LAW PRACTICE 2050 - J.B. Ruhl (anchor course)
Law as a Business - Cat Moon
Legal Operations - Cat Moon
Legal Problem Solving - Cat Moon
Legal Project Management
- Larry Bridgesmith
Blockchains and Smart Contracts - Cat Moon
Intellectual Property Survey - Daniel Gervais
Patent Law - Sean Seymore
Advanced Patent Law and Policy - Sean Seymore
Law of Cyberspace - Jason Epstein
Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law - Daniel Gervais (seminar)
Legal Practice Technology - Mark Williams
Non-Litigation Strategies for Change in Public and Social Policy - Roger Conner
Negotiation - Cheryl Mason (short course)
Role of In-House Counsel - Tatiana Stolijarova
Students can earn credit by participating in a rich variety of supervised externships, not only in Nashville but also in other parts of the country and around the world. The Law & Innovation Program encourages students to seek out externships in areas related to the intersection of law, technology and social justice. Program faculty are well-situated to help students find suitable placements.
Vanderbilt law students may take advantage of a variety of opportunities to conduct research with Law & Innovation faculty, either by assisting faculty members with their research or by conducting their own research under faculty supervision.
Law students in Legal Problem Solving, a class taught by Professor Cat Moon ’98 (BA’92), collaborated with students in VU’s schools of medicine and engineering and VUMC medical staff in 2018 on a project to redesign the surgical informed consent process for VUMC patients. This project was featured in a new book, Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health , by Bon Ku and Ellen Lupton (MIT Press, 2020) as an example of applying the principles of design thinking to real-world health care challenges.
