Vanderbilt Law News
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Morgan Ricks and co-authors propose “FedAccounts,” a public option for bank accounts
Ricks and co-authors John Crawford and Lev Manand argue for offering accounts with the Federal Reserve, which come with privileges such as higher interest rates, instant clearing and added security, to everyone. Read MoreJun. 21, 2018
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Listen to three VLS students discuss immigration law in “Life of the Law” podcast
Clinical Professor of Law Karla McKanders asked students in her Refugee Law and Policy class to produce their final reports as audio stories. Listen to Episode 136 of The Life of the Law’s New Voices series, which features stories on topics in refugee law by VLS students Joshua… Read MoreJun. 8, 2018
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To Clerk or Not to Clerk: Read VLS Career Services Director Nick Alexiou’s column in Above the Law
Alexiou is director of LL.M. and alumni advising and associate director of Career Services at Vanderbilt Law School. Read MoreJun. 8, 2018
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Kevin Coker and Sean Dowling named 2018 Gideon’s Promise Fellows
Coker will work at the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s Office and Dowling for the Shelby County Defenders. Read MoreMay. 17, 2018
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Alana Seixas and Lynn Stopher named 2018 George Barrett Social Justice Fellows
Stopher will work at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago; Seixas will work at the Children’s Law Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Read MoreMay. 17, 2018
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Ingrid Wuerth, Suzanna Sherry, Tracey George and Edward Cheng honored with 2018 Hall-Hartman Awards
Wuerth, Sherry and George were honored for first-year teaching, and Wuerth and Edward Cheng for upper-level courses. Read MoreMay. 16, 2018
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Twenty 2018 graduates honored with awards at Commencement
Richard Turner Henderson received the Founder's Medal for First Honors. Read MoreMay. 14, 2018
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Vanderbilt Law graduates earn Ph.D. in Law and Economics
Scott DeAngelis and Danielle Drago Drory were awarded both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School’s commencement May 11. Scott DeAngelis’ dissertation seeks to shed further light on the issue of concussions in athletics, examining youth sports concussion laws, risk… Read MoreMay. 14, 2018
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Sarah Igo’s new book places today’s privacy concerns in historical context
Igo's book is The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. She is an associate professor of history, political science and law. Read MoreApr. 30, 2018
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Family of Rick Ferrini ’11 establishes scholarships in his honor at VLS and the School of Medicine
The Rick V. N. Ferrini Law Scholarship and the Rick V. N. Ferrini Medical Scholarship honor an accomplished attorney who died March 10, 2017. “We wanted to do something in memory of Rick that would honor him and make him proud,” said Vino Ferrini, president of the Texas-based leather footwear company Ferrini USA. “His time at Vanderbilt was very special to him, and these scholarships will give that same opportunity and experience to others. We also want to support research on depression, which so many struggle with, as did our son. It is a disease like any other, and we want to see the stigma removed for those who suffer with it and their families.” A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Rick Ferrini began his legal career in Washington, D.C., after earning his law degree from Vanderbilt in 2011. For the next five years he served as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where he defended D.C. government agencies and individual employees at all levels of government in a variety of civil lawsuits. In 2016, he returned to his hometown of Dallas to serve as counsel to his family’s company, Ferrini USA. Read MoreApr. 30, 2018