Alumni
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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
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Florence Howse Ridley (MA’51), renowned Chaucer scholar who endowed the Ridley Chair at VLS, dead at 99
Ridley earned her Ph.D. in medieval English at Harvard and then taught at the University of California Los Angeles for 34 years. She endowed the Elisabeth H. and Granville S. Ridley Jr. Chair in Law in 2018 in honor of her father, Granville Ridley Jr., LLB 1916, BA1914. Read MoreJan. 27, 2021
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10 alumni join the Vanderbilt Law School Board of Advisors
Jim Cuminale ’78, Associate Dean Scotty Mann, David Gelfand ’87 (BA’84) and Frank Garrison ’79 (BA’76) at an alumni reception held at Hudson Yards in New York City. Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations Scotty Mann has announced that 10 Vanderbilt Law School alumni joined the school’s… Read MoreJan. 21, 2021
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Jim Cuminale ’78 begins two-year term as president of Vanderbilt Law Board of Advisors
Previous president Sara Finley '85 will continue to sit on the Board of Advisors as a member. Read MoreJan. 21, 2021