Equity, Diversity And Community

Professor Driver teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, which was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. Read More

This event starts at 12:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium and is sponsored by OUTLAW and the Vanderbilt Health Law Society. Read More

Marking the conclusion of Latinx Heritage Month, VLS honors the extraordinarily impactful contributions of our Latinx students, staff, and faculty. Read More

Education policy expert Matthew Shaw will provide an introduction to a recording of the Supreme Court hearing of the oral arguments in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, both of which are Title VI cases.. Both schools are accused of discriminating against Asians and Aisan-Americans in their admissions policies. The event is sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Student Association and the George Barrett Social Justice Program. Read More

In addition to Sen. McMorrow, panelists include Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Women's and Gender Studies Katherine Crawford and Vanderbilt Divinity School Dean Emilie Townes. Sen. McMorrow, a self-proclaimed “straight, white, Christian woman,” delivered a powerful speech on the floor of the Michigan Senate in response to claims from a fellow senator of grooming and sexualizing kindergarteners, telling the audience, “We must not let hate win.” Sen. Morrow will begin the discussion and then participate in a moderated discussion on the topics of faith, politics, LGBTQIA+ rights, and reproductive freedom. This event is co-sponsored by the George Barrett Social Justice Program. Read More

Barsky's 10-minute podcast is featured by the Next Big Idea Club. His research combines social justice, human rights and border and refugee studies with literary and artistic insights into the plight of vulnerable migrants. Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School's third annual Kelly Miller Smith Foundation virtual symposium features keynote speaker Valerie Jarratt in a discussion moderated by NPR Code Switch senior correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates, and a panel discussion featuring Nse Ufot, former CEO of the New Georgia Project, and Deirdra Reed, policy and advocacy partner at the New Teacher Project, moderated by Opio Dupree, fellow for CEO Action for Racial Equality. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Registration required. Read More

The tours, sponsored by Law Students for Social Justice, included historic sites in Nashville and on the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

Yesha Yadav, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Community and faculty co-director of the LL.M. program, extends a warm welcome to the incoming J.D. and LL.M. classes. Read More

Lawyers of Color, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity in the legal profession, ranked the Top 65 Law Schools for Black Students based on number of J.D.s awarded to black students, J.D.-required job placement, placement of graduates as Big Law associates, bar passage rate, black student enrollment, federal and state clerkships, distinguished black alumni, grants and scholarship awards, selectivity and tuition cost. Read More