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2012 New Voices in Civil Justice Scholarship Workshop

Sponsored by the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program.

Vanderbilt Law School’s Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program will be holding its 2012 New Voices in Civil Justice Workshop on May 7, 2012. Five junior scholars’ works were selected based on an anonymous review of an outstanding group of papers submitted for consideration. A senior scholar will briefly introduce and comment on each paper before opening the session up to discussion about the work. The senior scholars will be Branstetter faculty and three distinguished visitors, including Myriam Gilles, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University-Cardozo Law School, who was a junior scholar in the inaugural New Voices workshop.

The following junior scholars will be presenting papers:

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia, “Financiers as Monitors in Aggregate Litigation”

Christina Boyd, Assistant Professor of Public Law, University at Buffalo, SUNY, “Litigating Toward Settlement”

Alexandra Lahav, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law, “The Case for ‘Trial by Formula’”

Ariana Levinson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Louisville-Brandeis School of Law, “What the Awards Tell Us About Labor Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Claims”

Corey Yung, Associate Professor of Law, University of Kansas, “How Judges Judge”

Distinguished Visiting Senior Scholars:

• Robert Bone, G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
• Kevin Clermont, Robert D. Ziff Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
• Myriam Gilles, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University-Cardozo Law School

Branstetter Program Faculty Participants:

• Edward Cheng, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Paul Edelman, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Brian Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Chris Guthrie, Dean and John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Tracey George, Professor of Law and Director, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program, Vanderbilt Law School
• Alex Hurder, Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Susan Kay, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Nancy King, Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Terry Maroney, Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Alistair Newbern, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Erin O’Hara O’Connor, Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies, Law & Economics Ph.D. Program, Vanderbilt Law School
• Amanda Rose, Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Suzanna Sherry, Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law Harvie Branscomb Distinguished University Professor, Vanderbilt Law School
• Kevin Stack, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• Ingrid Wuerth, Professor of Law and Director, International Legal Studies Program, Vanderbilt Law School