Previous Symposia

Previous Symposia

2023: Black, Brown, and Behind Bars: The Effect of a Color-Blind Carceral System
2022: Crossing State Lines: Interstate Gambling and the Interplay Between Federal and State Laws
2021: Balancing Corporate & Activist Interests: Clean Energy, Wildlife Protection, and Land Use Reform
2020: The Legitimacy, Legality, and Legacy of the 45th President of the United States
2019: Legal Frameworks for a Green New World: Breathing Life Into the Goals of the Green New Deal
2018: Corporations and Climate Change: How Businesses Are Changing the Environmental Landscape
2017: Media Law and Journalism: Protecting Democracy’s Safeguards
2016: Criminal Culpability: Who Deserves Punishment?
2015: Habitat for Human Rights: Environmental Degradation and Human Rights
2014:
Recognizing Injustice: From Social Media Movements to Legal Reform
2013
The Disclosure Debates: The Regulatory Power of an Informed Public
Spring 2012:
Prison Privatization: Optimizing Our Use of a Privatized Resource
Fall 2012:
Conference on Agriculture and Food Systems
Spring 2011:
New Perspectives on Capital Punishment
Fall 2011:
Constitutional Constraints on State Health Care & Privacy Regulation After Sorell v. IMS Health, Co-Hosted with the University of New Hampshire School of Law Law Review
2010:
Corporate Creativity: the Vermont L3C & Other Developments in Social Entrepreneurship
2009:
Examining Our Priorities: The Relationship Between National Security and Other Fundamental Values
2008:
Climate Change and Future Generations
2007:
Good for What Ails You? A Legal, Ethical, and Policy Review of State-Based Healthcare Reforms in New England
2006:
Hidden Traps in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act
2005:
Vermont: Judicial Accountability
2004:
Changing Tides in Ocean Management
2003:
Vermont: Changing the Legal Landscape
2001:
Mountain Resorts: Ecology and the Law
2000:
The Environmental Effects of War

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