Vanderbilt Law News
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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
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Ingrid Wuerth elected co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law
The AJIL, which is published by the American Society of International Law, is the world’s preeminent peer-reviewed international law journal. Wuerth will share the appointment with co-editor-in-chief Monica Hakimi of Michigan Law. Read MoreNov. 17, 2021
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🇺🇸 Honoring Our Veterans 🇺🇸
As much as they come to gain a legal education at VLS, our community is fortunate to gain so richly from our veterans' perspectives, experiences, ideas and character. Read MoreNov. 11, 2021
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Newly endowed program fund provides crucial support for the Energy, Environment & Land Use Program
The Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund, established by Martin S. Brown Jr.’92, expands the resources available through the program to support courses, clinics, student summer stipends, post-doctoral fellowships, research initiatives and lectures. Read MoreNov. 10, 2021
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Henry Martin ’74 (BA’71) wins 2021 Jack Norman Sr. Award from Nashville Bar Association
Martin has served as the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennessee since 1985. The award honors an attorney who focuses on criminal law. Read MoreNov. 4, 2021
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19 members of the Class of 2021 selected for Order of the Coif
Members of the Order of the Coif, a national honorary scholastic society, represent the top 10 percent of their graduating class and are selected by faculty approval. Read MoreOct. 28, 2021
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Bass Military Scholar Andrew Hodlin ’24 receives John S. Beasley II Scholarship
Hodlin was an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Afghanistan and Japan. Before entering VLS this fall, he earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of New Haven and an MBA from the University of Southern California. The Beasley Scholarship honors John S. Beasley II '54 (BA'52), a former Navy officer who served as VLS admissions dean and in the Vanderbilt University administration, and is earmarked for Navy veterans. Read MoreOct. 20, 2021
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22 government and public interest employers participate in new Public Interest Viritual Recruiting Program
Employers participated in one of two ways—through virtual interviews that took place Sept. 20-Oct.1 and through resumé collections in mid-September. 2L students had opportunities to apply and interview for internships in summer 2022, and 3Ls could apply and interview for postgraduate opportunities, including those supported by sponsored fellowships. Read MoreOct. 19, 2021
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William A. Fenwick ’67, founding partner of Fenwick, dead at 83
Fenwick left a Wall Street firm in 1972 to start Fenwick & West, a Silicon Valley law firm focusing on the technology sector, and later helped incorporate Apple Computer. The son of a sharecropper in western Kentucky, he was the first in his family to attend college and go to law school. Read MoreOct. 8, 2021
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VLS announces $10M gift from private-equity entrepreneur Justin Ishbia ’04
Justin Ishbia ’04 has donated $10 million to Vanderbilt Law School to support its key strategic priorities and strengthen its position as one of the nation’s premier institutions for legal scholarship. Ishbia is founder and managing partner of Shore Capital Partners, a private equity firm with offices in Chicago and Nashville. He is a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and the law school's Board of Advisors and endowed the law school's Justin R. Ishbia Scholarship in 2015. Read MoreOct. 6, 2021