Vermont Law School

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Oakes Hall, Vermont Law School

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.

1 Facts
2 Centers, institutes, and clinics
3 Law reviews and journals
4 Solomon Amendment
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

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Campus area: 13 acres (53,000 m²)
Enrollment: 578
School type: Private
Year founded: 1972
Degrees Offered: Juris Doctor; LLM in Environmental Law; Masters of Studies in Environmental Law; Joint Degree in Juris Doctor/Masters of Studies in Environmental Law

[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

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[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.^[1]