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Consumer financing expert Paige Marta Skiba seeks to prevent a wave of consumer bankruptcies as unemployment aid ends
Skiba cochairs an interdisciplinary group of scholars who recommend interventions to protect households from debt collection, foreclosure, eviction, and bankruptcy, and to position the bankruptcy system to respond to consumer needs during the pandemic. Read MoreAug. 17, 2020
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Corporate law expert Brian Broughman joins Vanderbilt’s Law and Business faculty
Broughman previously taught for 11 years at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he also served as associate dean for research. Read MoreAug. 13, 2020
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Jennifer Prusak to launch new Housing Law Clinic at Vanderbilt Law
Prusak has joined Vanderbilt’s clinical law faculty. She has more than 15 years of experience advocating for low-income tenants and fair housing Read MoreAug. 13, 2020
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Ganesh Sitaraman named a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States
Sitaraman is one of eight new public members appointed to the ACUS, which is an independent federal agency tasks with improving the administrative processes of federal agencies. Read MoreAug. 10, 2020
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Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic wins case for Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws
Students in the clinic, directed by Gautam Hans, worked with Daniel Horwitz ’13 to defend a nonprofit group’s satirical mailer criticizing a Tennessee state representative. Read MoreAug. 10, 2020
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Paul Gilbert ’91 named general counsel and corporate secretary of Rite Aid
Gilbert's career focusing on health care law has included private practice with Epstein Becker Green and Waller and service as hieve legal and corporate governance officer at LifePoint Health. Read MoreAug. 5, 2020
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Natalie Komrovsky ’20
Paige Marta Skiba, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School and its Department of Economics, co-chairs a new COVID-19 Working Group of a Consumer Committee of Bankruptcy Scholars who have sounded an alarm about a coming wave of bankruptcies in a July 24 letter to Congress. In their letter, the… Read MoreAug. 5, 2020
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Trials and Errors: Research network explores promise, limitations of using neuroscience to inform criminal justice
Paige Marta Skiba, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School and its Department of Economics, co-chairs a new COVID-19 Working Group of a Consumer Committee of Bankruptcy Scholars who have sounded an alarm about a coming wave of bankruptcies in a July 24 letter to Congress. In their letter, the… Read MoreAug. 5, 2020
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Taylor Owings ’13 named acting chief of staff of U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division
Owings joined the Justice Department as counsel to the assistant attorney general in February 2018. She had previously practiced antitrust law in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Read MoreJul. 28, 2020
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Russ Overby ’74 retires from distinguished career of public service at Legal Aid Society and Tennessee Justice Center
Overby spent his legal career at the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, which he joined in 1974, except for a stint as a welfare reform lawyer at the Tennessee Justice Center from 1997 to 2005. Most recently, he was lead attorney at the firm's Health, Income and Education Practice Group. Read MoreJul. 16, 2020