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Vermont Law School professor looks to beef up enforcement of China’s anti-pollution laws
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — July 12, 2010
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– David Mears is an accidental Sinophile.
Never one to wander the globe, he’s focused his career on teaching and grassroots litigation close to home, mostly recently as an associate professor at Vermont Law School and director of VLS’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC). Nonetheless, Mears finds himself about to… Continue reading
White River Partnership holds first ever landscape auction in the U.S.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — July 2, 2010
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– Vermont Law School is supporting the White River Partnership’s landscape auction on Aug. 14, the first such conservation effort in the United States designed to revitalize watersheds, wildlife and people’s connection to nature.
Landscape auctions originated in The Netherlands in 2007 as a financing tool to attract private capital for nature… Continue reading
VLS to use $250,000 grant for Green Renovations in Clinics Building
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations
802-831-1106, jcramer@vermontlaw.edu
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VLS to use $250,000 grant for Green Renovations in Clinics Building
June 23, 2010
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– Vermont Law School will use a $250,000 energy efficiency grant to help convert a historic building into a vibrant new center for legal advocacy. The grant was the largest of… Continue reading
Vermont Law School helps China to open first public interest law firm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — June 15, 2010
SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. –– Aiming to use lawsuits to fight pollution and protect workers, Vermont Law School’s U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law has received a $1.5 million federal grant to establish China’s first public interest environmental law firm and expand a university-based legal clinic.
China’s rapid industrialization and urbanization have caused severe environmental degradation, including greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming… Continue reading
Howard Dean to speak at Vermont Law School commencement today
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 20, 2010
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations
SOUTH ROYALTON , VT –– Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., will speak at Vermont Law School ’s 35th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 22. The public is invited to attend the event, which will begin at 10 a.m. on the South Royalton town green.
In his commencement address, Dean plans to encourage VLS graduates… Continue reading
Obama taps Vermont Law School professor for EPA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 18, 2010
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations
802-831-1106, jcramer@vermontlaw.edu
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– President Obama has appointed Professor Tseming Yang, director of Vermont Law School’s U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law, to serve as deputy general counsel for international affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Yang, whose research and teaching have focused on U.S. and international environmental law, will assume his… Continue reading
Vermont Law School conducts pollution litigation workships in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 10, 2010
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– Vermont Law School will conduct a series of workshops in China this month with Chinese prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection to discuss using public interest litigation to protect Chinese citizens from pollution and other environmental violations.
VLS’s U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law will lead the workshops, which will include China ’s… Continue reading
Vermont Law School’s environmental program best in nation for the 13th time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — April 15, 2010
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations, 802-831-1106, jcramer@vermontlaw.edu
SOUTH ROYALTON , VT –– U.S. News & World Report again has ranked Vermont Law School ’s environmental law program as the best in the nation. The 2011 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools appears on USNews.com on Thursday, April 15, and on newsstands on Tuesday, April 27.
“I’m gratified at this recognition… Continue reading
Vermont Law School, University of Vermont to hold conference on marriage equality for same-sex couples
VLS, UVM to Discuss Marriage Equality for Same-sex Couples
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — March 22, 2010
CONTACT: John Cramer, Associate Director of Media Relations, Vermont Law School
802-831-1106, jcramer@vermontlaw.edu
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Jeff Wakefield, Associate Director, University Communications, University of Vermont, 802-656-5799, jrwakefi@uvm.edu
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– To mark the anniversaries of civil unions and legal marriage for same-sex couples in… Continue reading
Vermont Law School student reflects on impacts of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law
One member of the lobby group had endured isolation, fear, and seclusion over the course of her 20-year career in the military. Continue reading
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