Faculty News
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Lauren Benton, professor of history and professor of law, wins 2019 Toynbee Prize
Benton's work focuses on law in European empires, the history or international law and Atlantic world history. Read MoreMar. 26, 2018
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Anniversary of Dunn v. Blumstein, 1972 voting rights class action suit brought by James Blumstein, noted in Politico column
Blumstein challenged Tennessee's residency requirement for voting, appearing before the Supreme Court on Nov. 17, 1971, on his own behalf. Read MoreMar. 26, 2018
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Economist Joni Hersch finds that costs of sexual harassment are too low to incentivize firms to eliminate it
Hersch's examination of sexual harassment charges filed with the EEOC indicated that "costs to firms’ bottom lines are evidently insufficient to incentivize firms to eliminate sexual harassment.” Read MoreMar. 1, 2018
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Yesha Yadav nominated to Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Panel
The CFTC, chaired by Christopher Giancarlo ’84, exists to protect market participants and the public from fraud, manipulation, abusive practices and systematic risks related to derivatives Read MoreFeb. 15, 2018
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Ganesh Sitaraman’s 2017 book, “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution,” wins PROSE Award
PROSE Awards recognize oustanding professional and scholarly publications. Read MoreFeb. 9, 2018
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Ganesh Sitaraman named to 2018 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Sitaraman joins 17 colleagues from across Vanderbilt in two-year program for highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty members. Read MoreJan. 23, 2018
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Study by Rebecca Allensworth focuses on role of occupational licensing boards in regulating consumer services
Most members of state licensing boards are also professionals regulated by the boards, raising consumer concerns. Read MoreJan. 10, 2018
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Vice Chancellor David Williams named 2017 Tennessean of the Year by the Tennessee Tribune
Williams, who is a professor of law and Vanderbilt's athletics director, was honored by Nashville's African American newspaper for making "Vanderbilt athethletics a national model." Read MoreJan. 4, 2018
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New book by Michael Vandenbergh and Jonathan Gilligan urges private industry to step up on climate change
In Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change, the authors make the case for how the private sector can play an important role in reducing carbon emissions. Read MoreDec. 5, 2017
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Kevin M. Stack appointed to the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law
Stack is an expert in administrative law and separation of powers whose scholarship focuses on what the rule of law requires for administrative government. Read MoreNov. 29, 2017