Vanderbilt Law News
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George H. Cate Jr. ’51 (BA’49), Nashville’s first vice mayor, dead at 92
After winning the Founder's Medal, Cate practiced law for more than 60 years and served as the city's first vice mayor under Mayor Beverly Briley. He retired in 2014. In 1984, he received the John C. Tune Public Service Award, an honor given to the Nashville Bar Association member who has shown the highest degree of dedication to the betterment of the community. Read MoreDec. 22, 2020
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Christopher Slobogin honored with Vanderbilt University’s 2020 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award
The award recognizes creative research and teaching. Slobogin is an expert in criminal procedure who has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters. He directs the Criminal Justice Program. Read MoreDec. 21, 2020
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Michael Vandenbergh, Jonathan Gilligan and Lou Leonard discuss how the U.S. can rejoin the Paris climate agreement
In a co-authored opinion piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the authors discuss the need for a national climate change strategy based on the same sort of public-private collaboration that led to the rapid production of COVID-19 vaccines. Read MoreDec. 21, 2020
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Daniel J. Sharfstein appointed to the Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law
Sharfstein is a legal historian whose work addresses race and citizenship in the United States. He is the author of two award-winning books, “The Invisible Line” and “Thunder in the Mountains,” and received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read MoreDec. 18, 2020
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Brian Fitzpatrick appointed to the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise
An expert in complex litigation, Fitzpatrick is most recently the author of The Conservative Case of Class Actions, a 2019 book published by University of Chicago Press. Read MoreDec. 18, 2020
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Bob Covington ’61, who taught at VLS for 46 years, dead at 84
Covington was an expert in labor law who also published books and articles on evidence, insurance, legal method and legal education. Read MoreDec. 3, 2020
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Ashlee McFarlane ’09 profiled by Bloomberg Law
McFarlane is now a partner at Gerger Khalil Hennessy & McFarlane in Houston. She represented Maurice Hall, a passenger in the car when George Floyd was stopped by police in Minneapolis who was himself arrested in Houston days after Floyd's death. McFarlane was a trial attorney with the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice before she entered private practice in 2018. She focuses on defending clients in federal procedings. Read MoreNov. 16, 2020
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Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch discusses his work and judicial philosophy in a conversation with former clerk Tim Meyer
Professor Meyer’s conversation with Justice Gorsuch was sponsored by the Cecil Sims Lecture Series. Meyer clerked for Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read MoreNov. 13, 2020
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James Danly ’13 elevated to chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
George Harrison Cate Jr. ’51 (BA’49), whose legal career spanned more than 60 years, died Dec. 18. He was 92. Cate entered legal practice with his father after earning his law degree as the Founder’s Medalist for his class. A longtime community leader, he helped lead the effort to combine… Read MoreNov. 12, 2020
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Bill Hagerty ’84 (BA’81) wins Tennessee Senate seat
Hagerty previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan. He won the Senate seat vacated by retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander. Read MoreNov. 5, 2020