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Interdisciplinary guide’s co-authors include neuroscientist Jeffrey Schall and law professor Francis Shen of the University of Minnesota. Read More

Barrett was “a powerful voice for social justice, civil rights and civil liberties” in Nashville for more than 55 years. Read More

Order of the Coif members are selected by faculty approval and represent the top 10 percent of the class. Read More

ALUMNI IN THE HEADLINES Deborah Hill Biggers ’78 was elected district court judge of Macon County, Alabama. She is the first female state court judge in the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama. Sheila Calloway ’94 was elected juvenile court judge in Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee. She had previously served as a… Read More

Professor Maier spent his entire academic career at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Rubin identifies a new approach to make bureaucracy more humane. Read More

Jennifer Bennett Shinall, the first graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics, joins the faculty at Vanderbilt Law School as Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Shinall clerked for Judge John Tinder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after receiving her J.D. and Ph.D. in… Read More

Caroline Cecot, the third graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics, is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School. She will teach Risk and Environmental Regulation II in Spring 2015. Read More

For decades college counselors have advised students with high academic ambitions that a prestigious graduate degree cancels out a less-than-prestigious undergraduate one, but new research by Joni Hersch, professor of law and economics, suggests that unfortunately this may not turn out to be true. Professor Joni Hersch’s working paper “… Read More

Hersch nominated for her 2013 article “Opting Out among Women with Elite Education,” published in the Review of Economics of the Household. Read More