Faculty News

New paper in Nature Climate Change highlights the need for research and policy initiatives to account for the feasibility of climate change mitigation policies. Read More

A D.C. District Court judge has ordered use of the “Fitzpatrick Matrix” to calculate attorneys’ fees, signifying the new tool’s formal acceptance. Read More

New findings from Vanderbilt Law’s Paige Skiba offer implications for policymakers seeking to improve subprime credit markets Read More

Rebecca Allensworth on the decision behind FTC’s loss of its bid to block acquisition Read More

The ruling is “a blow to the administration’s and the F.T.C.’s interest in being stronger in merger enforcement,” said Rebecca Haw Allensworth. Read More

Law Scholars reflect on Networks, Platforms & Utilities and its place in curriculum, scholarship, and debate Read More

Professor Rebecca Allensworth on the challenges the Department of Justice faces charting relatively underexplored areas of antitrust law. Read More

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 More

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 More

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 More