L&G News And Events
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Rebecca Allensworth quoted in The Post Internazionale on how lobbying undermines proposals for stricter antitrust rules for U.S. Big Tech companies
Allensworth says Big Tech companies invest "a lot of money" in lobbying efforts that "push Republicans and Democrats alike to say that too aggressive antitrust law can be bad for consumers." She is a David Daniels Allen Professor of Law in Vanderbilt's Law and Business Program. Read MoreSep. 12, 2022
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Jennifer Shinall receives Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Award for Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The award recognizes Shinall’s paper, “Protecting Pregnancy,” published in the Cornell Law Review, which offers a sophisticated analysis of how laws designed to assist pregnant women in the workplace actually work. Read MoreSep. 2, 2022
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Yesha Yadav receives Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Award for Research
The award recognizes Yadav’s article, “The Failed Regulation of U.S. Treasury Markets,” published in the Columbia Law Review in 2021. The article was recognized as one of the top 10 articles addressing corporate and securities law published in 2021 by the Corporate Practice Commentator. Read MoreSep. 2, 2022
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Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner to deliver inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change Governance Sept. 19
Browner’s lecture is made possible by the Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund and sponsored by the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. Browner became the longest serving EPA administrator in history under President Bill Clinton and was director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration. She now practices as a senior counsel with Covington & Burling. Read MoreSep. 1, 2022
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Sabrina NeKay Lewellen ’02 named 2022 staff vice chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures
Lewellen will serve as NCSL's chair in 2023-24. She is deputy director and assistant secretary of the Arkansas Senate. Read MoreAug. 31, 2022
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Monique Winkler, Class of 1996, named regional director of SEC’s San Francisco office
Winkler had served as the office's acting director since March and as its associate regional director for enforcement since 2019. Read MoreAug. 16, 2022
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Erin Merrick ’14 (MA’11) appointed Tennessee’s Chief Legal Counsel by Gov. Bill Lee
Merrick had previously served as Gov. Lee's deputy legal counsel since 2019. She was an assistant attorney general in the Tennessee Office of the Attorney General before joining Lee's legal staff. Read MoreAug. 16, 2022
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Francesca L. Procaccini joins VLS faculty as assistant professor
Procaccini was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and taught at Yale Law. Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law, First Amendment law, federal courts and civil procedure. Read MoreAug. 2, 2022
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Why designating Russia a state sponsor of terrorism is a bad idea: Washington Post Opinion by Ingrid Wuerth
Wuerth is a foreign policy expert and holds the Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law. "The state sponsor of terrorism designation is not a symbolic act to chastise states that behave badly," she writes. "It is a legal trigger embedded in an extremely complex statutory and regulatory framework. The effects of pulling that...trigger are not easy to identify and untangle." Read MoreAug. 1, 2022
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Adele El-Khouri ’13 joins Office of the White House Counsel
El-Khouri has joined the White House Counsel's Office as an associate counsel. She previously served as counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice. Read MoreAug. 1, 2022