Faculty News
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Brian Fitzpatrick testifies before House subcommittee on need for more lower court judgeships
The hearing, held Feb. 24, 2021, by the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, addressed the need for additional federal judges in the district and appellate courts. Read MoreFeb. 26, 2021
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Paige Marta Skiba elected chair elect of AALS Section on Law and Economics
Skiba will serve as chair-elect during 2021 and then began a one-year term as chair in 2022. Read MoreFeb. 23, 2021
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Criminal Justice Clinic Fellow Joshua Stanton works with students to represent criminal defendants in challenging times
Stanton works with Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Sue Kay ’79 to supervise students in the Criminal Justice Clinic as they represent indigent clients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read MoreJan. 28, 2021
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“They, Them and Theirs,” Harvard Law Review article by Jessica Clarke, wins the Dukeminier Awards Michael Cunningham Prize
Clarke’s article has been reprinted in the UCLA Law Dukeminier Awards Journal, which annually recognizes the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Read MoreJan. 28, 2021
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Allaire Urban Karzon, pioneering VLS professor, dead at 95
A trailblazing attorney whose career combined teaching and practice, Professor Karzon became the first tenured woman professor at Vanderbilt, where she taught tax law. Read MoreJan. 27, 2021
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Samar Ali ’06 (BS’03), joins VU faculty as research professor in political science and law
Ali is a research professor in political science and law and co-director of the Unity Project with John Geer, Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and Jon Meacham, Vanderbilt’s Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Professor of the American Presidency. Read MoreJan. 11, 2021
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Christopher Slobogin honored with Vanderbilt University’s 2020 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award
The award recognizes creative research and teaching. Slobogin is an expert in criminal procedure who has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters. He directs the Criminal Justice Program. Read MoreDec. 21, 2020
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Michael Vandenbergh, Jonathan Gilligan and Lou Leonard discuss how the U.S. can rejoin the Paris climate agreement
In a co-authored opinion piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the authors discuss the need for a national climate change strategy based on the same sort of public-private collaboration that led to the rapid production of COVID-19 vaccines. Read MoreDec. 21, 2020
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Daniel J. Sharfstein appointed to the Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law
Sharfstein is a legal historian whose work addresses race and citizenship in the United States. He is the author of two award-winning books, “The Invisible Line” and “Thunder in the Mountains,” and received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read MoreDec. 18, 2020
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Brian Fitzpatrick appointed to the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise
An expert in complex litigation, Fitzpatrick is most recently the author of The Conservative Case of Class Actions, a 2019 book published by University of Chicago Press. Read MoreDec. 18, 2020