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Joni Hersch: Women with elite education opting out of full-time careers
Release Date: Apr 08, 2013
Vanderbilt study finds women with MBAs are most likely to work less

Paige Skiba: The trouble with car title loans is NOT people losing their cars
Release Date: Apr 02, 2013
Skiba's research to be published in the Illinois Law Review.

Ingrid Wuerth elected to membership in American Law Institute
Release Date: Mar 29, 2013
Wuerth joins organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law.

Tracey George named to the Tarkington Chair of Teaching Excellence
Release Date: Mar 29, 2013
This three-year, rotating chair is unique among chairs at Vanderbilt Law School because it specifically recognizes teaching excellence.

Vanderbilt professors Dan Cornfield and Alistair Newbern collaborate on report recommending a public-private partnership
Release Date: Mar 21, 2013
Report prepared by Vanderbilt sociologist Cornfield in collaboration with Nashville for All of Us, chaired by Newbern, outlines a 25-year plan to make Nashville more welcoming and inclusive.

Daniel Gervais cited in Kirtsaeng dissent
Release Date: Mar 21, 2013
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cites Gervais’ definitive TRIPS Agreement book to compare U.S. policy with Court’s decision regarding scope of U.S. copyright law.

Watch "Can War Be Justified?" a lecture by Larry May
Release Date: Mar 18, 2013
May is Vanderbilt's W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and professor of law.

Five Vanderbilt law professors will co-teach Osher Lifelong Learning course on "The Living Constitution"
Release Date: Feb 05, 2013
"The Living Constitution: Supreme Court Decisions that Affect Our Lives" is coordinated by Professor Emeritus Robert Covington and co-taught by Professor Emeritus Tom McCoy and Professors Mark Brandon, Susan Kay and David Hudson.

Terry Maroney presents at orientation program for new federal judges
Release Date: Feb 04, 2013
Maroney participated in the Federal Judicial Center's orientation program for newly appointed federal judges.

VLR article by Terry Maroney identifies good uses for judicial anger
Release Date: Jan 15, 2013
"Angry Judges" proposes a new model for judicial anger.

Fourth edition of TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis by IP expert Daniel Gervais released
Release Date: Jan 04, 2013
Gervais’ updated commentary on TRIPS now incorporates original proposals for the agreement from individual nations.

Tracey George appointed to editorial board of Journal of Legal Education
Release Date: Jan 02, 2013
George directs Vanderbilt's Cecil D. Branstetter Program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution.

Criminal law professor Donald J. Hall dead at 69
Release Date: Nov 30, 2012
Professor Hall was a revered teacher and criminal law expert who taught at Vanderbilt from 1970 until his retirement in 2007.

Michael Newton appointed to board of advisors for ABA International Criminal Court Project
Release Date: Nov 20, 2012
Newton previously served on ASIL Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward the ICC.

Daniel Sharfstein awarded 2012 Cromwell Book Prize for The Invisible Line
Release Date: Nov 15, 2012
Prize selected by American Society of Legal History advisory committee recognizes scholarly excellence in legal history.

Articles by Wuerth and from Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law cited in Fourth Circuit Court decision in Samantar
Release Date: Nov 14, 2012
Articles by Ingrid Wuerth and Lewis Yelin cited in discussion of foreign state immunity.

Ingrid Wuerth selected to work on restatement of U.S. foreign relations law
Release Date: Nov 02, 2012
Wuerth will be a reporter on the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, published by the American Law Institute.

Daniel Gervais elected to the Academy of Europe
Release Date: Sep 29, 2012
Gervais is the first professor at a U.S. law school invited to join the Academy of Europe.

Voter ID laws to be examined at Vanderbilt Constitution Day Program
Release Date: Sep 14, 2012
Vanderbilt marks Constitution Day on September 20, 2012.

Health policy expert James Blumstein testifies before House subcommittee on ACA implementation
Release Date: Sep 14, 2012
Blumstein’s testimony before Ways and Means Health Subcommittee addressed a legal problem with the provision of medical insurance subsidies.

Property law expert Chris Serkin to join Vanderbilt Law faculty
Release Date: Sep 11, 2012
Serkin’s scholarship focuses on local government, land use and the Takings Clause.

W. Kip Viscusi: New federal energy regulations flawed
Release Date: Jul 17, 2012
Viscusi and Gayer's report, “Overriding Consumer Preferences with Energy Regulations,” was published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Morgan Ricks joins Vanderbilt's law faculty as assistant professor
Release Date: Jul 17, 2012
Ricks is affiliated with Vanderbilt's Law and Business Program.

