Research News
Rescheduling Marijuana Won’t Save the Marijuana Industry
Marijuana Law expert Robert Mikos argues in a new paper, “The False Promise of Rescheduling,” forthcoming in the Tulsa Law Review, rescheduling will not save the marijuana industry from many of the challenges it faces today.
Faculty Awards
Six Vanderbilt Law Professors Honored with Hall-Hartman Awards
Six Vanderbilt Law professors were honored with Hall-Hartman Awards for Outstanding Teaching from the Vanderbilt Bar Association.
Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator
VPA and History Department Examine How the New Deal Was Run
“How The New Deal Was Run,” was a conference about the implementation of the programs that transformed American life.
Faculty Awards
Faculty Honored for Teaching and Mentoring at Spring Assembly
Awards were presented to 10 faculty members who made a significant impact through scholarship, research, teaching or mentoring.
Faculty Podcasts
Excited Utterance is a podcast focusing on scholarship on evidence law and proof. The podcast aims to provide a weekly virtual workshop in the world of evidence throughout the academic year. More broadly, the podcast has four goals:
1) distribute evidence scholarship to a broader audience;
2) provide a biweekly forum on evidence scholarship;
3) demonstrate a new, more efficient medium for academic discourse; and
4) serve a democratizing function in the legal academy.
Hosted by J.B. Ruhl, the Climate at Vanderbilt podcast reports on faculty, students, research, and programs at Vanderbilt University focused on climate change. Faculty at Vanderbilt conducting research on climate change come from a broad array of disciplines, including engineering, public health and medicine, earth sciences, religious studies, law, biological sciences, history, business, and anthropology. Vanderbilt also offers an innovative undergraduate major in climate studies. Listen to this podcast to learn more about how Vanderbilt is working on the challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate − here’s how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources
In a forthcoming issue of the Minnesota Law Review, Vanderbilt Environmental Law scholars explore how private environmental governance can protect wetlands using private agreements, certifications and other practices such as monitoring and dispute resolution to foster sustainability.
Faculty in the News
Hall-Hartman Awards
Each year, several Vanderbilt Law professors are honored with Hall-Hartman Awards for outstanding teaching during the previous academic year. The awards recognize faculty whose teaching is deemed outstanding in each of the three first-year student sections and for large and small upper-level elective courses and are based on the results of a student poll conducted by the Vanderbilt Bar Association.
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