Vermont Law Review

The Vermont Law Review, a legal journal edited and managed by students, enjoys an international circulation. The Review publishes articles contributed by prominent legal scholars, as well as student-written notes and comments.

As members of the Review, students engage in intensive legal research, writing and editing. Academic standing at the end of the first year or performance in a writing competition determines membership.

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Book One Articles

  • The Pirates Will Party On! The Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Rules Will Not Prevent CEOs From Acting Like Plundering Pirates and Should Be Scuttled by William A. Drennan (PDF)

  • Ball Busters: How the IRS Should Tax Record-Setting Baseballs and Other Found Property Under the Treasure Trove Regulation by Andrew D. Appleby (PDF)

  • The Process of "Property": Stasis and Change in Lobster Management in Southern New England by Seth Macinko & Sarah Schumann (PDF)

  • Martin Luther King Day Celebratory Speech by Julius Levonne Chambers (PDF)

  • Note, Sending the Men Over First: Amending Section 601(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act to Allow Asylum for Spouses and Partners by Heidi Murphy (PDF)

Book Two Articles

  • Lawyering for Children in High-Conflict Cases by James C. May & Alexander W. Banks (PDF)

  • Use of the Adoption and Safe Families Act at 15/22 Months for Incarcerated Parents by Maryann Zavez (PDF)

  • Carbon Caps and Efficiency Resources: How Climate Legislation Can Mobolize Efficiency and Lower the Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction by Richard Cowart (PDF)

  • Finding Shared Values in a Diverse Society: Lessons from the Intelligent Design Controversy by Alan E. Garfield (PDF)

  • State Legislation Mandating School Cyberbullying Policies and the Potential Threat to Students' Free Speech Rights by Darryn Cathrym Beckstrom (PDF)

  • Note, The Toll of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly: An Argument for Taking the Edge Off the Advantage Given Defendants by Damon Amyx (PDF)

  • Note, Known Unknowns: Ancient Roads in Northern New England by Eric Goldwarg (PDF)

Book Three Articles (Symposium Issue)

Emotions in Context: Exploring the Interaction Between Emotions and Legal Institutions

  • Foreword by Susan A. Bandes (PDF)

  • Institutions, Emotions, and Law: A Goldilocks Problem for Mechanism Design by Oliver R. Goodenough (PDF)

  • Some Effects of Moral Indignation on Law by Cass R. Sunstein (PDF)

  • Preponderance of the Evidence Versus Intime Conviction: A Behavioral Perspective on a Conflict Between American and Continental European Law by Christoph Engel (PDF)

  • Standards of Proof Revisited by Kevin M. Clermont (PDF)

  • Repellent Crimes and Rational Deliberation: Emotion and the Death Penalty by Susan A. Bandes (PDF)

  • Rationalizing Indirect Guilt by Scott A. Anderson (PDF)

  • A Few Words in Favor of Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace by Mary Anne Case (PDF)

  • Happiness and Revealed Preferences in Evolutionary Perspective by Richard A. Epstein (PDF)

  • Note, Who’s Guarding the Gate? Credit-Rating Agency Liability as “Control Person” in the Subprime Credit Crisis by Lisbeth Freeman (PDF)

Book Four Articles

Dedicated in Memory of Professor Michael Mello, 1957-2008 (PDF)

  • A Sonnet for Michael by Benson Scotch (PDF)

  • In Memory of Michael Mello by Pavel Reznikov (PDF)

  • Preserving Constitutional Freedoms in Times of National Crisis by Louis Fisher (PDF)

  • Damage Done? The Status of NEPA After Winter v. NRDC and Answers to Lingering Questions Left Open by the Court by William S. Eubanks II (PDF)

  • The Green Scare by Will Potter (PDF)

  • Disaggregating the Scare from the Greens by Lee Hall (PDF)

  • The Need for New U.S. Legislation for Prosecution of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity by Jordan J. Paust (PDF)

  • Speech, The Organization Lawyer by William B. Lytton (PDF)

  • Note, “What’s in a Name?” While FBI Slowly Administers Name Checks for USCIS, Some Courts Entertain Mandamus and APA Suits by Frustrated Lawful Immigrants by Natalia May (PDF)

  • Note, Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Its Routine Maintenance Exception: The Definition of Routine, Past, Present, and Future by Graham Zorn (PDF)