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Reunion 2019 final results are in!
Our Reunion 2019 volunteers and alumni donors raised over $2.6 million for the law school! Your generous support ensures a bright future for VLS and stands as a testament to the camaraderie and spirit of your class. Reunion 2019 Final Fundraising Results Class Total Raised # in Class #… Read MoreJan. 21, 2020
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“Vote for US: A Conversation with Election Rights Expert Joshua Douglas” schedule Thurs., Feb. 6, at VLS
Professor Douglas teaches voting rights and election law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He is the author of the 2019 book “Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting.” Read MoreJan. 21, 2020
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Research by Ramon Ryan ’21 indicates FCC’s approval of SpaceX satellite may have been unlawful
In Ryan's Note, to be published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, he challenges the FCC's exclusion of commercial satellites from review under the National Environmental Policy Act. Ryan's research was the subject of a Jan. 16 Scientific American article, "The FCC's Approval of SpaceX's Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful," by Jonathan O'Callaghan. Read MoreJan. 16, 2020
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Darby Dickerson ’88 is president of the Association of American Law Schools
Dickerson is the dean of UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She was inducted into her one-year term as AALS president during the association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in January. Read MoreJan. 13, 2020
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Research by W. Kip Viscusi finds post-9/11 wars may have resulted in twice as many deaths at home as in battle
Viscusi, an economist whose research focuses on fatality risks, found that post-9/11 wars resulted in indirect deaths in the U.S. due to the diversion of war costs from the U.S. economy and the subsequent impact on consumers who had less money to spend on better nutrition, health care, safe housing and safe products. His article, "The Mortality Cost Metric for the Cost of War," appears in the journal Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. Read MoreJan. 10, 2020
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Legal historian Sara Mayeux among 13 rising Vanderbilt scholars to receive Provost Research Studios for 2019-20
Provost Research Studios provide up to $4,000 to support the professional development of full-time faculty early in their academic careers. Read MoreJan. 8, 2020
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Ray Lui LLM’11 named to China Business Law Journal A-List
Liu is a partner with Dorsey in Beijing, where he focuses on cross-border dispute resolution, U.S. litigation, interanitonal and foreign-related arbitration, and trade and compliance matters. He is licensed to practice in New York. Read MoreJan. 7, 2020
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Retired federal Judge John T. Nixon ’60 dead at 86
Judge Nixon was appointed to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee by President Jimmy Carter and served as the court's chief judge from 1991 to 1998. Read MoreJan. 2, 2020
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Yufang (Ethan) Ma ’02 (MS’01) named one of China’s Top 15 IP lawyers for 2019 by Asian Legal Business
Ma is a partner at Orrick, focusing on intellectual property and trade secrets litigation, at Orrick in Shanghai. Read MoreJan. 2, 2020