Peyton Rameas is a fourth-year student in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School. Peyton currently serves as the Senior Managing Editor of Vanderbilt Law School’s Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. As a Ph.D. student, she has worked as a research assistant for Professor Paige Skiba (2024) and presently works under Professor W. Kip Viscusi. During the summer of 2025, she interned under the Honorable Magistrate Judge Jeffrey S. (“Chip”) Frensley.

Before attending Vanderbilt University, Peyton completed her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. As a graduate student, she worked as a graduate assistant for the Economics and Finance Department. Peyton’s research centers around understanding risk preferences toward highly uncertain events, specifically natural disasters.

Education:
M.S., Accountancy, University of North Carolina (Wilmington), 2023
B.S., Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina (Wilmington), 2022

Publications:

• Peyton Rameas, Addressing the Stale Line of Sports-Betting Behavior: Examining the Economic Shortfalls and Tax Solutions in Legalizing Sports Betting, 28 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 859 (2026). PDF

Work Experience:

• Research Assistant (June 2024–Aug. 2024) for Professor Paige Skiba
  I worked with Professor Skiba on her paper, “Regulation on the Margin: Evidence from Online Payday Lending” by researching payday loan regulations at both the state and federal levels.
• Judicial Intern (May 2025–July 2025) for Honorable Magistrate Judge Jeffrey S. (“Chip”) Frensley
  As a judicial intern in the Middle District of Tennessee, I wrote judicial Orders and Report and Recommendations for Magistrate Judge Frensley to review and approve. I was also exposed to a variety of hearings at the federal courthouse.

Pro Bono Work:

• 2025 Pro Bono Spring Break Student Leader
  I researched name-changing procedures and create informative pamphlets for OUTMemphis, an LGBTQ+ community center. I volunteered at the organization’s Name Change Clinic, assisting participants with Name Change Petitions while supervised by a licensed attorney.

Presentations:

• “A Flood of Information: How Property Disclosure Laws Influence Flood Insurance Uptake,” Frontiers in Law and Economics (FILE) Conference (April 11, 2026).
• Capstone Project: How Disease Outbreaks Influence Labor Market Models in America
  • We examined the relationship between state regulations after the COVID-19 pandemic and state unemployment rates for Tennessee and Massachusetts by exploiting a differential equations simulation.
• Honors Thesis: A Statistical Analysis of Employee Benefits and Incentives in America
  • I designed and distributed a survey that targeted working class Americans to determine which employee benefits are most desirable. I leveraged these results to argue that American businesses should invest in the most desirable benefits to better accumulate human capital and increase productivity.

Awards:

• Adrian D. Hurst Award for Scholastic Achievements in Mathematics – 2021
• Adrian D. Hurst Award for Scholastic Achievements in Mathematics – 2022
• Barbara Pridgen English Memorial Award for Scholastic Achievement in the Mathematical Sciences – 2022