Law & Economics Ph.D. News

Prestige of undergraduate university affects earnings even when graduates of less elite undergraduate institutions attend prestigious graduate schools. Read More

A new study, authored by Jennifer Shinall, assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School, reports that overweight and obese women are more likely to work in the most labor intensive, lowest paying jobs. Professor Shinall’s research has been covered by NBCNews.com, The… Read More

Jennifer Bennett Shinall, the first graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics, joins the faculty at Vanderbilt Law School as Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Shinall clerked for Judge John Tinder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after receiving her J.D. and Ph.D. in… Read More

Caroline Cecot, the third graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics, is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School. She will teach Risk and Environmental Regulation II in Spring 2015. Read More

For decades college counselors have advised students with high academic ambitions that a prestigious graduate degree cancels out a less-than-prestigious undergraduate one, but new research by Joni Hersch, professor of law and economics, suggests that unfortunately this may not turn out to be true. Professor Joni Hersch’s working paper “… Read More

Lim’s current research focuses on the impact on air quality of monitoring and enforcement of The Clean Air Act. Read More

His dissertation is titled “Economic and Empirical Analysis of Contractual Dispute Resolution.” Read More

Druhan is a student in Vanderbilt's J.D./Ph.D. in Law & Economics program and will graduate in 2015. Read More

Jacob P. Byl, a fifth-year student in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt, has accepted a judicial clerkship with Judge Robert J. Jonker in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, to begin Fall 2015. Byl earned a B.A. Read More

Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Law and Economics Jennifer Bennett Shinall’s paper Hire a Woman, Hire a Lawsuit? The Impact of Gender on Discrimination Charge Filing has been accepted for presentation at the CSWEP-sponsored Gender Sessions… Read More