Vanderbilt Law News

Wagner is deputy director of Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, where he is the Lucie Stern Professor in the Department of Psychology. Read More

The final round was argued before Judge Andre B. Mathis of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Eli J. Richardson ’92 of the Middle District of Tennessee. Rachel Wagner and Madison Porth were finalists. Read More

New findings from Vanderbilt Law’s Paige Skiba offer implications for policymakers seeking to improve subprime credit markets Read More

Rebecca Allensworth on the decision behind FTC’s loss of its bid to block acquisition Read More

Law Scholars reflect on Networks, Platforms & Utilities and its place in curriculum, scholarship, and debate Read More

Ashley Fox ’24, Adom Abatkun ’25 and Sophia Howard ’25 were selected for the first and second cohorts of a groundbreaking scholarship program created “to endow the South with the next generation of civil rights lawyers.” The program was developed by the Legal Defense Fund and named for former Supreme Court Justice and LDF founder Thurgood Marshall and pioneering civil rights litigator and former LDF attorney Constance Baker Motley. Read More

Lord will be president and chief strategy officer for the new Maynard Nexsen firm, and Grantham will serve as the new firm's CEO. The new firm merges the operations of Alabama-based Maynard Cooper & Gale and South Carolina-based Nexsen Pruet to form a single firm with offices on both coasts and more than 550 attorneys. Lord and Grantham met at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Nationally renowned psychologist and neuroscience scholar Anthony Wagner will deliver the inaugural Weaver Distinguished Lecture in Law, Brain Sciences, and Behavior in The Moore Room at Vanderbilt Law School from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21. Anthony Wagner Wagner’s lecture is titled “Explorations in Law and Neuroscience:… Read More

Slobogin is the author of "Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing" and a leading analyst of the impact of government surveillance that involves remote electronic monitoring of digital information on Americans' individual privacy and security. He discusses the implications of the transformation from physical searches and seizures to monitoring electronic data with host Alan Rozenshtein in the Dec. 19, 2022, Lawfare podcast. Read More

Members of the Class of 2025 can connect with legal employers with offices throughout the U.S. at this table-talk-style event to be held at the JW Marriott Nashville organized by VLS Career Services. Read More