Vanderbilt Law News

Criminal law scholar Christopher Slobogin offers three distinct rationales for making interrogations transparent Read More

Vanderbilt Law hosts historian Brenda Wineapple to discuss a trial that gripped the nation and the relevance of those same issues today Read More

The latest installment of Vanderbilt Law’s “Respectfully Dissent” series features Berkeley’s Erwin Cherminsky and Vanderbilt’s Brian Fitzpatrick Read More

Law professor and legal analyst discussed his recent book Chokehold: Policing Black Men in the Age of Trump Read More

Rebecca Haw Allensworth’s book “The Licensing Racket” details how self-regulation in professions from hair-dressing to medicine limits competition at the expense of consumer safety Read More

The rights to remain silent and to counsel – the “Miranda Rights” frequently quoted in police procedurals – were established in the 1966 case Miranda v. Arizona, a decision that was meant to offer suspects an easy way to avoid police questioning and deter police from using psychological and physical… Read More

Vanderbilt provost C. Cybele Raver explores civil justice inequities with Lauren Sudeall, director of Vanderbilt’s Access to Justice program Read More

Paper co-authored by Ingrid Brunk details the prohibition’s role and significance in modern international law Read More

Francis X. Shen, Professor of Law at University of Minnesota, is the Chief Innovation Officer of the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior of Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University Read More

Vanderbilt criminal law expert Christopher Slobogin argues for more expansive interpretation of Caniglia v. Storm Read More