Law & Economics Ph.D. News

Hersch recommends the cap on damage awards for sexual harassment be increased to reflect their actual cost to employers, employees and industries. Read More

Viscusi will serve as president-elect starting in November 2018 and then as SEA’s president in 2019. Read More

An expert in high-interest credit markets, Skiba has taught at Vanderbilt since 2007. Read More

Scott DeAngelis and Danielle Drago Drory were awarded both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School’s commencement May 11.   Scott DeAngelis’ dissertation seeks to shed further light on the issue of concussions in athletics, examining youth sports concussion laws, risk… Read More

Ph.D. candidate in Law and Economics Scott DeAngelis successfully defended his dissertation on Monday, February 26, 2018 at the law school. Summary of Dissertation “Concussions in Athletics: Risk-Taking Behavior, Compensation, and Legal Remedies” This dissertation seeks to shed further light on the issue of concussions in athletics—a… Read More

Ph.D. candidate in Law and Economics Danielle Drago Drory successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday, February 22, 2018 at the law school. Summary of Dissertation “Immigration Federalism Renewed: The Effects of State and Local Policies on the Labor Market Outcomes of the U.S. Immigrant Population” This dissertation… Read More

Law and Economics student, Nicholas M. Marquiss, will be senior articles editor for Vanderbilt Law Review in 2018-2019. Marquiss earned his B.A. in economics at Whitman College in 2013. He earned a Vanderbilt Scholastic Excellence Award for Contracts. He is currently serving as staff member of the… Read More

Law and Economics student, Erin E. Meyers, will be Editor in Chief for the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law in 2018-2019. Meyers earned her B.BA. in risk management and insurance and her Actuarial Science Certificate from the University of Georgia at Athens in 2013. She… Read More

Jacob Byl will join the economics faculty at Western Kentucky University as Assistant Professor of Economics beginning Fall 2018. Following Byl’s graduation from Vanderbilt, he served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Robert J. Jonker in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan… Read More

Benjamin McMichael will join the law faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law as an assistant professor of law beginning fall 2018. His research focuses on the ways in which legal regimes influence the provision of health care in the United States. He has also… Read More