Faculty News
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The DOJ’s antitrust case against Google is ambitious but risky
Professor Rebecca Allensworth on the challenges the Department of Justice faces charting relatively underexplored areas of antitrust law. Read MoreJan. 27, 2023
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Former VLS Dean C. Dent Bostick dead at 91
Dean Bostick joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 1971 and served as associate dean and director of admissions before serving as Dean of the law school from 1980 to 1985. Read MoreJan. 16, 2023
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Chris Slobogin discusses virtual searches with Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein in Dec. 19 Lawfare podcast
Slobogin is the author of "Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing" and a leading analyst of the impact of government surveillance that involves remote electronic monitoring of digital information on Americans' individual privacy and security. He discusses the implications of the transformation from physical searches and seizures to monitoring electronic data with host Alan Rozenshtein in the Dec. 19, 2022, Lawfare podcast. Read MoreDec. 19, 2022
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Yesha Yadav discusses the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in CNN International interview
Financial regulation expert Yadav discusses the federal charges against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces an eight-count criminal indictment that includes charges of fraud and conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws in the wake of the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire, with CNN International news anchor Rosemary Church. Read MoreDec. 16, 2022
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Antitrust expert Rebecca Allensworth featured in Yahoo Finance Live discussion of FTC’s actions to rein in Big Tech
While antitrust restrictions typically address companies who are direct competitors, "There is increasing recognition not just at the FTC but also in policy circles that vertical relationships between Big Tech companies can also be really damaging to consumers," Allensworth says. She and Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director at Public Knowledge, discuss the potential impacts of FTC Chairman Lina Khan's actions to address anticompetitive conduct and other concerns raised by the size and influence of Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Read MoreDec. 15, 2022
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Yesha Yadav discusses the cryptocurrency meltdown with Jeanne Hruska on the Broken Law podcast
Yadav's most recent paper, "Toward a Public-Private Oversight Model for Cryptocurrency Markets," makes a case for mandating self-regulation of crypto-exchanges as a first step toward reforming both the exchanges and cryptocurrency itself. She discusses various types of cryptocurrency and why cryptocurrencies have proven challenging to regulate in this interview with podcast host Hruska, who is senior adviser for communications and strategy with the American Constitution Society. Read MoreDec. 7, 2022
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Lauren Sudeall to Join Vanderbilt Law Faculty in summer 2023
Sudeall’s scholarship focuses on constitutional law, criminal procedure and access to justice. She is currently a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, where she is the founding faculty director of the Center for Access to Justice. Read MoreNov. 28, 2022
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Jeffrey Schoenblum delivers keynote address at ACTEC symposium on “Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates”
Schoenblum's talk, titled "Directed Trusts, the Conflict of Laws and the Challenge to the Norms of Trust Law," was the keynote address at the ninth academic symposium supported by the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation, held at Tulane University School of Law. He is a renowned expert in multistate and multinational estate planning and comparative wealth transfer laws. Read MoreOct. 31, 2022
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Yesha Yadav discusses treasury market turmoil and offers reform solutions on David Beckworth’s Macro Musings podcast
Yadav's research focuses on banking and financial regulation, securities regulation, the law of money and payment systems. She and podcast host Beckworth also discuss the future of central bank digital currency in the U.S., the recent economic crisis in the U.K., and more. Read MoreOct. 31, 2022
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New Transnational Litigation Blog Post from Ingrid Brunk: Foreign Data Protection Laws: Greater Impact on U.S. Discovery than Foreign Blocking Statutes
Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk writes that litigants are increasingly using foreign data protection laws-especially new laws in China and the EU-to resist discovery requests from U.S. courts. Read MoreOct. 25, 2022