in a commitment to civic values. VLS is a place where a IN SOME WAY, AND SOME OF THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUES dedicated and distinguished faculty cultivate a learning ARE ONES WE DON’T EVEN environment rich in cooperative spirit. THINK OF AS ENVIRONMENTAL— POLITICAL REFORM, SOCIAL The Environmental Law Center, which celebrated its 40th JUSTICE, AND EQUITY.” anniversary in 2018, has the largest graduate environmental —GUS SPETH, Senior Fellow law program in the country, consistently ranked among the best by U.S. News & World Report. Ours is a multidisciplinary program in law, policy, science, economics, and ethics for lawyers, law and graduate students, government officials, teachers, scientists, and citizen activists. The program addresses the need for environmental leaders who are skilled in working with environmental and public policy issues within the framework of the legal system—leaders prepared to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

Students in the Summer 2018 Global Energy Law and Policy class

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, certificate programs, (MFALP) is designed for students who want to develop the and the renowned Summer Session legal infrastructure needed to support sustainable food and agriculture 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 students to master’s degrees may be completed take advantage of our extensive food and agriculture law in as little as one year or up to five 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 agriculture 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

“A LEGAL EDUCATION CAN PREPARE YOU TO DO ALL SORTS OF THINGS, NOT JUST WORK IN A COURTROOM OR WITH STACKS OF PAPER.”

Over the past four decades, scores of VLS graduates from all degree programs have worked at the EPA —SCOTT CULLEN, JD’96, Executive Director, GRACE Communications Foundation

2 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS CERTIFICATES Vermont Law School students Certificates 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 certificates: institutions. ■ Certificate in Climate Law JD/Master of Environmental 1 ■ Certificate in Energy Law 1 Management with ■ Certificate in Food and Agriculture Law the Yale University School of Forestry and ■ Certificate in Land Use Law

Environmental Studies ■ Certificate 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, consulting firms, with the University of federal and state agencies, academic programs at other law Vermont School of Business schools, and private practice. Attendees include VLS JD, LLM, Administration and Master’s students; JD students from other law schools; 3 nonlaw graduate students; teachers; citizen advocates; MELP/Master of Science 4 practicing attorneys; planners; and state and federal agency in Natural Resources with personnel. Summer Session also includes the popular Hot the Rubenstein School of Topics in Environmental Law lecture series. Environment and Natural Resources at the CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION (CLE) 5 MELP/MBA with the Tuck Nondegree educational opportunities are available through the 4 School of Business at VLS Summer Session. Practicing attorneys can take summer courses or attend our summer lecture series for CLE credit.

VERMONT JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 5 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is entering its twentieth year of publishing on all facets of SUMMERS-ONLY MASTER’S PROGRAM environmental law. The journal staff seeks to provide a forum for JD students from any other law school may earn a master’s enlightened discussion on the emerging environmental issues degree from Vermont Law School with one summer of classes, affecting our local, regional, and global communities. The journal one summer externship, and at least one online course. Special is published exclusively online. VJEL is about environmental arrangements with the law schools at Boston College, Elon discourse and environmental action, and online publication University, Northeastern University, Quinnipiac University, the greatly embodies both. Please visit http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/. 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.

“AT VLS THEY EMBED IN YOU THE ETHIC OF ZEALOUS ADVOCACY FOR YOUR CLIENT, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THEY TELEGRAPH THAT OUTCOMES REQUIRE COLLABORATION AND RESOLVING COMPETING DEMANDS.”

—ADAM NECRASON JD/MELP’96, Founder and Managing Partner, Sirotkin & Necrason, PLLC

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 3 CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE AND FOOD SYSTEMS Institute The Center for Agriculture and Food ENVIRONMENT for Energy Systems at Vermont Law School houses and the the most comprehensive sustainable food The Institute for Energy and the Environment and agriculture law and policy program Environment is a national and world in the country. Building on Vermont’s energy policy resource with an advanced energy law reputation for food innovation and ethos and policy curriculum focused on the energy policy of the of environmental and social sustainability future. The Institute serves as a center for graduate research as well as VLS’s own legacy of producing food advocates and on the clean energy sector, with a year-round student-staffed entrepreneurs, the Center is developing the next generation Energy Clinic, working on legal and business models for of food and agriculture advocates who are changing food renewable energy development. Students learn how to work systems nationally and internationally for the better. As part with and improve America’s legal system in order to help of its mission, the Center also produces free resources for the humanity meet the challenges created by the energy sector. food and farm community that marry the law with cutting- The IEE’s faculty includes Kevin Jones, the Institute’s Director edge legal design. The Center benefits from an experienced and Professor; Jeannie Oliver LLM’15, Assistant Professor and legal and advocacy team, including Laurie Beyranevand ’03, Staff Attorney for the Energy Clinic; and Mark James LLM’16, Director; Sophia Kruszewski ’13, Clinic Director; Emily Spiegel, Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow with the Institute. The Assistant Professor; Lihlani Nelson, Associate Director; and Institute is also staffed by a program coordinator, a staff Claire Child ’16, Program Officer. The team has expertise in attorney, two student fellows, and approximately twenty JD, multiple areas relating to sustainable food systems, including LLM, and master’s students who serve as research associates environmental law, food law and policy, animal law, agroecology, and clinicians. urban planning, and international food security, to create a robust and comprehensive program. INSTITUTE AND ENERGY CLINIC PROJECTS ■ Developing legal and business models promoting community CENTER INITIATIVES solar ownership with a focus on increasing low income solar ■ Launch one of the first food and agriculture law clinics in the ownership and advocating for climate justice nation pioneering development of legal solutions to support ■ Research funded by regional NGO’s analyzing competing diversified, sustainable food systems through research, proposals for reaching 100% renewable energy, and by national strategic partnerships, and creative media advocacy organizations developing effective state policies that ■ Improve access to farmland by new farmers through the Land promote coordinated and adequately funded effort to make the Tenure Project, which provides legal resources and tools for nation’s electric grid more resistant to all threats new and beginning farmers ■ Collaborating with the Center for Agriculture and Food ■ Reduce food waste through the National Gleaning Project, Systems on our new Farm and Energy Initiative, which unites which provides a unique hub to help expand gleaning our interests in the economic health of farms and sustainable organizations in order to reduce food waste and food energy production insecurity ■ Authoring books such as The Electric Battery: Charging Forward to ■ Elevate local food law and policy innovations through the a Low Carbon Future; A Smarter, Greener Grid: Forging Environmental Healthy Food Policy Project Progress from Smart Energy Policies and Technologies; and Global Energy Justice ■ Advocate for migrant dairy workers through a bilingual legal guide explaining worker rights ■ Publications on climate refugees, community choice aggregation, smart cities and microgrids, federal tax incentives for small scale hydro, electric vehicle charging policy, and stakeholder governance in Regional Transmission Organizations “THE CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL LAW AND POLICY EDUCATION BY PROVIDING A DIVERSE, SYSTEMS- BASED CURRICULUM IN COMBINATION WITH REAL WORLD “OUR PASSION AND SPECIAL TRAINING IS CONCERNED WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO ENGAGE IN FOOD SYSTEMS THE ENERGY POLICY OF THE FUTURE. THAT’S OUR STRENGTH— RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY WORK.” AND THAT’S WHERE WE’RE PLACING OUR GRADUATES.”

