Lauren Rogal

Biography

Lauren Rogal developed and teaches Vanderbilt’s Turner Family Community Enterprise Clinic, which provides transactional legal services to nonprofit organizations, underserved entrepreneurs, and social ventures. She also teaches practicum courses on Startup Law and Social Enterprise Law. Professor Rogal’s scholarship focuses on community economic development, entrepreneurship, and the nonprofit sector. She is affiliated with the law school’s Social Justice, Law and Business and Law and Innovation programs.

Professor Rogal earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar. She also holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Professor Rogal began her legal career as an associate at a boutique D.C. law firm, where she focused on developing sustainable financing structures for community development and facilitated complex international transactions. She earned an LL.M. in advocacy while serving as a fellow in the Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. She was appointed to the Vanderbilt faculty in 2017.