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Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty 2-45

Clinical Faculty 46-55

Administration Faculty 56-57

Legal Writing Faculty 58-61

Jointly Appointed Faculty 62-65

Affiliated and Visiting Faculty 66-71

I would stack our professors up against any law faculty in the country. Vanderbilt faculty are brilliant producers of scholarship, but they also do an amazing job of complementing their research with excellence in the classroom. They’re effective communicators who are engaged with the material.

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ChriS GUThrieDean | John Wade-Kent syverud professor of law

J.D., B.A. Stanford University; Ed.M. Harvard University

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Behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation, mediation, judicial decision making, legal education and scholarship

Dean Chris Guthrie joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2002 and became the law school’s Dean in 2009. He has previously served as an associate dean at both Vanderbilt and the University of Missouri School of Law. A leading expert on behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation and judicial decision making, he ranks among the most frequently cited scholars in his fields. He is one of the authors of the influential textbook Dispute Resolution and Lawyers and has published more than 40 scholarly articles and essays in prestigious law journals. Dean Guthrie has also taught as a visiting professor at the Northwestern University and Washington University law schools. He has been recognized for his research and teaching with two CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution Professional Article Prizes, the 2003–04 Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award at Northwestern University Law School, and multiple teaching and research prizes at the University of Missouri, among other awards. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.

n Dispute resolution and Lawyers, West Publishing (5th edition, 2014) (with Leonard r. riskin, James e. Westbrook, richard C. reuben, Jennifer robbennolt and Nancy Welch)

n “Contrition in the Courtroom: Do Apologies Affect Adjudication?” 98 Cornell Law review 1189 (2013) (with Jeffrey J. rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich)

n “The ‘hidden Judiciary’: An empirical examination of executive Branch Justice,” 58 Duke Law Journal 1477 (2009) (with Jeffrey J. rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich) (symposium)

n “Carhart, Constitutional rights and the Psychology of regret,” 81 Southern California Law review 877 (2008)

n “Blinking on the Bench: how Judges Decide Cases,” 93 Cornell Law review 1 (2007) (with Jeffrey J. rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich)

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Antitrust law, law and economics, scientific expertise, evidence

reBeCCA hAW ALLeNSWorThAssistant professor of law

J.D. Harvard Law School, M.Phil. University of Cambridge, B.A. Yale University

n “Law and the Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts?” 103 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2015)

n “Cartels by Another Name: Should Licensed occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny?” 162 University of Pennsylvania Law review (forthcoming 2014) (with Aaron edlin)

n “Casting a FrAND Shadow: The importance of Legally Defining ‘Fair and reasonable’ and how Microsoft v. Motorola Missed the Mark,” 22 Texas intellectual Property Law Journal (forthcoming 2014)

n “Delay and its Benefits for Judicial rulemaking under Scientific Uncertainty,” 162 Boston College Law review 331 (2014)

n “Adversarial economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Academic Consensus in the Battle of the experts,” 106 Northwestern University Law review 1261 (2012)

Rebecca Haw Allensworth studies the theoretical basis of antitrust’s rule of reason and its implications for industry and professional self-regulation. Her work explores the procompetitive justifications for self-regulation, from appeal to expertise to arguments about market failure, and argues that courts can and should balance these justifications against the anticompetitive potential that inheres whenever competitors set their own rules of play. Professor Allensworth was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School from 2009 to 2011. Before accepting her Climenko Fellowship, she served as a law clerk for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2008–09. Professor Allensworth earned her undergraduate degree in English at Yale and an M.Phil. in American literature at the University of Cambridge. While earning her J.D. at Harvard Law School, she was a research assistant to Professors Bruce Hay (2007) and Elizabeth Warren (2006) and served as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Professor Allensworth teaches Contracts, Antitrust Law, and a seminar, Expertise in Law.

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Team production and the legal structure of business organizations, corporate governance, management law and finance, the historical treatment of corporations by the Supreme Court, the role of corporate boards of directors

MArGAreT MeNDeNhALL BLAir Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free enterprise

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale University; B.A. University of Oklahoma

n “The Four Functions of Corporate Personhood,” in handbook of economic organization, edward elgar (Anna Grandori, editor) (2012)

n “Financial innovation, Leverage, Bubbles and the Distribution of income,” 30 review of Banking and Financial Law (2011). republished in 54 Corporate Practice Commentator 1 (2012)

n “Locking in Capital: What Corporate Law Achieved for Business organizers in the Nineteenth Century,” 51 UCLA Law review 387 (2003)

n “A Team Production Theory of Corporation Law,” 85 Virginia Law review 247 (1999) (with Lynn Stout). reprinted as the lead article in 24 Journal of Corporation Law 751 (1999)

n ownership and Control: rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-first Century, Brookings (1995). This book won an academic book publishers’ award and was translated into Chinese and republished by the Chinese Social Science Publishing house in Beijing.

Margaret Blair is an economist who focuses on corporate law and finance. Her current research addresses five areas: team production and the role of corporate boards of directors, the legal concept of “personhood,” the role of private-sector governance arrangements in contract enforcement, the historical treatment of corporations by the Supreme Court, and the problem of excessive leverage in financial markets. Blair joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2004 as part of the team supporting the Law and Business Program and was appointed to the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise in 2010. She had previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center, where she became a visiting professor in 1996 and served as a Sloan Visiting Professor and as research director for the Sloan-GULC Project on Business Institutions from 2000 through June 2004. She has also been a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where she wrote about corporate governance and the role of human capital in corporations. She currently serves on the board of WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production). She teaches Corporations, Introduction to Corporate Finance, and the Role of Corporations seminar.

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Health law and public policy, constitutional law

JAMeS F. BLUMSTeiNUniversity professor of Constitutional law and Health law and policy

Director, Vanderbilt Health policy Center

M.A. (Economics), L.L.B., B.A. Yale University

n “enforcing Limits on the Affordable Care Act’s Mandated Medicaid expansion: The Coercion Principle and the Clear Notice rule,” in 2011–12 Cato Supreme Court review 67 (2012)

n “Medical Malpractice Standard-Setting: Developing Malpractice ‘Safe harbors’ as a New role for Qios?” 59 Vanderbilt Law review 1017 (2006)

n “regulatory review by the executive office of the President: An overview and Policy Analysis of the Legal and institutional issues,” 51 Duke Law Journal 851 (2001)

n “health Care reform through Medicaid Managed Care: Tennessee (TennCare) as a Case Study and a Paradigm,” 53 Vanderbilt Law review 125 (2000) (with F. Sloan)

n “Defining and Proving race Discrimination: Perspectives on the Purpose vs. results Approach from the Voting rights Act,” 69 Virginia Law review 633 (1983)

Jim Blumstein ranks among the nation’s most prominent scholars of health law, law and medicine, and voting rights. One of 13 University Professors at Vanderbilt, he was the first awarded that title in the law school and the first to receive a second tenured appointment in Vanderbilt’s School of Medicine. Professor Blumstein has served as the principal investigator on numerous grants concerning managed care, hospital management and medical malpractice. His peers recognized his leadership in health law and policy by electing Professor Blumstein to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, and he has received the Earl Sutherland Prize, Vanderbilt’s preeminent university-wide recognition for lifetime scholarly contributions. In 2007, he received the prestigious McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Award for Excellence in Law and Medicine from Indiana University and delivered the award lecture on hospital-physician joint-venture relationships. Professor Blumstein has been the Olin Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an adjunct professor at Dartmouth Medical School, and a visiting professor at Duke Law School and Duke’s Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs. He has served as former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen’s counsel on TennCare (Tennessee’s Medicaid program) reform and has participated actively in a number of Supreme Court cases, arguing three. A dedicated teacher, Professor Blumstein has received the law school’s student-sponsored Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award. He joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 1970. He teaches Constitutional Law I and II, Health Policy, and Health Law and Policy.

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Administrative law, constitutional theory, statutory interpretation

LiSA SChULTz BreSSMANAssociate Dean for Academic Affairs

David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of law

J.D. University of Chicago, B.A. Wellesley College

n “Statutory interpretation from the inside—An empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation, and the Canons: Part i,” 65 Stanford Law review 901 (2012); “Part ii,” 66 Stanford Law review 725 (2014) (with Abbe Gluck)

n “reclaiming the Legal Fiction of Congressional Delegation,” 97 Virginia Law review 2009 (2011)

n “The Future of Agency independence,” 63 Vanderbilt Law review 599 (2010) (with robert Thompson)

n “Chevron’s Mistake,” 58 Duke Law Journal 549 (2009)

n “Procedures as Politics in Administrative Law,” 107 Columbia Law review 1749 (2007)

Lisa Bressman is an innovative scholar in administrative law and statutory interpretation. Her most recent work, with Abbe Gluck of Yale Law School, is an article in two parts discussing the results of the largest empirical study to date of congressional drafting and the implications for statutory interpretation and administrative law. Her prior work attempts to better account for the legal fiction of congressional delegation in statutory interpretation and to reimagine congressional delegation as a genuine feature of judicial deference doctrine. Other work, with former colleague Robert Thompson, challenges the binary distinction between executive-branch and independent agencies, focusing on financial agencies. In addition, Dean Bressman has used insights from positive political theory to elaborate the relationship between administrative procedures and congressional delegation. In several seminal pieces, she has explored the relationship between accountability and arbitrariness in agency action. She has also conducted an empirical study done with colleague Michael Vandenbergh on the agency experience with presidential control. With Vanderbilt colleagues Edward Rubin and Kevin Stack, she co-authored The Regulatory State, a course book designed to teach statutes and regulations to students, particularly in the first year of law school. Dean Bressman was named associate dean for academic affairs in 2010 and was co-director of Vanderbilt’s Regulatory Program from 2006-10. She joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 1998 after working in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and serving as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and for Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit when he was Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. She was a Roscoe Pound Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in fall 2008. Dean Bressman teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law I, and Regulatory State.

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Statistical approaches to evidence

eDWArD K. CheNGtarkington Chair of teaching excellence | professor of law

J.D. Harvard Law School, M.A. Columbia University (Statistics), M. Sc. London School of Economics and Political Science, B.S.E. Princeton University

n Modern Scientific evidence: The Law and Science of expert Testimony, Thomson West (5 volumes, 2013–14 edition) (with David Faigman, Jeremy Blumenthal, Jennifer Mnookin, erin Murphy and Joseph Sanders)

n “reconceptualizing the Burden of Proof,” 122 Yale Law Journal 1254 (2013)

n “When 10 Trials Are Better than 1000: An evidentiary Perspective on Trial Sampling,” 160 University of Pennsylvania Law review 955 (2012)

n “A Practical Solution to the reference Class Problem,” 109 Columbia Law review 2081 (2009)

n “The Myth of the Generalist Judge,” 61 Stanford Law review 519 (2008)

Ed Cheng’s research focuses on scientific and expert evidence, and the interaction between law and statistics. Professor Cheng is a co-author of Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, a five-volume treatise that is updated annually. His articles, in which he explores evidence law from an empirical and statistical perspective, have been published in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review and Stanford Law Review, among other prestigious law journals. He holds a B.S.E. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he also earned a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs; an M.Sc. in information systems (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Fulbright Scholar; and a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School, where he was the articles, book reviews, and commentaries chair of the Harvard Law Review. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in statistics at Columbia University. Professor Cheng teaches Evidence, Torts and Statistical Concepts for Lawyers, and is a winner of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award for excellence in teaching. He is affiliated with Vanderbilt’s Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program.

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Ethical, legal, and social issues in genomics research and in translating genomics into the clinic

eLLeN WriGhT CLAYToNCraig-Weaver professor of pediatrics | professor of law

M.D. Harvard University, J.D. Yale Law School, M.S. Stanford University, B.S. Duke University

n “recommendations for returning Genomic incidental Findings? We Need to Talk!” in Genetics in Medicine (epub ahead of print, 2013) (with W. Burke, A. h. Matheny Antommaria, r. Bennett, J. Botkin, G. e. henderson, i. A. holm, G. P. Jarvik, M. J. Khoury, B. M. Knoppers, N. A. Press, L. F. ross, M. A. rothstein, h. Saal, W. r. Uhlman, B. Wilfond, S. M. Wolf and r. zimmern)

n “Managing incidental Genomic Findings: Legal obligations of Clinicians,” in Genetics in Medicine (epub ahead of print, 2013) (with S. haga, P. Kuszler, e. Bane, K. Shutske and W. Burke)

n “Seeking Genomic Knowledge: The Case for Clinical restraint,” hastings Law Journal (2013) (with W. Burke and S. B. Trinidad)

n “Confronting real Time ethical, Legal and Social issues in the eMerGe Consortium,” in Genetics in Medicine (2010) (with M. Smith, S. Fullerton, W. Burke, C. McCarty, B. Koenig, A. McGuire, L. Beskow, L. Dressler, A. Lemke, e. ramos and L. rodrigue)

n “The Web of relations: Thinking about Physicians and Patients,” 6 Yale Journal of health Policy, Law and ethics 2 (2006)

Ellen Wright Clayton is an internationally respected leader in the field of law and genetics who holds appointments in both the law and medical schools at Vanderbilt, where she also co-founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. She has published two books and more than 150 scholarly articles and chapters in medical journals, interdisciplinary journals and law journals on the intersection of law, medicine and public health. In addition, she has collaborated with faculty and students throughout Vanderbilt and in many institutions around the country and the world on interdisciplinary research projects and helped to develop policy statements for numerous national and international organizations. An active participant in policy debates, she has advised the National Institutes of Health as well as other federal and international bodies on an array of topics ranging from children’s health to the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects. Professor Clayton has worked on a number of projects for the Institute of Medicine, to which she was elected in 2005. She currently serves on its National Advisory Council, its report review committee, and is chair of its committee to define myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. She also coordinated the Consent and Community Consultation working group of a five-institution consortium exploring the use of electronic medical records for genome-wide association studies. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

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Social choice, measuring representation, measuring voting power, law and economics, corporations

PAUL h. eDeLMANprofessor of Mathematics | professor of law

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.A. Swarthmore College

n “The institutional Dimension of election Design,” 153 Public Choice 287 (2012)

n “Selectica resets the Trigger on the Poison Pill: Where Should the Delaware Courts Go Next?” 87 indiana Law Journal 1087 (2012) (with randall Thomas)

n “Consensus, Disorder and ideology on the Supreme Court,” 9 Journal of empirical Legal Studies 129 (2012) (with David Klein and Stefanie Lindquist)

n “The inverse Banzhaf Problem,” 34 Social Choice and Welfare 371 (2010) (with Noga Alon)

n “Corporate Voting,” 62 Vanderbilt Law review 129 (2009) (with robert Thompson)

Paul Edelman holds a joint appointment in Vanderbilt University’s department of mathematics and the law school. A distinguished mathematician whose scholarship in mathematics has focused on combinatorics, Professor Edelman’s work pertaining to the law includes articles on judicial decision making, congressional apportionment, public choice and corporations. Before joining Vanderbilt’s faculty, Professor Edelman taught at the University of Minnesota, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Class actions, civil procedure, federal courts, judicial selection, the U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional law

BriAN T. FiTzPATriCK2014–15 Fedex Research professor

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J.D. Harvard Law School, B.S. University of Notre Dame

n “Civil Procedure in the roberts Court,” in Business and the roberts Court, oxford University Press (2014) (Jonathan Adler, editor)

n “The Constitutionality of Federal Jurisdiction—Stripping Legislation and the history of State Judicial Selection and Tenure,” 98 Virginia Law review 839 (2012)

n “Twombly and iqbal reconsidered,” 87 Notre Dame Law review 1621 (2012)

n “An empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards,” 7 Journal of empirical Legal Studies 811 (2010)

n “Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little?” 158 University of Pennsylvania Law review 2043 (2010)

Brian Fitzpatrick’s research at Vanderbilt focuses on class action litigation, judicial selection and constitutional law. Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2007, after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and then served as a law clerk for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as special counsel for Supreme Court nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Professor Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, for his Civil Procedure course. He also teaches Complex Litigation, Federal Courts, and two seminars, Advanced Litigation and Litigation Finance.

