Equity, Diversity And Community

"The Gavel Gap," co-authored by Tracey George with Albert Yoon, shows that more than half of state trial and appellate judges are white men, fewer than a third of judges are women, and fewer than two in 10 judges are a racial or ethnic minority. Read More

Judge Staci Yandle (TERRY WYATT) By Grace Renshaw Judge Staci Yandle ’87 entered law school in 1983 unsure of her legal career goals. By the end of her first semester, “I knew what I didn’t want to do,” she recalled. “I did not want to work for a Wall Street… Read More

The Black Law Students Association held a January 17 dinner honoring Vanderbilt Law School’s first African American graduates, E. Melvin Porter ’59 and the late Fred Work ’59, along with Janie Greenwood Harris ’64, VLS’ first African American woman graduate.The event was held at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz… Read More

Morrison is one of two DRI Law Student Diversity scholars for this academic year. Read More

Wall Street Journal reporter uncovered institutionalized neoslavery in the post-Civil War South Read More