Grace Renshaw
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Paige Skiba and Caroline Malone, JD/PhD’22 on how payday lenders use installment loans to evade regulation
In a Dec. 9 article published by The Conversation, Skiba and Malone explain why payday lenders have embraced installment loans, based on their recent study that explored the effect that the larger installment loans have on borrowers. Their results suggest that installment loans may create additional financial strain for consumers rather than benefiting them. Read MoreDec. 9, 2019
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Books by W. Kip Viscusi and Michael Vandenbergh among best environmental writing in past 50 years.
Viscusi’s book Pricing Lives and Vandenbergh’s book, Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change, co-authored with VU professor Jonathan Gilligan, were included in “Reading the Environment: 1969-2019,” an Environmental Forum overview of influential environmental writing by Oliver Houck and G. Tracy Mehan II. Read MoreDec. 3, 2019
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“A Counterintuitive and Compelling Case for Class-Action Lawsuits”: Read Judge Kenneth Lee’s review of Brian Fitzpatrick’s new book
In a book review published in the National Review, Judge Kenneth K. Lee of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals touts Fitzpatrick's book, "The Conservative Case for Class Action Lawsuits," as "a clever, contrarian, and counterintuitive take on class actions that should open the eyes of both conservatives and liberals." Read MoreDec. 2, 2019
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Bill Purcell ’79 tapped to join Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency board
Purcell practices with Farmer Purcell White & Lassiter and teaches as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University. He served as Nashville's mayor from 1999 to 2007. Read MoreNov. 21, 2019
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Ganesh Sitaraman on “How to Rein In an All-Too-Powerful Supreme Court”
Professor Sitaraman proposes that Congress pass a Congressional Review Act that would enable it to overturn SCOTUS decisions on legislative matters with greater speed and ease in a Nov. 16 essay published in The Atlantic. Read MoreNov. 19, 2019
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Susan Kay ’79 honored with “Lifetime Achievement Award” by ACLU of Tennessee
Kay, who is associate dean for experiential education, has taught at VLS since 1980 and established the law school's first clinic. The award recognizes her lifetime dedication to criminal justice reform and legal advocacy, which includng successfully challenging Nashville's jail conditions. She was honored on Nov. 14. Read MoreNov. 14, 2019
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Alex Gardner ’19 wins Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award writing competition
The annual competition sponsored by the International Association of Gaming Advisors recognizes the best scholarly research paper in gaming law written by law students as part of their coursework. Gardner’s article addressed the history of parimutuel wagering. Read MoreNov. 14, 2019
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Read Brian Fitzpatrick’s National Review opinion piece, “The Conservative Case for Class Actions?”
In his new book, released this fall by Chicago University Press, Fitzpatrick makes "The Conservative Case for Class Actions," asserting that "They're better than the alternative: regulation by bureaucrats." Read MoreNov. 14, 2019
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Top DoD lawyer Paul Ney JD/MBA ’84, delivers 2019 Charney Lecture
Ney stressed the importance of compliance with the rule of law in military operations in the 2019 Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law Sept. 3, reported on by special counsel to the DoD Tom Lee on JustSecurity.org. Read MoreNov. 11, 2019
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Nashville Juvenile Court Judge Sheila Calloway ’94 (BA’91) featured in StyleBlueprint Nashville
Read an interview with Judge Calloway, who was a public defender and magistrate judge before being elected to a seat on Nashville's Juvenile Court in 2014. Read MoreNov. 11, 2019