Law

Professor of Law John Goldberg has been named associate dean for research, a new position at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School maintained its No. 17 ranking in the nation for the fifth consecutive year, while Peabody College saw seven of its programs ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. Peabody‘s Special Education program was ranked first in the nation for the third straight year. Read More

Laws and public policy will often miss their mark until they incorporate an understanding of why, biologically, humans behave as they do, scholars from Vanderbilt and Yale universities argue in the March issue of Columbia Law Review. Read More

A collection of essays addressing the "profound misunderstandings" between Islamic cultures and the Western world will be signed and discussed Wednesday, Feb. 16, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Vanderbilt. The book is edited by Steven Heyneman, professor of international education policy in the Vanderbilt University Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations. Read More

Bruce Rogow will relate his 40 years‘ experience practicing First Amendment law in the South to the role of the First Amendment in contemporary life during an upcoming Vanderbilt University address. Read More

Edward Rubin of the University of Pennsylvania Law School has been named John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law and dean of Vanderbilt University Law School effective July 1, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas Zeppos announced today. Read More

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School, the second at the school to honor alumnus Milton Underwood, has been awarded to one of the nation's leading bankruptcy scholars. The Milton Underwood Chair in Law will be awarded formally to Robert Rasmussen in a ceremony on Feb. 23, 2005. Rasmussen, former associate dean for academic affairs, also holds the FedEx Research Professorship and directs the law and economics program. Read More

The likelihood is slim that Paul Hamm will be ordered to surrender his gold medal, despite an appeal by South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young being heard by Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday, Sept. 27. Read More

Finding resolution to long-standing and seemingly unbridgeable conflicts is the subject of a Sept. 21 forum at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Chris Guthrie has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Kent D. Syverud, dean and Garner Anthony Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, joined legal educators representing more than 45 countries and all of the world's legal systems today to hammer out a "global curriculum" for law schools. Read More

SEC Commissioner Paul S. Atkins will speak at the Securities Law Update 2004 conference at Vanderbilt University Law School on Thursday, May 20. Read More

Kent D. Syverud, dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School since 1997, announced today he will step down as dean when his second term ends in the summer of 2005. Syverud, who is the Garner Anthony Professor of Law, will continue as a full-time faculty member. Read More

Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell has been named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus of the Vanderbilt University Law School, and Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., senior U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, will be given the Law School's Distinguished Service Award. Read More

A cultural historian and media scholar will address the Vanderbilt community on the subject of copyright and scholarship on Monday, April 5. Read More

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School advances the school's program in law and business and honors one of the school's former administrators and long-time supporters. The John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business was awarded to its first recipient, Professor Randall Thomas, in a ceremony on Feb. 18. Read More

Chris Guthrie, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, was awarded the Professional Articles Prize by the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution for his article "Panacea or Pandora's Box?: The Costs of Options in Negotiation" at the institute's 21st Annual Awards Program in New York in January. The article was published in the Iowa Law Review last year. Read More

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School recognizes the importance of the classroom talents of the school's faculty. The Tarkington Chair in Teaching Excellence was awarded to its first recipient, Professor Tom McCoy, in a ceremony last week. Read More

The new business law clinic at Vanderbilt University Law School is a classic example of a "win-win" situation: it provides free legal services to small business owners and non-profit agencies who couldn't otherwise afford an attorney while giving law students valuable experience with actual clients. Read More

Vivendi's recently announced decision to sell Universal Studios and its other media assets to NBC should improve the quality of television programming, according to Christopher Yoo, a media law expert at Vanderbilt University. Read More