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Faculty News - Spring 2009
The Law Market, new book by Erin O'Hara and Larry Ribstein, explores law as a global commodity
In their new book, The Law Market, Vanderbilt Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Erin O’Hara and coauthor Larry Ribstein, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois, address an unforeseen byproduct of globalization: the increasing ease with which corporations and individuals can “shop” among various countries and states for the laws most favorable to the actions they want to take. The book was released by Oxford University Press in January 2009. More
Mike Newton serves on American Society of International Law (ASIL) task force
Mike Newton, professor of the practice of law in Vanderbilt's International Legal Studies Program, is a member of the ASIL Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the International Criminal Court , which recently issued a statement recommending that the president announce a policy of positive engagement with the Court. Created last summer, the ASIL task force is chaired by former Legal Advisor to the State Department and Deputy Secretary of Defense William H. Taft, IV, and former U.S. federal appellate and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Judge Patricia M. Wald. Other membersin addition to Professor Newton include former Congressman Mickey Edwards, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, former International Court of Justice President Stephen M. Schwebel, former Deputy Prosecutor of the ICTY David Tolbert, and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies Professor Ruth Wedgwood. More
Paper coauthored by Randall Thomas is finalist for 2008 Brattle Prize
A paper on hedge fund activism co-authored by Randall Thomas, the John S. Beasley II Professor of Law and Business and director of Vanderbilt's Law & Business Program, was a finalist for the prestigious Brattle Prize, which is awarded annually by the Journal of Finance. The paper, "Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance," was published in the Journal of Finance during 2008. Professor Thomas co-authored the paper with colleagues Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Frank Portnoy. More
Faculty News - Fall 2008
Judgment Calls, coauthored by Suzanna Sherry & Daniel Farber, released by Oxford University Press
Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law, a book coauthored by Vanderbilt Professor Suzanna Sherry and Daniel Farber, the Sho Sato Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, was the topic of a panel discussion at Vanderbilt Law School Oct. 24 which featured comments and critiques by Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and Mitchell Berman, the Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
Daniel Gervais delivers 4th Annual Finnegan & Henderson Distinguished Lecture of Intellectual Property at American University's Washington College of Law
Daniel Gervais, who worked with the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization before entering the academic, delivered the 4th Annual Finnegan & Henderson Distinguished Lecture of Intellectual Property at American University's Washington College of Law. His lecture addressed the WTO-related aspects of the Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS), which he says is being "recalibrated" as developing and developed countries challenge old assumptions.
Five new faculty join Vanderbilt Law School
New Vanderbilt law faculty in fall 2008 include Daniel Gervais, Robert Mikos, Alistair Newbern, Amanda Rose and Christopher Slobogin.
Tracey George receives secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science
Tracey George has been granted a secondary appointment in Vanderbilt University's Department of Political Science. Professor George's research focuses on the federal courts, judicial politics and judicial selection as well as empirical legal scholarship, legal education and the legal labor market.
Enemy of the State, book co-authored by Michael Newton, released by St. Martin's Press
The release of Enemy of the State, a book co-authored by Michael Newton with Michael P. Scharf of Case Western Reserve School of Law that chronicles the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein, was celebrated with a discussion panel on Monday, Sept. 29, featuring the authors along with Judge Raid Juhi Hamadi al Saedi, now the Clark Middle East Fellow at Cornell University Law School, and Mark S. Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association. More about the book.
Beverly Moran organizes CBC panel addressing legal and social barriers to black wealth
Beverly I. Moran, who is currently on leave as an American Council on Education Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, organized a panel sponsored by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) and the Ford Foundation. The panel, which was part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference, included business, economics and law professors from Morehouse, the Universities of Georgia and Baltimore, John Jay College and Vanderbilt. The panel addressed the legal and social barriers to black wealth creation as part of the ALC Issue Forums and Brain trusts.
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