ELC

Anniversary40th

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

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ELCAnniversary40th

ELC founded by Richard Brooks

1978

1977 NormanWilliams developsproposal for newEnvironmentalLaw Center (ELC)

1979 9 environmental faculty and 7 adjuncts

18 environmental classes, including

Scenic Preservation, Wildlife and Forestry Law

First master’s degrees awarded

to 2 students

1985ELC publishes“Growth Area

ResearchProject”

1984 Rich Cowart is interim director of the ELC

1987 Former EPA

Administrator Douglas Costleis dean of VLS

1989 Rick Melberth is interim director of the

ELC

ELC co-sponsors conference on

global warming

ELC co-sponsors conference on

global warming

1990 Jonathan Lash is director of the ELC

1991VLS ranked #1 in

environmental law

by U.S. News& World Reportfor the first time;

ranked #1 nineteen times since then

1993 Patrick Parenteauis directorof theELC

1998 Vermont Journal of

Environmental Law (VJEL) begins publication asonline-only journal

1995 First First Nations

EnvironmentalLaw Fellowship

awarded

MSL renamedMSEL, later

renamed Masterof Environmental

Law and Policy(MELP)

1999 Karin Sheldonis director of the ELC

LLM in Environmental

Law added

2000 EnvironmentalTax Policy Instituteopens under DirectorJanet Milne

2003EnvironmentalMedia Fellowsprogram begins

Environmental and Natural ResourcesLaw Clinic (ENRLC)opens under DirectorPatrick Parenteau

2002VLS receives

ABA award for Distinguished

Achievement inEnvironmental Law

and Policy

2004 First Norman Williams Lecture

on Land Use Planning and the Law delivered by Dick Brooks on

“Speaking (Vermont) Truth to (Washington) Power”

2005Institute for Energy and theEnvironment (IEE) opens underDirector Michael Dworkin

Land Use Institute opens underDirector Kinvin Wroth

VLS hosts the Society of

Environmental Journalists’annual meeting

2006 U.S.-AsiaPartnerships for

Environmental Law(PEL) opens with

grant fromUSAID

ELC hosts firstDistinguished

Summer Scholars

2007Marc Mihaly is director of the ELC

ClimateLegacy Initiative

publishes“Recalibrating

the Laws of Humans with

the Lawsof Nature”

2009 Colloquium onEnvironmental

Scholarshipbegins

2010 VLS opens China’s

first public interestenvironmental

law firm

Water and JusticeProgram opensunder Directors

Jack Tuholske andJohn Echeverria

Water and JusticeProgram opensunder Directors

Jack Tuholske andJohn Echeverria

VLS launches onlinedegree program under

Rebecca Purdom

BillMcKibben delivers Norman Williams Lecture

2011 John Echeverria is interim director

of the ELC

2012VLS receives major

grant to open Center forAgriculture and Food

Systems (CAFS) underDirector Laurie Ristino

2012VLS receives major

grant to open Center forAgriculture and Food

Systems (CAFS) underDirector Laurie Ristino

2018 34 environmental faculty and

49 adjuncts

Over 60 environmental classes, including Food System Justice and Global

Energy Law

Over 2500 master’s and LLM degrees awarded to date

Masterof EnergyRegulation

and Law(MERL)

and LLMin Energy

added

2013Melissa Scanlan isdirector of the ELC

2015 Master of Food and

Agriculture Law and Policy (MFALP) and

LLM in Food andAgriculture Law added

New Economy

Law Centeropens, co-foundedby Melissa Scanlan

and Gus Speth

New Economy

Law Centeropens, co-foundedby Melissa Scanlan

and Gus Speth

2015 Master of Food and

Agriculture Law and Policy (MFALP) and

LLM in Food andAgriculture Law added

2017 David Mears is

director of the ELC

2017 David Mears is

director of the ELC