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Federal courts, multidistrict litigation, judicial behavior, judicial selection, empirical legal scholarship, legal education, legal labor market, contract law

TrACeY e. GeorGeCharles B. Cox III and lucy D. Cox Family Chair in law and liberty

professor of political science

Director, Branstetter litigation and Dispute Resolution program

J.D. Stanford Law School; M.A. (Political Science) Washington University; B.A., B.S. Southern Methodist University


n K: A Common Law Approach to Contracts, Aspen Publishers (2012) (with russell Korobkin)

n What every Law Student really Needs to Know: An introduction to the Study of Law, Aspen Publishers (2009) (with Suzanna Sherry)

n “The Labor Market for New Law Professors,” 11 Journal of empirical Legal Studies 1 (2014) (with Albert h. Yoon)

n “Venue Shopping: The Judges of the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation,” 97 Judicature 196 (2014)

n “Who Will Manage Complex Litigation? The Decision to Transfer and Consolidate Multidistrict Litigation,” 10 Journal of empirical Legal Studies 424 (2013) (with Margaret S. Williams)

Tracey George brings a social science perspective to a range of topics including federal courts, legal education, and contract law. She has published numerous studies of Article III courts and judges in which she examines how institutional design influences actions and outcomes. She is a recognized expert on the study of legal education and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Legal Education and on the LSAC Grants Subcommittee. She and UCLA Law Professor Russell Korobkin have published an innovative casebook on contract law, a subject for which she has earned multiple teaching prizes. In addition to teaching Contracts in the first year, Professor George teaches an introduction to law school course, The Life of the Law, which she created with colleague Suzanna Sherry, and together they authored a textbook and teaching materials that are now used at numerous law schools in addition to Vanderbilt. Before joining the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2004, Professor George was a professor of law at Northwestern University Law School, where she was also faculty associate at the Institute for Policy Research. She was named director of the Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program in 2011, to the Tarkington Chair in Teaching Excellence in 2012, and to the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty in 2013. Professor George also teaches Civil Procedure and Evidence.

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International intellectual property law

DANieL J. GerVAiSprofessor of law | Faculty Director, ll.M. program Director, Intellectual property program

Doctorate, University of Nantes (France); Diploma of Advanced International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; LL.M. University of Montreal; LL.B. McGill University/University of Montreal; D.E.C. Jean-de-Brébeuf College, Montreal


n The TriPS Agreement: Drafting history and Analysis, Sweet & Maxwell (4th edition, 2012)

n Collective Management of Copyright and related rights, Kluwer Law international (2nd edition, 2010)

n “Traditional innovation and the ongoing Debate on the Protection of Geographical indication,” in intellectual Property and indigenous innovation, Australia National University Press (2012) (Peter Drahos and Susy Frankel, editors)

n “The Derivative right, or Why Copyright Protects Foxes Better than hedgehogs,” 15 Vanderbilt Journal of entertainment and Technology Law 785 (2013)

n “of Clusters and Assumptions: innovation as Part of a Full TriPS implementation,” 77 Fordham Law review 2353 (2009)

Daniel Gervais focuses on international intellectual property law, having spent 10 years researching and addressing policy issues on behalf of the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations, and Copyright Clearance Center. He is the author of The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, a leading guide to the treaty that governs international intellectual property rights. Before joining Vanderbilt Law School in 2008, Professor Gervais was acting dean of the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, where he also served as vice-dean for research and received funding for his research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Before entering the academy, he practiced law as a partner with the technology law firm BCF. He was also a consultant with the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions. Professor Gervais is a panelist at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre. He has been a visiting professor at CEIPI Strasbourg, Haifa, Grenoble, Liège, Montpellier, Nantes and Sciences Po Paris; a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School; and a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He was the 2004 Trilateral Distinguished Scholar at Michigan State University. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of World Intellectual Property and founder and editor of tripsagreement.net. In 2012, he became the first North American law professor elected to the Academy of Europe.

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Comparative law, Japanese law

JohN oWeN hALeYprofessor of law

LL.M. University of Washington, LL.B. Yale Law School, A.B. Princeton University

n Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and the european Union, LexisNexis (2012)

n “The role of Courts in ‘Making’ Law in Japan: The Communitarian Conservatism of Japanese Judges,” 22 Pacific rim Law & Policy Journal 491 (2013)

n “Constitutional Adjudication in Japan: Context, Structures and Values,” 88 Washington University Law review 1467 (2011)

n “rivers and rice: What Lawyers and Legal historians Should Know about Medieval Japan,” 36 Journal of Japanese Studies 313 (2010)

n “Why Study Japanese Law?” 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 1 (2010)

John Owen Haley is an internationally renowned scholar of comparative law with a special emphasis on Japan. His works have ranged from historical studies of law in Japan, Hispanic America and medieval Europe to contemporary issues of constitutional adjudication and contract law. His award-winning 1991 book, Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox, and his article, “The Myth of the Reluctant Litigant,” are considered leading works in the field. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Haley taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he served as director of the Asian Law Program and, briefly, of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He was also the founding Garvey, Shubert & Barer Professor of Law. From 2000 to 2010, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was the first Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and directed the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies from 2002 to 2007. He retired in 2010 as the William W. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus. He has also taught in Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Australia and, most recently, China and Colombia. He is the author or editor of nine books and monographs, including casebooks on courses in comparative law and transnational litigation. Professor Haley’s 2001 book, Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Fifty Years, 1947–1998, was the first comparative study of German and Japanese antitrust law in English. For his contributions to Japanese legal studies, he received the Order of the Rising Sun, which was conferred upon him by the Emperor of Japan in 2012. He is currently working on a study of criminal justice, tentatively titled Beyond Retribution: An Integrated Approach to Restorative Justice.

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JoNi herSChprofessor of law and economics | Co-director, ph.D. program in law and economics

Ph.D. (Economics) Northwestern University

B.A. (Mathematics) University of South Florida

Joni Hersch is an economist who works in the areas of employment discrimination and empirical law and economics. Her recent research demonstrates that women who are graduates of elite institutions have lower labor market activity than their counterparts who are graduates of non-elite institutions and examines the consequences of this labor market disparity for societal equity. Other research shows that graduates of non-elite institutions rarely earn post-baccalaureate degrees from elite universities, and even when they do, they do not catch up monetarily with graduates of elite undergraduate institutions. Her research on these topics, as well as her research on skin-color discrimination, have received international media attention. Other recent research examines sexual harassment, job risks faced by immigrant workers, costs of smoking, punitive damages awards, and judge and jury behavior. Professor Hersch joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2006 with secondary appointments in the department of economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management. She has published numerous articles in leading economics journals on group differences in labor market outcomes, the economics of home production, models of litigation, job risks and product safety regulation. She is the author of Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006) and co-editor of Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (University of Chicago, 2004). Professor Hersch is associate editor of the Review of Economics of the Household and serves on the editorial board of Social Science Quarterly. She completed a two-year term as a vice president of the Southern Economic Association in November 2012. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Hersch was an adjunct law professor at Harvard Law School. She was a professor of economics at the University of Wyoming from 1989 to 1999 and has been a visiting professor of economics at Northwestern, Caltech, Duke and Harvard. She was honored with the 2013 Mentoring Award by the Vanderbilt University Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center.

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n “opting out among Women with elite education,” 11 review of economics of the household 469 (2013)

n “Compensating Differentials for Sexual harassment,” 101 American economic review Papers and Proceedings 630 (2011)

n “immigrant Status and the Value of Statistical Life,” 45 Journal of human resources 749 (2010) (with W. Kip Viscusi)

n “home Production and Wages: evidence from the American Time Use Survey,” 7 review of economics of the household 159 (2009)

n “Profiling the New immigrant Worker: The effects of Skin Color and height,” 26 Journal of Labor economics 345 (2008)

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Law and behavioral biology, law and neuroscience, evolutionary analysis in law

oWeN D. JoNeSJoe B. Wyatt Distinguished University professor

new York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in law | professor of Biological sciences

Director, MacArthur Foundation Research network on law and neuroscience

J.D. Yale Law School, B.A. Amherst College

n Law and Neuroscience, Aspen Publishers (2014) (with Jeffrey Schall and Francis Shen)

n “Corticolimbic Gating of emotion-Driven Punishment,” 17 Nature Neuroscience 1270 (2014) (with Michael Treadway, Joshua Buckholtz, Justin Martin, Katherine Jan, Christopher Asplund, Matthew Ginther and rené Marois)

n “Sorting Guilty Minds,” 86 New York University Law review 1306 (2011) (with Francis Shen, Morris hoffman, Joshua Greene and rené Marois)

n “intuitions of Punishment,” 77 Chicago Law review 1633 (2010) (with robert Kurzban)

n “Law and Behavioral Biology,” 105 Columbia Law review 405 (2005) (with Timothy h. Goldsmith)

Owen Jones’ work bridges law, biology and behavior. His scholarship deepens understandings of behaviors that law aims to regulate by integrating social science and life science perspectives. Professor Jones’ work, both empirical and theoretical, is published in scientific as well as legal venues. Holding joint academic appointments, he uses brain-imaging (fMRI), behavioral biology and behavioral economics to learn more about how the brain’s varied operations affect behaviors relevant to law. Most recently, he and colleagues at Vanderbilt, Emory and Harvard co-discovered the interactions of rational and emotional brain regions during punishment decisions. Professor Jones recently secured three grants from the MacArthur Foundation, totaling over six million dollars, to design, create and direct a new national Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. Before joining the legal academy, he served as a law clerk for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and practiced law with the D.C. law firm Covington & Burling. He came to Vanderbilt in 2004 from Arizona State University, where he was Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, professor of law, professor of biology, and Faculty Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. Professor Jones received the 2014 Joe. B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award, which annually honors a member of the Vanderbilt University faculty for accomplishments that bridge multiple academic disciplines and yield significant new knowledge from research. He teaches Law and Neuroscience, the Legal Scholarship seminar, and Contracts.

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J.D. University of Michigan, B.A. Oberlin College

Nancy King is an expert in criminal procedure. Her work focuses on the post-investigative features of the criminal process, including plea bargaining, trials, juries, sentencing, appeals, double jeopardy and post-conviction review. Over the course of her academic career, she has authored or co-authored two leading multi-volume treatises on criminal procedure, the leading criminal procedure casebook, dozens of articles and book chapters, and several books, including Habeas for the Twenty-First Century: Uses, Abuses and the Future of the Great Writ (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She is an assistant reporter for and a former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor King served as Vanderbilt’s associate dean for research and faculty development from 1999 to 2001, and was the FedEx Research Professor in 2001–02. In 2005, she received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at Vanderbilt for her research on jury sentencing. With researchers from the National Center for State Courts, she led a study of habeas litigation in U.S. District Courts funded by an award from the National Institute of Justice. In 2010, Professor King received the university’s annual Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award, given to a faculty member whose research has made distinctive contributions to the understanding of contemporary society.

n habeas for the Twenty-First Century: Uses, Abuses and the Future of the Great Writ, University of Chicago Press (2011) (with Joseph hoffmann)

n Criminal Procedure, West (3rd edition 2007 and annual supplements) (7-volume treatise covering state and federal criminal procedure) (with Wayne LaFave, Jerold israel and orin Kerr) (Westlaw database CriMProC)

n “enforcing effective Assistance After Martinez,” 122 Yale Law Journal 2428 (2013)

n “Non-Capital habeas Cases After Appellate review: An empirical Analysis,” 23 Federal Sentencing reporter 239 (2012)

n “Jury Sentencing in Non-Capital Cases: Comparing Severity and Variance with Judicial Sentences in Two States,” 2 Journal of empirical Legal Studies 331 (2005) (with rosevelt Noble)

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Co-director, social Justice program

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Criminal law, juvenile justice, law and human behavior, law and emotion, law and neuroscience

