Vanderbilt Law News
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Timothy Meyer elected to membership in American Law Institute
Meyer is one of 14 VLS faculty affiliated with ALI, which publishes legal commentary and model statutes. Read MoreJan. 11, 2017
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Ed Cheng’s research on publication bias highlighted in ABA Journal
Cheng examined expert testimony using a statistical method common in wildlife studies. Read MoreDec. 5, 2016
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Joe Fishman: How copying is done should matter in copyright infringement complaints
“Copyright doctrine ought to factor in the defendant’s process into the infringement analysis,” Fishman says. Read MoreDec. 2, 2016
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Becca Everhardt ’10 serves as Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow in Kosovo
Everhardt is working in Kosovo’s Ministry of Finance and researching alternative dispute mechanisms during her 10-month fellowship. Read MoreNov. 12, 2016
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VLS launches new Law and Business CLE series in conjunction with Owen Graduate School of Management
“Legal Project Management,” the first of four planned courses, will debut Feb. 7-8. Read MoreOct. 24, 2016
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Sean Seymore elected to membership in the American Law Institute
Seymore's expertise is in patent law, intellectual property law, and science and technology. Read MoreOct. 21, 2016
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Legal historian Dan Sharfstein featured in panel about Nashville’s Fort Negley
Timothy Meyer, Enterprise Scholar and professor of law, has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute. ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law. Its members, who include practitioners and academics, apply their… Read MoreOct. 20, 2016
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Darby Dickerson ’88 named dean of The John Marshall Law School
Dickerson joins John Marshall from Texas Tech University School of Law, where she has been dean since 2011. Read MoreOct. 20, 2016
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Sara Mayeux studies criminal law, advocates for social justice
“I think criminal courts are inherently interesting places,” said Mayeux, who began teaching at Vanderbilt Law School as an assistant professor this fall. Read MoreOct. 20, 2016
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Ed Cheng’s “Excited Utterance” podcast delivers “virtual workshops” on legal evidence scholarship
Cheng started new legal scholarship podcast with grants from the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning and the law school’s Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program. Read MoreOct. 17, 2016