Faculty News
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Paige Skiba and Caroline Malone, JD/PhD’22 on how payday lenders use installment loans to evade regulation
In a Dec. 9 article published by The Conversation, Skiba and Malone explain why payday lenders have embraced installment loans, based on their recent study that explored the effect that the larger installment loans have on borrowers. Their results suggest that installment loans may create additional financial strain for consumers rather than benefiting them. Read MoreDec. 9, 2019
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Books by W. Kip Viscusi and Michael Vandenbergh among best environmental writing in past 50 years.
Viscusi’s book Pricing Lives and Vandenbergh’s book, Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change, co-authored with VU professor Jonathan Gilligan, were included in “Reading the Environment: 1969-2019,” an Environmental Forum overview of influential environmental writing by Oliver Houck and G. Tracy Mehan II. Read MoreDec. 3, 2019
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“A Counterintuitive and Compelling Case for Class-Action Lawsuits”: Read Judge Kenneth Lee’s review of Brian Fitzpatrick’s new book
In a book review published in the National Review, Judge Kenneth K. Lee of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals touts Fitzpatrick's book, "The Conservative Case for Class Action Lawsuits," as "a clever, contrarian, and counterintuitive take on class actions that should open the eyes of both conservatives and liberals." Read MoreDec. 2, 2019
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Ganesh Sitaraman on “How to Rein In an All-Too-Powerful Supreme Court”
Professor Sitaraman proposes that Congress pass a Congressional Review Act that would enable it to overturn SCOTUS decisions on legislative matters with greater speed and ease in a Nov. 16 essay published in The Atlantic. Read MoreNov. 19, 2019
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Susan Kay ’79 honored with “Lifetime Achievement Award” by ACLU of Tennessee
Kay, who is associate dean for experiential education, has taught at VLS since 1980 and established the law school's first clinic. The award recognizes her lifetime dedication to criminal justice reform and legal advocacy, which includng successfully challenging Nashville's jail conditions. She was honored on Nov. 14. Read MoreNov. 14, 2019
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Read Brian Fitzpatrick’s National Review opinion piece, “The Conservative Case for Class Actions?”
In his new book, released this fall by Chicago University Press, Fitzpatrick makes "The Conservative Case for Class Actions," asserting that "They're better than the alternative: regulation by bureaucrats." Read MoreNov. 14, 2019
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GlobalVU, co-led by Ingrid Wuerth, establishes Global Fellows Program
Wuerth, Helen Strong Curry Professor of International Law, and Ted Fischer, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Anthropology, lead the GlobalVU intiative, which is funded by the Provost and Vanderbilt's Transinstitutional Programs (TIPS) program. The Global Fellows Program will bring international scholars, authors, artists, politicians and other thought leaders to Vanderbilt. Read MoreNov. 11, 2019
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Articial intelligence is too important to leave to tech giants: NYT opinion piece by Ganesh Sitaraman, Ben Gansky and Michael Martin
In a Nov. 10 New York Times opinion piece, Sitaraman and his co-authors propose a government-supported public research consortium to focus on AI and other emerging technologies. Read MoreNov. 11, 2019
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Chancellor Emeritus Nicholas S. Zeppos appointed University Distinguished Professor and Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Law
Vanderbilt has also announced that one of its newest residential colleges will be named in Zeppos' honor. He will began teaching in fall 2020, after a yearlong sabbatical. Read MoreNov. 11, 2019
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Brian Fitzpatrick argues class actions are a potent and necessary legal enforcement mechanism in new book
In "The Conservative Case for Class Actions," Fitzpatrick debunks arguments that class action lawsuits are frivolous, primarily aimed at making money for lawyers rather than representing plaintiffs, and fail to prevent wrongdoing. Fitzpatrick asserts class actions "are a powerful component of the justice system," and proposes reforms designed to make them "acceptable to everyone." Read MoreNov. 1, 2019