Professor Börk is part of Vermont Law panel on innovative teaching techniques

Professor Karrigan Börk spoke on the panel “New Techniques in the Classroom and Beyond” on Feb. 25 as part of Vermont Law School’s Emerging Environmental Law Curriculum Workshops.

Börk talked about how he and his students adapted the fall 2020 field trip-based class California Environmental Cases and Places to a virtual setting. Students took individual field trips and shared videos from those trips with the class.

Professor Börk teaches and researches in the areas of environmental law, natural resources, and administrative law. He graduated with Distinction and Pro Bono Distinction from Stanford Law School in 2009, and completed his Ph.D. in Ecology at UC Davis in September 2011. He received the Shapiro Family Award in 2011 as the Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate in Ecology at UC Davis. He clerked for Tenth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson, and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas Judge Janice Karlin.