—LAURIE BEYRANEVAND, Director, Center for Agriculture —KEVIN JONES, Director, Institute for and Food Systems Energy and the Environment

4 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL Students and faculty visit the VLS solar array, which provides 50% of the school’s electricity

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLINIC PROJECTS ■ Represented residents of Graniteville, Vermont, suffering from NATURAL RESOURCES excessive dust and fumes caused by rock crushers sited in their community

LAW CLINIC ■ Weighing in on a Supreme Court case about the critically endangered Mississippi Gopher Frog Since 2003, the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic has provided hands-on learning opportunities for law students, ■ Participating in a relicensing procedure for a nuclear power achieving environmental protection goals and representing facility in Miami to ensure climate change concerns are clients who otherwise would not have the resources for legal addressed during the process representation. The clinic provides a structured, supportive ■ Assisting water organizations in Alabama to participate in a setting in which students develop skills in environmental state-level process to fight shortcomings in Alabama’s water advocacy, litigation, administrative processes, and client protections interaction. A faculty of experienced environmental attorneys ■ Partnering with Earthjustice to advocate for a community in and professionals work closely with the student teams on each Newark, New Jersey, surrounded by polluting facilities case or project, including Jill Witkowski Heaps, Director; Ken Rumelt, Senior Attorney; Patrick Parenteau, Senior ■ Challenging illegal pesticide spraying in a Vermont community Counsel; Rachel Stevens, Staff Attorney; Mason Overstreet, LLM Fellow; and Monica Litzelman, Litigation Paralegal. The students have worked on an impressive array of matters in various federal and state courts, including the Vermont and ENTREPRENEURSHIP United States Supreme Courts. AND LEGAL LAB

VLS’s Entrepreneurship and Legal Lab (VSELL) is a novel, new “WORKING AT THE CLINIC HAS GIVEN ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO collaboration between Vermont attorneys, business leaders, USE MY KNOWLEDGE, MAKE PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS, and government officials to provide free or low-cost legal IMPROVE MY RESEARCH AND WRITING SKILLS, AND WORK ON assistance to entrepreneurs who are seeking to launch new ISSUES THAT FUEL MY PASSION. THE HANDS-ON LEARNING green and sustainable businesses. The VSELL program will train THAT WE EXPERIENCE AT THE ENRLC IS PREPARING US FOR law students interested in learning how to practice business law, while supporting a broader state effort to encourage more OUR FUTURES AS ATTORNEYS. THE CLINIC EXPERIENCE IS business startups. Trey Martin ’08, Of Counsel to Downs EDUCATIONAL AND INSPIRING. DAILY, IT CONFIRMS THAT I Rachlin Martin PLLC, is VSELL’s Attorney Advisor. CHOSE THE RIGHT CAREER PATH.”

—TRISTAN J. DURAND ’18

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 5 U.S.-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law is U.S.-Asia a collaborative program to PARTNERSHIPS FOR advance environmental and Environmental Law energy law and policy in AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL China and throughout Asia. The goal of the partnership, 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, the partnership’s goals were to NEW ECONOMY LAW CENTER strengthen the capacity of Chinese education, government, and The New Economy Law Center is a community of law and civil society sectors to become effective environmental problem policy scholars who are part of the New Economy movement solvers; to improve China’s policies, laws, and regulations to that has emerged to provide an alternative system where advance the development of environmental law in China; and ecological integrity, social justice, and vibrant democracy are to enhance municipal, provincial, national, and international central. Gus Speth and Melissa Scanlan co-founded the center networks in China to advance best practices in environmental in 2015 to engage students and faculty at VLS and throughout protection and energy regulation. Building upon the success the world. While the movement is informed by and engaged it has achieved in China, the partnership has expanded its with the work of multiple disciplines, the center is focused on geographic scope in an effort to respond to the environmental the development of law and policy. The scholars and lawyers governance needs of the region. Siu Tip Lam, a former involved share ideas, best practices, and curricula to educate assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection the next generation of leaders in policy and law. The center Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, is the sponsors symposia, scholarship, and internships to create Director. The program’s staff includes ProfessorYanmei Lin, a lively forum for exploring the role of policy and law in Associate Director, and William J. Schulte LLM’14 and Xiaoyu transitioning to a new economy. Melissa Scanlan directs the Zhang LLM’16 as Assistant Directors, along with two fellows, center, working closely with VLS senior fellows Gus Speth, two support staff, and VLS faculty advisors. Kevin Jones, Patrick Parenteau, and Jennifer Taub. PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS CENTER INITIATIVES ■ Provide environmental governance training in Myanmar, to ■ Used the NELC Fellow-written book, Law and Policy for a New give stakeholders a range of legal and policy tools that can be Economy: Sustainable, Just, and Democratic, Melissa K. Scanlan, ed., adopted to provide broad scale protection of the country’s key Edward Elgar (2017), in teaching an advanced environmental biodiversity areas policy seminar and are providing teaching materials based on ■ Launch an Environmental Mission Scholars program to provide that experience to any professors who would like to use this experiential training to young legal professionals from China to book in their courses become environmental advocates and stewards ■ Provided a four-part series on system change, invigorating ■ Train stakeholders, including judges and prosecutors, to apply local economies, running for elected office, and reforming and enforce environmental laws and take steps to increase funding of political campaigns, that has reached over 80,000 the role prosecutors could play in civil enforcement of people and is available online environmental laws ■ Continued the “VLS New Economy Law and Policy Forum, a ■ Provide opportunities for VLS students to work on cutting-edge Speaker Series on Building a Sustainable, Just, and Democratic research projects relating to environmental issues in China Future,” a global education platform to engage the public at and throughout Southeast Asia VLS and online. This fall it features events on transforming ■ Provide opportunities for regional dialogues among the corporation to be a positive force of social and stakeholders to share experiences and lessons learned in environmental change. developing an effective environmental governance system in light of the local conditions “ENVIRONMENTAL SUCCESS DEPENDS ON CORRECTING THE UNDERLYING DRIVERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE AND WORKING FOR DEEP, SYSTEMIC CHANGE.”

