Grace Renshaw
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Nashville immigration attorney Elliott Ozment ’75 dies at 71
Read Ozment's featured obituary in The Tennessean. He founded and headed Ozment Law and represented District 60 in the Tennessee House of Representatives early in his legal career. Read MoreOct. 18, 2018
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Thank you, 2018 Reunion Volunteers!
We are grateful to the 60 alumni and student volunteers whose hard work made Reunion 2018 such a terrific weekend! Read MoreOct. 17, 2018
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Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, delivers Vanderbilt’s 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture
Gelernt discussed his work as lead attorney in the Ms. L litigation, a case challenging the federal government’s practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S. border. Read MoreOct. 15, 2018
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Jeremy D. Kernodle ’01 confirmed to seat on U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Kernodle was previously a partner at Haynes and Boone in Dallas, where he founded and chaired the firm's False Claims Act practice group. Read MoreOct. 12, 2018
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Eli Richardson ’92 confirmed to seat on U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Richardson is a partner at Bass Berry & Sims in Nashville, where he focuses on government investigations involving allged white-collar crime or criminal civil violations. Read MoreOct. 12, 2018
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New federal courthouse in Nashville to be named in honor of Fred Thompson ’67
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new courthouse, to be completed by 2021, was held Sept. 28. Read MoreOct. 1, 2018
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18 members of the Class of 2018 selected to join the Order of the Coif
Members of the Order of the Coif are selected by the faculty and represent the top 10 percent of their class. Read MoreSep. 19, 2018
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Research by Jenny Diamond Cheng addresses how disparities between Republicans and Democrats may lead to voter discrimination
Cheng's research addresses the impact of the "unprecedented" age, race and gender gap that divides Democrats and Republicans. Young women now form the core of the Democratic Party's support, while older men are the core of the Republican Party's support. Cheng is an expert on the 26th Amendment. Read MoreSep. 14, 2018
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Vanderbilt University’s new Bass Military Scholars Program to provide law scholarships
A $25 million gift from the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation will provide scholarships for military veterans at five Vanderbilt schools, including VLS, the Owen Graduate School of Management, Peabody College, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. Read MoreSep. 13, 2018
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VLS hosts MLK symposium, “From Martin Luther King Jr. to Black Lives Matter: 50 Years of Struggle,” on Sept. 20
The MLK symposium in Flynn Auditorium will feature panel discussions sponsored by Vanderbilt's law, divinity and graduate schools and Peabody College and keynote addresses by Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors and Virginia Tech vice president Menah Pratt-Clarke '93 (PhD'97). Read MoreSep. 13, 2018