Faculty News

Covington was an expert in labor law who also published books and articles on evidence, insurance, legal method and legal education. Read More

Professor Meyer’s conversation with Justice Gorsuch was sponsored by the Cecil Sims Lecture Series. Meyer clerked for Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More

Ezra Klein and Ganesh Sitaraman discuss proposals for Supreme Court reform, including Sitaraman's own proposal, in a conversation that covers such options as court-packing and term limits and more obscure proposals like the 5-5-5 balanced bench and a judicial lottery system. Read More

When a doctor breaks the law, who decides whether he can keep his medical license? Rebecca Allensworth's work on how medical licensing boards decide whether to revoke a doctor's license to practice medicine is featured in Act One of the This American Life podcast in a segment titled "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor." Read More

Mayeux's book discusses the contentious origins of public defenders in the U.S. and delves into the complexities of American ideals of justice, democracy and fairness in the twentieth century. The book is briefly profiled and excerpted. Read More

The ABA Council on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar is recognized at the national accrediting agency for programs leading to the J.D. Kay has previously served on the Standards Review Committee and Accreditation Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Read More

The award recognizes Tennessee advocates who promote state-wide collaboration that supports projects that strengthen access to justice across the state. Read More

A study by criminal procedure expert Chris Slobogin and Vanderbilt Medical Center postdoctoral fellow James Hazel published in the Duke Law Journal indicates that people consider access to genetic information as intrusive or more intrusive than searches of bedrooms, text messages and emails, and that they care more when the database is a public consumer-oriented commercial service compared to a government or law enforcement database. Read More

Vandenbergh's Sept. 4 interview with Kristoffer Tique appears in Inside Climate News. Read More

The report reflects the results of a community-wide survey and input from three anti-racism task forces representing VLS students, faculty and staff. It recommends short- and long-term actions designed to address racial inequities and injustices in the VLS community and beyond. Read More