Vanderbilt Law News

The event, “Reform for Redemption: Cyntoia Brown Long and Gov. Bill Haslam on Criminal Justice Reform and the Power of Mercy,” will be held in Langford Auditorium and livestreamed at 6 p.m. March 15. Now an author and advocate, Brown was a trafficking victim when she was convicted of murder at 16. She was later granted clemency by Gov. Haslam. Professor Slogobin will moderate a discussion about criminal justice reform. The public is invited to attend in person or virtually. Read More

Wuerth is a leading scholar of foreign affairs and serves on the State Department's Advisory Committee on the American Law Institute's Restatement (Fourth) on U.S. Foreign Relations Law. In this Lawfare post, she states: "Russia's invasion of Ukraine violates Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter, which prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity of another state." Read More

Edelman was a professor of mathematics and a professor of law. His legal scholarship focused on law and public choice, addressing systems for shareholder voting, apportionment of Congressional seats, judicial decision-making, and distributing attorneys’ fees in complex litigation. Read More

Sherry held the Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law. An expert in constitutional law and federal courts and procedure, Sherry is the author of more than 100 books, book chapters and articles. Read More

Su is a nationally recognized expert on workers’ rights and civil rights who served as secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency before her appointment as deputy secretary of labor. Her talk, "Fulfilling the Unfulfilled Promise of Racial and Economic Justice," will draw on her trailblazing career as a civil rights and workers' rights attorney. Read More

Kristen Smith ’23 and Ryan Jones ’23 were finalists. Judges Corey T. Wilson of the Fifth Circuit, Andrew Brasher of the Eleventh Circuit and Chief Judge Waverly T. Crenshaw ’81 (BA’78) of the Middle District of Tennessee presided over the final round Feb. 4. Read More

Students in the Housing Law Clinic directed by Jennifer Prusak represented Nashville tenants facing eviction and advocated for changes in housing policy during the COVID=10 pandemic. Read More

"Revisiting the Promise of Carbon Labelling," published in the journal Nature Climate Change, reveals that one benefit of carbon labeling is that businesses that produced labels for their products often reduced their own carbon footprints. Read More

Facebook has been fighting the claim that they are a monopolized business that abuses their power over their competition for years. Antitrust scholar Rebecca Allensworth discusses the Facebook/Meta antitrust lawsuit on WNYC's radio program The Takeaway. Read More

Brown currently serves as the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and holds the A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair in Legal Ethics and Professionalism at the University of Geogia School of Law. He will join the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as dean on July 1. Read More