Vanderbilt Law News
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Climate Change Research Network blog post addresses private-sector response to climate change
The TIPS-funded research team of Alexander Maki, Michael Vandenbergh, Jonathan Gilligan and Mark Cohen is exploring private-sector programs offering "employee energy benefits." Read MoreSep. 26, 2017
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Class action expert Brian Fitzpatrick on the pros and cons joining an Equifax lawsuit
Fitzpatrick recommends that people "stay in class actions. It is very hard to sue on your own." Read MoreSep. 22, 2017
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Jim Blumstein on “How to End Obamacare” in Wall Street Journal commentary
Blumstein proposes that Republicans "pass a two-page bill clarifying that Congress did not intend to use its taxing power to enforce the individual mandate." Read MoreSep. 19, 2017
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Don Cochran ’92 (BA’80) confirmed as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee
Cochran currently serves on the law faculty at Belmont University. Read MoreSep. 18, 2017
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“Our Constitution Wasn’t Built for This,” Ganesh Sitaraman’s NYTimes Opinion column
Professor Sitaraman's column focuses on the theme of his new book, “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic.” It appeared in the Sept. 16 Sunday Review section of the New York Times. Read MoreSep. 18, 2017
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18 members of the Class of 2017 selected for Order of the Coif
Amanda Rose, professor of law, who is president of the Vanderbilt Law School Chapter of Order of the Coif, has announced that 18 graduates of the Class of 2017 have been selected for membership in the Order of the Coif. Members of this prestigious organization are selected by… Read MoreSep. 15, 2017
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Matt Leggett ’07 named chief counsel of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Leggett had previously served as policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee since 2012. Read MoreSep. 13, 2017
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Read legal historian Zephyr Teachout’s review of Ganesh Sitaraman’s book, “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution”
Teachout's review, published in the Summer 2017 issue of The American Prospect, says that Sitaraman brings a "fresh eye and impressive range of historical thinking to an ageless question: What are the conditions for freedom?" Read MoreAug. 28, 2017
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Bob Reder ’78 among first to respond to Chancellor’s Chair Challenge
Reder and his wife, Theresa, have established the Enterprise Chair at VLS through a significant gift. Retired from a 33-year legal career with Milbank Tweed in New York, Reder is now a professor of the practice of law at Vanderbilt. Read MoreAug. 25, 2017
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Joycelyn Stevenson ’01 featured as “Attorney of the Month” in Attorney at Law Magazine
Stevenson was recently named executive director of the Tennessee Bar Association. Read MoreAug. 24, 2017