—GUS SPETH, Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of the New Economy Law Center at VLS

6 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL TAX POLICY INSTITUTE

The Environmental Tax Policy Institute analyzes the ways in which taxation can be used to address environmental problems. By serving as a resource for the public and private sectors, nongovernmental organizations, the press, and academia, the Institute seeks to better inform the public policy debate about the role of environmental taxes at the federal, state and local levels. Janet E. Milne, the Institute’s director, has devoted her career to matters involving taxation, the legislative process, and the environment. She has taught environmental tax policy at VLS since 1994. INSTITUTE PROJECTS ■ Active participant in the Global Conferences on Environmental Taxation; the 19th Global Conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2018

■ Analysis of proposals for carbon taxes at the state level, including bills introduced in Northeastern states, Oregon and Washington, as well as the relationship between carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs

WATER AND JUSTICE ■ Sharing of knowledge about other countries’ use of carbon PROGRAM taxes ■ Development of The Handbook of Research on Environmental Taxation, The Water and Justice Program focuses on water law, edited by Janet E. Milne and Mikael Skou Andersen, and , and policy initiatives to further Environmental Taxation and the Law, edited by Professor Milne shared use of water as a public, common-pool resource. ■ Research on how environmentally related taxes might help Student research associates contribute to reports, conference finance climate change adaptation, published as “Storms presentations, legal analyses, and articles to support the Ahead” in the Vermont Law Review program’s work. A cohort of the nation’s leading water law professors and lawyers constitute this program, including VLS’s ■ U.S. contributor to a European project evaluating tax incentives own Jack Tuholske and Jill Witkowski Heaps, along with Elena that preserve cultural heritage Mihaly, Staff Attorney at Conservation Law Foundation, and ■ Investigation of the potential role of environmental pricing in Jon Groveman, Policy and Water Program Director at Vermont the emerging digital economy Natural Resources Council. Students often work directly with ■ Invaluable research by VLS students throughout these projects NGO staff or attorneys for a “hands on” practical experience. PROGRAM PROJECTS ■ Public interest research and advocacy, with a special emphasis LAND USE LAW on fostering application of the public trust doctrine, by Sustainable development, ecology planning, siting of energy working with local, regional, and national NGOs to further installations, permitting processes, and the scope of eminent public rights in water domain: the legal and planning aspects of these current issues ■ Partner with the University of Toledo School of Law to publish are part of Vermont Law School’s extensive land use curriculum. a report entitled “Moving Forward: Legal Solutions to Lake Our courses include Ecology, Ecosystem Conservation Strategies, Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms” Environmental Dispute Resolution, Land and the Law of Takings, Land Conservation Law, Land Transactions and Finance, Land Use Regulation, Law of Ecosystem Management, Public Lands “EXPANDING DEMANDS FOR WATER, COMBINED WITH Management, and Watershed Management and Protection. VLS ANTICIPATED REDUCTIONS IN WATER SUPPLY IN MANY hosts the annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use and Planning Law. PARTS OF THE COUNTRY DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, REQUIRE MORE EFFECTIVE PUBLIC GOVERNANCE OF PUBLIC WATER RESOURCES.”

—JOHN ECHEVERRIA, Professor of Law

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 7 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY

Environmental issues are global issues. The unique opportunities at Vermont Law School prepare our graduates to be leaders in international environmental law and policy. A curriculum of over one dozen international environmental courses is further enhanced by study opportunities through our partnerships with leading foreign universities. Hands-on learning through experiential courses, externships, and clinics rounds out the academic experience. CUTTING-EDGE COURSES ■ Environmental Governance in the Developing World

■ Global Energy Law and Policy

■ Global Food Security

■ International Trade and the Environment

■ Peace, War, and the Environment

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THROUGH COURSES, EXTERNSHIPS, AND CLINICS ■ In the International Climate Change course, students serve on VLS’s observer delegation, attending the COP and supporting a LDC state party delegation to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations through a service-learning partnership

■ In JD Semesters in Practice and Masters Externships, students have interned for a variety of international environmental law actors, including the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) in Geneva; Refugee Legal Aid Project in Cairo; UN Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development; and the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice

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)

“INTERNATIONAL INEQUITY BROUGHT ME TO LAW SCHOOL, AND I SEE CLIMATE CHANGE AS THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT OUR SPECIES HAS EVER FACED. I PLAN TO FIGHT TO PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE FROM THE RESOURCE ABUSES OF THE MOST POWERFUL.”

—JULIA MUENCH JD’18, former Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, VLS Environmental Mission Scholar

8 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL Fall 2018 entering JD and master’s students visit the Vermont state capitol

ENVIRONMENTAL RECENT EXTERNSHIPS ■ Center for International Environmental Law

DISPUTE RESOLUTION ■ Conservation Law Foundation

Thirty years ago VLS launched one of the nation’s first programs ■ EarthJustice Coal Program to teach the skills of dispute resolution—negotiation, mediation, ■ EarthRights International and arbitration—that provide highly effective methods of ■ Environmental Defense Fund achieving client needs by cooperation outside of the courtroom. Through courses such as Environmental Dispute Resolution, ■ Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Negotiation, and Mediation Advocacy, the Dispute Resolution ■ Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission Clinic, competitions, externships, and research, the VLS Dispute ■ Food and Water Watch Resolution Program offers instruction to students from across the globe. Courses are taught by experienced practitioners and ■ Midwest Environmental Advocates accomplished scholars including VLS Professor Sean Nolon and ■ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Cathy Costantino, Counsel at the Federal Deposit Insurance ■ Natural Resources Defense Council Corporation (FDIC). Dispute resolution skills are critically important to ■ RiverKeeper environmental professionals. The complex nature of ■ Texas Water Development Board environmental disputes, the involvement of multiple parties, ■ The Hershey Company, Corporate Social Responsibility and the overlapping legal jurisdictions characteristic of Department environmental disputes mean that every dispute resolution technique must be considered. ■ U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section

■ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENVIRONMENTAL ■ USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service EXTERNSHIPS ■ Western Environmental Law Center 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 worldwide. In the Semester in Practice program and the Judicial Externship program, JD students spend a full semester off campus in a governmental, public interest, or private legal setting under the direct supervision of an experienced attorney or judge.

