Law

"Judicial Reputation: A Conference on Neglected Justices"opens at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 3, at the Vanderbilt Law School with a keynote address by G. Edward White, the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Read More

Vanderbilt University\'s Peabody College of education and human development is the second-ranked education school in the nation, according to the latest rankings of graduate and professional schools by U.S. News & World Report. Read More

Beverly I. Moran, a distinguished tax scholar who has served on the faculty of Vanderbilt Law School since 2001, has been named an American Council on Education Fellow for the 2008-09 academic year. Read More

An op-ed by Carol Swain, professor of law and of political science, on Planned Parenthood and its role in performing abortions. Read More

The Responsibility and Global Justice Lecture Series, sponsored by the Philosophy Department, presents James Bohman, the Danforth Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University. Read More

The Responsibility and Global Justice Lecture Series, sponsored by the Philosophy Department, presents James Bohman, the Danforth Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University. Read More

An op-ed by Vanderbilt law and political science scholar Carol Swan critiquing a recent op-ed criticizing a local immigration raid. Read More

A distinguished group of scholars, journalists and activists will grapple with some of the thorniest issues of immigration during a symposium organized by Carol Swain, a Vanderbilt University professor of political science and law. Read More

The Responsibility and Global Justice class presents David Reidy, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, speaking on "Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions." Read More

The Responsibility and Global Justice class presents David Reidy, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, speaking on "Human Rights: Agendas and Institutions." Read More

A distinguished group of scholars, journalists and activists will grapple with some of the thorniest issues of immigration during a March 20-21 symposium at the Vanderbilt Law School. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

With dangerous youth gangs becoming firmly entrenched in communities throughout the United States and Central America, a March 11 conference at Vanderbilt University will bring together leading experts to share solutions to the alarming problem. Read More

An op-ed by Vanderbilt sociologist Dan Cornfield criticizing recent actions involving immigrants in Middle Tennessee. Read More

Elyn Saks returns to her alma mater, Vanderbilt University, on Thursday, March 20, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music. Read More

Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt professor of political science and law, has been nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, the White House announced. The appointment is for a six-year term. Read More

Watch streaming video of a multi-disciplinary panel taking up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

A multi-disciplinary panel will take up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Watch streaming video of a panel discussion with the judges who presided over the Anfal genocide proceedings, including including the president of the Iraqi High Tribunal and the presiding judge of Trial Chamber II. Among those convicted in the case was the infamous 'Chemical Ali.' The discussion took place Jan. 31, 2007, at the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Virtual worlds and social networking sites are becoming increasingly more enticing to people who are all too willing to abandon their privacy for escape into alternate worlds on the Internet. Read More

The visit to Vanderbilt this week by the Iraqi judges who presided over the Anfal genocide proceedings is of particular interest to the Kurdish community here. Many survivors of Anfal live in the Nashville area. Read More