Law & Economics Ph.D. News

Graduates joined the University of Buffalo School of Law, the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, and the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Read More

Cecot is an Associate Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, McMichael is a Professor of Law at The University of Alabama School of Law Read More

Viscusi served as SEA president from 2019 to 2020 Read More

Jennifer Shinall, JD/PhD’12, and Massachusetts labor attorney Maria Scott discuss the limited protections for women who need pregnancy accommodations and parents who need family leave Read More

New study finds direct correlation between policy and household recycling Read More

Study co-authored by Vanderbilt JD-PhD ’16 Elissa Philip Gentry and Vanderbilt’s W. Kip Viscusi examines the rationale of the Supreme Court’s COVID-era limitations on OSHA’s authority and what it means for future crises. Read More

New findings from Vanderbilt Law’s Paige Skiba offer implications for policymakers seeking to improve subprime credit markets Read More

Skiba and co-authors Sarah Payne Carter (BA'17), Kuan Lui and Justin Sydnor examined the benefits of state laws on minimum payday loan durations for borrowers. Read More

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 More

The competition recognizes the best legal writing in the field of labor and employment law among current law students. Jeffrey’s paper, “The Occupational Illness of COVID-19: New Presumptions in Workers’ Compensation,” placed second in the longstanding competition, which is administered by the Institute for Law and the Workplace at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Read More