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 9 THE CURRICULUM

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW CLIMATE CHANGE: ENERGY REGULATION, ENVIRONMENTAL The implementation of THE POWER OF TAXES MARKETS, AND THE GOVERNANCE IN THE legislative policy through How tax systems can be ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPING WORLD administrative agencies used to reduce greenhouse The legal, economic, and The challenges to developing gases and develop more structural issues involved in and implementing strong ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL environmentally compatible both energy regulation and environmental governance LEGAL RESEARCH technologies energy markets, focusing on systems in the developing The most useful, efficient electricity world strategies and resources for COMMUNICATIONS, ADVOCACY, environmental law research AND LEADERSHIP ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW The skills to advocate, TRANSACTIONS The law pertaining to AIR POLLUTION LAW counsel, investigate, Liability, diligence, and environmental issues such as AND POLICY persuade, research, and drafting issues in complex population, economic growth, A detailed reading of educate environmental business energy, and pollution the Clean Air Act and an transactions exploration of the major COMPARATIVE EXTINCTION AND statutory provisions ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH SEMINAR RESOLUTION The ecological, social, and ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND A research and writing Alternative dispute resolution ethical consequences of RENEWABLE ENERGY seminar that provides a processes for resolving climate change and various The local, state, and federal framework for students complex, multiparty legal and policy options to laws and policies that govern to engage in comparative environmental disputes address it transition to renewable environmental law research energy sources ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS THE FARM BILL CULTURE AND THE AND MARKETS An introduction to the ANIMAL LAW AND ETHICS ENVIRONMENT How market-based breadth of policies and legal The laws, doctrines, and A cross-cultural study of the tools to protect the authorities included in the policies that address human interaction of humans and environment work, their Farm Bill interactions with animals the environment with legal basic assumptions, and the anthropology challenges they face during FEDERAL REGULATION OF implementation ANIMAL WELFARE LAW FOOD AND AGRICULTURE The rapidly evolving field of ECOLOGY An overview of the Farm law concerning the welfare A field course on an ENVIRONMENTAL Bill and other laws that of animals used for human integrative science that can ENFORCEMENT AND affect growing policy, purposes, and laws used in provide insight into many COMPLIANCE animal husbandry, and food wildlife conservation contemporary environmental The theory and practice of production problems enforcement of the federal pollution control laws CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD REGULATION THE LAW END USE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND POLICY How existing laws may The reasons for, techniques ENVIRONMENTAL Current policies regarding address climate change of, and results from energy ETHICS SEMINAR food regulation and how to and how new, more efficiency measures around The foundations of effectively advocate for policy comprehensive laws may be the U.S. environmental reasoning: changes fashioned intrinsic value theory, ENERGY LAW AND POLICY biocentrism, ecofeminism, FOOD JUSTICE AND deep ecology, and spirituality CLIMATE CHANGE Key issues in American SUSTAINABILITY MITIGATION energy policy, and ways The policies and programs The legal, policy, and to ease the strains that ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE that could help create a Good economic issues in our the policy puts upon Discrimination and justice Food environment attempt to mitigate our environmental sustainability concerns about the carbon footprint and reduce benefits and burdens of GLOBAL ENERGY LAW greenhouse gasses environmental protection AND POLICY and natural resource Energy policy frameworks, management policies implementing global and regional climate commitments, and emerging issues outside of the U.S

10 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY The legal landscape of global hunger

INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW A study of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol; students represent LAW OF ANIMALS IN OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION REPRESENTING FARMERS VLS at COP as members of its AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOOD PRODUCERS Observer Delegation The laws and market The major contracts used The nuts and bolts of pressures affecting the to explore for and produce providing legal services INTERNATIONAL conditions of farmed animals oil and gas in the U.S. and to farmers and food ENVIRONMENTAL LAW internationally entrepreneurs AND POLICY LAW AND POLICY OF LOCAL The structure and basic FOOD SYSTEMS PEACE, WAR, AND THE SCIENCE FOR principles of international A study of policies that ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL LAW environmental law and policy affect distribution of food International environmental The science most relevant to and state-level initiatives to law, the law of armed environmental law, including INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND bolster local food markets conflict, and international climate science, air and THE ENVIRONMENT humanitarian law water pollution, toxicology, The intersection and LAW OF TOXIC AND and endangered species frequent clash between HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES PUBLIC HEALTH AND U.S. management trade liberalization and How government agencies FOOD AND AGRICULTURE environmental protection manage the public health POLICY THREE ESSENTIALS OF THE and environmental risks of Diverse public health issues ELECTRIC GRID INTRODUCTION AGRICULTURE hazardous waste and toxic and the debate about food Fundamental legal, AND FOOD LAW AND POLICY substances systems and sustainability engineering, and business A survey of American law knowledge for energy affecting agriculture and food LEGAL ADAPTATIONS TO PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT: professionals and the traditional divisions GLOBAL WARMING IMPACTS MONTANA FIELD STUDY between agriculture, food, The legal challenges raised Montana provides the venue WATER QUALITY and environmental regulation by the unavoidable need for for a comparative study of The Clean Water Act, the Safe our society to adapt to the the competing legal mandates Drinking Water Act and the LAND CONSERVATION LAW impacts of global warming and diverse philosophies of Ocean Dumping Act The legal issues around federal land management donation of conservation NATIVE AMERICANS AND WATER RESOURCES LAW easements and private/ THE LAW REGULATING THE MARINE The allocation of water public partnerships for land The constitutional, statutory, ENVIRONMENT among competing conservation and jurisprudential rules of The interaction of state, claimants—for consumptive law which make up the field federal, and international uses, waste disposal, LAND USE REGULATION of Federal Indian Law regimes in the regulation of recreation, and other The traditional legal controls the marine environment purposes available to regulate the NATURAL RESOURCES LAW use of land, including local The statutes and regulations RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT zoning ordinances and governing the management FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT subdivision regulations of the federal lands and their Legal and policy issues resources associated with the LAND TRANSACTIONS development and project AND FINANCE OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW financing of renewable How land is divided and The natural components energy projects transferred, including an of estuarine, coastal, and introduction to the title marine ecosystems and some system, title insurance, and of the conservation issues Available online and on campus Available online only land contracts confronting them

WWW.VERMONTLAW.EDU/ELC 11 ENVIRONMENTAL FACULTY

The environmental faculty members at Vermont Law School are teachers who know the law, work at their craft, and care about their students; scholars who challenge conventional wisdom and push the envelope of knowledge; and professionals who respect environmental values, enjoy what they do, and devote their talents to making the world a better place.

