Jennifer Bass was recently accepted as a Brooks Fellow. While receiving her LLM she hopes to focus on international animal law and work toward becoming a professor. She will be a May 2024 Graduate from Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) where she received her animal law concentration. Prior to law school, she received her Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in leadership.
Her other education experience includes becoming a Staff Editor for Volume 24 and a Symposium Editor for volume 25 of the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Where she drafted a Note on a new animal law litigation strategy. She has since spoken on the topic at multiple legal conferences including ALDF’s Animal Law Student Conference in March and at George Washington’s Animals and the Anthropocene in October of 2023. Her Note was published in the Chicago-Kent Journal of Environmental and Energy Law this year. She will also be speaking at the UK Animal Law Conference 2024 on the Corporate Social Responsibility Panel. During her time at VLGS, she was also a Schweitzer Fellow in humane education, which included drafting legislation and teaching humane education to local elementary school children.
Her practical and professional experience includes working as a student clinician, and now an advanced student clinician, at the Transnational Environmental Law Clinic at the U.S.-Asia Partnerships for Environmental Law at VLGS. She was also a student clinician at the Environmental Advocacy Clinic for two semesters, where She worked closely with supervising attorneys on an endangered species case. Alongside her coursework, she was a legal intern with C-Quest Capital helping implement nature-based solutions draw down projects internationally. She worked for the International Fund for Animal Welfare performing international wildlife trafficking research. She also worked on an animal law research project with Professor Kysar at Yale University. She is excited to join the program at Lewis and Clark.