Vanderbilt University Law School
Alistair E. Newbern
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Voice: 615-322-4964
Fax: 615-322-6562
Email: alistair.e.newbern@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 117
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Research Interest(s)
Appellate procedure, poverty law, advocacy
Education
J.D. University of California at Berkeley
A.B. Brown University
Biography
Alistair Newbern began an Appellate Litigation Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School in the spring of 2009. Students enrolled in the clinic practice before appellate courts on behalf of clients who could not otherwise afford representation. Professor Newbern’s research focuses on access to the courts for underrepresented litigants. After earning her J.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, where she served as Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the California Law Review, Professor Newbern clerked for Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and for Judge Aleta A. Trauger, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. In 2001, she won the American Bar Association’s Ross Award for best published comment. Before joining Vanderbilt, Professor Newbern taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she directed the school’s Civil Legal Assistance Clinic. She also held a teaching fellowship in Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate Litigation Program and practiced in the Nashville, Tennessee, office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein.
Representative Publications
Articles
Comment: "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Federal Prosecution of State-Legalized Medical Marijuana Use after United States v. Lopez," 88 California Law Review 1575 (2000)
Presentations
"Access to Courts: Non-Citizens," Law and Society Association, Summer 2008
"Words and Reasons: Jurisdiction Stripping and the Federal Tort Claims Act," Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), New Scholars Workshop, Summer 2008
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