Supreme Court

In a new video, university leaders discuss how Vanderbilt is responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision disallowing the use of race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities.  Read More

Affirmative action admissions policies admit diverse students, who are then recruited to elite professions and C-suite leadership, according to new research by law and economics professor Joni Hersch. Read More

Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will host an in-depth look at the effort to fill the current vacancy to the United States Supreme Court. The event is scheduled for Thursday, March 30, as part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series. Read More

One of the nation’s top scholars on constitutional law, Vanderbilt law school professor Suzanna Sherry, the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law, explains why she thinks the Supreme Court successfully followed the law. Read More

Suzanna Sherry's op-ed about the deeply divided Supreme Court decision to strike down what was considered the government’s strongest legal tool to stop voting discrimination appeared on the Washington Post website on June 25. Read More

Windsor v. United States makes history – in more ways than one – but it doesn’t make new law, says Vanderbilt constitutional law scholar Suzanna Sherry in an op-ed for the Washington Post. Read More

Law and education experts from Vanderbilt comment on the long-awaited Supreme Court affirmative action decision. Read More

Peabody's Stella Flores is available for comment on the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that could alter the way universities consider race in the admissions process. Read More

Judges that are able to tap into and manage their anger may be more effective on the bench, new research finds. Read More

A brief filed by James F. Blumstein, University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law and Policy at Vanderbilt Law School, provided a key legal argument relied on by Chief Justice John Roberts in his historic decision on the Affordable Care Act. Read More

If you think campaign spending during the last presidential election was a lot, you haven’t seen anything yet. Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer says this will be the first presidential race since the landmark “Citizens United” 2010 Supreme Court ruling, which ended most restrictions on donations by… Read More