Sep. 13, 2018—A $25 million gift from the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation will provide scholarships for military veterans at five Vanderbilt schools, including VLS, the Owen Graduate School of Management, Peabody College, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing.
Sep. 13, 2018—The MLK symposium in Flynn Auditorium will feature panel discussions sponsored by Vanderbilt's law, divinity and graduate schools and Peabody College and keynote addresses by Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors and Virginia Tech vice president Menah Pratt-Clarke '93 (PhD'97).
Sep. 11, 2018—Williams will establish a new Sports, Law and Society Program at VLS.
Aug. 28, 2018—Morrison’s term as the United Kingdom judge to the ICC began upon his election by the Assembly of States Parties in December 2011. His talk addressed the purposes of international criminal law and the relationship between international criminal cases and national jurisdictions.
Aug. 22, 2018—King is a former chancellor of the State University of New York System.
Aug. 17, 2018—The Vanderbilt Bar Association is hosting a Golf Scramble open to all Vanderbilt Law students, alumni, faculty and staff on Friday, Oct. 26, at Hermitage Golf Course, 3939 Old Hickory Blvd., Nashville. If you are interested in sponsoring a portion of the scramble or are interested in playing, contact Hunter Thornton, Class of 2019, via...
Aug. 3, 2018—Edwards had previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for Kentucky's Western District. She replaces Magistrate Judge Dave Whalin, who has retired.
Aug. 2, 2018—VLS graduates will serve as legal clerks in the U.S. Supreme Court, eight federal appellate circuits, and federal district courts in 12 states.
Jul. 19, 2018—Dunlop is an attorney with Greene Espel in Minneapolis, where she focuses on complex business and intellectual property litigation.
Jul. 12, 2018—Ney has previously served as acting general counsel of the U.S. Navy and as a deputy general counsel for the Department of Defense.
Jul. 10, 2018—Thompson was a member of the inaugual Class of Douglass Fellows with the Human Trafficking Institute in during the 2017-18 academic year.
Jul. 9, 2018—VLS students are working in 18 states, D.C. and the Netherlands for federal and state courts, government legal departments and nonprofits.
Jul. 9, 2018—Students secured externships with federal and state courses, government agencies and legal nonprofits and in corporate legal offices.
Jul. 5, 2018—Liu is a partner at Dorsey, where he focuses on international litigation and complex commercial disputes.
Jul. 2, 2018—Rising 2L Adrielle L. Conner was awarded Bradley Arant Boult Cummings’ annual diversity scholarship as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Conner is working as a law clerk at Bradley’s Nashville office this summer. A native of Lakeland, Florida, she earned her bachelor of science in business administration...
Jul. 2, 2018—Drake is a partner at King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he focuses on product liability litigation.
Jun. 26, 2018—McWeay joined the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender's Office in 2009 after earning her Vanderbilt J.D. She was named General Sessions Division Chief in 2014 and Dputy Public Defender in 2017.
Jun. 22, 2018—A friend of the late Milton Rice '49 writes about his legal of "patriotism, public service and neighborliness." Rice died Jan. 1 at age 97.
Jun. 8, 2018—Clinical Professor of Law Karla McKanders asked students in her Refugee Law and Policy class to produce their final reports as audio stories. Listen to Episode 136 of The Life of the Law’s New Voices series, which features stories on topics in refugee law by VLS students Joshua Minchin ’20, Simona Grecu ’19 and Rachael...
Jun. 8, 2018—Alexiou is director of LL.M. and alumni advising and associate director of Career Services at Vanderbilt Law School.
May. 31, 2018—Philip Morris v. Uruguay and Eli Lilly v. Canada are two international investor-state cases that may reveal an emerging trend in international investment law regarding investors' intellectual property (IP) rights.
May. 25, 2018—Lockwood assisted in a Department of Justice investigation that exposed judicial corruption in Cook County, Illinois, in the late 1970s.
May. 23, 2018—The TBA's highest award, named in honor of former Tennessee Chief Justice Frank Drowota '65 (BA'60), recognizes career services to the judiciary.
May. 17, 2018—Coker will work at the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s Office and Dowling for the Shelby County Defenders.
May. 17, 2018—Stopher will work at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago; Seixas will work at the Children’s Law Center in Lexington, Kentucky.