Vanderbilt Law News

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More