Curriculum
An Engaging Curriculum
The program aims to encourage intellectual engagement in structures of government, the allocation of powers among governmental institutions, and limitations on those powers. Disputes in these areas touch on fundamental values of the legal order and speak to some of the most challenging issues of our time.
The Regulatory State
Vanderbilt students receive substantive exposure to administrative law through the required first-year regulatory state course, which introduces students to statutes and agency decisions and the central role they play in modern government. Vanderbilt Professors Lisa Bressman, Ed Rubin, and Kevin Stack developed the course and co-authored the casebook "The Regulatory State," an accessible and engaging approach to legislation, statutory interpretation, and agency implementation.
Available Electives
| American Legal History | Appellate Practice and Procedure | Behind the Curtain of the Supreme Court Seminar | Constitutional Law I - Structural Questions, Federalism, and Separation of Powers | Constitutional Law II - Individual Rights |
| Family Law | Federal Courts and the Federal System | Federal Indian Law | Federalism Seminar | First Amendment Constitutional Law |
| Foreign Affairs | Gender and the Law | Government Contract Law | Health Policy Seminar | Immigration Law and Policy |
| Immigration Practice Clinic | International Protection of Human Rights | Law of Economic Security & Industrial Policy Seminar | Marijuana Law and Policy | Policing in the 21st Century Short Course |
| Public International Law | Reproductive Rights and Justice | Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic | Textualism and Originalism Seminar | Water Law |