TRACY BACH MICHAEL DWORKIN PROFESSOR OF LAW PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS; FOUNDING MA, JD, University of Minnesota; BA, Yale DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE University. She clerked for the Honorable ENVIRONMENT Harriet Lansing of the Minnesota Court JD, ; BA, Middlebury of Appeals. In 2002, Professor Bach was a College. He is past chair of the Vermont Public visiting professor at the National University Service Board. He clerked for the D.C. Court of Rwanda Faculty of Law in Butare, Rwanda. She specializes of Appeals and represented US EPA in appellate litigation. He in health care law and international human rights, especially has served as chair of the National Association of Regulatory concerning genocide. She teaches International Climate Change Utility Commissioners’ Committee on Energy Resources and the Law, and leads the VLS Observer Delegation at the United Nations Environment. He is coauthor of Global Energy Justice: Principles, Framework Convention on Climate Change each year. Problems and Practices (Cambridge 2014).

LAURIE BEYRANEVAND ’03 STEPHEN DYCUS PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR PROFESSOR OF LAW AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS; ASSOCIATE LLM, Harvard University; BA, LLB, Southern DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Methodist University. Former visiting JD, Vermont Law School; BA, Rutgers College. professor, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Before joining the faculty at VLS, she was a and visiting scholar, Natural Resources Defense staff attorney with the Disability Law Project Council. Former member of the Vermont of Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. She has served as a judicial law clerk Water Resources Board. Professor Dycus cowrote the case book, to the Honorable Marie E. Lihotz, PJFP, in New Jersey and in the National Security Law, and is the author of National Defense and the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, Environmental Unit. Environment. He is coauthor of Counterterrorism Law, 3rd ed. (2017). She was appointed to serve on the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Academic Programs Committee for a three year term beginning in JOHN D. ECHEVERRIA 2014. Professor Beyranevand teaches Food Regulation and Policy. PROFESSOR OF LAW JD, Yale University; MSF, Yale School of RICHARD O. BROOKS Forestry and Environmental Studies; BA, PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS Yale College. He was the executive director LLB, Yale University; PhD, Brandeis University; of the Georgetown Environmental Law and BA, MA, University of Chicago. The founding Policy Institute at Georgetown University director of the Environmental Law Center and Law Center from 1997–2009. He has produced several books and former executive director of Thames Valley numerous articles on the private property rights issue, land Council for Community Action, Inc., he is use management, and natural resource management. He has the author of Ecology and Law; coauthor of the environmental law organized the annual conference on Litigating Takings Challenges book, Green Justice; author of a book on planning law, New Towns and to Land Use and Environmental Regulations for twenty years. He Communal Values; and author of a comprehensive book on Act 250, teaches Water Resources Law, Legal Adaptation to Global Warming Vermont’s landmark development-control law. Impacts, and the LLM Graduate Seminar.

GENEVIEVE BYRNE DAVID FIRESTONE STAFF ATTORNEY, FARM AND ENERGY INITIATIVE PROFESSOR OF LAW JD, Lewis and Clark College of Law; BA, Vassar JD, Harvard University; BS, Wayne State College. She has worked as an attorney at University. Former attorney, U.S. Department Byrne Law, PC, and at EcoLaw. She was a of Housing and Urban Development; visiting Natural Resources Law Clerk at the Vermont fellow in the faculty of laws, King’s College, Legislative Council, a Consultant Sustainability England; and seminar leader for the U.S. Analyst for the Sustainability Roundtable, Inc., and a legislative Information Agency in Eastern Europe, Austria, and Micronesia. intern at American Farmland Trust. The fifth edition of his book Environmental Law for Non-Lawyers was published in 2014. He teaches Environmental Law.

