Archive
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Micah Bradley receives Class of 2020 Founder’s Medal for First Honors
21 2020 graduates honored for scholastic accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Vanderbilt Law community. Read MoreMay. 8, 2020
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Amber Banks ’20 receives 2020 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award
Banks is one of eight 2020 law graduates honored for their exemplary commitment to public interest law and pro bono work. She was a Garrison Social Justice Scholar. Read MoreMay. 6, 2020
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Cort Thompson ’20 wins the American Society of International Law 2020 Richard Baxter Military Prize
Thompson’s paper, “Avoiding Pyrrhic Victories in Orbit: A Need for Anti-Satellite Arms Control in the 21st Century,” is forthcoming in the SMU Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Thompson is a Captain in the U.S. Army and will enter the JAG Corps after graduation. Read MoreMay. 5, 2020
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2020 graduates Joe Sandford and Willoe DeFuccio named Gideon’s Promise Fellows
Sandford will join the Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office in Knoxville, Tennessee; DeFuccio will join the Mecklenberg Defenders in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read MoreMay. 4, 2020
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Class of 2020 Student Awards announced by the Vanderbilt Bar Association
Elizabeth Holden received the Chris Lantz Award, Wesley Gonzalez the Damali K. Booker Award, Amber Banks the Philip G. Davidson Award, and Joey Blake and Kristine Knowles the Jordan A. Quick Award. Read MoreMay. 1, 2020
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16 members of the Class of 2020 complete Pro Bono Pledge
Amber Banks ’20 completed 611 pro bono hours as a VLS student. Eunice Lim ’21 and Jackson Hill ’22 were also recognized for leading their classes in pro bono hours with 299 and 99 hours, respectively. Read MoreMay. 1, 2020
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Hannah Miller ’20: Seeking Challenge and Service in the Law
Miller attended VLS with support from the Thomas W. Beasley Endowment Fund, which supports military veterans. She plans to join the U.S. Army JAG Corps and serve as a law clerk for Judge Amul Thapar on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit starting in 2023. Read MoreApr. 30, 2020
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David H. Simmons ’77 profiled in Florida Politics following 18 years of service in the Florida State Legislature
Simmons served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, was elected to the state senate in 2010, and will retire this year due to term limits. He co-founded the Central Florida law firm of Beaubien Simmons Knight Mantzaris and Neal, where he continues to practice, in 1980. Read MoreApr. 27, 2020
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Virginia Must Stop Exploiting People in Prison
Micah N. Bradley of Brentwood, Tennessee, has won the Founder’s Medal signifying first honors in Vanderbilt Law School’s J.D. Class of 2020. Bradley also received the Robert F. Jackson Memorial Prize, awarded to the member of the second-year law class who has maintained the highest scholastic average during the two years,… Read MoreApr. 23, 2020
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How Government Agencies Determine The Dollar Value Of Human Life
Micah N. Bradley of Brentwood, Tennessee, has won the Founder’s Medal signifying first honors in Vanderbilt Law School’s J.D. Class of 2020. Bradley also received the Robert F. Jackson Memorial Prize, awarded to the member of the second-year law class who has maintained the highest scholastic average during the two years,… Read MoreApr. 23, 2020