Vanderbilt Law News
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Francesca L. Procaccini joins VLS faculty as assistant professor
Procaccini was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and taught at Yale Law. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, First Amendment law, federal courts and civil procedure. Read MoreAug. 2, 2022
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Why designating Russia a state sponsor of terrorism is a bad idea: Washington Post Opinion by Ingrid Wuerth
Wuerth is a foreign policy expert and holds the Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law. "The state sponsor of terrorism designation is not a symbolic act to chastise states that behave badly," she writes. "It is a legal trigger embedded in an extremely complex statutory and regulatory framework. The effects of pulling that...trigger are not easy to identify and untangle." Read MoreAug. 1, 2022
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Sean Seymore joins Vanderbilt Law faculty as Centennial Professor of Law
Seymore is a patent law expert who holds a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry. He is also a professor of chemistry. He previously served on the VLS faculty from 2010 to 2021. Read MoreJul. 22, 2022
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Russia should not be designated a state sponsor of terrorism: Opinion by Ingrid Wuerth
Wuerth's column, published in Just Security and in the Transnational Litigation blog, suggests the designation would be largely symbolic and could ultimately harm the interests of the Ukrainian government and the people of Ukraine. Read MoreJul. 20, 2022
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Jackson Hill named 2022 George Barrett Social Justice Fellow
Hill will work with the Powell Project, offering resources and assistance to capital defense teams. Read MoreJul. 8, 2022
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“Is the Establishment Clause Dead? A Message From SCOTUS” – Bloomberg Law opinion piece by Matthew Shaw
Shaw argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that Maine cannot exclude faith-based schools from a state program that pays for private school tuition in areas of the state that lack public schools could erode the Constitution’s Establishment Clause. Read MoreJun. 24, 2022
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Seventy-five Vanderbilt Law students working as interns for government and nonprofit legal employers this summer
VLS students are working for government and nonprofit legal employers in 15 states, Washington, D.C., and The Hague, Netherlands during summer 2022. Read MoreJun. 14, 2022
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Social Justice Reporter, new scholarly journal, to launch at Vanderbilt in 2022-23
The Social Justice Reporter will publish cutting-edge intersectional scholarship and expert perspectives on social justice, civil rights and public-interest lawyering after it launches next year. Its name acknowledges the legacy of the historic Race Relations Reporter, which was published at VLS from 1956 to 1972. Read MoreJun. 7, 2022
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Chris Giancarlo ’84 named Chevalier in the National Order of Merit by French government
Francesca Procaccini has joined the Vanderbilt faculty as an assistant professor of law. Francesca Procaccini Her appointment was announced by Dean Chris Guthrie. Procaccini was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School from 2020 to 2022, where her research focused on political rights and the courts. She also… Read MoreMay. 19, 2022
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John Ryder ’74, former RNC general counsel and partner at Harris Shelton, dies
Ryder was a partner at Harris Shelton in Memphis, His public service most recently included serving on the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Read MoreMay. 16, 2022