12 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL JILL WITKOWSKI HEAPS SOPHIA KRUSZEWSKI ’13 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, CLINIC DIRECTOR, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES CLINIC LAW CLINIC JD, Vermont Law School; BS, University JD, Washington University in St. Louis; BA, of Michigan. At the National Sustainable University of Notre Dame. She joined the Agriculture Coalition, she focused on the Food Environmental and Natural Resources Law Safety Modernization Act, Farm Bill, and Clean Clinic in 2017 with a robust background as a clinical educator, Water Act. She has worked for the Center for Food Safety and the having served as Deputy Director of the Tulane Environmental White House Council on Environmental Quality, and interned with Law Clinic for several years. She currently serves as Vice-Chair the Honorable Judge Paul L. Friedman of the Federal District Court of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, an EPA for the District of Columbia. Federal Advisory Committee on environmental justice. SIU TIP LAM HILLARY HOFFMANN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; PROFESSOR OF LAW DIRECTOR, U.S.-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR JD, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University ENVIRONMENTAL LAW of Utah; BA . She directed JD, Northeastern University School of Law; the Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship AB, Harvard University. She was an assistant at Vermont Law School from 2012–2015 and attorney general in the Environmental serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Agriculture and Food Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Systems. She serves on the Sierra Club Litigation Committee, Office, where she handled a variety of cases enforcing the Native American Rights Fund Supreme Court Working environmental laws and regulations. She worked as a litigation Group, and she has written numerous articles, blog posts, and associate at the Boston law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & general commentary on energy, tribal land and resource rights, Gesmer. and climate adaptation in natural resources law and policy. She teaches Native Americans and the Law and Natural Resources Law. MARK LATHAM PROFESSOR OF LAW MARK JAMES LLM’16 JD, University of California—Berkeley; BSN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; SENIOR Illinois Wesleyan University. Prior to joining FELLOW, INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE the VLS faculty, he was a partner and chair of the environmental practice group at Gardner, ENVIRONMENT Carton, and Douglas (now Drinker, Biddle LLM in Energy Law, Vermont Law School; JD, and Reath) in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He specializes in University of Ottawa. He served as an IEE Global a wide range of environmental issues that arise in corporate Energy Fellow from 2014 to 2016. His current and commercial real estate transactions and brownfields work explores privacy protections for data generated by smart redevelopment. He teaches Environmental Law and Environmental meters and rooftop solar arrays. His prior work includes leading Issues in Business Transactions. a research team on a multi-year SunShot Plug and Play project to commercialize adhered solar PV panel technology and researching federal hydropower production tax credits. He teaches Energy Law YANMEI LIN and Policy and Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, U.S.-ASIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR KEVIN JONES ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROFESSOR OF ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AND LLM, New York University; Master of Law, POLICY; DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY Fudan University; BA, Fudan University. Ms. Lin was a program officer for the American AND THE ENVIRONMENT Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative’s China program for PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally more than 3 years, managing and implementing projects in School of Management and Technology; the areas of environmental law, open government information Masters, LBJ School of Public Affairs, and civil society development in China. Prior to that, she was a University of Texas at Austin; BS, University of Vermont. Dr. Jones lecturer and researcher for China Institute of Environment and has been the Director of Power Market Policy for the Long Island Resources Protection in Minority Areas at the Central University Power Authority and the Director of Energy Policy for the City of for Nationalities. She teaches the Comparative Environmental New York. His book The Electric Battery was published in 2017. He Law Research Seminar and Environmental Governance in the teaches Energy Regulation, Markets, and the Environment and Developing World. Environmental Economics and Markets.

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REED ELIZABETH LODER JEANNIE OLIVER LLM ’14 PROFESSOR OF LAW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF PhD, Boston University; JD, University of ATTORNEY, ENERGY CLINIC Connecticut; AB, MA, Boston University. She LLM in American Legal Studies, LLM in clerked for the Honorable Thomas P. Smith of Environmental Law, Vermont Law School; LLB, the United States District Court in Bridgeport, University of Auckland. She served as a judge’s Connecticut. She then practiced law at the clerk at the New Zealand Court of Appeal; as firm of Peckham, Lobel, Casey and Tye, in Boston, while teaching legal counsel for the New Zealand Commerce Commission; and in at Boston College Law School. Professor Loder joined the VLS private practice in a corporate law firm in Auckland. Most recently, faculty in 1989. Her article “Animal Dignity” appeared in Animal Law she was a staff attorney at the Vermont Department of Public (Lewis and Clark, 2017). She teaches Animal Law and Ethics and Service where she focused on renewable energy facilities. Environmental Ethics. PATRICK A. PARENTEAU THOMAS MCHENRY PROFESSOR OF LAW; SPECIAL COUNSEL, PROFESSOR OF LAW; PRESIDENT AND DEAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES JD, New York University Law School; MSF, Yale LAW CLINIC School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; JD, Creighton University; LLM, Environmental BA, Yale College. He is a former partner at Law, George Washington University; BS, Regis Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is Los Angeles, where College. Former commissioner, Vermont he practiced general environmental law with Department of Environmental Conservation; general counsel for an emphasis on air quality, climate change, hazardous waste, the Regional Office of U.S. EPA; vice president for environmental diligence, land use, and energy issues. He served conservation, National Wildlife Federation; environmental counsel as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton, Chief United with Perkins Coie in Portland, Oregon; and former director, States District Judge of the Eastern District of California, in Environmental Law Center at VLS. He will spend the fall 2018 Sacramento. semester on a Fulbright Fellowship at University College Cork, Ireland. Professor Parenteau teaches Climate Change and the Law, MARC MIHALY Extinction and Climate Change, and Water Quality. PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS JD, University of California—Berkeley; BA, KENNETH RUMELT LLM’12 Harvard University. He is the founding partner PROFESSOR OF LAW; SENIOR ATTORNEY, of the environmental law firm of Shute, ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES Mihaly and Weinberger in San Francisco, LAW CLINIC where his practice emphasized environmental, JD, St. Louis University; LLM, Vermont Law regulatory, land use, appellate law, and complex negotiations. He School; BA, University of Colorado. He has was the President and Dean of Vermont Law School from 2012 to worked as a contract attorney with firms in 2017. He teaches Land Transactions and Finance. St. Louis, Missouri and Denver, Colorado on toxic tort claims. Before law school, Mr. Rumelt spent two years as an intern with JANET E. MILNE the EPA National Hazardous Waste and Superfund Ombudsman PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the VLS faculty, Professor ENVIRONMENTAL TAX POLICY INSTITUTE Rumelt served as a clinic fellow with the ENRLC. He teaches JD, Georgetown University Law Center; BA, Environmental Law. Williams College. She has served as an attorney for the Washington Post, as an attorney with JENNIFER RUSHLOW the Washington firm of Covington and Burling, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW; ASSOCIATE and as Senator Lloyd Bentsen’s staff member responsible for tax, DEAN, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM; international trade, and health care issues. She is the editor of DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER Environmental Taxation and the Law (2017). She teaches Climate JD, Northeastern University School of Law; Change: The Power of Taxes and Land Use Regulation. Master’s in Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine; BA, Oberlin College. SEAN NOLON She came to VLS from the Conservation Law Foundation, where PROFESSOR OF LAW; VICE DEAN FOR FACULTY she was a senior attorney for CLF Massachusetts and Director JD, Pace University School of Law; BA, Cornell of Farm & Food, leading CLF’s New England-wide advocacy on University. In his positions as director of agriculture and food issues. She also worked on clean energy the Land Use Law Center and as executive and transportation at CLF. Prior to joining CLF in 2011, she was director of the Theodore W. Kheel Center on an associate at Anderson & Kreiger LLP, where she worked on Environmental Solutions at Pace University a range of environmental, land use, and municipal issues. Ms. School of Law, he designed and implemented curricular offerings Rushlow argued and won a major climate change case before the as well as web-based services to facilitate distance learning. He Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Kain v. Department of served as an associate at Melito & Adolfsen, coordinating litigation Environmental Protection) in 2016. in environmental cases and class actions. Professor Nolon teaches Environmental Dispute Resolution.

