Vanderbilt Law News
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Matthew Shaw joins VLS faculty as assistant professor
Shaw joined the law faculty from the faculty of Vanderbilt Peabody College. His research focuses on the intersection between federal law and education policy. Read MoreJan. 13, 2022
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Brian Fitzpatrick’s book, The Conservative Case for Class Actions, wins 2022 Civil Justice Award
The award from the California-based Pound Institute recognizes one book each year that addresses a topic in civil justice. Fitzpatrick’s book argues that class action lawsuits are an effective form of private law enforcement that play a vital role in supporting robust free markets by holding companies accountable. Read MoreJan. 10, 2022
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Kevin Stack and Michael Vandenbergh receive Levin Center’s 2021 Excellence in Oversight Research Award for their paper, “Oversight Riders”
The paper, published in the Notre Dame Law Review, proposes a strategy designed to improve congressional oversight by creating new incentives for compliance with congressional subpoenas. Read MoreJan. 7, 2022
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Mary K. Dimke ’02 confirmed to seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
Dimke had served as a magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2016. Read MoreDec. 20, 2021
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Tim Meyer files amicus brief on behalf of 5 U.S. senators in Transpacific Steel v. U.S., a case challenging Trump steel tariffs
Meyer is serving as counsel of record for the senators, whose brief urges the Supreme Court to grant certiori in the case and reverse a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision to sustain a Trump administration decision to double national security tariffs on steel imports from Turkey. Read MoreDec. 16, 2021
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Work by Mike Newton and VLS Practice Lab students to support Iraqi judges profiled in Tennessean article
"How this Vanderbilt law professor and his student are helping Iraqis handle thousands of ISIS cases," an article by Mariah Timms, appeared in the Dec. 13, 2021, edition of The Tennessean. Timms' article profiles Newton's work helping Iraqi judges rebuild their nation's court system and prosecute a backlog of ISIS cases, some involving genocide charges. Read MoreDec. 14, 2021
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Spring Miller, Karla McKanders and Scott Jeffrey JD/PhD ’23 featured in Tennessee Voices podcast
Miller, McKanders and Jeffrey discuss their public interest legal work with David Plazas, director of opinion and engagement for USAToday Network Tennessee, in this 20-minute podcast. Miller is the Assistant Dean and Martha Craig Daughtrey Director of Public Interest, McKanders directs the Immigration Practice Clinic, and Jeffrey will earn his J.D. and Ph.D. in law and economics in 2023. Read MoreDec. 10, 2021
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Tax expert Beverly Moran testified at Dec. 8 House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee hearing on “The Pandora Papers and Hidden Wealth”
Moran is a professor emerita whose work focuses on federal income taxation, including individuals, partnerships, tax-exempt organizations and corporate. The Dec. 8 hearing can be viewed via webcast accessible at the Ways and Means Committee's webiste Read MoreDec. 7, 2021
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Free Justice, a book by Sara Mayeux chronicling the debate about public defense, discussed in New York Review of Books essay by Sarah Seo
Mayeux's book is one of three books addressing public defenders and how public defense has evolved since its inception in the Progressive Era. Seo writes that Mayeux's book "leaves readers with a provocative thought: If we moved beyond adversarialism, what kind of legal representation could defendants receive?" Free Justice, published by the University of North Carolina Press, received the 2020 David J. Langum Prize in American Legal History. Read MoreDec. 3, 2021
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Sasha Beatty, Daniel Metzger and Marian Mikhail, all Class of 2017, to serve as public interest advisors
Beatty, Metzger and Mikhail will mentor current VLS students interested in public service practice as prosecutors, environmental advocates or public defenders as part of a new program coordinated by the Public Interest Office. Read MoreNov. 18, 2021