Vermont Law School News

Cotter Conway, who currently serves as a deputy in the Washoe County Alternate Public Defender's Office, announced today he will seek the Department 4 position of Reno Justice of the Peace currently held by Harold Albright.

Until a few years ago, Burlington attorney Brian Dunkiel had never heard of Palau.

An abortion debate cannot be avoided if legislation dealing with fetal homicide is taken up by the Legislature, according to a legal scholar.

Vermont will be well-represented when the United Nations climate change conference opens next week in Copenhagen.

APA and its Florida Chapter filed an amicus brief in this important takings case before the U.S. Supreme Court to urge the court to reject the notion of a judicial taking.

Vermont is the only New England state that doesn't ban engine idling for most vehicles.

Summary: Entergy wants to spin off ownership of Vermont Yankee, leaving the parent corporation without liability for the nuclear power plant.

If Congress and the states do not follow the lead of Wall Street in declining to underwrite financially "risky and uneconomic" new nuclear reactors, the resulting taxpayer-backed loan guarantees and other subsidies could pave the way for the same kind of industry-wide meltdown that happened in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a major new study by ...

Schreiner University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Charlie McCormick and Vermont Law School Associate Dean Kathy Hartman recently signed an agreement that will guarantee admission to VLS to any Schreiner student who meets agreed upon criteria.

I'm back from the Regulatory Takings conference that was held at Vermont Law School last Friday.

Republican Town Justice candidate Andy Hammer, 40, is an attorney in private practice with George Biondo in Montauk.

Voters will have a choice of three longtime residents for two seats on the Police Commission in the Nov.

A ruling is expected soon in a case that could determine what Vermonters can and cannot have on their license plates.

A 49-year-old woman died when her North Windsor Road trailer home was destroyed by fire Thursday morning, authorities said.

The Florida Public Service Commission will be urged during an 11:30 a.m. phone-based news conference Wednesday to reject staff recommendations to allow FPL and Progress Energy to charge customers in advance to pay for building unlicensed nuclear reactors.

Vermont Law School has received $3 million to continue its work to expand environmental law in China.

Today marks a new chapter in American legal history with the first Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor, beginning her career on the U.S. Supreme Court.

An attorney for the Connecticut River Watershed Council argued Tuesday that a Vermont Environmental Court judge erred when she granted Entergy Nuclear permission to discharge increasing amounts of 100-degree water from Vermont Yankee into the Connecticut River.

Vermont Law School and Zipcar, the world's largest car sharing service, today announced the launch of Zipcar's car-sharing program on campus.

The Vermont Law School will help environmental advocates from China combat pollution and curtail greenhouse gas emissions in a country whose rapid industrial development has wrought widespread ecological damage.