Alumni
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Alandis Brassel ’15 named assistant professor of music business at the University of Memphis
Brassel has practiced entertainment law in Memphis since his graduation from VLS and previously taught at the University of Memphis as an adjunct professor. He will join the university's permanent music business faculty this fall. Read MoreMay. 27, 2020
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Vanderbilt establishes Nicholas S. Zeppos scholarship with $8 million gift
The scholarship was endowed by a gift from the Sarah and Ross Perot Jr. Foundation to recognize Zeppos’ extraordinary tenure as Vanderbilt chancellor from 2008 through 2019. Ross Perot Jr., BA’81, announced the gift Feb. 7 at a meeting of Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust, on which he has served since 2010. The chancellor emeritus is currently on a yearlong sabbatical and will return to the Vanderbilt faculty as professor of law and political science. Read MoreMay. 26, 2020
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106 VLS students to work pro bono for judges, government agencies and law offices, and nonprofits in summer 2020
Rising 2Ls and 3Ls will work in federal and state judicial chambers, agencies and law offices, with prosecutors and public defenders, and with public interest and advocacy organizations. Read MoreMay. 20, 2020
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Funmi Akinnawonu named George Barrett Social Justice Fellow for 2020
Akinnawonu will work as an immigration attorney at the Mississippi Center for Justice in Jackson. She connected with the MCJ while working at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Jackson during summer 2019. Read MoreMay. 13, 2020
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Chris Serkin, Dan Sharfstein, Kevin Stack, Yesha Yadav, Ingrid Wuerth and Debra Lee receive 2020 Hall-Hartman Outstanding Teaching Awards
Hall-Hartman Awards are based on a poll of students in each first-year section and also honor outstanding teaching in large and small upper-level classes. Read MoreMay. 8, 2020
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Micah Bradley receives Class of 2020 Founder’s Medal for First Honors
21 2020 graduates honored for scholastic accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Vanderbilt Law community. Read MoreMay. 8, 2020
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Amber Banks ’20 receives 2020 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award
Banks is one of eight 2020 law graduates honored for their exemplary commitment to public interest law and pro bono work. She was a Garrison Social Justice Scholar. Read MoreMay. 6, 2020
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Cort Thompson ’20 wins the American Society of International Law 2020 Richard Baxter Military Prize
Thompson’s paper, “Avoiding Pyrrhic Victories in Orbit: A Need for Anti-Satellite Arms Control in the 21st Century,” is forthcoming in the SMU Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Thompson is a Captain in the U.S. Army and will enter the JAG Corps after graduation. Read MoreMay. 5, 2020
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2020 graduates Joe Sandford and Willoe DeFuccio named Gideon’s Promise Fellows
Sandford will join the Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office in Knoxville, Tennessee; DeFuccio will join the Mecklenberg Defenders in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read MoreMay. 4, 2020
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Class of 2020 Student Awards announced by the Vanderbilt Bar Association
Elizabeth Holden received the Chris Lantz Award, Wesley Gonzalez the Damali K. Booker Award, Amber Banks the Philip G. Davidson Award, and Joey Blake and Kristine Knowles the Jordan A. Quick Award. Read MoreMay. 1, 2020