Alumni
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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
Florence Howse Ridley (MA’51) of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, died Jan. 16, 2021. She was 99. Dr. Ridley earned her undergraduate degree at Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, a master’s in English at Vanderbilt and a Ph.D. in medieval English literature at Harvard University. She then joined the faculty at the… 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
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JETLaw Note by Ramon Ryan ’21 wins ABA’s 2020 K. William Kolbe Writing Competition
Ryan’s Note, “The Fault in Our Stars,” addresses environmental review of commercial satellite launches. The award, sponsored by the ABA’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, recognizes the best paper addressing specific industries providing important services. Read MoreJan. 18, 2021
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Samiyyah Ali ’16 joins Biden White House team as deputy associate counsel
Ali will serve in the Office of the White House Counsel. She most recently served as a trial litigator at Wilkinson Stekloff in Washington. Before entering private practice, she was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, for Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Court of Appeals and for Judge Amul Thapar on the Eastern District of Kentucky. Read MoreJan. 11, 2021
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Samar Ali ’06 (BS’03), joins VU faculty as research professor in political science and law
Ali is a research professor in political science and law and co-director of the Unity Project with John Geer, Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and Jon Meacham, Vanderbilt’s Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Professor of the American Presidency. Read MoreJan. 11, 2021
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U.S. tech infrastructure vulnerable to attack: op/ed by Ramon Ryan ’21
Ryan is editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology. His Jan. 4 opinion piece in The Tennessean addresses the need to prepare for and take action to prevent attacks on the physical infrastructure supporting our telecommuncations systems. Read MoreJan. 4, 2021
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George H. Cate Jr. ’51 (BA’49), Nashville’s first vice mayor, dead at 92
After winning the Founder's Medal, Cate practiced law for more than 60 years and served as the city's first vice mayor under Mayor Beverly Briley. He retired in 2014. In 1984, he received the John C. Tune Public Service Award, an honor given to the Nashville Bar Association member who has shown the highest degree of dedication to the betterment of the community. Read MoreDec. 22, 2020
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Christopher Slobogin honored with Vanderbilt University’s 2020 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award
The award recognizes creative research and teaching. Slobogin is an expert in criminal procedure who has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters. He directs the Criminal Justice Program. Read MoreDec. 21, 2020
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Daniel J. Sharfstein appointed to the Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law
Sharfstein is a legal historian whose work addresses race and citizenship in the United States. He is the author of two award-winning books, “The Invisible Line” and “Thunder in the Mountains,” and received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read MoreDec. 18, 2020