The International Legal Studies Program provides students with a strong intellectual and practical foundation for practicing law in today's global environment. The program offers students cutting-edge courses, exposure to world-renowned speakers and plenty of opportunities to gain hands-on experience.
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Aug. 22, 2017
The clinic will offer students hands-on opportunities to assist individuals who would otherwise not be able to afford legal assistance with matters such as applying for tax-exempt status and drafting lease agreements.
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Aug. 16, 2017
"Even if the United States leaves NAFTA, the president will still be bound to implement the agreement's rules on the terms dictated by Congress until Congress says otherwise," Meyer notes in a post on The Conversation.
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Aug. 16, 2017
Augusta Dowd ’82, Brian D. (Buck) Rogers ’94 and Lucian Pera ‘85 are serving one-year terms as presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee state bar associations, and Joycelyn Stevenson ‘01 was named executive director of the TBA.
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Aug. 7, 2017
Thompson will work throughout the academic year to support HTI’s justice and advocacy efforts.
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Jul. 28, 2017
VLS students and graduates will serve federal clerkships with a Supreme Court justice; appellate judges on the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Eleventh, D.C. and Federal Circuits; a special master of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; and district courts in 17 states and D.C.; and two state supreme courts.
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Jul. 6, 2017
Professor Mikos' casebook is the first to focus on law, policy and authority issues related to marijuana users, their suppliers and third parties who interact with them.
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Jul. 5, 2017
Vandenbergh and Gilligan emphasize that government action isn't enough to address climate change, and offer steps corporations, religious and civic organizations, investors, households, and colleges and universities can take to narrow the Paris Agreement gap in a blog post in The Conversation republished in Salon.
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Jun. 15, 2017
VLS students are working in judicial chambers, with government agencies and attorneys’ offices, and with nonprofit organizations in 20 states, Puerto Rico, D.C., and Brussels.
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Jun. 15, 2017
Students are working in unpaid legal positions in 13 states, Puerto Rico, D.C. and China.
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“Being a foreign lawyer first and then a law student in the U.S., I felt like I lived the complete American law school experience.”
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"Vanderbilt taught me the value of being engaged in your surroundings."
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Clerk, Judge John Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2015-16
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Hired as an international intern by Holland and Knight in Jacksonville, Florida, recruited by partner Ricardo Bedoya, J.D. Class of 2003.
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2017 Public Interest Law Initiative Fellow, Roger Baldwin Foundation, ACLU of Illinois
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Clerk, Judge Kenneth F. Ripple, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2015-16
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New book explores intertwined history of race relations and property rights
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Clerk, Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Memphis
Clerk, Judge R. Lanier Anderson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Macon, Georgia
2015 Summer Associate, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and Neal & Harwell, Nashville
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Massive database shows state judges are not representative of the people they serve
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Clerk, Judge James K. Bredar, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore
Law Clerk, Judge Srikanth Srinivasan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2017-18
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