Tracy Bach

Vermont Law School

Professor Tracy Bach specializes in three areas: 1) legal research, analysis, and writing; 2) health care law; and 3) international human rights, especially concerning genocide. The courses she has taught at Vermont Law School include Appellate Advocacy, Legal Writing in Environmental Health Law, Health Law, Health Law and Public Policy, Genocide, Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution.

Professor Bach received her B.A. degree in history, cum laude, from Yale University in 1984 and her M.A. degree in public affairs from the University of Minnesota Hubert Humphrey Institute in 1994. In that same year, she earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was article editor for the Minnesota Law Review and director of the 1992 Jessup International Moot Court Competition Team, and where she received the Steven M. Block Prize for Best Paper in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. From 1984 to 1990, Professor Bach worked in health care finance and management for a midsized New York City consulting firm, a large midwestern hospital chain, and as a self-employed consultant. Before joining Vermont Law School’s faculty in 1996, Professor Bach interned for the trial and appellate courts of the Non-Removable Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians and clerked for the Honorable Harriet Lansing of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Professor Bach’s presentations include “Bringing Legal Writing ‘Out of the Box’ and Into the Mainstream: A Marriage of Doctrinal Subject Matter and Legal Writing Doctrine” at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, “The Potential for Digital Institutions in Post-Genocide Rwanda” at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research/Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, and “The Law of Abortion” at Dartmouth College Medical School. Professor Bach is a member of both the New Hampshire and the Vermont Bar Associations (VBA). She cochairs the VBA’s Health Law section. During the 2002 academic year, Professor Bach was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda Faculty of Law, Butare, Rwanda, and at Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, Russia.