Research News
Law and Business
How Can VCs Engage More Successfully in Digital Asset Markets?
Crypto markets pose a deeper, more fundamental challenge to traditional venture capital that cannot simply be addressed with more extensive due diligence. A research paper co-authored by Yesha Yadav spotlights the challenges and opportunities of venture participation in these unique markets.
Law and Political Economy
Food Security Amendments to the WTO Green Box: A Critical Re-Examination
A new article by Sannoy Das deals with one among the many significant issues with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture.
Administrative Law
Lower Courts After Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Lisa Bressman predicts that whatever rule Loper Bright announces or ushers in, the decision ultimately may have less practical effect in the lower courts than expected.
Labor and Employment Law
The Impact of Banning Confidential Settlements on Discrimination Dispute Resolution
Do bans on confidentiality agreements deter harassment and employment discrimination in the workplace? A new paper co-authored by Joni Hersch investigates.
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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