Grace Renshaw
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45 VLS students receive course credit to support pro bono legal work in summer 2019
Students secured externships with federal and state courses, government agencies and legal nonprofits and in corporate legal offices. Read MoreJul. 9, 2018
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Ray Liu LL.M.’11 named head of Dorsey & Whitney’s Beijing office
Liu is a partner at Dorsey, where he focuses on international litigation and complex commercial disputes. Read MoreJul. 5, 2018
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Adrielle Conner ’20 receives Bradley Arant Boult Cummings diversity scholarship
Forty-five Vanderbilt Law students are gaining legal experience by serving externships for course credit in federal and state judicial chambers; in the offices of U.S. attorneys and state attorneys general, district attorneys and public defenders; in state and municipal legal offices; and with public interest and advocacy organizations. During summer… Read MoreJul. 2, 2018
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Read Law.com’s June 28 interview with Geoffrey Drake ’05
Drake is a partner at King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he focuses on product liability litigation. Read MoreJul. 2, 2018
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Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic project provides seniors with legal, medical documents
VLS students work with Vanderbilt School of Nursing students to counsel patients about advanced care directives and develop the supporting legal documents. Read MoreJun. 28, 2018
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Read “Faces of Nashville” interview with Deputy Public Defender Aisha McWeay ’09
McWeay joined the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender's Office in 2009 after earning her Vanderbilt J.D. She was named General Sessions Division Chief in 2014 and Dputy Public Defender in 2017. Read MoreJun. 26, 2018
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W. Kip Viscusi discusses his new book, Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society
Putting a price tag on a person's life could make America safer and fairer, according to acclaimed economist Viscusi, who defines the "value of statistical life" as the dollar amount people are willing to pay to avoid an expected death. Read MoreJun. 25, 2018
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Remembering Milton Rice ’49: A Tennessean column by Ed Cole
A friend of the late Milton Rice '49 writes about his legal of "patriotism, public service and neighborliness." Rice died Jan. 1 at age 97. Read MoreJun. 22, 2018
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Morgan Ricks and co-authors propose “FedAccounts,” a public option for bank accounts
Ricks and co-authors John Crawford and Lev Manand argue for offering accounts with the Federal Reserve, which come with privileges such as higher interest rates, instant clearing and added security, to everyone. Read MoreJun. 21, 2018
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Listen to three VLS students discuss immigration law in “Life of the Law” podcast
Forty-five Vanderbilt Law students are gaining legal experience by serving externships for course credit in federal and state judicial chambers; in the offices of U.S. attorneys and state attorneys general, district attorneys and public defenders; in state and municipal legal offices; and with public interest and advocacy organizations. During summer… Read MoreJun. 8, 2018