Grace Renshaw
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Matt Leggett ’07 named chief counsel of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Leggett had previously served as policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee since 2012. Read MoreSep. 13, 2017
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Read legal historian Zephyr Teachout’s review of Ganesh Sitaraman’s book, “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution”
Teachout's review, published in the Summer 2017 issue of The American Prospect, says that Sitaraman brings a "fresh eye and impressive range of historical thinking to an ageless question: What are the conditions for freedom?" Read MoreAug. 28, 2017
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Bob Reder ’78 among first to respond to Chancellor’s Chair Challenge
Reder and his wife, Theresa, have established the Enterprise Chair at VLS through a significant gift. Retired from a 33-year legal career with Milbank Tweed in New York, Reder is now a professor of the practice of law at Vanderbilt. Read MoreAug. 25, 2017
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Joycelyn Stevenson ’01 featured as “Attorney of the Month” in Attorney at Law Magazine
Stevenson was recently named executive director of the Tennessee Bar Association. Read MoreAug. 24, 2017
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Nat Robinson ’18 (MBA’07) and team of MBA students seek to provide secure mobile banking for refugees
Robinson's team of Turner Family Center for Social Ventures summer fellows won $15,000 at the 36/86 Student Edition Pitch Competition with their idea for a mobile banking service and researched countries where they will launch the new service. Their work will continue during this academic year. Read MoreAug. 23, 2017
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Entering Students Learn about Professional Obligation to Provide Pro Bono Legal Services
New orientation program introduces students to pro bono service opportunities in a diverse array of practice areas. Read MoreAug. 21, 2017
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Tim Meyer discusses constitutional obstacles to withdrawing from NAFTA
"Even if the United States leaves NAFTA, the president will still be bound to implement the agreement's rules on the terms dictated by Congress until Congress says otherwise," Meyer notes in a post on The Conversation. Read MoreAug. 16, 2017
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Three VLS alumni are 2017-18 presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee Bar Associations
Augusta Dowd ’82, Brian D. (Buck) Rogers ’94 and Lucian Pera ‘85 are serving one-year terms as presidents of the Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee state bar associations, and Joycelyn Stevenson ‘01 was named executive director of the TBA. Read MoreAug. 16, 2017
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Robert Mikos urges congress to “repeal and replace” federal ban on marijuana
In a commentary published in Fortune, Mikos discusses the Marijuana Justice Act proposed by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). Read MoreAug. 7, 2017
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Holly Thompson ’19 selected for inaugural class of Douglass Fellows by Human Trafficking Institute
Thompson will work throughout the academic year to support HTI’s justice and advocacy efforts. Read MoreAug. 7, 2017