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Faculty - Jody M. Prescott

Jody M. Prescott

Jody M. Prescott, Adjunct

  • LL.M. The Judge Advocate Gerneral's School,
    U.S. Army, (1994)
  • LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center, (1990)
  • J.D. University of Maine, (1986)
  • B.A. University of Vermont, (1983)
  • C.V.
Area of expertise

Constitutional Law, Environmental Law

Contact Information
Email: 01jpresc@uvm.edu
Phone: (802) 399.8316

Office Hours: by appointment

Jody Prescott served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps for 25 years. As an assistant professor at the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he taught a number of subjects including constituional law, the law of armed conflict, and government contracting law. Prescott served as an appellate attorney, a defense counsel, an operational claims commissioner, general counsel for U.S. Army Alaska, and chief legal advisor for the U.S. commander in Afghanistan in 2008-2009. In Alaska, Prescott worked extensively on environmental litigation involving the National Environmental Policy Act, and in 2003 headed the multidisciplinary working group which created U.S. Army Alaska's first Sexual Abuse Prevention and Response program to reduce sexual violence and to provide victims better medical and support services. In Afghanistan, he headed a six member headquarters legal office of attorneys from Britain, Canada and the U.S., and worked in the areas of rule of law, environmental law, dynamic targeting, and civilian casualty investigations. Since retiring from active duty in 2011, he has focused his research and writing on alternative energy, the role of women in armed conflict, and cyber conflict. Recently, he has presented at the Vermont Law School Environmental Law Colloquium on wind power in Vermont, at the University of Wollongong, Australia, on detention in non-international armed conflict, and at the University of Baltimore Law School's 5th Annual Feminist Legal Theory conference on gender mainstreaming in NATO. His article on U.S. cyber strategy and the law of armed conflict was published in the Royal United Services Institute Journal in December 2011, and his upcoming publications include "Ridgelines: The National Security Implications of Wind Power in Vermont," Vermont Environmental Law Journal (Spring 2012); and "NATO Gender Mainstreaming and the Feminist Critique of the Law of Armed Conflict," Georgetown University Journal on Gender and the Law (Fall 2012).

This summer, Prescott is looking forward to teaching POL 138, "Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties." Although it is a 100-level course, the subject matter lends itself to discussion rather than just lecture. As the current political debates have shown quite clearly, issues of civil liberty that many have regarded as settled have become contentious, and have raised serious issues of potential conflicts between different constitutional rights setting out personal freedoms, and even the possibility of restriction of rights that are currently enjoyed. The course will focus on landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases, and will use a holistic view of these cases in context as a springboard for discussion and understanding the legal bases and societal and political ramifications of the cases.

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