Vanderbilt Law News

Yadav's most recent paper, "Toward a Public-Private Oversight Model for Cryptocurrency Markets," makes a case for mandating self-regulation of crypto-exchanges as a first step toward reforming both the exchanges and cryptocurrency itself. She discusses various types of cryptocurrency and why cryptocurrencies have proven challenging to regulate in this interview with podcast host Hruska, who is senior adviser for communications and strategy with the American Constitution Society. Read More

Sudeall’s scholarship focuses on constitutional law, criminal procedure and access to justice. She is currently a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, where she is the founding faculty director of the Center for Access to Justice. Read More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More