Equity, Diversity And Community
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Law students raise awareness on COVID-related discrimination by working to pass Nashville city resolution
Amid stay-at-home orders and uncertainty over the availability of summer jobs, Cloe Anderson ’21, Grace Ko ’21 and Sarah Dvorak ’22 turned their concern into action. Working fully remotely with Professor Karla McKanders in the Immigration Practice Clinic, the students helped to pass Metro… Read MoreOct. 22, 2020
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Providing advice and counsel to Tennessee’s essential workers during COVID-19
Amid stay-at-home orders and uncertainty over the availability of summer jobs, Cloe Anderson ’21, Grace Ko ’21 and Sarah Dvorak ’22 turned their concern into action. Working fully remotely with Professor Karla McKanders in the Immigration Practice Clinic, the students helped to pass Metro… Read MoreOct. 22, 2020
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New Housing Law Clinic to target pandemic eviction crisis
Jennifer Pruzak previously supervised the Tenant Assistance Project at the University of Indiana Maurer School of Law, where she also directed the Nonprofit Legal Clinic. Read MoreOct. 22, 2020
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Worker Advocacy Practicum addresses “access to justice crisis” affecting low-wage workers
Assistant Dean for Public Interest Spring Miller launches a new practicum through which students advocate for the employment rights of low-wage workers. Read MoreOct. 15, 2020
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Jake Epstein and Evan Kowalski are VLS Bass Military Scholars for the Class of 2023
Epstein, a former Army Ranger non-commissioned officer, and Kowalski, a former Army logistics officer, are among nine Bass Military Scholars in the 2020 cohort who received scholarships to the Law School, the School of Nursing and Owen Graduate School of Management. The program supports military veterans pursuing graduate and professional degrees across several Vanderbilt schools. Read MoreSep. 18, 2020
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Vanderbilt Law Review members make collective gift to support minority students with ABA diversity scholarship
All members of the VLR staff donated the fees they would customarily use to pay for meeting space and supplies to the ABA's Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund, which provides $15,000 scholarships to up to 20 diverse law students each year. Read MoreSep. 17, 2020
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Dean Chris Guthrie and Vice Provost Tracey George establish need-based scholarship in honor of Vanderbilt’s first African-American law graduates
The Harris, Porter & Work Scholarship will recognize Janie Greenwood Harris (LLB'64), Edward Melvin Porter (LLB'59) and Frederick Taylor Work, Sr. (LLB'59), and support students with a demonstrated commitment to civil rights. Read MoreSep. 8, 2020
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VLS Steering Committee on Racial Inequities and Injustices issues report
The report reflects the results of a community-wide survey and input from three anti-racism task forces representing VLS students, faculty and staff. It recommends short- and long-term actions designed to address racial inequities and injustices in the VLS community and beyond. Read MoreSep. 4, 2020
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Claudia Bonnyman ’74: How my great-grandmother’s bravery helped secure a woman’s right to vote
Read an essay adapted from a speech Chancellor Bonnyman delivered at an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women suffrage. Bonnyman served for 15 years as a chancellor for the Davidson County Chancery Court. Before her appointment to the bench in 2003, she served as the chancery court clerk and master starting in 1989. She became the founding president of the Lawyers Association for Women in 1981. Read MoreAug. 21, 2020
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Yesha Yadav named associate dean for diversity, equity and community
As the inaugural appointee, Yadav will work with Dean Chris Guthrie and law faculty, students, and staff to support diversity, equity and inclusion at VLS. Read MoreAug. 18, 2020