Delaney Beck

Delaney Beck is a sixth-year student in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics whose research focuses on gender discrimination. She currently represents the program on Vanderbilt’s Graduate Student Council and was a Student Writing Editor for Vanderbilt’s Transnational Law Review from 2023–2024. Since 2021, she has been a research assistant for Professor Joni Hersch. In the summer of 2024, Delaney held a summer associate position at Scudder Law Firm in Lincoln, Nebraska. Most recently, she served as a 2025 Summer Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. As an undergraduate at Wagner College, she was an NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer player.

Education:
B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Wagner College, 2020

Publications:

• Delaney Beck et al., Differences by Race and Ethnicity in Title IX’s Effect on Women’s Health, 14 J. Benefit-Cost Analysis 437 (2024). http://dx.doi.org//10.1017/bca.2024.2
• Joni Hersch & Delaney Beck, Gender Pay Equity: An Analysis of the United States Women’s National Team Soccer Settlement, 2024 Utah L. Rev. 561 (2024)
  https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1381&context=ulr

Presentations:

• Delaney M. Beck, Ph.D. Student & J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt Law School, Pathway to the American Dream or False Promises? Multilevel Marketing, Transitions, and Income, presented at the Frontiers in Law and Economics (FILE), Spring 2023 Conference.
• Delaney M. Beck, Ph.D. Student & J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt Law School, Gender Pay Equity: An Analysis of the USWNT’s Soccer Settlement, presented at the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL), Fall 2022 Conference.