Alumni

Clinical Professor of Law Karla McKanders asked students in her Refugee Law and Policy class to produce their final reports as audio stories. Listen to Episode 136 of The Life of the Law’s New Voices series, which features stories on topics in refugee law by VLS students Joshua… Read More

Alexiou is director of LL.M. and alumni advising and associate director of Career Services at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Philip Morris v. Uruguay and Eli Lilly v. Canada are two international investor-state cases that may reveal an emerging trend in international investment law regarding investors' intellectual property (IP) rights. Read More

Lockwood assisted in a Department of Justice investigation that exposed judicial corruption in Cook County, Illinois, in the late 1970s. Read More

The TBA's highest award, named in honor of former Tennessee Chief Justice Frank Drowota '65 (BA'60), recognizes career services to the judiciary. Read More

Coker will work at the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s Office and Dowling for the Shelby County Defenders. Read More

Stopher will work at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago; Seixas will work at the Children’s Law Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Read More

Wuerth, Sherry and George were honored for first-year teaching, and Wuerth and Edward Cheng for upper-level courses. Read More

Richard Turner Henderson received the Founder's Medal for First Honors. Read More

The Rick V. N. Ferrini Law Scholarship and the Rick V. N. Ferrini Medical Scholarship honor an accomplished attorney who died March 10, 2017. “We wanted to do something in memory of Rick that would honor him and make him proud,” said Vino Ferrini, president of the Texas-based leather footwear company Ferrini USA. “His time at Vanderbilt was very special to him, and these scholarships will give that same opportunity and experience to others. We also want to support research on depression, which so many struggle with, as did our son. It is a disease like any other, and we want to see the stigma removed for those who suffer with it and their families.” A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Rick Ferrini began his legal career in Washington, D.C., after earning his law degree from Vanderbilt in 2011. For the next five years he served as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where he defended D.C. government agencies and individual employees at all levels of government in a variety of civil lawsuits. In 2016, he returned to his hometown of Dallas to serve as counsel to his family’s company, Ferrini USA. Read More