Faculty News
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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
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Yesha Yadav receives Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Award for Research
The award recognizes Yadav’s article, “The Failed Regulation of U.S. Treasury Markets,” published in the Columbia Law Review in 2021. The article was recognized as one of the top 10 articles addressing corporate and securities law published in 2021 by the Corporate Practice Commentator. Read MoreSep. 2, 2022
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Francesca L. Procaccini joins VLS faculty as assistant professor
Procaccini was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and taught at Yale Law. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, First Amendment law, federal courts and civil procedure. Read MoreAug. 2, 2022
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Why designating Russia a state sponsor of terrorism is a bad idea: Washington Post Opinion by Ingrid Wuerth
Wuerth is a foreign policy expert and holds the Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law. "The state sponsor of terrorism designation is not a symbolic act to chastise states that behave badly," she writes. "It is a legal trigger embedded in an extremely complex statutory and regulatory framework. The effects of pulling that...trigger are not easy to identify and untangle." Read MoreAug. 1, 2022
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Sean Seymore joins Vanderbilt Law faculty as Centennial Professor of Law
Seymore is a patent law expert who holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry. He is also a professor of chemistry. He previously served on the VLS faculty from 2010 to 2021. Read MoreJul. 22, 2022