Evolutionary perspective illuminates controversial economic theory
Release Date: Jul 06, 2012
Research also shows “endowment effect” can be turned on and off.

Michael Vandenbergh serves on RESOLVE multi-sector expert panel addressing sustainability certification
Release Date: Jun 27, 2012
Panel released its final report, "Toward Sustainability: The Roles and Limits of Certification," in June 2012.

Adjunct Professor Linda Rose recognized by American Immigration Lawyers Association
Release Date: Jun 20, 2012
Rose received the 2012 Susan D. Quarles AILA Service Excellence Award.

Daniel Sharfstein wins Law & Society Association’s 2012 James Willard Hurst Prize
Release Date: Jun 13, 2012
Sharfstein honored for his groundbreaking book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.

Professor John Owen Haley honored by government of Japan
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Haley to receive Order of the Rising Sun in recognition of his outstanding contributions to friendship between Japan and the U.S.

Rose, adjunct professor of law, receives Fulbright grants
Release Date: May 01, 2012
Rose will be awarded up to two Fulbright grants over the next five years to teach comparative immigration law at educational institutions abroad.

Sean Seymore is University of Tennessee’s Inaugural Distinguished Honors Alumnus in Residence
Release Date: Apr 24, 2012
Seymore also honored with UT’s Accomplished Alumnus Award

Cheng, George, Sharfstein, Sherry and Vandenbergh honored for outstanding teaching with Hall-Hartman Awards
Release Date: Apr 16, 2012
Annual awards recognize excellent teaching in three 1L courses, one upper-level course and one seminar.

Conflicting expert witnesses can give inaccurate view of science, an interview with Assistant Professor Rebecca Haw
Release Date: Apr 10, 2012
Haw, an expert on antitrust law and the intersection of science and the law, offers two suggestions on how to address this issue.

Lisa Bressman named to the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law
Release Date: Apr 03, 2012
Bressman is a renowned scholar of administrative law and statutory interpretation who currently serves as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs.

Erin O’Hara O’Connor named to the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law
Release Date: Apr 03, 2012
Connor is a leading scholar in the field of conflict of laws.

Suzanna Sherry honored as 2012 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor
Release Date: Apr 02, 2012
Sherry honored for creative scholarship and stimulating and inspiring teaching.

Alistair Newbern appointed to Metro Human Relations Commission
Release Date: Mar 29, 2012
Newbern, who is an assistant clinical professor of law, will serve as one of 17 human relations commissioners for Metro Nashville.

Daniel Sharfstein wins 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
Release Date: Mar 16, 2012
Prize recognizes Sharfstein for his book, "The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White"

Article by Sean Seymore selected among best intellectual property works of 2011
Release Date: Feb 13, 2012
“Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law” to be included in Thomson-West’s 2012 Intellectual Property Law Review.

Robert Belton, trailblazing scholar of employment law, dead at 76
Release Date: Feb 10, 2012
Professor Belton retired from a distinguished 34-year career at Vanderbilt in 2009.

Daniel Sharfstein awarded AALS’s 2012 Scholarly Paper Prize
Release Date: Feb 09, 2012
In “Atrocity, Entitlement and Personhood: The Value of Violence in Property Law,” Sharfstein examines the impact of violence on Americans’ perceptions of property rights.

Gervais establishes www.tripsagreement.net to serve as TRIPS resource repository
Release Date: Jan 31, 2012
New site offers TRIPS resources as well as a database of U.S. and Canadian copyright cases

Ellen Wright Clayton named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Release Date: Jan 25, 2012
AAAS elects as Fellows those whose "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its application are scientifically or socially distinguished."

High court’s GPS decision sidesteps larger privacy question
Release Date: Jan 24, 2012
United States v. Jones case leaves much unsettled says Chris Slobgin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law

Internet anti-piracy legislation is flawed, says Vanderbilt intellectual property expert Daniel Gervais
Release Date: Jan 18, 2012
Unless amended, Gervais contends, SOPA would undermine search engines

Energy and administrative law scholar Jim Rossi to join Vanderbilt Law faculty
Release Date: Jan 17, 2012
Rossi's appointment as professor of law announced by Dean Chris Guthrie.

Vijay Padmanabhan helps tread the line between detainees’ safety and human rights
Release Date: Jan 11, 2012
Padmanabhan argues for new rules to determine if someone can be detained and a new mechanism to transfer those who are released to a safe place.

Daniel Gervais and Ellen Wright Clayton to head research initiative addressing orphan and tropical diseases
Release Date: Jan 08, 2012
Team from Vanderbilt and Melbourne universities awarded research grant by Melbourne-Vanderbilt Partnership.

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