Hyatt Student Activities Fund

The Hyatt Student Activities Fund provides student organizations and individual students with full or partial funding to bring in outside speakers and support student-planned symposia or conferences. The fund was endowed by Wayne S. Hyatt (VULS ’68; VU ‘65) and his late wife, Amanda M. Hyatt (VU BA ’67, MA ’74), to support student-initiated programs that enrich the intellectual content of student activities at Vanderbilt University Law School.

The 2011-2012 Hyatt Fund Series Will Be Announced Soon!

 

Past programs have included:

  • Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent for the New York Times
  • Will A. Gunn, General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Jon Davidson, Lambda Legal & Rev. Susan Russell, All Saints Episcopal Church
  • Deputy Secretary of Health & Human Services William Corr (J.D. '73)
  • Mayor Karl Dean (JD '81) 
  • SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins (JD '83)

About Fund Sponsors Wayne S. Hyatt and Amanda G. Hyatt

A leading lawyer who specializes in representing master-planned communities and their developers, Wayne S. Hyatt is chairman of Hyatt & Stubblefield, an Atlanta-based law firm. He is the author of 12 leading books on legal issues relating to planned communities, condominium association law and community associations throughout his career. His practice extends beyond property law into the field of local government through private neighborhood associations, addressing issues such as representative government, rights and responsibilities of neighbors, freedom of expression, and the environment. Hyatt has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the Vanderbilt, Emory and University of Georgia law schools. He was named a distinguished alumnus of Vanderbilt Law School in 2003 and received the Law School’s distinguished service award in 1996.

Before her death in 2001, Amanda G. Hyatt – who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics at Vanderbilt – spent 25 years in public service, serving as chair of the Governor's Welfare Reform Task Force for the state of Georgia, the Council for Competitive Georgia and the Georgia Council on Vocational Education. She was a founder of the Regional Leadership Institute, represented Douglas County, Ga., on the Atlanta Regional Commission, and helped to develop the Douglas County campus of the Carroll Technical Institute.