Now hiring: Visiting/Research Professor to shape high-impact aquaculture law & policy at VLGS

By Tayralala @ 2025-12-04T14:09 (+2)

For folks considering high-impact, tractable, and neglected work on animal and environmental policy, Vermont Law and Graduate School is hiring a Visiting or Research Professor in Aquaculture Law or Policy.

Industrial aquaculture is expanding rapidly, often in a weak or fragmented regulatory environment. That means decisions made over the next decade could lock in long-term trajectories for billions of sentient animals, coastal ecosystems, and frontline communities. We’re building an interdisciplinary initiative at the Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment to shape that trajectory while there is still real leverage.

This role will sit at the center of that work, helping to:

• Map and analyze the legal and policy landscape for finfish, shrimp, and other intensive systems, as well as lower-harm alternatives (e.g. kelp, bivalves, community-scale models).
• Develop policy-relevant research, model legislation, and regulatory strategies that advocates, funders, and governments can pick up.
• Teach and mentor the next generation of lawyers and policy professionals who will be working on “blue foods” by default in 5–10 years.
• Collaborate with the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, the Animal Law and Policy Institute, clinics, and external partners on litigation, site fights, and movement strategy.

We’re especially interested in people who are comfortable working across disciplines (law, policy, econ, ecology, social science), who care deeply about welfare, justice, and global impact, and who want to build infrastructure others can use: datasets, frameworks, toolkits, and convenings.

📍 Full-time, residential faculty role in South Royalton, Vermont
🎓 Ph.D., J.D., or equivalent terminal degree required

If you know someone in the EA / animal welfare / global food systems / climate space who might be a strong fit, I’d be grateful if you’d share or tag them.