Vanderbilt Law News
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Chris Guthrie to chair search committee for the next dean of Owen Graduate School of Management
The committee includes two members of the law faculty: Yesha Yadav, Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law and Professor of Management, and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Tracey George (ex-officio), who is the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Professor of Law and Liberty. The committee, which also includes Owen alumni and Vanderbilt faculty from multiple disciplines, will conduct a national search to replace M. Eric Johnson, who will step down as Owen’s dean on June 30, 2023. Read MoreNov. 2, 2022
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Yesha Yadav discusses treasury market turmoil and offers reform solutions on David Beckworth’s Macro Musings podcast
Yadav's research focuses on banking and financial regulation, securities regulation, the law of money and payment systems. She and podcast host Beckworth also discuss the future of central bank digital currency in the U.S., the recent economic crisis in the U.K., and more. Read MoreOct. 31, 2022
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Justin Driver, Robert R. Slaughter Professor at Yale Law, delivers the Victor S. Johnson Lecture Oct. 26
Professor Driver teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind, which was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. Read MoreOct. 26, 2022
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Ellen Wright Clayton to co-lead ethics core of $104 million National Institutes of Health Bridge to Artificial Intelligence research initiative
The four-year Bridge to Artificial Intelligence program, or Bridge2AI, is designed to accelerate use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in biomedical and behavioral research. A team of VUMC researchers led by Clayton and VUMC Professor of Biomedical Informatics Bradley Malin will lead and comprise the greater part of an AI research ethics core for Bridge2AI. Clayton is a bioethicist whose research has focused on genomic privacy. She is a professor of law and professor of health policy and the Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Read MoreSep. 26, 2022
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Former EPA administrator Carol Browner discusses environmental policy and the work of the Environmental Protection Agency
Browner drew on her nearly four decades of experience advising on environmental and energy policies affecting global energy, the environment and public health to discuss with Vandenbergh current action on climate change, including the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. Vandenbergh worked for Browner as the EPA's chief of staff early in his career. Read MoreSep. 20, 2022
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Fox v. Faison
The Vanderbilt Law School Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic filed suit against Tennessee state representative Jeremy Faison on behalf of Tennessee citizen Dean Fox in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Plaintiff brought suit after Representative Faison deleted Mr. Fox’s comments from the official “State Representative… Read MoreSep. 6, 2022
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Jennifer Shinall receives Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Award for Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The award recognizes Shinall’s paper, “Protecting Pregnancy,” published in the Cornell Law Review, which offers a sophisticated analysis of how laws designed to assist pregnant women in the workplace actually work. Read MoreSep. 2, 2022
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Yesha Yadav receives Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Award for Research
The award recognizes Yadav’s article, “The Failed Regulation of U.S. Treasury Markets,” published in the Columbia Law Review in 2021. The article was recognized as one of the top 10 articles addressing corporate and securities law published in 2021 by the Corporate Practice Commentator. Read MoreSep. 2, 2022
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Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner to deliver inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change Governance Sept. 19
Browner’s lecture is made possible by the Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund and sponsored by the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. Browner became the longest serving EPA administrator in history under President Bill Clinton and was director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration. She now practices as a senior counsel with Covington & Burling. Read MoreSep. 1, 2022