Vanderbilt Law News

Newbern taught Vanderbilt’s Appellate Litigation Clinic; Frensley is a trial lawyer who served on the federal Criminal Justice Act panel of attorneys. Read More

2016 graduates Calvin Cohen, Larry Crane-Moscowitz, Alex Vey and Clayton Wiggins win Luis v. Awareness Technologies in decision handed down by Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More

Vanderbilt Law graduates will clerk for judges in federal and state courts in 17 states. Read More

Porter and classmate Fred Work became Vanderbilt’s first two African American graduates in 1959. Read More

VLS students will receive course credit for their summer work in federal and state judicial chambers, in the offices of U.S. Attorneys and state attorneys general, and with corporations and advocacy organizations. Read More

Students are working in judicial chambers and with government agencies, attorneys general, district attorneys, public defenders and public interest organizations with VLS support. Read More

VLS hosts collaborative meeting of Music City Legal Hackers, Code for Nashville, attorneys and technology professionals. Read More

Article Taylor completed as a semester-long research project supervised by Clean Water Act expert J.B. Ruhl to be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Environmental Law Institute. Read More

Alistair Newbern, who previously taught Vanderbilt’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, and Nashville-based trial lawyer Jeffery S. (Chip) Frensley ’95 have both been selected as magistrate judges on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of… Read More

"The Gavel Gap," co-authored by Tracey George with Albert Yoon, shows that more than half of state trial and appellate judges are white men, fewer than a third of judges are women, and fewer than two in 10 judges are a racial or ethnic minority. Read More