Vanderbilt Law News
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Chris Serkin, Dan Sharfstein, Kevin Stack, Yesha Yadav, Ingrid Wuerth and Debra Lee receive 2020 Hall-Hartman Outstanding Teaching Awards
Hall-Hartman Awards are based on a poll of students in each first-year section and also honor outstanding teaching in large and small upper-level classes. Read MoreMay. 8, 2020
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Micah Bradley receives Class of 2020 Founder’s Medal for First Honors
21 2020 graduates honored for scholastic accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Vanderbilt Law community. Read MoreMay. 8, 2020
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Amber Banks ’20 receives 2020 Equal Justice Works Regional Public Interest Award
Banks is one of eight 2020 law graduates honored for their exemplary commitment to public interest law and pro bono work. She was a Garrison Social Justice Scholar. Read MoreMay. 6, 2020
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Cort Thompson ’20 wins the American Society of International Law 2020 Richard Baxter Military Prize
Thompson’s paper, “Avoiding Pyrrhic Victories in Orbit: A Need for Anti-Satellite Arms Control in the 21st Century,” is forthcoming in the SMU Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Thompson is a Captain in the U.S. Army and will enter the JAG Corps after graduation. Read MoreMay. 5, 2020
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2020 graduates Joe Sandford and Willoe DeFuccio named Gideon’s Promise Fellows
Sandford will join the Knox County Public Defender’s Community Law Office in Knoxville, Tennessee; DeFuccio will join the Mecklenberg Defenders in Charlotte, North Carolina. Read MoreMay. 4, 2020
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Class of 2020 Student Awards announced by the Vanderbilt Bar Association
Elizabeth Holden received the Chris Lantz Award, Wesley Gonzalez the Damali K. Booker Award, Amber Banks the Philip G. Davidson Award, and Joey Blake and Kristine Knowles the Jordan A. Quick Award. Read MoreMay. 1, 2020
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16 members of the Class of 2020 complete Pro Bono Pledge
Amber Banks ’20 completed 611 pro bono hours as a VLS student. Eunice Lim ’21 and Jackson Hill ’22 were also recognized for leading their classes in pro bono hours with 299 and 99 hours, respectively. Read MoreMay. 1, 2020
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Hannah Miller ’20: Seeking Challenge and Service in the Law
Miller attended VLS with support from the Thomas W. Beasley Endowment Fund, which supports military veterans. She plans to join the U.S. Army JAG Corps and serve as a law clerk for Judge Amul Thapar on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit starting in 2023. Read MoreApr. 30, 2020
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Read Lawfare column by Cort Thompson ’20 about Russia’s recent space activity
Thompson is a military intelligence officer attending VLS through the U.S. Army’s Funded Legal Education Program and as a Thomas Beasley Scholar. His Lawfare blog column, “Russia’s Recent Space Activity Is a Return to Old Form,” is based on his paper “Avoiding Pyrrhic Victories in Orbit: A Need for Anti-Satellite Arms Control in the 21st Century,” forthcoming in the SMU Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Thompson’s paper is the winner of the American Society of International Law’s 2020 Richard Baxter Military Prize. Read MoreApr. 21, 2020
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VLS Pro Bono Spring Break team works at Just City in Memphis with Wesley Dozier ’19
Dozier is working at Just City as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. He supervised a team of students who worked on expungement cases, participating a Court Watch program, and supported other criminal justice advocacy initiatives. Read MoreApr. 21, 2020