Law
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Crime and punishment: the neurobiological roots of modern justice
Neuroscientists from Vanderbilt and Harvard have proposed the first neurobiological model for third-party punishment, outlining potential cognitive and brain processes that evolutionary pressures could have re-purposed to make this behavior possible. Read MoreApr 18, 2012
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No way home: Vijay Padmanabhan helps tread the line between detainees’ safety and human rights
Former State Department adviser Vijay Padmanabhan says there is no quick and easy answer when contemplating what to do about detainees. Read MoreMar 29, 2012
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Williams, others elected to Frist Board of Trustees
Gail Carr Williams (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt Associate Director of Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations Gail Carr Williams and others with ties to the university have been elected to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Board of Trustees. In all, five accomplished community leaders were elected, and… Read MoreMar 23, 2012
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Law school alumna wins Athena Young Professional Leadership Award
Andrea Perry (image courtesy of Bone McAllester Norton) Andrea Perry, a 2000 Vanderbilt Law School graduate and a member at Bone McAllester Norton in Nashville, was honored with the 2012 Athena Young Professional Leadership Award. Perry’s candidacy for the award was sponsored by the Marion Griffin Chapter… Read MoreMar 19, 2012
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Vanderbilt team places first at moot court competition
A Vanderbilt Law School team — including members Joshua Downer, Taylor Downer, Mark Hammervold, Tracy Hancock and Katherine Horton — won first place in the regional competition of the 2012 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Denver, Colo. Read MoreMar 7, 2012
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Law school’s Klick and Rabon win ABA tax challenge
Emily Klick and Joshua Rabon (Vanderbilt University) Emily Klick and Joshua Rabon, both members of the Class of 2012, won the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation Law’s 2012 Law Student Tax Challenge. The semifinal and final rounds of the competition were held at the section’s midyear meeting in… Read MoreMar 7, 2012
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Kudos
Anilkumar (Vanderbilt) Amrutur Anilkumar, professor of the practice of mechanical engineering, and Sankaran Mahadevan, the John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, have been elected associate fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Peter Cummings, the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed to… Read MoreMar 1, 2012
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Sharfstein awarded AALS Scholarly Paper Prize
Daniel Sharfstein (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Daniel Sharfstein enjoys exploring the ways in which history and historical analysis can contribute to theoretical and doctrinal debates in property law. Sharfstein, an associate professor who teaches courses in property law and American legal history, wrote his most recent article, “Atrocity, Entitlement and… Read MoreFeb 10, 2012
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Robert Belton, trailblazing scholar of employment law, dies
Robert Belton, who retired from a 34-year career as a professor at Vanderbilt Law School in 2009, died Feb. 9 after suffering a stroke. He was 76 years old. Read MoreFeb 10, 2012
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Sharfstein to read from ‘The Invisible Line’ Feb. 7
Daniel Sharfstein (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, will read from and discuss his book The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White, now out in paperback. The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday,… Read MoreJan 31, 2012
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Law school alumna named pro bono volunteer of the year
Wendee Hilderbrand Nashville lawyer Wendee Hilderbrand, a 2004 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, was honored with the state’s top award for pro bono work at the Tennessee Bar Association’s recent public service luncheon. Held each year as part of the association’s leadership conference,… Read MoreJan 23, 2012
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Affordable housing panel explores idea of housing trust fund
Moderator Claire Smrekar (far left) introduces panelists (l-r) Janet Rosenberg, Mick Nelson and Mary Brooks at an event discussing Nashville's affordable housing needs Jan. 17 at Vanderbilt Law School. (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) More than 100 people attended a Jan. 17 panel discussion at Vanderbilt Law School designed to… Read MoreJan 18, 2012
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Entertainment and technology law symposium Jan. 27
Vanderbilt Law School (Vanderbilt University) The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law will host its annual symposium from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, in the law school’s Flynn Auditorium. The symposium, titled “Copyright and Creativity: Perspectives on Fixation, Authorship and Expression,” will focus… Read MoreJan 13, 2012
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No Way Home
Vijay Padmanabhan helps tread the line between detainees’ safety and human rights Vijay Padmanabhan (Sandy Campbell/Vanderbilt) Candidate Barack Obama pledged in 2008 to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. But as President Obama runs for re-election four years later, it remains open. Vanderbilt law professor and former State Department… Read MoreJan 1, 2012
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Kudos
Greg Barz (Vanderbilt) Greg Barz, associate professor of ethnomusicology, has co-edited a volume of essays, The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts, published by Oxford University Press. Anne Davis, instructor in law, has been named managing attorney of the Southern Environmental Law… Read MoreNov 1, 2011
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See Vanderbilt’s national champion debaters in action Oct. 14
(Photo courtesy of Vanderbilt Debate Team) Members of the community will have a chance to see two of Vanderbilt’s top debaters in action Friday afternoon in Buttrick Hall. Vanderbilt sophomores Saad Rehman and Karl Gressly, last year’s American Debate Association national champions in novice debate, will square… Read MoreOct 12, 2011
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J.B. Ruhl
Law professor sees progress where environmental and economic good meets J.B. Ruhl (courtesy of Vanderbilt University Law School) Environmental law and property law expert J.B. Ruhl said he considers himself part of the “radical middle” when it comes to helping craft solutions to controversial environmental issues. “Sometimes you need… Read MoreOct 3, 2011
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New Faculty 2011-12
A complete list of new faculty for the 2011-12 academic year Blair School of Music Dikeman Philip Dikeman, associate professor of flute B.M., Oberlin… Read MoreOct 3, 2011
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Examining the ethics of sharing genetic risk information
Should scientists inform participants in genomic studies about their risk for diseases or conditions discovered during the studies, and if so, when and how? A Vanderbilt professor is part of a team working to answer these questions. Read MoreSep 28, 2011
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Landmark law and neuroscience network expands at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University has been awarded a $4.85 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to manage the newly established MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. Read MoreAug 24, 2011