Law

Last fall Vanderbilt students had the rare opportunity in an interdisciplinary class called "The War in Iraq" to take an in-depth look at the facts on the ground in Iraq between 2003 and the present. Humanities 161 was co-taught by political scientist Katherine Carroll and Mike Newton, professor of the practice of law. Read More

Last fall Vanderbilt students had the rare opportunity in an interdisciplinary class called "The War in Iraq" to take an in-depth look at the facts on the ground in Iraq between 2003 and the present. Humanities 161 was co-taught by political scientist Katherine Carroll and Mike Newton, professor of the practice of law. Read More

The Vanderbilt Black Law Students Association is hosting a panel discussion on "Profiling, Policy and Police Conduct in a Post 9/11 Society" on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 6 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Ken Feinberg, better known as President Obama‘s executive pay czar, will deliver the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference Feb. 26 at the Vanderbilt Law School. The lecture, scheduled for noon in Flynn Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Read More

Count on more political attack ads in 2010 after a Supreme Court ruling lifting the ban on corporation and labor donations, according to Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer. Read More

Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, will engage in an open dialogue at Vanderbilt University about his actions as commander of the surge in Iraq and the role of U.S. forces overseas. Read More

Christopher Slobogin, director of Vanderbilt‘s criminal justice program, has been appointed the Milton Underwood Chair in Law. His inaugural lecture Jan. 22 explores the question, "Is the Fourth Amendment Irrelevant in a Technological Age?" Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 19 at the Vanderbilt Law School. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 3:30 pm in Flynn Auditorium. Read More

A large national study of economic behavior led by a Vanderbilt researcher has found that effective recycling laws encourage reluctant recyclers to become committed recyclers. Read More

As the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit continues, two Vanderbilt researchers suggest that regardless of whether or not the meeting is successful in bringing public governance measures to bear, significant carbon reductions can be achieved by creating private incentives to reduce carbon emissions. Read More

A leading international law expert cautions that the troop surge in Afghanistan must be accompanied by a concurrent improvement in the nation's system of justice, now plagued by lawlessness and graft. Read More

A Vanderbilt professor who specializes in death penalty cases is available as a source for the coming trial of professed 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others implicated in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack. Read More

"Picking Cotton," a story of wrongful conviction and redemption, is the topic of a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 in the Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Governments across the country are grappling with thorny legal issues as they ponder the most significant reforms to marijuana laws in decades. A Vanderbilt law professor who previously has commented on marijuana law issues in news stories is available for interviews. Read More

A death penalty debate between two leading scholars on capital punishment is set for noon Nov. 9 in Vanderbilt Law School's Flynn Auditorium. The debate takes place the day before the scheduled Nov. 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington D.C. that left 10 dead. Read More

The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will hear argument in a case at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Vanderbilt's Flynn Auditorium. Read More

Stephen Hadley, who served as the principal White House foreign policy adviser under former President George W. Bush, will speak at Vanderbilt University Law School on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at noon. Read More

Vanderbilt University political scientist Bruce Oppenheimer will discuss the continued expansion of presidential power and its impact on Congress during the school's annual Constitution Day program on Sept. 23. Read More

Even though it's against federal law to grow, sell or possess marijuana, 13 states have recently legalized medical use of the drug. Now California is contemplating taking the next step – legalizing marijuana outright – in the hope that taxing marijuana sales could help ease the state's latest budget crisis. Vanderbilt University Law School professor Robert Mikos, an expert on federalism issues, examined the conflict between state and federal drug laws in a new paper. Read More

Vanderbilt University Professor of Law and Political Science Carol Swain and Assistant Professor of Law Brian Fitzpatrick have both been appointed to the Tennessee Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. This is Swain's second consecutive term on the committee. Read More