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Tim Conlon ’80 featured in Wall Street Journal’s Real Estate section
"The Tough Road to a Waterfront House: A tenacious attorney spends years wrangling regulations to build on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay." Read MoreAug. 21, 2015
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Kyle Robisch ’14 Wins a 2015 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing
Kyle Robisch Kyle Robisch ’14 won a 2015 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing for his Note, “Getting to the (Non)Point: Private Governance as a Solution to Nonpoint Source Pollution,” published in the Vanderbilt Law Review in 2014. Robisch is the third VLS graduate in the last… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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Cameron Norris ’14 (BA’11) Wins Second Place in the 2014 H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition
Cameron Norris Cameron Norris ’14 (BA’11) was a second-place winner in the 2014 H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition, which honors law students… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Speakers Include Liu, Wood and Davis
Justice Goodwin Liu California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu, Chief Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Senior Judge Andre Davis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit discussed their work as judges in a series of… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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Monique Hannam ’15 Wins 2015 Nagareda Prize
Monique Hannam (SANDY CAMPBELL) Monique Hannam, winner of the 2015 Nagareda Prize for the best research paper addressing litigation and dispute resolution written by a member of the graduating class, was already an attorney when she entered Vanderbilt Law School. Hannam, a native of Jamaica, had worked… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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MacArthur Research Network Team Submits Neuroscientific Recommendations for Criminal Justice System
Owen Jones (SANDY CAMPBELL) The need for training programs for judges and others working in the criminal justice system and the development of clear guidelines for applying insights from neuroscience to criminal cases are among 16 influential recommendations provided by the MacArthur Foundation Research… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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Jake Byl, J.D./Ph.D.’15, and Neil Issar ’16 Win First Place in Student Writing Competitions Sponsored by SEER
Jake Byl Jake Byl, J.D./Ph.D.’15, and Neil Issar ’16 both won first place in student writing competitions sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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New Program on Law & Innovation Launched
Program offers classes, internships, fellowships and other experiential learning opportunities focused on changes in modern legal practice. Vanderbilt officially launched its new Program on Law & Innovation this spring, after two years in the making. During that time, program director J.B. Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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Moot Court Teams Address Limits of Free Speech
Moot Court finalists Struckmeyer and Gray 2Ls Larry Crane-Moscowitz and Alex Vey won the 2015 Bass Berry & Sims Moot Court competition, held Feb. 6 at the law school. Crane-Moscowitz and Vey argued as the petitioners against finalists Travis Gray and Andrew Struckmeyer, who argued for the… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015
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Four 2015 Graduates Received Ph.D.’s in Law and Economics
Blair Druhan Bullock, Benjamin J. McMichael, Jacob P. Byl and Samuel M. Miller at Commencement (TERRY WYATT) Four 2015 graduates received Ph.D.’s in Law and Economics, and three also received their Vanderbilt J.D.’s at Commencement May 8. All were students in Vanderbilt’s Ph.D. Program… Read MoreAug. 13, 2015