Vanderbilt Law News
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Gautam Hans launches First Amendment Clinic at VLS
Funded through a grant from The Stanton Foundation, the clinic will give students opportunities to development and use legal strategies while working on cases addressing First Amendment rights. Read MoreNov. 7, 2018
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Public Interest Law conference addresses reform prosecutors, bail reform, access to justice and economic justice
Conference hosted by the George Barrett Social Justice Program features 20 leading advocates and scholars in the areas of immigration law, criminal procedure and economic justice. Read MoreNov. 6, 2018
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Suzanna Sherry discusses birthright citizenship in the Bloomberg Law podcast
Professor Sherry discusses the purpose and history of the 14th Amendment and President Trump's assertion that he can end birthright citizenship in American with an executive order in an interview with Bloomberg's June Grasso. Read MoreNov. 1, 2018
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Samar Ali ’06 (BS’03) receives 2018 White House Fellows Impact Award
Ali, who practices as international counsel at Bass Berry & Sims in Nashville, was a 2010-11 White House Fellow, during which she worked on bilateral negotiations with Europe and the Middle East, served on the White House American-Arab "Kitchen Cabinet," and advised on the U.S. response to the Arab Spring in 2011. Read MoreOct. 29, 2018
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Vanderbilt Law School launches the V-Legal online legal education program for business professionals
Taught by 3 top legal academics, V-Legal helps business executives and managers become fluent in the legal principles and processes business leaders need to understand. Read MoreOct. 26, 2018
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VLS ranks 10th among U.S. law faculties for scholarly impact
Updated ranking of top 50 law schools by team headed by Gregory Sisk of University of St. Thomas Law assesses scholarly impact based on citations of faculty publications. Read MoreOct. 26, 2018
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Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, delivers Vanderbilt’s 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Lecture
Gelernt discussed his work as lead attorney in the Ms. L litigation, a case challenging the federal government’s practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S. border. Read MoreOct. 15, 2018
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Jeremy D. Kernodle ’01 confirmed to seat on U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Kernodle was previously a partner at Haynes and Boone in Dallas, where he founded and chaired the firm's False Claims Act practice group. Read MoreOct. 12, 2018
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Eli Richardson ’92 confirmed to seat on U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Richardson is a partner at Bass Berry & Sims in Nashville, where he focuses on government investigations involving allged white-collar crime or criminal civil violations. Read MoreOct. 12, 2018
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Article co-authored by J.B. Ruhl and Kyle Robisch ’14 selected for Land Use & Environmental Law Review
The Land Use & Environment Law Review is a peer-reviewed compendium of the best law review articles published in the previous academic year in the categories of environmental and land use law. The article by Ruhl and Robisch, “Agencies Running from Agency Discretion,” published in 2016, will appear in Volume 49 of LUELR, published annually by Thomsen Reuters. Read MoreOct. 3, 2018