Grace Renshaw

Blumstein served as a program leader for Leadership Nashvillenearly 40 years. Read More

Edelman was a professor of mathematics and a professor of law. His legal scholarship focused on law and public choice, addressing systems for shareholder voting, apportionment of Congressional seats, judicial decision-making, and distributing attorneys’ fees in complex litigation. Read More

Sherry held the Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law. An expert in constitutional law and federal courts and procedure, Sherry is the author of more than 100 books, book chapters and articles. Read More

Karabel is an employment litigator with Waller who has served on the Southeast Region Board of Directors for the Anti-Defamation League's National Civil Rights Committee since 2016. Berman is a professor at Yeshiva University who teaches on the adjunct law faculty at Columbia. Churchwell is vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at Vanderbilt. The panel kicked off a series of events co-sponsored by BLSA for Black History Month. Read More

Su is a nationally recognized expert on workers’ rights and civil rights who served as secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency before her appointment as deputy secretary of labor. Her talk, "Fulfilling the Unfulfilled Promise of Racial and Economic Justice," will draw on her trailblazing career as a civil rights and workers' rights attorney. Read More

Kristen Smith ’23 and Ryan Jones ’23 were finalists. Judges Corey T. Wilson of the Fifth Circuit, Andrew Brasher of the Eleventh Circuit and Chief Judge Waverly T. Crenshaw ’81 (BA’78) of the Middle District of Tennessee presided over the final round Feb. 4. Read More

BLSA is sponsoring events throughout 2022 Black History Month. Here's a complete schedule of events and speakers. Read More

BLSA is sponsoring events throughout Black History Month, including these talks: "Black and Jewish Solidarity from the Civil Rights Era til Now," "Disability Rights and the Law: Towards Equitable Access to Justice," "The Two Percent: Exceptional Black Women in the Legal Profession" and "Making It Big: Black Lawyers in Sports & Entertainment." Read More

Students in the Housing Law Clinic directed by Jennifer Prusak represented Nashville tenants facing eviction and advocated for changes in housing policy during the COVID=10 pandemic. Read More

"Revisiting the Promise of Carbon Labelling," published in the journal Nature Climate Change, reveals that one benefit of carbon labeling is that businesses that produced labels for their products often reduced their own carbon footprints. Read More