Vanderbilt Law News
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Joni Hersch appointed to Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair
Hersch is a labor economist whose research has focused on why women in the same jobs are paid less than men. Read MoreNov. 27, 2017
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Samar Ali ’06 (BS’03) appointed to World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2017
Ali is an international counsel at Bass Berry Sims in Nashville. Read MoreNov. 20, 2017
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Samiyyah Ali ’16 will clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2018
Ali is currently serving as a law clerk for Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit after clerking for Judge Amul Thapar on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in 2016-17. Read MoreNov. 17, 2017
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Tracey George named associate provost for faculty affairs for Vanderbilt University
George, who holds the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty, will continue to teach and conduct research during the three-year, part-time appointment. Read MoreNov. 6, 2017
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Sara Mayeux wins 2017 Cromwell Article Prize for best legal history article
Professor Mayeux’s article, “What Gideon Did,” shows that Gideon v. Wainwright shifted indigent defense policy from a charity model toward a public model. Read MoreOct. 31, 2017
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Darby Dickerson ’88 wins 2018 AALS section award for lifetime contributions to legal research writing
Dickerson is Dean of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She will receive the award Jan. 4 at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego. Read MoreOct. 30, 2017
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Daniel Gervais inducted as president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property
Professor Gervais will serve a two-year term as president of ATRIP and preside over its 2018 and 2019 world congresses in Helsinki, Finland, and Nashville. Read MoreOct. 27, 2017
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Laura Dolbow ’17 wins ABA Section of Administrative Law’s Gellhorn-Sargentich Essay Competition
Dolbow’s paper addresses the Senate Appropriations Committee’s oversight over guidance documents. Read MoreOct. 18, 2017
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Ganesh Sitaraman Looks at What Two Recent Books Can Teach Us about Defending Democracy
Read "How the Oligarchy Wins: Lessons from Ancient Greece," Sitaraman's Oct. 15 column in The Guardian. Read MoreOct. 16, 2017
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Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government Representative, discusses Kurdish independence referendum
93 percent of Iraqi Kurds voted in favor of establishing an independent Kurdistan. Read MoreSep. 28, 2017