Grace Renshaw

Browner’s lecture is made possible by the Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund and sponsored by the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. Browner became the longest serving EPA administrator in history under President Bill Clinton and was director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration. She now practices as a senior counsel with Covington & Burling. Read More

More than 50 people, including children, were killed in a Russian attack on a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, in April. Even if members of the military were among the dead, Newton said the attack could still violate the laws of war if it disproportionately harmed civilians. “If you’re going to kill a small number of troops as opposed to a large number of civilians, that’s a war crime,” he said. Read More

Lewellen will serve as NCSL's chair in 2023-24. She is deputy director and assistant secretary of the Arkansas Senate. Read More

The event exposes incoming students to public service opportunities at VLS and in Nashville and connects them with faculty and local attorneys who work in the public interest. Read More

Yesha Yadav, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Community and faculty co-director of the LL.M. program, extends a warm welcome to the incoming J.D. and LL.M. classes. Read More

Bourached is an AI researcher at University College London, where he works on the Picasso Reconstruction Project. His talk, sponsored by the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, is at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24, in the Bennett Miller room. Read More

Winkler had served as the office's acting director since March and as its associate regional director for enforcement since 2019. Read More

Merrick had previously served as Gov. Lee's deputy legal counsel since 2019. She was an assistant attorney general in the Tennessee Office of the Attorney General before joining Lee's legal staff. Read More

Judge Boom has served as a swing judge on the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky since 2018. She is one of seven new commissioners appointed to the Sentencing Commission. Read More

Procaccini was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and taught at Yale Law. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, First Amendment law, federal courts and civil procedure. Read More