Terry Maroney specializes in criminal law, juvenile justice and the role of emotion in law, drawing heavily on interdisciplinary scholarship. Her current work examines the impact of emotion on judicial decision making. The most recent article in this series, “Angry Judges,” published in the Vanderbilt Law Review, followed “Emotional Regulation and Judicial Behavior” and “The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion,” both of which appeared in the California Law Review, and her exploration of judges’ “emotional common sense” in the Vanderbilt Law Review. Professor Maroney has also examined the use of adolescent brain science in juvenile cases, a subject of great interest in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s citation to such evidence in cases involving the juvenile death penalty and life without parole. Her other writings include a widely read taxonomy of law-and-emotion scholarship; an article arguing that emotional dysfunction provides a legal basis for declaring a defendant incompetent, cited by justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court; and a frequently cited note on hate crime. Drawing on her practice experience in exonerating the wrongly convicted, Professor Maroney inaugurated Vanderbilt’s Actual Innocence course. She also teaches Criminal Law and Juvenile Justice. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2006 after serving as a law fellow at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Before her fellowship at USC, Professor Maroney was a Furman Fellow at New York University School of Law, a litigation associate at WilmerHale, and a Skadden Fellow at the Urban Justice Center. After earning her J.D. summa cum laude at New York University, she served as a law clerk for Judge Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She spent six years working as a rape crisis counselor, HIV educator and advocate for crime victims before earning her law degree.

n “Angry Judges,” 65 Vanderbilt Law review 1207 (2012)

n “The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion,” 99 California Law review 629 (2011)

n “emotional regulation and Judicial Behavior,” 99 California Law review 1485 (2011)

n “emotional Common Sense as Constitutional Law,” 62 Vanderbilt Law review 851 (2009)

n “The False Promise of Adolescent Brain Science in Juvenile Justice,” 85 Notre Dame Law review 89 (2009)

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J.D. University of Michigan, A.B. Princeton University

Rob Mikos specializes in federalism and criminal law. His most recent scholarship analyzes the power struggles between the state and federal governments and their implications for law and public policy on issues ranging from marijuana legalization to immigration reform. He has also written on the political safeguards of federalism, accuracy in criminal sanctions, drug law reforms, the economics of private precautions against crime, and remedies in private law. Professor Mikos earned his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as articles editor on the Michigan Law Review and won numerous awards, including the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship. After graduation, he clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Professor Mikos has taught at the University of California at Davis, where he was twice nominated for the school’s Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as at Notre Dame and the University of Michigan. He teaches Federalism, Constitutional Law, Federal Criminal Law, and Drug Law and Policy.

n “Can States Keep Secrets from the Federal Government?” 161 University of Pennsylvania Law review 103 (2012–13)

n “Accuracy in Criminal Sanctions,” in research handbook of the economics of Criminal Law, edward elgar (2012) (Keith hylton and Alon harel, editors)

n “A Critical Appraisal of the Department of Justice’s New Approach to Medical Marijuana,” 22 Stanford Law & Policy review 633 (2011) (commissioned features article)

n “State Taxation of Marijuana Distribution and other Federal Crimes,” 2010 University of Chicago Legal Forum 223 (symposium on Crime, Criminal Law and the recession, University of Chicago)

n “on the Limits of Supremacy: Medical Marijuana and the States’ overlooked Power to Legalize Federal Crime,” 62 Vanderbilt Law review 1421 (2009)

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LL.M. New York University, J.D. University of Pennsylvania, A.B. Vassar College

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Tax law

Beverly Moran is a leading tax scholar whose work includes a path-breaking analysis of the disparate impact of the federal tax code on blacks and an innovative text on the taxation of charities and other exempt organizations. Her research interests also include law and development, interdisciplinary scholarship and comparative law. Professor Moran has won a number of teaching awards and grants, including a Fulbright award, a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a grant from the Ford Foundation. Since joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2001, she has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools, the board of governors of the Society of American Law Teachers, and as the first director of the Vanderbilt University Center for the Americas. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Moran taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she directed the Center on Law and Africa. She began her academic career on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Professor Moran has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado, the University of Asmara in Eritrea, the People’s University in Beijing, the Peking University and the University of Giessen in Germany. She was a visiting professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and at Michigan State University during 2012 to 2013 and an American Council on Education Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008 to 2009. She teaches Partnership Taxation and Taxation of Non-Profit/Tax Exempt Organizations.

n The Tax Law of Charities and other exempt organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions and Activities, American Casebook Series, West Group (2nd edition, 2007) (with David A. Brennan, Darryll K. Jones and Steven J. Willis)

n “islam Meets eriSA: how America’s Private Pension System Unintentionally Discriminates Against Muslims and What to Do About it,” 46 University of California at Davis Law review 209 (2012)

n “Adam Smith and the Search for an ideal Tax System,” in The New Fiscal Sociology: Comparative and historical Approaches to Taxation, Cambridge University Press (2009) (isaac W. Martin, Ajay Mehrotra and Monica Prasad, editors)

n “Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice,” 61 Southern Methodist University Law review 337 (2008)

n “A Black Critique of the internal revenue Code,” 4 Wisconsin Law review 751 (1996). republished in Monthly Digest of Tax Articles (Part i, May 1997, 24; Part ii, June 1997, 44) (with William C. Whitford)

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Choice of law, conflict of laws, dispute resolution, international contracts

Erin O’Hara O’Connor is a leading scholar in the field of conflict of laws. Her most recent work includes three books and a series of significant articles on choice of law as well as articles that examine the role of arbitrators for contracting parties. Professor O’Connor was Vanderbilt Law School’s associate dean for academic affairs from 2008 to 2010. She was named director of graduate studies for the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics in 2011. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2001, having previously taught at George Mason University School of Law. She was a visiting professor at Northwestern University Law School in 1995 and at Georgetown University Law Center from spring 1999 to spring 2000. Professor O’Connor has served as chair of the American Association of Law School’s Section on Conflict of Laws and as director of Vanderbilt’s Law and Human Behavior Program. She is a research associate at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research and was a visiting fellow at Ludwig Maximilians Universität’s Center for Advanced Studies in 2011 and a distinguished visiting scholar at Universität Bremen’s Center for Transnational Studies (ZenTra) in 2014. She teaches Arbitration Law, Conflict of Laws, Contracts, and Life of the Law.

n The Law Market, oxford University Press (2009) (with Larry ribstein)

n Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials (6th edition, 2011) (with r. Lea Brilmayer and Jack Goldsmith)

n “Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination,” 111 Michigan Law review 647 (2012) (with Larry ribstein)

n “Choice of Law for internet Transactions: The Uneasy Case for online Consumer Protection,” 153 University of Pennsylvania Law review 1883 (2005)

n “From Politics to efficiency in Choice of Law,” 67 University of Chicago Law review 1151 (2000) (with Larry ribstein)

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ViJAY PADMANABhANAssistant professor of law

J.D. New York University, B.S. Georgetown University

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International human rights and criminal law, national security law Vijay Padmanabhan has a breadth of experience in research, commentary

and teaching related to international human rights and national security. His writing examines the nature of human rights. He advocates for a strong role for morality in defining human rights, while recognizing the need to respect cultural differences in their application. He also evaluates the policy consequences emerging from the growth of human rights, arguing in favor of a stronger relationship between the United States and international human rights institutions. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in August 2011, Professor Padmanabhan was an attorney adviser at the U.S. State Department, where he served as the Department’s lead counsel on law of war litigation. He collaborated with the Justice Department on Supreme Court cases, including Hamdan and Boumediene. He served as counsel to delegations representing the United States at international organizations and bilateral and multilateral negotiations. He also led an inter-agency policy coordination committee tasked with directing public diplomacy regarding U.S. detention policy in the conflict with al Qaida. Professor Padmanabhan served as a law clerk for Judge James L. Dennis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is currently a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations and an active member of the American Society of International Law. He has provided analysis of international legal questions to media outlets ranging from NPR to BBC to Fox News.

n “Separation Anxiety: rethinking the role of Morality in international human rights Lawmaking,” 47 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming 2014)

n “human rights Consent Principle,” 35 University of Pennsylvania Journal of international Law 1 (2013)

n “Cyber Warriors and the Jus in Bello,” 89 international Legal Studies 288 (2013)

n “To Transfer or Not to Transfer: identifying and Protecting relevant human rights interests in Non-refoulment,” 80 Fordham Law review 73 (2011)

n “Four Challenges to the Geneva Conventions and other existing Law Posed by Detention operations in Contemporary Conflicts,” 105 American Journal of international Law 1 (2011) (with John B. Bellinger iii)

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n “Technology Management Trends in Law Schools,” 103 Law Library Journal 441 (2011) (with Carol Watson)

n “raising the institutional Profile of Academic Law Librarians,” 19 Trends in Law Library Management 17 (2009)

LArrY r. reeVeSAssociate Dean, Director of the Alyne Queener Massey law libraryAssociate professor of law

J.D. Temple University, M.S. Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science, B.A. University of Oklahoma

Larry Reeves directs the operations of the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt Law School. He joined Vanderbilt as head of the law library in 2012 with more than 10 years of experience in law library administration. He had previously served from 2008 to 2011 as associate director of the George Mason University Law Library. Before joining George Mason’s law library, he was a reference librarian, coordinator of first-year legal research, and an adjunct associate professor of law at Fordham Law School, where he developed the required first-year course, Basic Legal Research, and taught Advanced Legal Research. He has also served as a reference librarian in the law libraries of Loyola Law School and Brooklyn Law School. He has taught as a member of the adjunct faculty of the Catholic University School of Library and Information Science and served on the advisory committee for the university’s program in law librarianship. Professor Reeves is the author of numerous journal articles, an editorial adviser of a research bibliography, Sexual Orientation and the Law (Hein, 2007), and has spoken and coordinated programs at various conferences. He is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, having served on the Bylaws Committee, and chaired the organization’s Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section in 2009 and 2010. Professor Reeves has also been named a Fellow with the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellows program for a two-year term from 2013 to 2015. He teaches Advanced Legal Research.


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Morgan Ricks studies financial regulation. From 2009 to 2010, he was a senior policy advisor and financial restructuring expert at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he focused primarily on financial stability initiatives and capital markets policy. Before joining the Treasury Department, he was a risk-arbitrage trader at Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago-based hedge fund. He previously served as a vice president in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he specialized in strategic and capital-raising transactions for financial services companies. He began his career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.

n "A Simpler Approach to Financial reform,” regulation (Winter 2013–2014)

n “The Case for regulating the Shadow Banking System,” in Too Big to Fail? resolving Large Troubled Financial institutions in the Future, Brookings institution Press (2012)

n “A regulatory Design for Monetary Stability,” 65 Vanderbilt Law review 1287 (2012)

n “Money and (Shadow) Banking: A Thought experiment,” 31 review of Banking and Financial Law 731 (2012)

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n “Better Bounty hunting: how the SeC’s New Whistleblower Program Changes the Securities Fraud Class Action Case,” 108 Northwestern University Law review (forthcoming 2014)

n “State enforcement of National Policy: A Contextual Approach (with evidence from the Securities realm),” 97 Minnesota Law review 1343 (2013)

n “intraportfolio Litigation,” 105 Northwestern University Law review 1679 (2011) (with richard Squire)

n “The Multi-enforcer Approach to Securities Fraud Deterrence: A Critical Analysis,” 158 University of Pennsylvania Law review 2173 (2010)

n “reforming Securities Litigation reform: restructuring the relationship Between Public and Private enforcement of rule 10b-5,” 108 Columbia Law review 1301 (2008). reprinted in Corporate Practice Commentator (2009) and Securities Law review (2009)

Amanda Rose focuses on corporate and securities law and the institutional design of enforcement regimes. After graduating first in her law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Rose clerked for Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then served as a litigation associate with the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco for five years. Her practice included the defense of state regulatory proceedings, Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions, and state and federal class action and derivative litigation. She also played an integral role in briefing appeals before numerous state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. During 2006–07, she was a fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, and taught securities regulation as a lecturer. She was a 2011 Roger Traynor Summer Professor in Corporate Law at the University of California, Hastings. She is a member of the State Bar of California as well as admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She teaches Corporations and Business Entities and Securities Regulation.


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Corporate and securities law, complex litigation, federalism, institutional design

AMANDA M. roSeprofessor of law

J.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.S.(Finance) Vanderbilt University; B.A. University of San Francisco

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LL.M. Yale Law School, J.D. University of Iowa College of Law, B.S. Arizona State UniversityReseARCH InteRests:

Energy law, adminstrative law, regulatory federalism, state constitutions

Jim Rossi’s scholarship addresses energy law, federal administrative law, and state constitutional and administrative law. His books include Energy, Economics and the Environment (3rd edition, Foundation Press, 2010, with Fred Bosselman, Jacqueline Weaver, David Spence and Joel Eisen); Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and a collection of essays, Dual Enforcement of Constitutional Norms: The New Frontier of State Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2010, with James Gardner). Professor Rossi serves as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States’ Committee on Collaborative Governance project on Improving Coordination of Related Agency Responsibilities. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, he was the Harry M. Walborsky Professor and associate dean for research at Florida State University College of Law, where he taught Administrative Law, Energy Law and Torts. Professor Rossi has also taught at Harvard Law School, the University of Texas Law School and the University of North Carolina Law School. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced energy law in Washington, D.C., with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and Miller Balis & O’Neil. He teaches Torts, Energy Law and the Renewable Power seminar.

n New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law: Dual enforcement of Norms, oxford University Press (2011) (editor, with James A. Gardner)

n energy, economics and the environment: Cases and Materials, Foundation Press (3rd edition, 2010) (with Fred Bosselman, Joel eisen, David Spence and Jacqueline Lang Weaver)

n “Agency Coordination in Shared regulatory Space,” 125 harvard Law review 1131 (2012) (with Jody Freeman)

n “Judge Cudahy’s energy Vision,” 29 Yale Journal on regulation 371 (2012) (with Thomas hutton)

n “Citing Transmission Lines in a Changed Milieu: evolving Notions of the ‘Public interest’ in Balancing State and regional Considerations,” 81 Colorado Law review 705 (2010) (with Ashley C. Brown)


