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The Harris, Porter & Work Scholarship will recognize Janie Greenwood Harris (LLB'64), Edward Melvin Porter (LLB'59) and Frederick Taylor Work, Sr. (LLB'59), and support students with a demonstrated commitment to civil rights. Read More

Vandenbergh's Sept. 4 interview with Kristoffer Tique appears in Inside Climate News. Read More

The report reflects the results of a community-wide survey and input from three anti-racism task forces representing VLS students, faculty and staff. It recommends short- and long-term actions designed to address racial inequities and injustices in the VLS community and beyond. Read More

Seymore is the New York Alumni Chancellor's Professor of Law and holds a secondary appointment in the Chemistry Department. He urges students to "take advantage of everything Vanderbilt has to offer!" Read More

Hagerty is running for the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Lamar Alexander. Before running for Senate, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Read More

Newton is an expert on transnational justice and treaties. The Arctic Research Commission is an independent agency that advises the President and Congress on domestic and international Arctic research. Read More

Read an essay adapted from a speech Chancellor Bonnyman delivered at an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women suffrage. Bonnyman served for 15 years as a chancellor for the Davidson County Chancery Court. Before her appointment to the bench in 2003, she served as the chancery court clerk and master starting in 1989. She became the founding president of the Lawyers Association for Women in 1981. Read More

Beisner, leader of Skadden's Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation group, and Fitzpatrick, who studies complex litigation, discuss the thesis of Fitzpatrick's book "The Conservative Case for Class Actions" in a Q&A published in Judicature, a journal that focuses on the practice of judging and publishes research that aims to improve the administration of justice. Read More

Janie Greenwood Harris (LLB’64) Edward Melvin Porter (LLB’59) and Frederick Taylor Work, Sr. (LLB’59) Dean Chris Guthrie and Vice Provost Tracey George have established a need-based scholarship in honor of the first African-American men and first African-American woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School.  The Harris, Porter & Work Scholarship will recognize Janie Greenwood Harris (LLB’64),… Read More

As the inaugural appointee, Yadav will work with Dean Chris Guthrie and law faculty, students, and staff to support diversity, equity and inclusion at VLS. Read More