Alumni
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Rhonda Y. Williams to deliver next Dean’s Lecture on Race and Discrimination March 31
Williams is the John L. Seigenthaler Professor of American History. Her work focuses on the experiences of low-income Black women and marginalized people, including their everyday lives, politics and social struggles. Her talk will be delivered virtually and is free and open to the public. The Dean's Lecture Series on Race and Discrimination convenes scholars and thought leaders to provide the Vanderbilt community with foundational knowledge on race, civil rights, discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation, and critical historical milestones. Read MoreMar. 26, 2021
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First Amendment expert G.S. Hans on how social media companies moderate user content
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Gautam Hans, who directs the First Amendment Clinic, is featured as part of Vanderbilt University's "Ask an Expert" series. Read MoreMar. 23, 2021
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James Blumstein delivers the Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture at University of Illinois Law
Blumstein's talk, "Ways of Thinking about Medical Care: Alternative Models and Structures and Their Policy Significance,"delivered March 10, addresses the interplay of economics and program design in government healthcare programs. Read MoreMar. 23, 2021
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Brandon R. Byrd to deliver Dean’s Lecture on Race and Discrimination March 18
Byrd is an assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University. HIs research focuses on black intellectual and social history. He is the author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti, a book published in 2019 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Read MoreMar. 4, 2021
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Jim Cuminale to endow Public Interest directorship in honor of Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey
Cuminale’s gift provides permanent funding for the leader of Vanderbilt’s Public Interest office, which provides all students opportunities for pro bono legal service and mentors those seeking careers in public advocacy. Read MoreMar. 2, 2021
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Director of Diversity, Equity and Community to be endowed in honor of Robert Belton
Belton was a pioneering scholar of labor and employment law and the law school’s first tenured African American professor. The position of Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity and Community will be endowed by an anonymous donor this year Read MoreFeb. 25, 2021
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Bobby Lee Cook ’48 (BA’46), celebrated trial attorney, dead at 94
Cook practiced law for more than 70 years, representing such high-profile clients as the Rockefeller and Carnegie families along with indigent clients wrongly convicted of murder. Read MoreFeb. 24, 2021
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Ashton Andrews ’22 and Molly Gray ’22 win the 2020-21 Bass Berry & Sims Moot Court Competition
Aaron Bernard ’22 and Emily Webb ’22 are Moot Court finalists, with Emily Detiveaux ’22 honored for Best Oralist and Peter Byrne ’22 and Caylyn Harvey ’22 for Best Brief. Read MoreFeb. 23, 2021
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Matthew Fitzgerald ’20 wins 2020 Adm. John S. Jenkins Writing Award from National Institute of Military Justice
The award recognizes the best paper written by a law student on a military justice topic. Fitzgerald’s essay, “Thank Me for My Service: An Ethics Oversight in DoD Social Media Policy,” will be published in the Harvard National Security Law Journal. Read MoreFeb. 11, 2021
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Allaire Urban Karzon, pioneering VLS professor, dead at 95
A trailblazing attorney whose career combined teaching and practice, Professor Karzon became the first tenured woman professor at Vanderbilt, where she taught tax law. Read MoreJan. 27, 2021