Research News
Four Vanderbilt Law Professors Among 20 Most Cited Administrative and / or Environmental Law Faculty in the U.S.
The full list, published in Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, ranks Vanderbilt faculty members J.B. Ruhl, Lisa Schultz Bressman, Jim Rossi, and Kevin Stack in its top 20. Edward Rubin is also mentioned in Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.
Faculty Excellence
Vanderbilt Law School Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Dunn v. Blumstein
On the 50th anniversary of the court’s decision, Vanderbilt Law School organized a celebration to commemorate Blumstein’s victory.
Energy, Environment & Land Use Program
EELU Faculty Panel Tackles “Supreme” Changes in Environmental Law
Faculty Co-Directors along with panelists discussed three recent Supreme Court cases with major implications for environmental law and beyond.
Faculty Excellence
The Administrative Conference Appoints Kevin Stack as a Senior Fellow
Kevin M. Stack writes on administrative law, statutory interpretation, separation of powers, election law, and comparative public law.
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.
Media Inquiries
For media-related inquiries please contact Nate Luce, Assistant Dean, Marketing & Communications, to speak with a member of the faculty or administration.