Grace Renshaw
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Kristen Clarke of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law delivers 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture
Clarke’s lecture, “Democracy under Attack: Race, Rights and Resistance,” addresses the role of lawyers in responding to racial injustice, voter suppression and other civil rights issues. Read MoreApr. 10, 2018
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Dean Chris Guthrie and Associate Dean Chris Serkin will serve on graduate and professional student village committees
Guthrie will serve on the executive committee and Serkin on the advisory committee tasked with working closely with Brailsford & Dunlavy, the development advisory firm on the project. Read MoreApr. 5, 2018
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Candid conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor inspires students
Justice Sotomayor answered students' questions in her 2018 Cecil Sims Lecture in Flynn Auditorium April 3. Read MoreApr. 4, 2018
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Katie Sochacki ’18 and Dora Duru ’20 selected for 2018 law class of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
Sochacki and Duru will travel to Germany and Poland this summer through the prestigious FASPE program, which uses the conduct of lawyers and judges in Nazi-occupied Europe to examine ethics in the legal profession today. Read MoreMar. 30, 2018
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Dora Duru ’20 receives Helen Strong Curry International Legal Scholarship
Duru will participate in the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics Program and intern at the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy during summer 2018. Read MoreMar. 28, 2018
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Amber Banks ’20 receives Garrison Social Justice Scholarship
Banks will spend summer 2018 working at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Read MoreMar. 27, 2018
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VLS students help create a new nonprofit through Vanderbilt’s Transactional Pro Bono Spring Break
A six-student team helped the Appalachian Community Federal Credit Union create a new nonprofit. Read MoreMar. 27, 2018
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Lauren Benton, professor of history and professor of law, wins 2019 Toynbee Prize
Benton's work focuses on law in European empires, the history or international law and Atlantic world history. Read MoreMar. 26, 2018
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John Ryder ’74 named to board of Tennessee Valley Authority
In the 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture at Vanderbilt Law School on April 5, Kristen Clarke challenged Vanderbilt Law students to use their legal skills to address a “national assault” on civil rights that has included voter suppression, mass incarceration, and police brutality. Clarke, president and executive director… Read MoreMar. 26, 2018
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Anniversary of Dunn v. Blumstein, 1972 voting rights class action suit brought by James Blumstein, noted in Politico column
Blumstein challenged Tennessee's residency requirement for voting, appearing before the Supreme Court on Nov. 17, 1971, on his own behalf. Read MoreMar. 26, 2018