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How Patent Law Can Protect Public Health
Sean Seymore, Centennial Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, argues that federal courts have “abandoned their gatekeeping function” for protecting public health in patent cases. Read MoreMay. 20, 2024
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Why Have Venture Capitalists Become So Founder-Friendly?
Paper co-authored by Brian Broughman proposes a new model for analyzing VC behavior Read MoreMay. 14, 2024
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Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and History Department Examine How the New Deal Was Run
“How The New Deal Was Run,” a conference about the implementation of the New Deal programs that transformed American life from the 1930s on. Read MoreMay. 7, 2024
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Vanderbilt Law School Students Craft Guide on Public Grocery Stores
First Paper from Policy Lab offers solutions to food deserts Read MoreMay. 7, 2024
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Why Rescheduling Marijuana Won’t Save the Marijuana Industry
Vanderbilt Law Professor Robert Mikos outlines the limitations of Rescheduling Marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act Read MoreMay. 6, 2024
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Six Vanderbilt Law Professors Honored with Hall-Hartman Awards
Six Vanderbilt Law professors were honored with Hall-Hartman Awards for Outstanding Teaching from the Vanderbilt Bar Association. Read MoreApr. 30, 2024
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28 Faculty Honored at Endowed Chair Investiture
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver honored scholars from across Vanderbilt. Read MoreApr. 30, 2024
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Will the Movement to Legalize Psychedelics Succeed?
Robert Mikos applies lessons from marijuana reform to explore the possibilities Read MoreApr. 26, 2024
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Rebecca Haw Allensworth Appointed to David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law
The David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law was endowed in honor of David Allen BA’58, a founding partner of Reynolds Allen & Cook. Read MoreApr. 22, 2024
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Faculty Honored for Teaching, Mentoring at Spring Assembly
Inventions like drugs, medical devices, and wastewater treatment plants are subject to the same patent statues as those that fall outside of the public health sphere, but their significance raises specific policy questions without clear-cut answers. While strong patent protection helps pharmaceutical companies recoup R&D costs so they can continue… Read MoreApr. 19, 2024