Vanderbilt Law News

Vanderbilt criminal law professor Christopher Slobogin proposes an alternative to the Exclusionary Rule Read More

Industry leaders, legal experts, and professional musicians will convene on April 3 to discuss the future of music rights and enforcement Read More

Judge Calloway spoke at Vanderbilt Law as part of the Public Interest Office’s community conversations series Read More

Criminal law scholar Christopher Slobogin offers three distinct rationales for making interrogations transparent Read More

Vanderbilt Law hosts historian Brenda Wineapple to discuss a trial that gripped the nation and the relevance of those same issues today Read More

The latest installment of Vanderbilt Law’s “Respectfully Dissent” series features Berkeley’s Erwin Cherminsky and Vanderbilt’s Brian Fitzpatrick Read More

Law professor and legal analyst discussed his recent book Chokehold: Policing Black Men in the Age of Trump Read More

Rebecca Haw Allensworth’s book “The Licensing Racket” details how self-regulation in professions from hair-dressing to medicine limits competition at the expense of consumer safety Read More

In the U.S., evidence obtained through an unconstitutional search, seizure, or interrogation is usually excluded from trial. The application of this “exclusionary rule,” which stems from the Fourth Amendment, results in a fair number of guilty people – a conservative estimate is roughly 10,000 felons and 55,000 misdemeanants – evading… Read More

Vanderbilt provost C. Cybele Raver explores civil justice inequities with Lauren Sudeall, director of Vanderbilt’s Access to Justice program Read More