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n The New Morality and the Modern State, oxford University Press (forthcoming 2014)

n Legal education in the Digital Age, Cambridge University Press (2012) (editor)

n Federalism: Political identity and Tragic Compromise, University of Michigan Press (2008) (with Malcolm Feeley)

n Beyond Camelot: rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State, Princeton University Press (2005)

n Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: how the Courts reformed America’s Prisons, Cambridge University Press (1998) (with Malcolm Feeley)


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Federalism, administrative law, legal theory

eDWArD L. rUBiNUniversity professor of law and political science

J.D. Yale Law School, A.B. Princeton University

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Co-director, energy, environment and land Use program

Ph.D. (Geography) Southern Illinois University; LL.M. George Washington University; J.D., B.A. University of Virginia

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Ecosystem services policy, climate change adaptation, endangered species and wetlands protection, complex adaptive systems theory, adaptive ecosystem management, growth management, and related environmental, natural resources and land-use fields

J. B. Ruhl is an expert in environmental, natural resources and property law. Before he joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty as the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law in 2011, he was the Matthews and Hawkins Professor of Property at the Florida State University College of Law, where he had taught since 1999. His influential scholarly articles relating to climate change, the Endangered Species Act, ecosystems, governance, and other environmental and natural resources law issues have appeared in the California, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford and Vanderbilt law reviews, the environmental law journals at several top law schools, and peer-reviewed scientific journals. His works have been selected among the best law review articles in the field of environmental law eight times from 1989 to 2013. Over the course of his career, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, George Washington University Law School, the University of Texas Law School and Lewis and Clark College of Law. He began his academic career at the Southern Illinois University School of Law, where he taught from 1994 to 1999 and earned his Ph.D. in geography. Before entering the academy, he was a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski in Austin, Texas, where he also taught on the adjunct faculty of the University of Texas Law School. He teaches Ecosystem Management, Law Practice 2050, Property, Practicing Environmental Law, and the Sustainable Cities Seminar.

n “Climate Change Meets the Law of the horse,” 62 Duke Law Journal 975 (2013) (with J. Salzman)

n “An empirical Assessment of Climate Change in the Courts: A New Jurisprudence or Business as Usual?” 64 Florida Law review 15 (2012) (with D. Markel). Selected for reprinting in 2013 Land Use and environmental Law review

n “Gaming the Past: The Theory and Practice of historic Baselines in the Administrative State,” 64 Vanderbilt Law review 1 (2011) (with J. Salzman). Selected for reprinting in 2012 Land Use and environmental Law review

n “Climate Change, Dead zones and Massive Problems in the Administrative State: Guidelines for Whistling Away,” 98 California Law review 59 (2010) (with J. Salzman). Selected for reprinting in 2011 Land Use and environmental Law review

n “Climate Change and the endangered Species Act: Building Bridges to the No-Analog Future,” 88 Boston University Law review 1 (2008). Selected for reprinting in 2009 Land Use and environmental Law review and in 2009 environmental Law and Policy Annual review

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J.D., M.B.A., M.S., B.A. University of Chicago


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Corporate income taxation, individual income taxation, state and local taxation

n “An Argument for the repeal of Tax Preferences for educational endowments,” Vanderbilt Law and economics research Paper No. 09-37 (2010)

n “Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be...Lawyers,” Vanderbilt Law and economics Working Paper No. 09-29 (2009)

n “Why every State Should have an income Tax (and a retail Sales Tax, Too),” 78 Mississippi Law Journal 637 (2009)

n “Fixing the AMT by including Capital Gains in the AMT Tax Base,” 119 Tax Notes 743 (2008)

n “rationalizing the Taxation of reorganizations and other Corporate Acquisitions,” 27 Virginia Tax review 23 (2007)

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JeFFreY A. SChoeNBLUMCentennial professor of law

J.D. Harvard Law School, B.A. Johns Hopkins University


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Jeffrey Schoenblum has established himself as one of the world’s preeminent scholars and experts on cross-border private wealth transfers. In addition to publishing several well-received books and articles, Professor Schoenblum has delivered a number of leading lectures, including the Norton Rose Lecture at Oxford, the Paolo Fresco Lecture at the University of Genoa and the Nottingham Lecture. He joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 1977 after practicing law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and serving as a law clerk for Judge Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He teaches Wills and Trusts and the Drafting and Analysis of Business Documents seminar.

n 2014 Multistate Guide to estate Planning, CCh

n 2012 Multistate Guide to Trusts and Trust Administration, CCh

n Multistate and Multinational estate Planning, CCh (2 volumes, 2010 edition & 2014 supplement)

n Family, Kinship, Descent and Distribution, BNA (2012)

n Bilateral Transfer Tax Treaties: Theoretical and Technical Dimensions, BNA (2nd edition, 2012)

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J.D. University of Michigan, B.A. Yale University


Christopher Serkin teaches and writes about land use and property law. His provocative scholarship addresses local property law, the Takings Clause, land use regulations and eminent domain. His articles have appeared in the Chicago, Columbia, New York University, Notre Dame and Northwestern University law reviews, among others. He is the author of The Law of Property, a Concept and Insights book published in 2012, and a co-editor of a leading casebook, Land Use Controls (4th edition, 2013), with Robert Ellickson, Vicki Been and Roderick Hills. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Serkin taught at Brooklyn Law School from 2005 to 2013. He began his academic career at New York University School of Law, where he taught for two years as an acting assistant professor in its Lawyering program. After earning his J.D. at the University of Michigan, where he was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, Professor Serkin was a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Judge J. Garvan Murtha of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. Before joining the legal academy, he practiced law as an associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He teaches Property, Land Use, and Local Government Law.

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Eminent domain, local land use law

n Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials, Aspen Publishers (2013) (with robert ellickson, Vicki Been and roderick hills)

n “Passive Takings: The State’s Affirmative Duty to Protect Property,” 113 Michigan Law review (forthcoming 2014)

n “Suing Courts,” 79 University of Chicago Law review 553 (2012) (with Frederic Bloom)

n “Public entrenchment Through Private Law: Binding Local Governments,” 78 University of Chicago Law review 879 (2011)

n “existing Uses and the Limits of Land Use regulations,” 84 New York University Law review 1222 (2009). reprinted in 42 Land Use & environmental Law review (2011)

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SeAN B. SeYMoreprofessor of law | professor of Chemistry | enterprise scholar

J.D., Ph.D. (Chemistry) University of Notre Dame; M.S. (Chemistry) Georgia Institute of Technology; B.S. (Chemistry) University of Tennessee


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n “Making Patents Useful,” 98 Minnesota Law review 1046 (2014)

n “The Presumption of Patentability,” 97 Minnesota Law review 990 (2013)

n “Patently impossible,” 64 Vanderbilt Law review 1491 (2011)

n “rethinking Novelty in Patent Law,” 60 Duke Law Journal 919 (2011). reprinted in the 2012 intellectual Property Law review

n “The Teaching Function of Patents,” 85 Notre Dame Law review 621 (2010)

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Co-director, social Justice program

J.D. Yale Law School, A.B. Harvard College

n The invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, Penguin Press (2011)

n “Atrocity, entitlement and Personhood in Property,” 98 Virginia Law review 635 (2012)

n “Crossing the Color Line: racial Migration and the emergence of the one-Drop rule, 1600–1860,” 91 Minnesota Law review 592 (2007)

n “Saving the race,” Legal Affairs (March-April 2005)

n “The Secret history of race in the United States,” 112 Yale Law Journal 1473 (2003)

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American legal history, race and the law, property lawDaniel Sharfstein’s scholarship focuses on the legal history of race in the

United States. He received a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship to support his work on a book-length exploration of post Reconstruction America, “Thunder in the Mountains: The Clash of Two American Legends, Oliver Otis Howard and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.” His book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press, 2011), won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for excellence in non-fiction as well as the Law & Society Association’s 2012 James Willard Hurst Jr. Prize for socio-legal history, the William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History, and the Chancellor’s Award for Research from Vanderbilt. His article, “Atrocity, Entitlement, and Personhood in Property” won the Association of American Law Schools 2011 Scholarly Papers Competition. His writing has also appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, New York Times, Slate, Washington Post, Economist, American Prospect and Legal Affairs. For his research on civil rights and the color line in the American South, Professor Sharfstein was awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and he was the inaugural recipient of the Raoul Berger Visiting Fellowship in Legal History at Harvard Law School. He has twice won the law school’s Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he was a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was also an associate at Strumwasser & Woocher, a public interest law firm in Santa Monica, California. Prior to law school, he worked as a journalist in West Africa and Southern California. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in fall 2007, he was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law.

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Suzanna Sherry’s work in the area of constitutional law has earned her national recognition as one of the most well-known scholars in the field. The author of more than 75 books and articles, she also writes extensively on federal courts and federal court procedures. After graduating from law school, Professor Sherry was a clerk for Judge John C. Godbold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama, and then served as an associate with the law firm of Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2000 as the inaugural holder of the Cal Turner Chair, having previously served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School since 1982. She was named to the Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law in 2006. She teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts and the Federal System, and the Judicial Activism seminar.

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J.D. University of Chicago, A.B. Middlebury College

n Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law (2009) (with Daniel A. Farber)

n What every Law Student really Needs to Know: An introduction to the Study of Law (2009) (with Tracey e. George)

n “A Pox on Both Your houses: Why the Court Can’t Fix the erie Doctrine,” 10 Journal of Law, economics & Policy 173 (2013)

n “hogs Get Slaughtered at the Supreme Court,” 2011 Supreme Court review 1

n “Democracy’s Distrust: Contested Values and the Decline of expertise,” 125 harvard Law review Forum 7 (2011)

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Appellate litigation, class action and aggregate litigation, constitutional law and theory, federal courts and the federal judicial system, federalism, litigation and dispute resolution, the U.S. Supreme Court

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Jennifer Shinall’s research examines the effects of obesity on the labor market and how the legal system can address these effects. Other current research focuses on the employment effects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. Professor Shinall was the first graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt University. Before returning to Vanderbilt as a postdoctoral research scholar in law and economics in 2013, Professor Shinall served a judicial clerkship for Judge John Tinder in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She earned an A.B. in economics and history at Harvard University and her J.D. and Ph.D. in law and economics at Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as senior articles editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Professor Shinall teaches Employment Discrimination Law to J.D. students. She also teaches Labor Markets and Human Resources and the Ph.D. Workshop for the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics.

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JeNNiFer BeNNeTT ShiNALLAssistant professor of law

Ph.D., J.D. Vanderbilt University (Law & Economics); A.B. Harvard University

n “Slipping Away from Justice: The effect of Attorney Skill on Trial outcomes,” 63 Vanderbilt Law review 267 (2010). Winner of the Myron Penn Laughlin Award for excellence in a published Note

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GANeSh SiTArAMANAssistant professor of law

J.D., A.B. Harvard University M.Phil. Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

ReseARCH InteRests:

Public law, institutional design, legislation, regulation, administrative law, foreign relations law, international law, constitutional law, political theory, American history

n The Counterinsurgent’s Constitution: Law in the Age of Small Wars, oxford University Press (2012)

n “The Normalization of Foreign relations Law,” harvard Law review (forthcoming 2015) (with ingrid Wuerth)

n “Behavioral War Powers,” New York University Law review (forthcoming 2015) (with David zionts)

n “Contracting Around Citizens United,” 114 Columbia Law review 755 (2014)

n “Counterinsurgency, the War on Terror and the Laws of War,” 95 Virginia Law review 1745 (2009)

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Paige Marta Skiba has conducted innovative research in the area of behavioral law and economics and commercial law, particularly on topics related to her economics dissertation, Behavior in High-Interest Credit Markets. She studies the ways in which self-control and procrastination affect financial decision making. Her current research focuses on the causes and consequences of using alternative financial services, such as payday loans, auto-title loans, pawnshops and check-cashing, as well as the regulation of these industries. She has been the recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships from institutions such as the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. Professor Skiba earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. She teaches Bankruptcy and Behavioral Law and Economics to J.D. students. She also teaches Law and Economics, Behavioral Law and Economics, and Econometrics for Legal Research in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics.

ReseARCH InteRests:

Behavioral economics, public finance, applied microeconomics, banking, law and economics

PAiGe MArTA SKiBAprofessor of law

Ph.D. (Economics) University of California, Berkeley B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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n “Payday Loan Choices and Consequences,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (forthcoming 2014) (with Neil Bhutta and Jeremy Tobacman)

n “Tax rebates and the Cycle of Payday Borrowing,” American Law and economics review (forthcoming 2014)

n“information Asymmetries in Consumer Lending: evidence from Payday Lending,” 5 American economic Journal: Applied economics 256 (2013) (with Will Dobbie)

n “The Ticket to easy Street? The Financial Consequences of Winning the Lottery,” 93 review of economics and Statistics 961 (2011) (with Scott hankins and Mark hoekstra). Featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today

n “Pawnshops, Behavioral economics, and Self-regulation,” 32 review of Banking & Financial Law 193 (2012) (with Susan Payne Carter)

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ChriSToPher SLoBoGiNMilton R. Underwood Chair in law professor of psychiatry Director, Criminal Justice program

LL.M., J.D. University of Virginia; A.B. Princeton University

Chris Slobogin has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters on topics relating to criminal procedure, mental health law and evidence. Named director of Vanderbilt’s Criminal Justice Program in 2009, he is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the country, according to the Leiter Report. Psychological Evaluations for the Courts (3rd edition, 2007), which he co-authored with another lawyer and two psychologists, is considered the standard-bearer in forensic mental health; in recognition for his work in that field, he was named an honorary distinguished member of the American Psychology-Law Society in 2008. Professor Slobogin has also served as chair of the American Bar Association’s task force charged with revising the Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards and its Florida Assessment team for the Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, as well as reporter for the ABA’s task forces on Law Enforcement and Technology, on the Insanity Defense, and on Mental Disability and the Death Penalty. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Slobogin held the Stephen C. O’Connell chair at the University of Florida’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He has been a visiting professor at the law schools of Stanford, Virginia, Southern California, Hastings and the University of Kiev, Ukraine, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. His work has been cited in more than 2,000 law review articles and more than 100 judicial opinions, including Supreme Court decisions. He holds a secondary appointment in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. He teaches courses in criminal law and procedure and mental health law.