14 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT VERMONT LAW SCHOOL RACHEL STEVENS LLM’16 CHRISTINE RYAN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; STAFF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW; ATTORNEY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW LIBRARIAN RESOURCES LAW CLINIC MA, Dartmouth College; MS in library LLM in Environmental Law, JD, Master of science, Simmons College; BA, University Environmental Law and Policy, Vermont of Connecticut. She is an experienced legal Law School; BA, University of Georgia. She research instructor. She has created and previously worked as a law clerk at Stack & Associates P.C., a continues to expand the VLS Environmental Law Research boutique environmental law and land use law firm in Atlanta; at Guide, which links to carefully selected Internet resources that the Witcher Law Firm in Decatur, Georgia; and as an intern at the support the practice of environmental law. She develops the Office of the Georgia Capital Defenders. At Vermont Law School, environmental law collection of electronic resources and books she received the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding for VLS, and provides information services to the VLS community. Student Award. She published LibGuide, “Archived Environmental Information deleted from Federal Government Web Sites,” in 2017. Ms. Ryan teaches Advanced Environmental Legal Research. JACK TUHOLSKE PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR, WATER AND JUSTICE PROGRAM MELISSA SCANLAN JD, University of Montana. As a private PROFESSOR OF LAW; DIRECTOR OF THE NEW practitioner in Montana, he specializes in public ECONOMY LAW CENTER interest environmental litigation throughout JD, MS, University of California—Berkeley; the West. In recognition of his work on behalf BA, Catholic University of America. Prior of public interest groups, he was awarded the Kerry Rydberg Award to joining VLS, she was the University of in 2010 by the University of Oregon Public Interest Environmental Wisconsin Law School’s Water Law and Law Conference. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2009, he taught courses Policy Scholar. She received a competitive Equal Justice Works in climate change and comparative environmental law at the Fellowship and an Echoing Green Fellowship to found and direct University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Professor Tuholske teaches Midwest Environmental Advocates, Wisconsin’s first non-profit Climate Change Mitigation, Natural Resources Law, Public Lands environmental law center. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Management, and the Montana Field Study. Associate Dean for the Environmental Law Program and Director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School. She will spend the spring 2019 semester on a Fulbright Fellowship JOAN VOGEL at the University of Alicante Law School in Spain. She teaches PROFESSOR OF LAW MA, JD, University of California—Los Angeles; Legislation and Regulation, New Frontiers in Environmental BA, George Washington University. She has Policy, and Watershed Management and Protection. presented widely on topics of legal pluralism, new teaching methods in labor law, tort JESSICA SCOTT ’10 reform, and on the “Lemon Laws.” She has ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW served as chair of the Law and Anthropology and the Labor and JD, Vermont Law School; BS, Georgetown Employment Law sections of the Association of American Law University School of Foreign Service. She Schools. Professor Vogel teaches Culture and the Environment. was an Attorney Advisor at U.S. EPA’s Office of General Counsel from 2010–14, where she advised the Agency on international L. KINVIN WROTH environmental legal issues, including human rights and the PROFESSOR OF LAW EMERITUS environment and environmental governance, and counseled on LLB, Harvard University; BA, Yale University. He the Clean Air Act. She was a fellow with the ABA’s Rule of Law came to VLS as dean in 1996, after having served Initiative in Beijing and a delegate to the National Committee on as dean of the University of Maine School of United States-China Relations Environmental Law Professionals Law. As reporter and consultant to the Vermont Exchange in China. She teaches Air Pollution Law and Policy and Supreme Court’s rules advisory committees International Environmental Law and Policy. since 1969, he has drafted many of Vermont’s rules of procedure, evidence, and professional and judicial conduct, including rules to implement the expanded jurisdiction of the Environmental Court. EMILY SPIEGEL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW JD, Duke University; BS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Before joining the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems “WE ARE FACING A NEW LANDSCAPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL at Vermont Law School in 2017, she was a CHALLENGES—FROM GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TO OCEAN consultant and law fellow at the Duke University ACIDIFICATION, FROM FOOD POLICY TO ENERGY IN A CARBON Environmental Law and Policy Clinic; a Development Law Service Intern at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy; and CONSTRAINED WORLD. OUR FACULTY ARE TRAINING STUDENTS an International Agricultural Development Specialist with the U.S. TO USE LAW AND POLICY TO ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES.” Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. She teaches Introduction to Agriculture and Food Law and Policy. —THOMAS MCHENRY, President and Dean, Professor of Law

