Alumni
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Perry Brandt ’77 (BA’74) and Kito Huggins ’99 (BA’96) appointed to Vanderbilt University’s Board of Trust
Adolpho Birch III '91 was appointed Board Secretary. Read MoreApr. 23, 2018
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Nell Henson ’18 wins the 2018 Nagareda Prize for article on expert witnesses in medical malpractice trials
Henson’s Note, published in the 2018 Vanderbilt Law Review, explores courts’ disagreement over admissibility of evidence of prior malpractice by medical expert witnesses. Read MoreApr. 23, 2018
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Former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Frank F. Drowota III ’65 (BA’60) dead at 79
Justice Drowota served on the Tennessee Supreme Court for 25 years and as a judge in Tennessee courts for 35 years. Read MoreApr. 17, 2018
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CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo ’84 delivers Cecil Sims Lecture, “Derivatives Regulatory Reform: A Principles-based Software Update”
Giancarlo also spoke to the VLS Board of Advisors after his Sims Lecture April 13. Read MoreApr. 17, 2018
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Claria Horn Boom ’94 confirmed to shared seat on federal districts courts for Eastern and Western Kentucky
Horn Boom has previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. She was a partner at Frost Brown Todd in Lexington before her confirmation to the federal bench. Read MoreApr. 10, 2018
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Kristen Clarke of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law delivers 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture
Clarke’s lecture, “Democracy under Attack: Race, Rights and Resistance,” addresses the role of lawyers in responding to racial injustice, voter suppression and other civil rights issues. Read MoreApr. 10, 2018
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Candid conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor inspires students
Justice Sotomayor answered students' questions in her 2018 Cecil Sims Lecture in Flynn Auditorium April 3. Read MoreApr. 4, 2018
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Katie Sochacki ’18 and Dora Duru ’20 selected for 2018 law class of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
Sochacki and Duru will travel to Germany and Poland this summer through the prestigious FASPE program, which uses the conduct of lawyers and judges in Nazi-occupied Europe to examine ethics in the legal profession today. Read MoreMar. 30, 2018
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Dora Duru ’20 receives Helen Strong Curry International Legal Scholarship
Duru will participate in the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics Program and intern at the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy during summer 2018. Read MoreMar. 28, 2018
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Amber Banks ’20 receives Garrison Social Justice Scholarship
Banks will spend summer 2018 working at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Read MoreMar. 27, 2018