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Criminal law and procedure, mental health law, evidence law

n “Panvasive Surveillance, Political Process Theory and the Nondelegation Principle,” 102 Georgetown Law Journal 1721 (2014)

n “Group to individual inference in Scientific expert Testimony,” 81 University of Chicago Law review 417 (2014) (with D. Faigman and J. Monohan)

n “Lessons from inquisitorialism,” 87 Southern California Law review 699 (2014) (symposium)

n “Putting Desert in its Place,” 65 Stanford Law review 77 (2012)

n “Sell’s Conundrums: The right of incompetent Defendants to refuse Anti-Psychotic Medication,” 89 Washington University Law review 435 (2012)

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KeViN M. STACKAssociate Dean for Research

professor of law

J.D. Yale Law School, M.Litt. Oxford University, B.A. Brown University

Kevin Stack writes on administrative law, regulation, separation of powers, presidential powers, European Union administrative law, and the theoretical foundations of public law. His recent work has examined the interpretations of regulations, statutory interpretation, the constitutional foundations of agency independence, and theories of regulation. He was recognized with the ABA’s 2013 Annual Scholarship Award for the best published work in administrative law for his Michigan Law Review article, “Interpreting Regulations.” That article prompted a study, which he authored, for the Administrative Conference of the United States resulting in a set of recommendations adopted by the Conference on how federal agencies should draft their regulations. He is also co-author (with Lisa Bressman and Ed Rubin) of The Regulatory State (Aspen Publishers, 2nd edition, 2013), a casebook on statutes and administrative lawmaking. Dean Stack is a member of the Council of the Administrative and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association. He joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2007 and served as associate dean for research from 2008 to 2010. He began a new term as associate dean for research in July 2012. Dean Stack came to Vanderbilt from the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University, which he joined in 2002 after practicing as an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk for Judge Kimba M. Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars. Dean Stack teaches Administrative Law, Regulatory State, Legislation, Presidential Power, Civil Procedure, and European Union Law.


ReseARCH InteRests:

Administrative law, presidential power, statutory interpretation, separation of powers, European Union law

n The regulatory State, Aspen Publishers (2013) (with Lisa Schultz Bressman and edward L. rubin)

n “interpreting regulations,” 111 Michigan Law review 355 (2012). Co-winner of 2013 ABA Annual Scholarship Award for best published work in administrative law

n “The one Percent Problem,” 111 Columbia Law review 1385 (2011) (with Michael Vandenbergh)

n “The Constitutional Foundation of Chenery,” 116 Yale Law Journal 952 (2007)

n “The President’s Statutory Powers to Administer the Laws,” 106 Columbia Law review 263 (2006)

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CAroL M. SWAiNprofessor of political science | professor of law

Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; M.S.L. Yale University; M.A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute; B.A. Roanoke College

Carol Swain is passionate about empowering others to raise their voices in the public square. She has authored award-winning books, including Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995; reprinted University Press of America, 2006). Black Faces won the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book published in the U. S. on government, politics or international affairs in 1994, and was cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in Johnson v. DeGrandy, 512 U.S. 997 (1994) and by Justice Sandra Day O’ Connor in Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U.S. (2003). Professor Swain’s other books include Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise (Thomas Nelson Press, 2011); Debating Immigration (Cambridge University Press, 2007); The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2003, edited with Russ Nieli). Professor Swain has served on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and currently serves on the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her opinion pieces have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and USA Today. Professor Swain has appeared on BBC Radio, NPR, CNN’s AC360, Hannity, Lou Dobbs Tonight, the PBS NewsHour, the Washington Journal and ABC’s Headline News, among other media. She is a foundation member of the Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Before joining Vanderbilt’s faculty in 1999, Professor Swain was a tenured associate professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


n Be the People: A Call to reclaim America’s Faith and Promise, Thomas Nelson (2011)

n Debating immigration, Cambridge University Press (2007) (editor)

n Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America, Cambridge University Press (2003) (with r. Nieli)

n The New White Nationalism in America: its Challenge to integration, Cambridge University Press (2002)

n Black Faces, Black interests: The representation of African Americans in Congress, harvard University Press (1993, 1995) (reprinted by University Press of America, 2006)

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rANDALL S. ThoMASJohn Beasley II professor of law and Business Director, law and Business program

Ph.D. (Economics), J.D. University of Michigan; B.A. Haverford College

Randall Thomas has earned a reputation of being one of the most productive and thoughtful corporate and securities law scholars in the nation. His recent work addresses issues such as hedge fund shareholder activism, executive compensation, corporate voting, corporate litigation, shareholder voting, and mergers and acquisitions. He joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2000 to develop and direct the Law and Business Program, having served previously on the law faculties of the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Duke University, Harvard Law School, Boston University and the University of Washington. Prior to teaching law, Professor Thomas was in private practice for four years and served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Joiner of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. An acclaimed teacher, Professor Thomas teaches courses in the area of corporate law, including Corporations and Mergers and Acquisitions.


n “Dodd-Frank’s Say on Pay: Will it Lead to a Greater role for Shareholders in Corporate Governance?” 97 Cornell Law review 1213 (2012) (with James Cotter and Alan Palmiter)

n “A Theory of representative Shareholder Suits and its Application to Multi-jurisdictional Litigation,” 106 Northwestern Law review 1753 (2012) (with robert Thompson)

n “Lying and Getting Caught: An empirical Study of the effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms,” 158 University of Pennsylvania Law review 1877 (2010) (with James Cox and Lynn Bai)

n “Does Private equity Create Wealth?” 76 University of Chicago Law review 219 (2009) (with ronald Masulis)

n “hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance and Firm Performance,” 63 Journal of Finance 1729 (2008) (with Alon Brav, Wei Jiang and Frank Partnoy)

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Shareholder activism, corporate and securities litigation, executive compensation, corporate voting, corporate governance

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Michael Vandenbergh is a leading scholar in environmental and energy law whose research explores the relationship between formal legal regulation and informal social regulation of individual and corporate behavior. His work with Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network involves interdisciplinary teams that focus on the reduction of carbon emissions from the individual and household sector. His corporate work explores private governance and the influence of social norms on firm behavior. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Vandenbergh was a partner at a national law environmental firm in Washington, D.C. He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1993 to 1995. He began his career as a law clerk to Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1987–88. In addition to directing Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network, Professor Vandenbergh is the co-director of the law school’s Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard law schools. He was named to the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law in fall 2013. A recipient of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, he teaches courses in Environmental Law, Law and Business of Climate Change, Property, and Climate Change Justice.


MiChAeL P. VANDeNBerGhDavid Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of law

Director, Climate Change Research network

Co-director, energy, environment and land Use program

J.D. University of Virginia; B.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

ReseARCH InteRests:

Environmental law and policy, social and behavioral sciences, private governance, climate change, energy law and policy, presidential control of agency decision making

n “Private environmental Governance,” 99 Cornell Law review 129 (2013)

n“The one Percent Problem,” 111 Columbia Law review 1385 (2011) (with Kevin Stack)

n“household Actions Can Provide a Behavioral Wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. Carbon emissions,” 106 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 18452 (2009) (with Tom Dietz, Gerald Gardner, Paul Stern and Jonathan Gilligan)

n“The Carbon-Neutral individual,” 82 New York University Law review 1673 (2007) (with Anne Steinemann)

n“inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control,” 105 Michigan Law review 1 (2006) (with Lisa Bressman)

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Kip Viscusi is Vanderbilt’s first University Distinguished Professor, with primary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management as well as in the law school. Professor Viscusi is the award-winning author of more than 20 books and 330 articles, most of which deal with different aspects of health and safety risks. His pathbreaking research has addressed a wide range of individual and societal responses to risk and uncertainty, including risky behaviors, government regulation and tort liability. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on benefit-cost analysis. Professor Viscusi’s estimates of the value of risks to life and health are currently used throughout the federal government. He has served as a consultant on issues pertaining to the valuation of life and health. In the Carter administration, he was deputy director of the Council of Wage and Price Stability, which was responsible for White House oversight over all new federal regulations. He has served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for over a decade and served as a member of the EPA’s Homeland Security Committee. Professor Viscusi is the current vice-president of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis of which he will become president in 2015, and is the founding editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, which is housed at Vanderbilt.

ReseARCH InteRests:

Regulation of health, safety and environmental risks; tort reform; risk and insurance; law and economics

W. KiP ViSCUSiUniversity Distinguished professor of law, economics, and Management

Co-director, ph.D. program in law and economics

Ph.D., A.M., A.B. (Economics), M.P.P. Harvard University

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n economics of regulation and Antitrust, D.C. heath and Co. (1992); MiT Press (2nd edition 1995, 3rd edition 2000, translated into Chinese and Ukrainian, 4th edition 2005) (with John Vernon and Joseph e. harrington Jr.)

n Smoke-Filled rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal, University of Chicago Press (2002)

n rational risk Policy: The 1996 Arne ryde Memorial Lectures, Clarendon Press-oxford University Press (1998). Winner of the Kulp Memorial Award, Best Book of 2000, American risk and insurance Association

n Fatal Tradeoffs: Public and Private responsibilities for risk, oxford University Press (1992, paperback edition 1995). Winner of the Kulp Memorial Award, Best Book of 1994, American risk and insurance Association

n reforming Products Liability, harvard University Press (1991). Winner of the Kulp Memorial Award, Best Book of 1993, American risk and insurance Association

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Ingrid Wuerth is a leading scholar of foreign affairs and international law in domestic courts. Her broad intellectual interests also include the German Constitution, comparative constitutional law, and methodology. She has written extensively on these topics, including articles published in the Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern and Notre Dame law reviews, the Harvard, Melbourne, Vanderbilt and Virginia journals of international law, and the American Journal of International Law. She is currently working on several projects on jurisdiction and immunity, customary international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Professor Wuerth joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2007 and was appointed director of Vanderbilt’s International Legal Studies Program in 2009. She sits on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a member of the American Law Institute and the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Public International Law. Professor Wuerth was selected in 2012 as a reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She has received numerous honors and fellowships, including the Morehead Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Fulbright Senior Scholar award, the German Chancellor’s Fellowship, election to the Order of the

Coif and to the German Society of International Law, and several teaching awards.


iNGriD BrUNK WUerThprofessor of law | Director, International legal studies program

J.D. University of Chicago; B.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

ReseARCH InteRests:

War powers, immunity, foreign relations law, international law in domestic courts, comparative constitutional law

n “The Normalization of Foreign relations Law,” harvard Law review (forthcoming 2015) (with Ganesh Sitaraman)

n “Customary international Law in the Age of Soft Law” (working paper with Larry helfer)

n “The Supreme Court and the Alien Tort Statute: Kiobel v. royal Dutch Petroleum,” 107 American Journal of international Law 601 (2013)

n “reassessing Pinochet’s Legacy,” 107 American Journal of international Law 731 (2012)

n “The Captures Clause,” 76 Chicago Law review 1683 (2009)

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YeShA YADAVAssistant professor of law

LL.M. Harvard Law School, M.A. University of Cambridge

ReseARCH InteRests:

International banking and financial regulation, securities regulation, the law of money and payment systems, bankruptcy

n “insider Trading in Derivatives Markets,” 103 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2014)

n “The Case for a Market in Debt Governance,” 67 Vanderbilt Law review 771 (2014)

n “empty Creditors and Sovereign Debt: What Now?” 9 Capital Markets Law Journal 103 (2014)

n “The Problematic Case of Clearinghouses in Complex Markets,” 101 Georgetown Law Journal 387 (2013)

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SUSAN L. KAYAssociate Dean for Clinical Affairs | Clinical professor of law

J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, B.A. Williams College

Sue Kay has headed the law school’s clinical and experiential legal education program since 2001, having joined the clinical faculty in 1980. In addition to teaching in the Criminal Practice Clinic, Dean Kay supervises the Trial Advocacy courses and student externships and teaches courses on Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, and Evidence. She is active in many professional and service organizations and has served as president of the Clinical Legal Education Association, a national association that represents more than 600 law faculty, and as president of the boards of both Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. She currently chairs the board of the ACLU of Tennessee. Dean Kay is a member of the Standards Review Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Within the clinic, Dean Kay has conducted major public law litigation concerning jail overcrowding, inmates’ rights and juvenile justice. In 2007, she completed an assignment as a court-appointed monitor in federal litigation challenging the state’s compliance with its responsibilities to children enrolled in TennCare, Tennesssee’s Medicaid program. During 2005, Dean Kay was a co-reporter on the Tennessee Bar Association Criminal Justice Section’s study of effectiveness of counsel in death penalty cases.

ReseARCH InteRests:

Criminal law, clinical legal education, professional responsibility, evidence

n Skills and Values: Criminal Procedure, Lexis Nexis (2012) (with William Cohen)

n“re-vision Quest: A Law School Guide to Designing experiential Courses involving real Lawyering,” 56 New York Law review 517 (2011) (with Deborah Maranville, Mary A Lynch, Phyllis Goldfarb and russell engler)

n Tennessee evidence: 2012–13 Courtroom Manual (2012) (with G. Weissenberger)

n Clinical Anthology: readings for Live Client Clinics (2nd edition, 2011) (co-editor with Alex hurder, Frank S. Bloch and Susan Brooks)

n “Addressing Lawyer Competence, ethics and Professionalism,” (with Nigel Duncan) in The Global Clinical Movement: educating Lawyers for Social Justice, oxford University Press (2010) (Frank S. Bloch, editor)


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MiChAeL B. BreSSMANAssistant professor of the practice of law

J.D. Harvard Law School, B.A. Vanderbilt UniversityAReAs oF expeRtIse:

Intellectual property law, Internet law

Michael Bressman teaches the Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic, Contracts, Law of Cyberspace, and Art Law. He also directs the law school’s clerkship program, which supports students and graduates applying for judicial clerkships. Professor Bressman joined the faculty from private law practice in Nashville, where he practiced intellectual property, Internet and technology law; civil and appellate litigation; and corporate and business law. Before that, he was in-house counsel at Internet and telecommunications companies and in private law practice in Washington, D.C. After earning his law degree at Harvard, Professor Bressman served as a law clerk for Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He serves on the board of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville and on the Technology Advisory Committee of the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission. He is a member of the Bars of Tennessee, the District of Columbia and Georgia, as well as numerous federal courts.

