Center for Agriculture and Food Systems

We’re seeking law students to join the CAFS team as summer honors interns in 2025. Interns work alongside CAFS staff and nationwide partners on a range of projects related to food and agriculture law and policy. They may conduct original research; draft case studies, issues briefs, and other law and policy documents; provide general project support; attend summer lecture series; and network with visiting faculty and lecturers who visit campus from around the world during Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Summer Session. The application closes at 5 p.m. ET on January 6, 2025. More info here:https://lnkd.in/g9s8m8kH

This month, we published a new case study on Boston's Good Food Purchasing Policy; CAFS Staff Attorney Fran Miller LLM'17 is scheduled to speak in a webinar on community land trusts in January; CAFS Director Laurie Beyranevand JD'03 discusses why we should use the term "food apartheid" rather than "food desert;" and more. Click here to view our December newsletter: https://lnkd.in/g46jt7kR

We’re seeking law students to join the CAFS team as summer honors interns in 2025. Interns work alongside CAFS staff and nationwide partners on a range of projects related to food and agriculture law and policy. They may conduct original research; draft case studies, issues briefs, and other law and policy documents; provide general project support; attend summer lecture series; and network with visiting faculty and lecturers who visit campus from around the world during Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Summer Session. The application closes at 5 p.m. ET on January 6, 2025. More info here:https://lnkd.in/g9s8m8kH

Check out the latest CAFS newsletter! In this issue, we open the application for our 2025 summer honors internship, CAFS Director Laurie Beyranevand talks corporate price fixing and consolidation with Quartz, and the "Vermonsters" win the student trivia contest at the American Agriculture Law Association (for the second year in a row). Read the newsletter here, and subscribe through the link at the bottom of the newsletter to get it sent directly to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gdA5yMzk

Check out the latest CAFS newsletter! This month, we introduced a new legal fellow on the CAFS team, shared an issue brief on addressing consolidation in US agriculture, and celebrated a former intern's award from the American Bar Association. Read the latest CAFS newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gbgZz9mg Sign up here to get these newsletters in your inbox: https://lnkd.in/gnHC3iKk

On Thursday, October 17 at 1pm EST, the Agricultural Law Institute (ALI) at Southern University Law Center is hosting a webinar featuring Emma Scott, Associate Professor and Director of the Food and Agriculture Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in conversation with ALI Director Ebony Woodruff on the contributions of migrant agricultural workers and the challenges they face. Click here to register: https://lnkd.in/gK5q3Z9w

With a rich background from Harvard Law School, Emma Scott is stepping in as VLGS’s new Food and Agriculture Clinic director.

We just sent out our September newsletter! Included: the new CAFS Year in Review; an article from Investigate Midwest that features CAFS Director Laurie Beyranevand on what's at stake for farmworkers this election; an introduction of our new communications manager; new farmer stories from the Farmland Access Legal Toolkit; and more. https://lnkd.in/gim6fNcv Want to receive our newsletter in your inbox? Click here to subscribe: https://lnkd.in/gnHC3iKk

Excited to share the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School's 2023-2024 Year in Review. In it, you may see some familiar faces, will hear about some important food systems work, meet some of our project partners and friends, and hopefully get to know a bit about what we’ve been up to and where we’re headed! https://lnkd.in/efpR7JFX

✨NEW✨ Heirs' Property state factsheets added for MA, NY, WV! Heirs’ property is property transferred to multiple family members through inheritance, usually without a will or estate plan. When land is owned together by multiple family members without clear title (the ancestor's name is still on the deed), it leads to multiple challenges. Heirs’ property has been a significant driving force of land loss for African American, Appalachian, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. The Farmland Access Legal Toolkit provides resources and information on heirs’ property to help prevent land loss and support family farmers and those who provide support to them. Learn more about state laws relevant to heirs' property owners with our state fact sheets! (More states coming soon.) Click here to look for your state: https://lnkd.in/eWZSQRc4