Faculty News

Newbern taught Vanderbilt’s Appellate Litigation Clinic; Frensley is a trial lawyer who served on the federal Criminal Justice Act panel of attorneys. Read More

Alistair Newbern, who previously taught Vanderbilt’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, and Nashville-based trial lawyer Jeffery S. (Chip) Frensley ’95 have both been selected as magistrate judges on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of… Read More

"The Gavel Gap," co-authored by Tracey George with Albert Yoon, shows that more than half of state trial and appellate judges are white men, fewer than a third of judges are women, and fewer than two in 10 judges are a racial or ethnic minority. Read More

Mayeux writes about American criminal law from both a historical and present-day perspective. Read More

O’Connor has served on Vanderbilt’s law faculty since 2001, including as associate dean for academic affairs. Read More

For women re-entering workforce, sharing personal information may get you hired. Read More

Steven Davidoff Solomon's column about shareholder appraisal rights discusses a just-released study, "Reforming the Delaware Appraisal Statute to Address Appraisal Arbitrage: Will It Be Successful?", by Vanderbilt's Randall Thomas with Wei Jiang and Danging Mei of Columbia University and Tao Li of the University of Warwick. Read More

Study by Hersch and Shinall to be published in the Pennsylvania Law Review indicates employers prefer that women explain resume gaps. Read More

Ellen Wright Clayton will co-direct research team that also includes Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law Chris Slobogin, associate professor Sarah Igo and adjunct law professor Lydia Jones. Read More

Ricks contends that panic-proofing should be the major focus of U.S. financial policy and regulation. Read More