The health and safety of our Vanderbilt community are our highest priority. Plans for the spring were developed in close consultation with experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and our School of Nursing as well as national, state and local public health officials. The success of this approach requires a joint effort from every member of our community as we work together as One Vanderbilt.
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Feb. 25, 2021
Belton was a pioneering scholar of labor and employment law and the law school’s first tenured African American professor. The position of Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity and Community will be endowed by an anonymous donor this year
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Feb. 23, 2021
Aaron Bernard ’22 and Emily Webb ’22 are Moot Court finalists, with Emily Detiveaux ’22 honored for Best Oralist and Peter Byrne ’22 and Caylyn Harvey ’22 for Best Brief.
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Feb. 11, 2021
The award recognizes the best paper written by a law student on a military justice topic. Fitzgerald’s essay, “Thank Me for My Service: An Ethics Oversight in DoD Social Media Policy,” will be published in the Harvard National Security Law Journal.
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Jan. 28, 2021
Clarke’s article has been reprinted in the UCLA Law Dukeminier Awards Journal, which annually recognizes the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity issues.
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Jan. 18, 2021
Ryan’s Note, “The Fault in Our Stars,” addresses environmental review of commercial satellite launches. The award, sponsored by the ABA’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, recognizes the best paper addressing specific industries providing important services.
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Jan. 11, 2021
Ali will serve in the Office of the White House Counsel. She most recently served as a trial litigator at Wilkinson Stekloff in Washington. Before entering private practice, she was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, for Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Court of Appeals and for Judge Amul Thapar on the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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Dec. 21, 2020
In a co-authored opinion piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the authors discuss the need for a national climate change strategy based on the same sort of public-private collaboration that led to the rapid production of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Dec. 18, 2020
Sharfstein is a legal historian whose work addresses race and citizenship in the United States. He is the author of two award-winning books, “The Invisible Line” and “Thunder in the Mountains,” and received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Dec. 18, 2020
An expert in complex litigation, Fitzpatrick is most recently the author of The Conservative Case of Class Actions, a 2019 book published by University of Chicago Press.
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"I've always been passionate about criminal law and business transactions, and I wanted to see the American perspective in both areas."
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2020-21 Clerk, Judge Joan L. Larsen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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2020-21 Clerk, Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
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"I wanted to be at a law school where professors and more experienced attorneys care about my growth."
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2019-21 Clerk, Judge Marcia Morales Howard, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief Counsel Honors Program, Huntsville, Alabama
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Clerk, Judge Jerome T. Kearney ’81, Eastern District of Arkansas
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Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Berkeley, California
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Associate, Special Matters and Government Investigations, King & Spalding, Washington, D.C.
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Entertainment and Corporate Attorney, Shackelford Bowen McKinley & Norton, Nashville
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Clerk, Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Memphis
Finance Lawyer, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London
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2020-21 Clerk, Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
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Attorney at Coronel & Pérez, Guayaquil and Professor of Civil Law at Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondón, Ecuador
Learn MoreWe, at Vanderbilt Law School, have been sickened and profoundly saddened by the recent spate of hateful violence against Asian communities across America and the horrifying, evil killings in Atlanta. Our first thoughts lie with the victims of this violence, their families and communities. We mourn the lives of Daoyou Feng, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Paul Andre Michels, Soon Chung Park, Xiaojie Tan, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun and we wish Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz fullest recovery from his injuries.
As this devastating wave of hate sweeps across the country, we are reminded of our most solemn duty as a law school community – to ensure that our staff, students and faculty come together in solidarity to condemn hate, discrimination and bigotry in the strongest possible terms. We stand up for one another and we ensure that our students, staff and faculty feel welcome, valued and protected at all times. Throughout the unprecedented challenges of this last year, and the racial reckoning that is underway in our country, we are also reminded of our mission as an institution of learning and action – to build a community of lawyers that are educated about the long and difficult history facing Asian-Americans and communities of color in America, to serve the rule of law and to help move our country’s lived reality towards a more equitable, fairer and decent future.
At this challenging time, we would urge all our community members to be mindful of the safety and well-being of others and to immediately report any instances of bigotry or hate around campus to a member of the Law School administration. If members experience or witness any potential for or actual violence, please call 911 immediately or Vanderbilt Police on (615) 421-1911.