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JAMeS h. CheeK iiiprofessor of the practice of law | partner, Bass Berry & sims

LL.M. Harvard Law School, J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, A.B. Duke University

Jim Cheek is a nationally renowned securities expert who has been selected by the National Law Journal as one of the top 50 U.S. securities lawyers. Professor Cheek is affiliated with the Law and Business Program and teaches Representing the Public Company and Law as a Business as well as two short courses, Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Dynamics and Advising Corporate Boards. He is the author of numerous articles and a frequent lecturer at symposia sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute and the Practising Law Institute. He has represented more than 50 public companies in various SEC and merger and acquisition matters, regional and national investment banking firms in various equity and debt public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions, and special committees of boards of directors of public companies in going private, internal investigation and derivative litigation matters. Professor Cheek has also represented public and private companies in successful joint ventures, spinoffs and other complex corporate reorganization matters, and acts as counsel for boards of directors and board committees on matters relating to corporate governance and corporate legal compliance. He served as the Regulatory Auditor of the New York Stock Exchange on the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange and was its chair from 1989 to 1992. He is a life member of the American Law Institute.

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Corporate and securities law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions

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ALex J. hUrDerClinical professor of law

J.D. Duke Law School, B.A. Harvard University

Alex Hurder is an expert on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has written extensively on legal counseling, problem-solving, legal negotiation, and disability law. He and his students represent clients in special education cases and Social Security disability appeals. He joined the law faculty and Legal Clinic in 1993 after practicing at the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands and at Memphis Area Legal Services. In addition to supervising students in the live-client clinic, Professor Hurder teaches Legal Interviewing and Counseling and has taught Public Education Law. He currently serves on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the ABA entity charged with initiating efforts to protect and advance human rights, civil liberties and social justice. He chaired the ABA’s Commission on Mental & Physical Disability Law from 2007 to 2010.

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Legal negotiation, disability law

n Clinical Anthology: readings for Live-Client Clinics (2nd edition, 2011) (lead editor and contributor, co-edited with Frank Bloch, Susan Brooks and Susan Kay)

n “Left Behind with No ‘iDeA’: Children with Disabilities without Means,” 34 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 283 (2014)

n “Discovering Agreement: Setting Procedural Goals in Legal Negotiation,” 56 Loyola Law review 591 (2010)

n “The Lawyer’s Dilemma: To Be or Not to Be a Problem-Solving Negotiator,” 14 Clinical Law review 253 (2007)

n “Nonlawyer Legal Assistance and Access to Justice,” 67 Fordham Law review 2241 (1999)

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ALiSTAir e. NeWBerNAssociate Clinical professor of law

LL.M. (Advocacy) Georgetown University; J.D. University of California, Berkeley; A.B. Brown University

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Appellate procedure, civil rights litigation, poverty law, advocacy

Alistair Newbern runs Vanderbilt’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, in which third-year law students practice before appellate courts on behalf of clients who could not otherwise afford representation. Professor Newbern’s research focuses on access to the courts for underrepresented litigants. After earning her J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as senior notes and comments editor of the California Law Review, Professor Newbern served as a law clerk for Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and for Judge Aleta A. Trauger of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before joining Vanderbilt, Professor Newbern taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she directed the school’s Civil Legal Assistance Clinic. She also held a teaching fellowship in Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate Litigation Program and practiced in the Nashville office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein. She teaches Appellate Practice and Procedure.

n LaFountain v. harry, 716 F.3d 944 (6th Cir. 2013) (invalidating prior circuit precedent holding that Prison Litigation reform Act prevented indigent plaintiffs from amending their complaints)

n Jones v. United States, 698 F.3d 621 (6th Cir. 2012) (establishing retroactivity of Begay v. United States in Sixth Circuit, determining that petitioner had not committed a violent felony within the meaning of the Armed Career Criminal Act, and finding that circumstances of his incarceration warranted equitable tolling of one-year filing period for relief under the Antiterrorism and effective Death Penalty Act)

n McPhearson v. United States, 675 F.3d 553 (6th Cir., 2012) (reversing denial of ineffective assistance of counsel claim)

n in re P-M-o-o- (Board of immigration Appeals, May 17, 2012) (unpublished decision) (affirming grant of withholding of removal for petitioner who was a victim of violent abuse by police in his native Kenya)

n in re P-N- (Board of immigration Appeals, April 9, 2010) (unpublished decision) (affirming grant of withholding of removal for petitioner who, with his politically prominent family, had been a victim of ongoing ethnic violence in Burundi)

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Michael Newton is an expert on accountability, transitional justice and conduct of hostilities issues. He has published more than 80 books, articles and book chapters and currently serves as senior editor of the Terrorism International Case Law Reporter, an annual series published by Oxford University Press since 2007. Professor Newton is an elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the International Bar Association, and currently serves on the executive council of the American Society of International Law. At Vanderbilt, he developed and teaches the innovative International Law Practice Lab, which provides expert assistance to judges and lawyers, governments, and policy makers around the world. He also develops and coordinates externships and other educational opportunities for students interested in international legal issues, and has supervised more than 150 such opportunities in the past three years. Professor Newton supervises Vanderbilt students who work to support complex criminal cases in domestic courts and tribunals around the world, and to advise the governments of Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Peru and other nations. Professor Newton negotiated the “Elements of Crimes” document for the International Criminal Court. As the senior advisor to the ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues in the U.S. State Department, Professor Newton implemented a wide range of policy positions related to the law of armed conflict, including U.S. support to accountability mechanisms worldwide. Before joining Vanderbilt, he served on the law faculties of West Point and the Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is presently serving on the Advisory Board of the ABA International Criminal Court project.

MiChAeL A. NeWToNprofessor of the practice of law Director, Vanderbilt in Venice summer study program

LL.M., J.D. University of Virginia; LL.M. The Judge Advocate General’s School; B.S., U.S. Military Academy at West Point

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International law, international criminal law, special tribunals, terrorism and counterterrorism, national security law

n Prosecuting Maritime Piracy: Domestic Solutions to international Crimes, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2015) (with Michael P. Scharf and Milena Sterio)

n Proportionality in international Law, oxford University Press (2014) (with Larry May)

n enemy of the State: The Trial and execution of Saddam hussein, St. Martin’s Press (2008). Winner, 2009 Book of the Year Award of the international Association of Penal Law, American National Section

n “evolving equality: The Development of the international Defense Bar,” 47 Stanford Journal of international Law 379 (2011). Winner, 2011 Article of the Year of the international Association of Penal Law, American National Section

n “exceptional engagement: Protocol i and a World United Against Terror,” 42 Texas Journal of international Law 2 (2009)

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roBerT S. reDerprofessor of the practice of law

J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, B.A. Williams College

AReAs oF expeRtIse:

Mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions

Bob Reder has 33 years of experience in transactional practice as a New York-based partner of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, where he practiced in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions and corporate groups from 1978 until his retirement in 2011. He became a partner in the firm in 1987 and was co-leader of the firm’s global corporate practice group from 2005 to 2009. Professor Reder represented clients from a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and technology, in M&A and capital market transactions, and advised them on a variety of corporate governance matters. Professor Reder is an editorial advisor and a frequent contributor to The Corporate Counsel, a professional journal, and to BNA Corporate Accountability Report. He is a member of the American and New York State Bar Associations. While earning his J.D. at Vanderbilt (1978), he was an articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. At Vanderbilt, Professor Reder teaches Advising Public Directors, Negotiated M&A, Negotiation and Drafting of Key Corporate Documents, and Current Issues in Transactional Practice.

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YoLi reDeroAssistant Clinical professor of law

J.D. University of Minnesota, M.Min. St. Thomas University, B.S. University of Miami

AReAs oF expeRtIse:

Domestic violence, family law and criminal law

Yoli Redero created and directs Vanderbilt’s Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic, which was originally funded with a grant from the Violence Against Women Office of the Department of Justice, and supervises students in live-client representation. She is licensed to practice in Florida and Tennessee. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, she was an Assistant State Attorney for Miami-Dade County, Florida, where she served as Assistant Chief of the Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Unit. In 2006 Professor Redero was a member of an interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt researchers that visited the Ecuadorian Andes, where she focused on indigenous people’s access to justice relating to domestic violence in Ecuador. She is a post chair of the Provost’s Task Force Against Sexual Assault at Vanderbilt University, which works to establish effective prevention programs and responses for campus sexual assaults and gender violence.

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DAViD h. WiLLiAMS iiVice Chancellor for Athletics and University Affairs | professor of law

LL.M. (Taxation) New York University; J.D, M.B.A. University of Detroit; M.A. (Education); B.S. Northern Michigan University

NiChoLAS S. zePPoSChancellor | professor of law

J.D., B.A. University of Wisconsin

David Williams joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2000, when he joined Vanderbilt University’s administration. Over the course of his career, Vice Chancellor Williams has written, lectured and participated in many seminars on topics of tax law, sports law, law and education, and legal history. In addition to serving on Vanderbilt’s law faculty, he has taught at the law schools of the University of Detroit, Capital University and Ohio State University, and he directed the Ohio State University law program in Oxford, England, in 1992 and 1995. Vice Chancellor Williams is an active member of the American Corporate Counsel Association and the American Bar Association, where he serves on the Bar Admissions Committee and has served as a member of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions Standards Review Committee and the Standing Committee on Public Education. As a member of the ABA’s Section of Business Law, Vice Chancellor Williams has served as co-chair of the Corporate Counsel Committee. He also has served on a number of ABA accreditation site visits of law schools and served on the Membership Review Committee of the American Association of Law Schools. He is a member of the board of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. He is currently serving his second three-year term as a member of the Nashville Branch of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Board. Before assuming the role of Vanderbilt University’s athletic director in July 2012, Vice Chancellor Williams also served as the university’s general counsel. He serves on the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s General Advisory Board and on its Infractions Appeals Committee. He is a member of the state Bars of Tennessee, Michigan and the District of Columbia.

Nicholas S. Zeppos was named Vanderbilt University’s eighth chancellor on March 1, 2008. A distinguished legal scholar, teacher and executive, Chancellor Zeppos served from 2002 to 2008 as Vanderbilt’s chief academic officer, overseeing the university’s undergraduate, graduate and professional education programs as well as research efforts in liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education, business, law and divinity. As provost and vice chancellor, he chaired Vanderbilt’s budgeting and capital planning council and led all fundraising and alumni relations efforts across the institution, in addition to overseeing the dean of students and dean of admissions. Chancellor Zeppos has led a number of important initiatives at Vanderbilt, including the planning processes for The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, a landmark transformation of the first-year experience, and College Halls at Kissam, the next phase of the university’s unique living-learning residential college system. Other key advancements include the Strategic Academic Planning Group; innovative efforts in undergraduate admissions and financial aid; and the development of new programs in Jewish studies, law and economics, and genetics. Chancellor Zeppos joined the Vanderbilt community in 1987 as an assistant professor in the law school, where he was recognized with five teaching awards. He subsequently served as an associate dean, then as associate provost before being named provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs in 2002. He served as interim chancellor of the university from August 1, 2007, until March 1, 2008, when he was appointed chancellor. Chancellor Zeppos serves on the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, the Newseum Institute Inc. Board, and as co-chair of the Senate-appointed Task Force on Government Regulation of Higher Education. He also currently serves as president of the executive committee of the Southeastern Conference.

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JeNNiFer S. SWezeYInterim Director of legal Research and Writing | Instructor in law

J.D. Rutgers University School of Law

M.A. University of Nottingham, England

B.A. Ursinus College

Jennifer Swezey has taught legal research and writing and served on the academic administrative staffs of Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida, and Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. She joined Vanderbilt’s Legal Writing faculty in 2007. Swezey began her career as an elementary school teacher before earning her law degree at Rutgers University School of Law. She has been admitted to the bar in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania. She also holds a master’s degree in critical theory from the University of Nottingham in England.

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Andrea M. AlexanderResearch services librarianlecturer in law

J.D. University of Wisconsin M.S. University of Michigan B.A. Michigan State University

Catherine DeaneForeign and International law librarianlecturer in law

M.L.I.S. San Jose State University J.D., M.A. University of Tulsa B.A. Princeton University

roger W. AlsupInstructor in law

J.D. Washington and Lee University MBA Vanderbilt University B.A. Vanderbilt University

Manisha DesaiInstructor in law

J.D. Cornell University B.A. University of Louisville

Jason L. BatesInstructor in law

J.D. Harvard Law School M.A. (History) Vanderbilt UniversityB.A. University of California, Berkeley

Lee DickinsonInstructor in law

J.D. Vanderbilt UniversityB.A. University of Memphis

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J.D., M.I.S. University of Missouri B.A. University of Maryland

Barbara A. roseInstructor in law

J.D., M.A.T. Vanderbilt University A.B. Brown University

Dorothy N. KeenanInstructor in law

J.D. Harvard Law School B.A. Tulane University

Jason SowardsAssociate Director for public serviceslecturer in law

J.D. University of LouisvilleM.Ed. Western Governors UniversityM.S.L.I.S., M.S., B.A. University of Kentucky

Julie F. TravisInstructor in lawAssociate, Russ Cook & Associates

J.D. Loyola University Chicago B.A. University of Michigan

Kelly L. MurrayInstructor in lawDirector, Vanderbilt Collaborative project

J.D. Harvard Law SchoolA.B. Stanford University

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PhiLLiP ACKerMAN-LieBerMANAssistant professor of Jewish studies and lawAssistant professor of Religious studiesAffiliated Assistant professor of Islamic studies and History

Ph.D. Princeton University | Rabbinic Ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary M.A. Jewish Theological Seminary | M.Sc. London School of EconomicsB.A. University of Washington

Phil Lieberman is Vanderbilt’s specialist in rabbinic literature and a historian of medieval Jewry. His research focuses on the social, economic and legal history of the Jewish community of North Africa and the Levant, particularly as documented in manuscript materials from the Cairo Geniza. He joined Vanderbilt’s faculty in 2009 from the faculty of New York University. His book, The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press.

