Vanderbilt Law News
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Housing Law Clinic director Jennifer Prusak addresses importance of legal representation for renters facing eviction
In a column published online at The Conversation, Prusak explains why providing more tenants facing evication with access to a lawyer could be the key to keeping more people in their homes. Prusak is an associate clinical professor of law. She launched Vanderbilt's Housing Law Clinic in spring 2021. Read MoreSep. 29, 2021
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Justice Cornelia Clark ’79 (BA’71) dead at 71
Justice Clark became the second woman in the state’s history to serve as chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2010. She spent much of her legal career in public service, including 11 years as a circuit court judge and 16 years on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Read MoreSep. 24, 2021
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Dean Chris Guthrie joins with deans of more than 40 U.S. law schools in support of AG Garland’s call to the legal community
Law deans express a commitment to ensuring that families and individuals facing eviction have access to legal representation, counseling and assistance. Read MoreSep. 1, 2021
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JD/PhD in Law and Economics student Scott Jeffrey ’23 wins second place in the Louis Jackson Memorial student writing competition
The competition recognizes the best legal writing in the field of labor and employment law among current law students. Jeffrey’s paper, “The Occupational Illness of COVID-19: New Presumptions in Workers’ Compensation,” placed second in the longstanding competition, which is administered by the Institute for Law and the Workplace at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Read MoreAug. 30, 2021
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Securities law expert James H. Cheek III ’67, retired partner of Bass Berry & Sims, dead at 78
Cheek was a nationally renowned expert in securities law and corporate governance who taught at Vanderbilt Law throughout his legal career and a dedicated public servant. Read MoreAug. 30, 2021
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Ramon Ryan ’21 named to 2021 Law Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
Ryan is one of 16 FASPE Ethics Fellows chosen for the program, which examines the conduct of lawyers in Nazi-occupied Europe as a way to reflect on legal ethics today. Read MoreAug. 24, 2021
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Linda Breggin elected Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers
Breggin is a senior attorney and director of the Center for State, Tribal and Local Environmental Programs and teaches at Vanderbilt as a lecturer in law. Fellows are selected for substantial contributions to the field of environmental law. Read MoreAug. 11, 2021
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Youth Opportunity Clinic partners with Youth Law Center to promote pandemic relief program for former foster youth
Youth ages 18 to 26 who were in foster care after age 14 are eligible for pandemic relief funds. Vanderbilt’s Youth Opportunity Clinic and the Youth Law Center are sharing information with other lawyers and service providers. The Clinic can help young adults who have aged out of foster care apply for up to $1,200 before the extended application deadline of September 15, 2021. Read MoreAug. 5, 2021
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Chris Slobogin’s new book suggests using algorithms may reduce prison sentences and increase use of evidence-based rehabilitative programs
In "Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk," released by Cambridge University Press, Slobogin supports his thesis that using risk-prediction algorithms to make sentencing decisions could help reduce unnecessary pre-trial detention, mitigate excessively punitive bail and prison sentences, and divert more eligible candidates to appropriate rehabilitative programs. Read MoreJul. 28, 2021
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Kate Uyeda ’22 receives Garrison Social Justice Scholarship
Uyeda is working this summer at the Fair Elections Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., with support from the scholarship, which provides summer stipends to help Garrison Social Justice Scholars launch their careers by engaging in summer pro bono legal work. Read MoreJul. 22, 2021