Vermont Law School
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Vermont Law School (VLS) is a private law school located in South Royalton, Vermont (a village of Royalton, Vermont). The school has one of the United States' leading programs in environmental law. The White River flows past the school and provides the law school community with a lovely place to paddle, swim, and fish.
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[edit] Facts
- Campus area: 13 acres (53,000 m²)
- Enrollment: 615
- School type: Independent
- Year founded: 1972
- Degrees Offered: Juris Doctor (JD); Master of Laws (LL.M) in Environmental Law; Master of Studies in Environmental Law (MSEL); Joint JD/MSEL
- Ranked #1 in Environmental Law by U.S. News and World Report , 2007; Ranked #2 in 2008
[edit] Centers, institutes, and clinics
- Environmental Law Center
- Institute for Energy & the Environment
- Environmental Tax Policy Institute
- Land Use Institute
- Environmental & Natural Resource Law Clinic
- South Royalton Legal Clinic
[edit] Julien and Virginia Cornell Library
- About the Collection
Cornell Library's print collections of federal, state, and international primary and secondary legal materials totals more than 220,000 volumes. In addition to LexisNexis and Westlaw, the electronic collections include full-text electronic journals in a broad variety of subjects, electronic books, databases of primary legal materials, and links to numerous gateways and databases. The library also maintains a microforms collection of congressional documents, state session laws, and briefs. The reference collection consists of legal encyclopedias, dictionaries, form books, bibliographies, and other reference sources. VLS is known for its top-ranked environmental program and the library maintains an extensive interdisciplinary environmental collection, which includes journals, monographs, electronic resources, and other material related to the study of the environment and environmental law and policy.[1]
[edit] Law reviews and journals
[edit] Solomon Amendment
Vermont Law School is the only law school in the U.S. to refuse cooperation with the Solomon Amendment, a statute passed by Congress requiring colleges and universities to allow military recruitment on campus or risk losing federal funding. VLS refused and in doing so gave up over a million dollars in federal funding. The school is also part of FAIR, or the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, a consortium of 38 law schools and law faculties that challenged the Solomon Amendment in Rumsfeld v. FAIR, claiming that the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was discriminatory. The district court ruled for the Attorney General, but the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the law schools. Oral arguments were heard before the Supreme Court on December 6, 2005, and a unanimous ruling for the government was issued on March 6, 2006, in part because the government could directly require campuses to allow military recruitment, it can therefore also indirectly require the campuses to allow recruitment or forego funds.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Vermont Law School official website
- [1] U.S. News & World Report - Environmental Law Rankings
- [2]www.top-law-schools.com
[edit] References
- ^ Library Information (2008). Information about Julien and Virginia Library: Collections (webpage). Retrieved on 2008-04-04.
- ^ US Supreme Court (2006). Rumsfeld, Sec. of Defence, et al. v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, et al. (PDF). 547 U.S. ____ (2006). Retrieved on 2006-05-04.
