Respectfully Dissent
Respectfully Dissent is a debate series by Vanderbilt Law School that brings together experts in various fields of law to debate relevant issues in today’s legal climate.
Research News
Free Speech Rules for AI Algorithms
The online content we consume through search engines, social media, and news applications is largely determined by AI algorithms. In their law review article “Algorithmic Speech,” Vanderbilt Law Professor Francesca Procaccini and Wendy K. Tam argue that content-crafting AI algorithms fall within the First Amendment’s coverage and are entitled to free speech protections by context.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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Evidence and the Deepfake Problem
In his essay “Deepfakes, Photographs, and Trust in Evidence,” evidence expert Edward Cheng argues that the rise of deepfakes does not warrant new rules of authentication or other corrective measures and offers up a model for authentication.
Faculty Excellence
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Three Vanderbilt Law Faculty Ranked Among Top 100 Law Scholars of 2025 in New Study
The rankings, which measure scholarly impact, seek to determine who is writing the most impactful legal scholarship, regardless of career stage or institution.
Law & Government
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The Myth of Regulatory Whiplash
In a recent study, Professors Lisa Schultz Bressman and Kevin M. Stack determined that agencies rarely reversed their interpretive positions once they were upheld under Chevron, undermining the regulatory whiplash narrative espoused by the Court in Loper Bright.
Professors in Conversation
Free Speech, Social Media & AI with Professor Procaccini
Treasury Markets, Stablecoins & AI in Finance with Professor Yadav
Housing Policy, Zoning & Inequality with Professor Serkin
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.
From the Vanderbilt Project on Prosecution Policy, True Bill Talk is about getting to the truth of criminal prosecution in America right now: what it is, how people experience it, and how prosecutors can better serve their communities.
The podcast features in-depth conversations with prosecutors, policy experts, and advocates to provide diverse perspectives on the challenges and responsibilities of prosecution.
Meet the Vanderbilt Law Faculty
Faculty Profile: Lisa Schultz Bressman
Faculty Profile: Brian Fitzpatrick
Faculty Profile: Nicole Langston
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
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