Grace Renshaw
-
Katie Cohen ’21 awarded Helton Fellowship for international pro bono legal service
The fellowship allows Cohen to work at Global Rights Compliance at The Hague this summer. Read MoreApr. 30, 2019
-
Annie Cappetta and Eileen Bautista Fay named Class of 2021 Garrison Social Justice Scholars
Fay will spend this summer working at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence; Cappetta will work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for digital privacy and free speech, and South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center Read MoreApr. 29, 2019
-
Mitchell Galloway ’19 selected for Department of Justice Honors Program
Galloway will join the Criminal Enforcement Section of the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice based in Washington, D.C. Read MoreApr. 24, 2019
-
Lawrence Epstein ’92 (BA’89) elected to the Vanderbilt Board of Trust
Adolpho Birch III '91 re-elected to a second five-year term. Epstein is COO for the Ultimate Fighting Championship and president of IKE Gaming Inc. Birch is senior vice president of labor policy and league affairs for the National Football League. Read MoreApr. 24, 2019
-
Lisa Bressman, Rebecca Allensworth, Kevin Stack, Chris Slobogin and Jenny Cheng honored with 2019 Hall-Hartman Outstanding Teaching Awards
The awards are based on a student poll and named in honor of late Professors Paul Hartman and Donald Hall. They recognize an outstanding professor in each first-year section and for small and large upper-level classes. Read MoreApr. 23, 2019
-
Timothy Lupinacci ’91 assumes role of chairman and CEO of Baker Donelson
Lupinacci succeeds Ben Adams '81, who has served as the firm's chairman and CEO for a total of 21 years. Read MoreApr. 18, 2019
-
Pro Bono Spring Break student teams support lending reform and property tax appeals in Atlanta
Six students worked at Atlanta Legal Aid with Equal Justice Works Fellow Darrius Woods ’17, supporting programs to reform predatory lending practices and provide property tax relief to low-income clients. Read MoreApr. 18, 2019
-
Research team headed by Alan Storrow of Vanderbilt Medical School and Jim Blumstein of Vanderbilt Law garners DHHS grant to develop and test “safe harbor” standards of care
VU researchers from the schools of Law, Medicine and Management will develop and test “safe harbor” protocols designed to improve quality of care and reduce unnecessary medical procedures performed to reduce legal liability. Read MoreApr. 17, 2019
-
Lauren Benton, professor of history and professor of law, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Benton is the Nelson O. Tyrone Professor of History. The research she will complete as a Guggenheim Fellow examines legal practices surrounding "small wars." Read MoreApr. 13, 2019
-
Suzanna Sherry and Chris Sundby address term limits for Supreme Court justices in SCOTUSblog post and Texas Law Review article
In a blog post and a forthcoming article in the Texas Law Review, Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law Sherry and Sundby, who is earning his JD/PhD in law and neuroscience at Vanderbilt, argue that there is a serious potential downside to establishing SCOTUS term limits: they might cause doctrinal instability. Read MoreApr. 9, 2019