WiLLiAM G. ChriSTieFrances Hampton Currey professor of Management in Finance | professor of law

Ph.D. (Finance and Economics) University of Chicago MBA (Finance) University of Chicago | B.S. (Commerce) Queens University

By studying the operations of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s, Bill Christie, along with Paul Schultz of Notre Dame, concluded that NASDAQ market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research subsequently resulted in a sweeping reform of the NASDAQ market and the introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules. Professor Christie served as Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management from 2000 to 2004.

MArK A. CoheNJustin potter professor of American Competitive enterprise | professor of lawUniversity Fellow, Resources for the Future

Ph.D., M. A. (Economics) Carnegie-Mellon University B.S.F.S. (International Economics) Georgetown University

Mark Cohen is an expert on government enforcement of policy mandates, having published more than 100 articles and books on such diverse topics as the effect of community right-to-know laws on firm behavior, why companies reduce toxic chemical emissions, benefit-cost analysis of oil spill regulation and enforcement, whether it pays to be green, and judicial sentencing of individuals and firms convicted of corporate crimes. From 2008 to 2011, he was vice president for research at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C., where he currently serves as University Fellow.

ANDreW F. DAUGheTYGertrude Conway Vanderbilt professor of economics | professor of law

Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University | M.A. University of Southern California

M.S. Case Western Reserve University | B.S. Case Institute of Technology

Andrew Daughety’s research relating to law focuses on models of settlement and negotiation, models of courts and court systems, products liability and safety, privacy, the market for legal services, and litigation funding. He is on the editorial board of The American Law and Economic Review, an associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and a past co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He recently served on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association.

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CoLiN DAYANRobert penn Warren professor in the Humanities | professor of law

Ph.D. City University Graduate Center B.A. Smith College

Colin Dayan studies American literature, Haitian historiography and American legal scholarship. Her most recent books are The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons (Princeton, 2011), which examines how the fictions and language of law turn persons (and other legal non-entities like dogs, ghosts, slaves, felons, and terror suspects) into “rightless objects,” and The Story of Cruel and Unusual (MIT Press, 2007), which exposes the paradox of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, showing that in the United States, cycles of jurisprudence safeguard rights and then justify their revocation. The Law Is a White Dog was selected by Choice as one of top-25 “Outstanding Academic Books” for 2011.

Leor hALeViAssociate professor of History | Associate professor of law

Ph.D. Harvard University M.A. Yale UniversityB.A. Princeton University

A historian of Islam, Leor Halevi explores the interrelationship between religious laws and social practices in various contexts. His book, Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press, 2007), won four prestigious awards, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, given by Phi Beta Kappa for notable scholarly contributions to the understanding of the cultural and intellectual condition of humanity, and the Albert Hourani Award, given by the Middle East Studies Association for the year’s best book in the field. His research has been funded by a fellowship at the John W. Kluge Center at Library of Congress, an American Philosophical Society grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Charles Ryskamp Fellowship, a Social Science Research Council grant, and a fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris. At Vanderbilt, he teaches Muhammad and Early Islam, Religion, Culture and Commerce: The World Economy in Historical Perspective, and The Shari’a: A History of Islamic Law.

DAViD e. LeWiSWilliam R. Kenan Jr. professor of political science | professor of law

Ph.D., M.A. Stanford UniversityM.A. University of ColoradoB.A. University of California, Berkeley

David Lewis’ research interests include the presidency, executive branch politics and public administration. He is the author of Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design (Stanford University Press, 2003), The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008) and numerous academic articles in political science and public administration. The Politics of Presidential Appointments received the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Public Administration Section and the Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Presidency Research Section.

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LArrY MAYW. Alton Jones professor of philosophy | professor of law

Ph.D. New School for Social ResearchJ.D. Washington UniversityB.S. Georgetown University

Larry May is a political philosopher who has written on conceptual issues in collective and shared responsibility, normative issues in international criminal law, professional ethics, and the Just War tradition. Professor May has published 30 books and more than 100 articles, and his works include a critically acclaimed four-volume series published by Cambridge University Press that addresses the moral foundations of international criminal law. Proportionality in International Law, a book addressing the difference between a war crime and a “proportional response” co-authored with Vanderbilt Law professor Michael Newton, was released by Oxford University Press in 2014.

JeNNiFer F. reiNGANUMe. Bronson Ingram professor of economics | professor of law

Ph.D., M.S. Northwestern University B.A. Oberlin College

Jennifer Reinganum’s legal research focuses on models of settlement negotiation, models of courts and court systems, products liability and safety, privacy, the market for legal services, litigation funding, and informal sanctions and plea bargaining. She is a former editor of the RAND Journal of Economics, a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, and a past president of the American Law and Economics Association. Before joining Vanderbilt’s economics department in 1995, she was taught economics at the University of Iowa and at California Institute of Technology.

r. LAWreNCe VAN horNAssociate professor of Management (economics) | Associate professor of law

executive Director of Health Affairs

Ph.D. University of PennsylvaniaM.B.A., M.P.H., B.A. University of Rochester

Larry Van Horn is a leading expert and researcher on health care management and economics. His current research focuses on nonprofit conduct, governance and objectives in healthcare markets, and the measurement of healthcare outcomes and productivity. Prior to joining Owen Graduate School of Management, Professor Van Horn served as associate professor of economics and management at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, where he created and served as director of the Institute for Health Care Management. He has been honored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellow.

ALAN e. WiSeMANAssociate professor of political science | Associate professor of law

Ph.D. (Business), M.A. (Political Science) Stanford UniversityB.A. (Political Science), B.A. (Economics-History) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Alan Wiseman studies the impact of political institutions on political actors’ behavior and strategies, focusing substantively on legislative, electoral, bureaucratic and regulatory politics in the U.S. He has written extensively on legal issues ranging from regulatory enforcement policies to interstate trade barriers to the taxation of electronic commerce. His current scholarship examines the causes and consequences of legislative effectiveness in the United States Congress, the political determinants of bureaucratic rulemaking and lawmaking in the United States and other developed democracies, and the emergence and consequences of industry self-regulation in different product and service markets.

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Russell Korobkin (J.D., B.A. stanford University) is the richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches contracts, negotiation, and health care law. Prior to entering the academy, Professor Korobkin served as judicial clerk for Judge James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and worked as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

Wolf-Georg Ringe (ph.D. University of Bonn, Germany; Magister Juris, University of oxford; Undergraduate Degree in law, University of Bonn) is a professor of international commercial law at Copenhagen Business School. he also teaches on the faculty of law at the University of oxford and is a research fellow at the oxford institute of european and Comparative Law and an associate member of the oxford-Man institute of Quantitative Finance. he has held visiting positions around the world, most recently a visiting professorship at Columbia Law School in spring 2014.

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lawrence Ahern (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a partner of Brown & Ahern, based in Nashville, with a national practice focused on legal consulting with professionals and alternate dispute resolution (ADr) involving questions of commercial, real estate and bankruptcy law. he is a Fellow of both the American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, a director of the Association of insolvency and restructuring Advisors, and serves on the advisory board of the LL.M. Bankruptcy Advisory Committee at St. John’s University School of Law.

Arshad Ahmed (J.D. University of pennsylvania; B.s. Cornell University) is a partner and adviser to private equity and venture capital firms and enterprises around the world. in 2012, he co-founded elixir Capital Management, a private equity fund manager. Before launching elixir Capital, he was a partner at Kirkland & ellis in San Francisco, where he focused on international corporate law, and a business counselor to private equity and venture capital firms.

Richard s. Aldrich (J.D. Vanderbilt University, A.B. Brown University) is a partner in the São Paulo office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, where he focuses on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private financings for companies and financial advisers in Brazil and the United States. he serves on the board of directors of Private export Funding Corporation and is a member of the advisory board of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, having served as the board’s president from 2005 to 2008.

Klinton W. Alexander (J.D. University of Virginia; ph.D., M.A. University of Cambridge; B.A. Yale University) is of counsel in the Nashville office of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, where he focuses on international law, commercial litigation and government affairs, including United Kingdom regulatory matters and energy and utility regulations. he was a trade negotiator in the Clinton administration during the 1990s.

paul W. Ambrosius (J.D. Columbia University, B.A. University of Chicago) is a member of Trauger & Tuke, where he practices complex litigation, appeals and intellectual property law with an emphasis on the technology, health care, securities and insurance sectors. Professor Ambrosius has produced and delivered seminars on appeals and health privacy issues. he recently served as Nashville counsel to a U.S. presidential campaign.

turney Berry (J.D. Vanderbilt University; B.A., B.l.s., University of Memphis) leads Wyatt Tarrant & Combs’ trusts, estates and personal planning team. he concentrates his practice in the areas of estate and business planning, estate and trust administration, and charitable giving and tax-exempt organizations.

eric Blinderman (J.D., B.s. Cornell law school; M.st. oxford University) addresses Foreign Corrupt Practice Act cases and extradition disputes, matters typically brought before the international Criminal Court and other ad-hoc tribunals as an international litigation counsel at Proskauer rose.

Gordon Bonnyman (J.D. University of tennessee, B.A. princeton University) co-founded the Tennessee Justice Center, where his advocacy focused on achieving access to healthcare for the poor and uninsured. Professor Bonnyman also represented low-income clients in a variety of civil matters for 23 years as a staff attorney at Legal Services of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. he is an expert in health policy.

linda K. Breggin (J.D. University of Chicago, B.A. tulane University) has been a senior attorney with the environmental Law institute in Washington, D.C., for more than 15 years. her legal research and casework focuses on agriculture, nanotechnology, non-point- and point-source water pollution, and environmental enforcement. early in her career, she served in the environmental Protection Agency’s office of enforcement and in the White house office on environmental Policy.

larry W. Bridgesmith (J.D. Wayne state University, B.A. oakland University) was the founding executive director of the institute for Conflict Management at Lipscomb University. he has nearly 30 years of experience in dispute resolution and practices of counsel with Bone McAllester Norton.

Judge sheila J. Calloway (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a juvenile court judge for Metropolitan Nashville and a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Court improvement Project. Before her election to the bench in 2014, she served as a juvenile court magistrate for more than 10 years, before which she worked at the Metropolitan Public Defender’s office in both the adult and juvenile systems.

Jenny Diamond Cheng (ph.D. University of Michigan, J.D. Harvard law school, B.A. swarthmore College) focuses on the intersection of law and political theory. her doctoral dissertation examined the political debates leading up to the constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. She has been a visiting assistant professor of law at Brooklyn Law School and a Miller Center Fellow in Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

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William M. Cohen (J.D. Georgetown University, A.B. Rutgers University) was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee for nearly 30 years, where he prosecuted cases involving complex fraud, public corruption, civil rights, narcotics and violent crime. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, he served as a law clerk for Chief Judge L. Clure Morton of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Christopher Coleman (J.D., M.A. northwestern University; M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a staff attorney at the Tennessee Justice Center, where he provides legal representation to the poor and underserved. Before joining TJC, Professor Coleman was an associate of Lieff Cabraser heimann & Bernstein, where he represented plaintiffs in antitrust and mass torts litigation. early in his career, he was a law clerk for Judge Joan humphrey Lefkow of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of illinois.

Roger l. Conner (J.D. University of Michigan, B.A. oberlin College) is engaged in teaching, research and consulting on advocacy strategies, group conflict resolution and polarization. Building on three decades of experience as a nonprofit executive, lobbyist, litigator, organizer and facilitator, Professor Conner designs and implements large-scale, multi-party consensus-building and conflict resolution on contentious public policy issues and works with NGos on strategic planning.

Robert e. Cooper Jr. (J.D. Yale law school, B.A. princeton University) has served as Attorney General for the State of Tennessee since 2006. he had previously served as legal counsel to Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen.

Matthew M. Curley (J.D. Vanderbilt University; B.A. state University of new York, Albany) is a member at Bass Berry & Sims. he previously served as civil chief at the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Tennessee, where he supervised attorneys in the Civil Division in their work focusing on affirmative civil enforcement.

Judge Allison Danner (J.D. stanford University, B.A. Williams College) was appointed to the Superior Court for the State of California, Santa Clara County, in 2012. Before her appointment to the bench, she worked for five years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California. She taught courses in international and criminal law at Vanderbilt from 2001 to 2007.

s. Carran Daughtrey (J.D., B.e. Vanderbilt University; M.s. University of Wisconsin, Madison) is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. She is assigned to the general crimes unit of the criminal division, where she is the Project Safe Childhood coordinator and handles child exploitation cases. She also prosecutes fraud and environment cases.

C. Dawn Deaner (J.D. George Washington University, B.A. Columbia University) is Metropolitan Nashville’s Public Defender, heading the office that represents individuals charged with serious felony cases in all Davidson County courts. She was an assistant public defender in Nashville for more than 12 years before becoming Nashville’s Public Defender.

Diane Di Ianni (J.D. new York University, M.A. University of Virginia, B.A. University of new Hampshire) has practiced law for two decades, focusing on complex civil litigation, civil rights litigation and public-sector law. She served two terms as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar overseers’ hearing panel on attorney discipline and, in 2006, was appointed to the Board of Bar overseers by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She is a member of the ABA Center for Professional responsibility.

Jason epstein (J.D., B.A. University of tennessee) is a partner and the co-head of the technology and procurement industry group at Nelson Mullins, where he represents buyers and sellers of technology both domestically and internationally. he has 18 years of experience in business and technology negotiations from both vendor and buyer perspectives.

William H. Farmer (J.D. University of tennessee, B.A. Austin peay University) is a member of Jones hawkins & Farmer, where his practice emphasizes commercial, tort, probate and criminal litigation, land condemnation and attorney discipline. he was previously a litigator with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis and has served as an assistant U.S. attorney and the first Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Tennessee as well as an advocate general for the State of Tennessee.

