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Augusta Dowd ’82 sworn in as president of Alabama State Bar

Jul. 21, 2017—Dowd is a shareholder in White Arnold & Dowd in Birmingham, where she practices civil and complex litigation and white-collar criminal defense.

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Yoli Redero retires from VLS clinical legal faculty

Jul. 21, 2017—Redero created and directed Vanderbilt’s Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic

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James Cheek ’67 retires from VLS faculty

Jul. 17, 2017—Cheek, who has taught both full- and part-time at VLS throughout his career, will continue his law practice at Bass Berry & Sims.

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Randall Thomas discusses results of study examining appraisal action petitions

Jul. 13, 2017—Thomas and a team of three other researchers discovered that the number of appraisal action petitions, used by stockholders seeking relief when they believe the price offered in a merger where they are forced to sell their shares is too low, have risen dramatically over the past two decades.

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Rob Mikos’ casebook, Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority, released by Wolters Kluwer

Jul. 6, 2017—Professor Mikos' casebook is the first to focus on law, policy and authority issues related to marijuana users, their suppliers and third parties who interact with them.

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Michael Vandenbergh and Jonathan Gilligan propose private-sector actions to address climate change

Jul. 5, 2017—Vandenbergh and Gilligan emphasize that government action isn't enough to address climate change, and offer steps corporations, religious and civic organizations, investors, households, and colleges and universities can take to narrow the Paris Agreement gap in a blog post in The Conversation republished in Salon.

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Larry Bridgesmith receives Tennessee Bar Association’s President’s Award

Jun. 22, 2017—Professor Bridgesmith, who coordinates Vanderbilt's Program on Law & Innovation, honored for his work on TBA’s Special Committee on the Evolving Legal Market.

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How Judges Wiped Out a Key Clause of the Constitution: A review of Jim Ely’s new book

Jun. 20, 2017—George Leef's review of Professor Emeritus Jim Ely's book, The Contract Clause: A Constitutional History, appears in Forbes.

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94 VLS students receive 2017 summer stipends to support pro bono legal work

Jun. 15, 2017—VLS students are working in judicial chambers, with government agencies and attorneys’ offices, and with nonprofit organizations in 20 states, Puerto Rico, D.C., and Brussels.

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47 VLS students pursue externships for course credit during summer 2017

Jun. 15, 2017—Students are working in unpaid legal positions in 13 states, Puerto Rico, D.C. and China.

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Austin Holland ’17 selected for HUD Legal Honors Program

Jun. 12, 2017—Holland plans to join the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a litigator in the Legal Honors Program.

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Joycelyn Stevenson ’01 named executive director of the Tennessee Bar Association

Jun. 9, 2017—Stevenson is a shareholder with Littler Mendelson in Nashville.

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Ben Raker ’17 Wins Two Writing Competitions, the Environmental Law Institute’s Henry Diamond Award and the Tennessee Bar Association’s Jon E. Hasting Memorial Award

Jun. 7, 2017—Raker’s articles address two environmental law issues: how courts should handle conflicts between federal and state renewable power regulations and Tennessee’s approach to stormwater regulations.

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Stephanie Parker ’84 elected to Council of the American Law Institute

May. 26, 2017—Parker, a partner of Jones Day based in Atlanta, will serve a five-year term on the Council, which determines projects and activities undertaken by ALI.

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Darrius Woods ’17 named Equal Justice Works Fellow for Atlanta Legal Aid Society

May. 23, 2017—Darrius Woods has been named an Equal Justice Works Fellow by Equal Justice Works. His two-year fellowship, which will pay his salary and benefits to work full-time at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, is funded by Home Depot and the international law firm Eversheds Sutherland. Woods plans to develop a program aimed at helping people...

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Marian Mikhail and Carly Myers named Class of 2017 George Barrett Social Justice Fellows

May. 17, 2017—Mikhail will start a new program at The Bronx Defenders. Myers will advocate for low-income people with disabilities at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in Berkeley, California.

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Twenty-two 2017 graduates honored with awards at Commencement

May. 12, 2017—Laura Dolbow wins Founder’s Medal, signifying First Honors.

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Chris Slobogin study addresses privacy rights for data stored in “the cloud”

May. 11, 2017—Slobogin recommends clearer rules that specify when data stored in the cloud can be obtained and used by law enforcement.

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Ganesh Sitaraman’s new book, “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution,” sounds alarm

May. 8, 2017—In his thoughtful new book, Sitaraman argues that growing economic inequality threatens American democracy.

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Daniel J. Sharfstein’s new book explores intertwined history of race relations and property rights

May. 4, 2017—In "Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War," Sharfstein examines Reconstruction through the relationship between a Nez Perce leader and a Union Army general.

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VLS ABA Moot Court teams celebrate successes in National Appellate Advocacy Competition

Apr. 28, 2017—3Ls Neil Greenwell, Andrew Marino and Katherine Martin were quarterfinalists; Claire Armstrong, C.J. Donald and Sarah Rosales were octofinalists.

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Allensworth, Cheng, George and Wuerth honored with Hall-Hartman Awards

Apr. 26, 2017—Four Vanderbilt Law professors– Rebecca Allensworth, Edward Cheng, Tracey George and Ingrid Wuerth–received 2017 Hall-Hartman Awards for Outstanding Teaching at an awards presentation April 21.

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Daniel Gervais’s new book rethinks international copyright system

Apr. 20, 2017—Gervais suggests replacing the current copyright system with a simpler set of international rules in (Re)Structuring Copyright: A Comprehensive Path to International Copyright Reform, released in April 2017 by Elgar Publishing.

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Ganesh Sitaraman’s new book addressing impact of shrinking middle class on the Constitution

Apr. 5, 2017—In "The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic," Sitaraman argues that the U.S. Constitution wasn't designed for a country with significant economic inequality.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells law students to ‘use your voices’

Apr. 3, 2017—Warren visited the law school and spoke as the 2017 Cecil Sims Lecturer

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