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SCHULTE LLM’15 Ocean and Coastal Law GOLDWASSER ’07 Local Farm and Food Law Environmental Governance in Partner, Perkins Coie, LLP Energy Regulation and the Attorney, BCM Environmental & the Developing World Environment Land Law, PLLC Assistant Director, U.S.-Asia GLENN BERGER ’78 Executive Director, New England Partnerships for Environmental Three Essentials of the Conference of Public Utilities TREY MARTIN ’08 Law, Vermont Law School Electric Grid Commissioners Entrepreneurship and Legal Lab Retired Partner, Skadden, Arps, Of Counsel, Downs Rachlin CARRIE SCRUFARI LLM’16 Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP JOSEPH HALSO Martin PLLC Introduction to the Law and Three Essentials of the Policy of Agriculture, Food, and BETH BOEPPLE ’97 Electric Grid CLAYTON MITCHELL ’96 the Environment Local Farm and Food Law Attorney, Sierra Club Alternative Fuels and Lead Counsel, Utility Attorney, BCM Environmental & Renewable Energy Intervention Unit, Division of Land Law, PLLC BARRY E. HILL Partner, Revolution Energy LLC Consumer Protection, New York Environmental Justice; Department of State ARTURO BRANDT LLM’04 Administrative Law; DAVID MURASKIN Global Energy Law and Policy Communications, Advocacy Food Justice and Sustainability ADRIENNE SOLER Attorney, Tradition Green and Leadership Food Project Attorney, Public Legislation and Regulation Visiting Scholar, Environmental Justice Survey; Communication, JAMES CHEN Law Institute Advocacy and Leadership Environmental Economics WALTER POLEMAN Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law and Markets RANDOLPH HILL Ecology School Justin Smith Morrill Chair in Environmental Enforcement Senior Lecturer, Rubenstein Law, Michigan State University and Compliance School of Environment and HOLLY GENEVA STOUT LLM’14 Judge, Environmental Appeals Natural Resources, University Climate Change, Extinction, and JONATHAN COPPESS Board, U.S. EPA of Vermont Adaptation The Farm Bill Attorney, California Department Clinical Assistant Professor JESSICA JAY ’97 HEATHER D. RALLY of Water Resources, California of Law and Policy, University Land Conservation Law Animal Welfare Law Water Commission of Illinois Founding Partner, Conservation Supervising Veterinarian, Law, P.C. Captive Animal Law MIKE SUTTON CATHY COSTANTINO Enforcement, PETA Ocean and Coastal Law Mediation Advocacy SCOTT JOHNSTONE Vice President, Pacific Flyway, Counsel, Federal Deposit End Use Energy Efficiency SARAH REITER ’13 National Audubon Society Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Executive Director, Vermont Environmental Dispute Energy Investment Corporation Resolution JOHANNA THIBAULT LLM’15 MICHAEL COTE ’10 Associate Director, Office of Energy Law and Policy; Oil Climate Change Adaptation BENJAMIN JONES ’12 Career Services, Vermont Law and Gas Development and the in Human Systems Climate Change and the Law School Environment; Alternative Fuels Resilience Project Director, Senior Global Energy Fellow, and Renewable Energy Winrock International Vermont Law School CARI RINCKER Associate, Plains Justice Law and Policy of Local Food TOM DUNN ROSS JONES ’00 Systems PAMELA VESILIND ’08 Three Essentials of the Science for Environmental Owner, Rincker Law, PLLC Law of Animals in Agriculture; Electric Grid Law; Natural Resources Law; Global Food Security and Social President and CEO, Vermont Environmental Law Justice; Federal Regulation of CHRIS ROOT Food and Agriculture Electric Company Senior Lecturer, Dartmouth Three Essentials of the Electric Attorney, Vesilind Law Firm College Grid TIM EICHENBERG Chief Operating Officer, Vermont Ocean and Coastal Law MARTHA JUDY Electric Power Company JACQUELINE WEAVER Oil and Gas Production and the Chief Counsel, San Francisco Law of Toxics and Environment Bay Conservation and Hazardous Substances J.B. RUHL A.A. White Professor of Law Development Commission Professor of Law, Vermont Law Law of Ecosystem Management Emerita, University of Houston School David Daniels Allen Law Center WILLIAM EUBANKS II LLM ’08 Distinguished Chair of Law; Public Health and U.S. Food KIT KENNEDY Director, Program on Law and and Agriculture Policy Three Essentials of the Innovation; Co-director, Energy, DELCIANNA WINDERS Animal Welfare Law Partner, Meyer Glitzenstein Electric Grid Environment, and Land Use Vice President and Deputy & Eubanks LLP Director, Energy and Program, Vanderbilt University Transportation Program, Natural General Counsel, Captive Animal SCOTT FABER Resources Defense Council JAMES SALZMAN Law Enforcement, PETA The Farm Bill Law of Ecosystem Management Vice President of Government TOM LAUTZENHEISER Donald Bren Distinguished DAVID A. WIRTH International Trade and the Affairs, Environmental Ecology Professor of Environmental Law, Environment Working Group Central/Western Regional Bren Schoolof Environmental Scientist, Massachusetts Professor of Law, Boston College Science and Management, UCSB Law School KEVIN FOY Audubon Society School of Law, UCLA Environmental Law Associate Professor, North CATHERINE MACKENZIE Carolina Central University Peace, War, and the School of Law Environment Faculty of Law, Cambridge University and Oxford University

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SEPTEMBER 21–23, 2018: The ninth annual Colloquium The Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture in Land Use and on Environmental Scholarship offers the opportunity for Planning Law series began in 2006. Featured speakers have environmental law scholars to present their works-in-progress and included: recent scholarship. 2018: THOMAS MITCHELL, Interim Dean and Professor, Texas SEPTEMBER 26–28, 2018: The 19th Global Conference on A&M University School of Law, “How to Address Racial Environmental Taxation, in which VLS’s Environmental Tax Disparity in Property Ownership” Policy Institute is an active participant, is held in Madrid, Spain. 2017: UMA OUTKA, Professor of Law, University of Kansas School OCTOBER 19, 2018: “The Rights of Nature” is the topic of the of Law, “Shifting Energy Landscapes” annual Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Symposium.

OCTOBER 24, 2018: Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Executive 2016: PATRICIA SALKIN, Dean and Professor of Law at Touro Law Vice President at the Democracy Collaborative, delivers the New Center, “Gaming the Future: A Winning Strategy for Land Economy Law Center Lecture. Use and Sustainable Development”

APRIL 4, 2019: John Nolon, Professor of Law at Pace University, 2015: MICHAEL GERRARD, the Andrew Sabin Professor of delivers the 15th annual Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture Professional Practice, Associate Chair of the Earth in Land Use Planning and the Law. Institute, Columbia Law School, “Climate Change and Land Use Law: A Strategy to Avoid the Worst Impacts”

2014: LEE ANN FENNELL, Max Pam Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar at the University of The Environmental Law Center’s Distinguished Environmental Chicago Law School, “Co-location, Co-location, Co-location: Summer Scholars spend two weeks meeting with students and Land Use and Housing Priorities Reimagined” faculty and presenting lectures on their current work. The 2018 scholars were: 2013: ROBERT L. LIBERTY, Director of the Urban Sustainability Accelerator at Portland State University, “Rising to the ANDREA FREEMAN, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Land Use Challenge: How Planners and Regulators Can Hawai‘i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law Help Sustain Our Civilization”

SHI-LING HSU, D’Alemberte Professor of Law and Associate 2012: VICKI BEEN, Professor and Director of the Furman Center Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University for Real Estate and Urban Policy, NYU School of Law, College of Law “Explaining the Motivations Behind Land Use Regulation: TSEMING YANG, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University Law School New York City’s Rezonings of Almost One Quarter of Its Land”

Since 2003, Environmental Law Media Fellows have been spending two weeks attending Summer Session classes and giving lectures as part of our Hot Topics in Environmental Law brown bag lecture series. The 2018 fellows were:

ROSEANNE GERIN, Radio Free Asia MAYA KAPOOR, High Country News REBECCA LEBER, Mother Jones

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