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Vermont Law School
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November 29, 2012
From VTDigger: “Vermont Law School’s restructuring welcomed as prudent measure”
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June 2, 2011
Vermont Law Prof in NYTimes
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April 13, 2011
Vermont Law Dean’s Commentary on VT Health Care Plan
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Vermont Law School Dean Jeff Shields provided commentary on VPR about the effects of a potential state-wide, single-payer health care insurance plan in Vermont. Listen here. I think his commentary will be concerning for anyone who ideologically supports universal single-payer healthcare. This is because I’d describe his thesis this way: Under VT law, combined with the new federal healthcare law, most Vermonters (unlike many states) already have access to healthcare, so, in VT, the key issue is cost, and this legislation may not save money.
March 22, 2011
Re-starting to learn Chinese
Posted by Jason J. Czarnezki under Books, Life, Vermont Law School1 Comment
Learning Chinese is a struggle (to put it mildly). Before leaving for my Fulbright experience last academic year, I took private Mandarin lessons once a week and used Rosetta Stone. Upon arrival in China, we were immersed in the language and had a Chinese language tutor. Only now do I have the base knowledge to actually begin learning Chinese; all over again. So I am going to start re-learning Chinese from scratch, with the base knowledge I wish I had before.
The journey began today when I attended our China Program‘s Mandarin Language Table (our Dean buys lunch for anyone interested in discussing current events in Mandarin for an hour, and, given the success of the our China Program, we have quite a number of Chinese speakers on staff and in our student body). I was glad I went, but today’s topic was the future of space programs in China and the United States. As you might expect the vocabulary was extremely difficult (space 太空, space ship 宇宙飞船, etc.). Overall, I was surprised by my showing. My listening comprehension was far better than I had expected, but my speaking ability was far, far worse than I had hoped.
UPDATE: Apparently if I were a baby, my language acquisition would be much easier.
March 15, 2011
Vermont Law School Retains #1 Ranking in Environmental Law
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Once again, Vermont Law School is the #1 Environmental Law program in the United States according to USNWR’s 2011 rankings. See here.
February 1, 2011
What my 1pm Wednesday meeting at Vermont Law looks like…
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January 16, 2011
Vermont Law School gains worldwide profile as the ‘Environmental Law School’
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So says the title of this article in the Burlington Free Press.
December 10, 2010
Environmental Law Faculty Sizes
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Bridget Crawford posts over at The Faculty Lounge about the relative size of environmental law faculties at the top environmental law programs in the country. There seems to be an implicit suggestion (otherwise why bother collecting this data) that there may be a relationship between environmental law faculty size and top rankings. I suspect this is the case given that more faculty in an area leads to more student programming, research, public outreach, and helps one potential have more USN&WR votes. I had trouble downloading Bridget’s original data from the post, but her numbers for Vermont Law School are either far too low or slightly too high depending on whether she’s counting tenure-track/tenured faculty only, or wants to also included all full-time faculty that teach and write in the area of environmental law. If it’s the former, Vermont Law School has, by my count, 13 tenure-track/tenured environmental law faculty, but if it’s the latter, the number is at least 32 environmental faculty since we have so many full-time long-term contract environmental faculty in the Environmental Law Center who teach and write in environmental law.
November 6, 2010
Class Field Trip to Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park
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Every year I take my Natural Resources Law class for a guided nature walk and tour of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park located about 25 minutes south of Vermont Law School. Here are some photos of this year’s excursion.
October 27, 2010
Press Release: “Inaugural Environmental Colloquium a Success”
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Click here for the news story about the First Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School.
