Faculty News
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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
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Article co-authored by Ed Rubin proposes that states create single regulatory agencies to manage and set standards for police, courts and corrections
"Criminal Justice through Management: From Police, Prosecutors, Courts and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency," an Oregon Law Review article Rubin co-authored with Malcolm Feeley, is reported on in an Oct. 12 Crime Report article by James Van Bramer. Read MoreOct. 13, 2022
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Rob Mikos discusses policy implications of President Biden’s marijuana possession pardons in Reuter’s “Fast Take”
Mikos holds the LaRoche Family Chair in Law. He and scholar Douglas Berman of Ohio State assess the impact after Biden pardoned thousands of people convicted on federal charges of pot possession. Read MoreOct. 7, 2022
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Paige Marta Skiba’s co-authored research on the effect of having more time to repay a payday loan published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Skiba and co-authors Sarah Payne Carter (BA'17), Kuan Lui and Justin Sydnor examined the benefits of state laws on minimum payday loan durations for borrowers. Read MoreSep. 28, 2022
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Ellen Wright Clayton to co-lead ethics core of $104 million National Institutes of Health Bridge to Artificial Intelligence research initiative
The four-year Bridge to Artificial Intelligence program, or Bridge2AI, is designed to accelerate use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in biomedical and behavioral research. A team of VUMC researchers led by Clayton and VUMC Professor of Biomedical Informatics Bradley Malin will lead and comprise the greater part of an AI research ethics core for Bridge2AI. Clayton is a bioethicist whose research has focused on genomic privacy. She is a professor of law and professor of health policy and the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Read MoreSep. 26, 2022
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Harnessing the Working-from-Home Transition, an opinion piece by Michael Vandenbergh and Sharon Shewmake in The Hill
Vandenbergh and Shewmake discuss their research showing the importance of the work-from-home transition for climate policy and recommend that employers include greenhouse gas emissions attributable to employees working from home in reporting their environmental impact. Read MoreSep. 14, 2022
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Jennifer Shinall receives Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Award for Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The award recognizes Shinall’s paper, “Protecting Pregnancy,” published in the Cornell Law Review, which offers a sophisticated analysis of how laws designed to assist pregnant women in the workplace actually work. Read MoreSep. 2, 2022