Glenn Funk (J.D. University of Mississippi, B.A. Wake Forest University) is a veteran trial attorney with 29 years of courtroom experience who now serves as Metropolitan Nashville’s District Attorney. he began his legal career as an assistant public defender in Shelby County, Tennessee, and then was an assistant district attorney in Davidson County before starting his own law practice in 1989. Professor Funk has served as a special prosecutor in cases where other district attorneys had a conflict of interest.

Jason Gichner (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. Colgate University) has more than 10 years of experience as a litigator, practicing both general civil litigation and criminal law. Professor Gichner began his legal career in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s office and now practices with Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella.

Vice Chancellor sam Glasscock III (J.D. Duke University; M.A., B.A. University of Delaware) was appointed as vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2011 after having served from 1999 to 2011 as master in chancery. Before his appointment to the Court of Chancery, he was a deputy attorney general in the appeals unit of the Department of Justice, a special discovery master for the Delaware Superior Court, and a litigation associate at Prickett Jones elliott Kristol & Schnee.

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nancy Hale (J.D. University of north Carolina, B.A. pfeiffer University) is an associate area counsel in the internal revenue Service’s office of the Chief Counsel, based in Nashville. She has more than 25 years of experience handling civil tax, criminal tax and bankruptcy issues, including trial experience before the U.S. Tax Court.

Jerome Hesch (J.D. University of Buffalo; MBA, B.A. University of Michigan) practices of counsel with Berger Singerman in Miami, Florida, as a tax and estate planning consultant for lawyers and other estate planning professionals throughout the country. his co-authored casebook, Federal income Taxation, is now in its third edition. Professor hesch served with the internal revenue Service’s office of Chief Counsel in Washington, D.C., from 1970 to 1975.

Darwin Hindman III (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) leads Baker Donelson’s government contracts practice. Based in Nashville and Washington, D.C., he represents businesses of all sizes involved in state and federal contracts in court and before administrative agencies and procurement offices.

Justice Randy J. Holland (ll.M. University of Virginia, J.D. University of pennsylvania, B.A. swarthmore College, ll.D. [honorary] Widener University) is a justice on the Delaware Supreme Court. The youngest person ever to serve on the Delaware Supreme Court at his confirmation in 1986, Justice holland was a partner at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell before taking the bench.

David l. Hudson Jr. (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. Duke University) is the author, co-author or co-editor of more than 40 books on the First Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court as well as several books devoted to student-speech issues and others areas of student rights. he also serves as a First Amendment contributing editor for the American Bar Association’s Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases. he is a senior law clerk for Justice Sharon G. Lee of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Abrar Hussain (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. Cornell University) is co-founder and managing director of elixir Capital Management, a private equity fund manager focused on growth-stage emerging market investments. Before co-founding elixir, Professor hussain was a partner at Kirkland & ellis’ San Francisco office, where he represented multinational companies.

lynne t. Ingram (J.D. Cooley law school, B.A. University of south Carolina) is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. She has conducted and prosecuted numerous complex narcotics investigations in the organized Crime and Drug enforcement Task Force Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Justice Jack B. Jacobs (ll.B. Harvard law school, ll.D. [honorary] Widener University, B.A. University of Chicago) was appointed to the Delaware Supreme Court in 2003 after serving as a Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery for 18 years. Justice Jacobs is a member of the American Law institute, where he served as an advisor to its restatement (Third) of restitution. he is currently serving as an advisor to the ALi’s Principles of the Law of Liability insurance project.

Marc Jenkins (ll.M. University of Alabama, J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. University of Mississippi) is vice president of knowledge strategy for Cicayda, a litigation support software and services company based in Nashville. Before joining Cicayda, Professor Jenkins was the founder and managing partner of hubbard & Jenkins, where he focused on information and litigation risk management, and a partner with hubbard Berry & harris.

Martesha Johnson (J.D. University of tennessee, B.s. tennessee state University) is an assistant public defender in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Defender’s office, where she currently serves as a team leader in Division ii Criminal Court. Professor Johnson is a graduate member of Gideon’s Promise and a speaker with the program. She currently serves on the Community Corrections Advisory Board.

Michele Johnson (J.D., B.A. University of tennessee) is co-founder and executive director of the Tennessee Justice Center, where the focus of her nationally recognized legal work has been children with special health care needs. As lead counsel, she negotiated a class action settlement requiring comprehensive reform of health care for 665,000 Tennessee children.

lydia Jones (ll.M. new York University, J.D. Boston University, B.A. Boston College) has 20 years of business and legal experience in the internet media space and was one of the first civil lawyers in the country to practice in the fields of internet law and online privacy. She is founding president of Nashville-based inSage, which helps companies balance their commercial interests in leveraging acquired consumer data with consumer privacy rights and regulations.

Judge Kent A. Jordan (J.D. Georgetown University, B.A. Brigham Young University) was appointed Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 2006 by President George W. Bush. Prior to that appointment, Judge Jordan was a U.S. District Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. early in his legal career, Judge Jordan was a law clerk for Judge James L. Latchum of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and then an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.

David A. Katz (J.D. new York University, B.A. Brandeis University) is a partner at Wachtell Lipton rosen & Katz in New York, where he specializes in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and complex securities transactions. he has been involved in many major domestic and international corporate merger, acquisition and buyout transactions, strategic defense assignments and proxy contests, and complex public and private offerings and corporate restructurings.

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suzanne H. Kessler (J.D., M.A. stanford University; A.B. Brown University) is an entertainment attorney, artist management and documentary filmmaker and owns a music production company. She provides entertainment and intellectual property law counsel to entertainment industry clients.

Judge e. Clifton Knowles (J.D. University of tennessee, B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge Knowles practiced law for 20 years as a partner with Bass Berry & Sims before his appointment to the bench. Following law school, he was a law clerk for Judge George edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Alex little (J.D. Georgetown University; B.A. University of north Carolina, Chapel Hill) is a member with Bone McAllester Norton where he focuses on criminal defense, government investigations, criminal and civil appeals. he previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, where he was coordinator of the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council for the office.

William e. Martin (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is the principal of the Will Martin Company. he is general counsel for Tennessee-based FirstBank and chairs the board of the Marine Stewardships Council, a global NGo based in London. he is a member of the board of the ocean Conservancy in Washington, D.C., and has served on the World economic Forum (Davos) Global Agenda Council on ocean Governance and as head of international policy at the National oceanic & Atmospheric Association.

Cheryl W. Mason (J.D. University of Chicago, B.A. purdue University) is vice president of litigation for hCA, a large, privately held healthcare company headquartered in Nashville, where she oversees the litigation section of hCA’s legal department. Before joining hCA in 2005, Mason was chief of the civil liability management branch for the City of Los Angeles and served as general counsel to the Los Angeles Police Department. From 1987 to 2002, Professor Mason was a litigation partner in the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of the international law firm of o’Melveny & Myers, where she handled complex litigation.

Joseph C. McCarty (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. University of Mississippi) is an adjunct professor and a commercial arbitrator/mediator who teaches business law and negotiation. he has more than 10 years’ experience as a Ceo and international division president for Fedex and Fedex Logistics.

Richard McGee (J.D. University of tennessee, B.A. Middle tennessee state University) is an experienced criminal defense lawyer. he began his career in Nashville’s Public Defenders office in 1978, where he worked for five years before founding his own criminal defense practice. During his three decades of practice, he has been lead or co-counsel to more than 100 murder cases, handled hundreds of drug cases and defended clients accused of robbery, kidnapping, embezzlement, assault and theft.

James p. Mcnamara (J.D., B.A. University of north Carolina, Chapel Hill) is an assistant public defender in the office of the Public Defender for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County.

Francisco Müssnich (ll.M. Harvard law school, ll.B. Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) is a partner at Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão in São Paulo and rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he specializes in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, arbitration, privatization, international business transactions, securities regulation, capital markets and corporate taxation.

William l. norton (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, where he has practiced in the business bankruptcy area since 1982. he is also the managing editor of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a 13-volume treatise on bankruptcy law published by Thomson reuters, currently in its third edition, and co-author of a handbook entitled Norton Creditors’ rights handbook (Thomson reuters, 2014).

J. Allen overby (ll.M. Georgetown University, J.D. University of Mississippi, B.A. Millsaps College) is a member of Bass Berry & Sims, where he represents publicly-traded and private companies in a broad range of transactional, corporate governance and securities regulation matters. he previously served as an attorney at the Securities and exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

C. Mark pickrell (J.D. University of tennessee, A.B. Harvard College) practices trial and appellate litigation as principle attorney and owner of Pickrell Law Group. he focuses on domestic and international business litigation involving contracts, fraud, business torts, corporate governance, securities and antitrust litigation.

steven A. Riley (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a founding partner of riley Warnock & Jacobson, where his practice focuses on complex civil litigation.

Brian D. Roark (J.D. University of north Carolina, B.A. lipscomb University) heads Bass Berry & Sims’ litigation practice as well as the firm’s healthcare fraud task force. he concentrates his practice on representing healthcare clients facing governmental investigations and related litigation.

linda Rose (J.D., M.p.H. University of Hawaii; M.l.s. Boston University) is the founder and managing partner of the rose immigration Law firm. She is an immigration law expert who has focused on immigration and nationality law for more than 25 years. She served on the American immigration Lawyers Association’s board of governors for 14 years.

John Ryder (J.D. Vanderbilt University, A.B. Wabash College) is a member of harris Shelton hanover Walsh in Memphis, Tennessee. he has represented clients in numerous cases involving election contests and redistricting matters, and serves as general counsel of the republican National Committee, as litigation counsel for the Shelby County, Tennessee, election Commission, and on the Shelby County home rule Charter Commission. he is also vice president of the republican National Lawyers Association.

Richard G. sanders Jr. (J.D. Vanderbilt University; M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; B.A. University of California, Berkeley) is a founding and managing partner of Aaron & Sanders, where he focuses on intellectual property, internet law, privacy and litigation. he frequently lectures and writes on topics relating to intellectual property and copyright law.

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paul t. schnell (J.D. new York University, B.A. Amherst College) is a partner in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, where his practice focuses on U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions, and an internationally recognized lawyer in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, finance, corporate practice, corporate governance, health care and Latin America.

Dumaka shabazz (J.D., B.A. University of tennessee, Knoxville) is a federal public defender based in Nashville, Tennessee, where he represents clients charged with fraud, homicide, and other violent, white-collar or large-scale narcotics crimes. Before joining the Federal Public Defender’s office in 2010, Professor Shabazz was a criminal defense attorney in private practice for five years. he is a staff teacher at the New Defender College for newly hired federal public defenders, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Justin A. shuler (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. University of Colorado) is an associate with Paul Weiss, where he focuses his practice on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery. After graduating from Vanderbilt Law School, he served a clerkship there with Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock iii, with whom he co-teaches Corporate Litigation.

William M. stern (M.p.A. Harvard University, B.A. Williams College) is a journalist and author who has been a staff writer for publications around the globe. his works have appeared in publications such as Forbes, Business Week, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, The Weekly Standard and The New republic.

J. Gerard stranch IV (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. emory University) is the partner-in-charge of the class action, complex litigation and mass tort practice at Branstetter Stranch & Jennings. he has led or participated as a part of the legal team in suits involving class actions and complex litigation addressing securities law, labor and employment, consumer protection and civil litigation.

Chief Justice leo e. strine Jr. (J.D. University of pennsylvania, B.A. University of Delaware) was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court on February 28, 2014, having previously served as the Chancellor of the Court of Chancery since June 2011 and as Vice Chancellor since 1998.

Bruce sullivan (B.A. David lipscomb University) is a Certified Public Accountant who spent more than 30 years in ernst & ernst’s national accounting department, serving as a technical partner, audit partner and office managing partner over the course of his career. early in his career, he helped start the Financial Standards Account Board (FASB) fellowship program.

Casey Gill summar (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.F.A. Belmont University) is the executive director of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville. Active in the Nashville arts and legal communities, she currently serves on the Pro Bono Advisory Committee of the Tennessee Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission, on the executive Council of Tennessee Bar Association entertainment & Sports Law Section, and on the board of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services.

Wendy s. tucker (J.D., B.A. tulane University) is an attorney with McGee Lyons and Ballinger, where she represents individuals as a private criminal defense attorney. Before entering private practice, she was an assistant public defender in Nashville. Professor Tucker co-founded the Special education Advocacy Center of Tennessee before moving into the role of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean’s senior adviser on education in 2012. She was appointed to a five-year term on the Tennessee Board of education in 2014.

timothy l. Warnock (J.D. University of tennessee, B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a founding partner of riley Warnock & Jacobson. he has extensive experience in corporate and business, entertainment, intellectual property, construction, employment and general commercial litigation.

Robert C. Watson (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University; M.s. (Criminal Justice) Auburn University) is senior vice president and chief legal officer of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. he previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Middle Tennessee.

William J. Whalen (J.D. Catholic University, M.B.A. stanford University, B.A. University of Detroit) is chief financial officer for the Catholic Diocese of Nashville. he had previously served as assistant general counsel and legal director at Nissan North America and as general counsel of Nissan Canada. he is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant.

Justin p. Wilson (ll.M. new York University, J.D. Vanderbilt University, A.B. stanford University) is Tennessee’s Comptroller of the Treasury. Before entering public service, he was a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, where his practice focused on environmental and energy matters and government relations, as well as trust and estate planning and charitable organizations.

thomas A. Wiseman III (J.D. Vanderbilt University, B.A. Washington & lee University) is a partner at Wiseman Ashworth Law Group, a Nashville firm that focuses on civil litigation. his practice focuses on medical and hospital malpractice litigation, civil litigation and professional liability.

Mariah A. Wooten (J.D. University of tennessee, B.A. Fisk University) is a deputy federal public defender for the Middle District of Tennessee. She has been a staff attorney in the U.S. Federal Defender’s office since 1985 and before that was in private practice and with the Metro Public Defender’s office.

Research Associate

Caroline Cecot (ph.D., J.D. Vanderbilt University (law and economics); A.B. Harvard University) is the Postdoctoral research Scholar in Law and economics and the third graduate of Vanderbilt’s J.D./Ph.D. in Law and economics Program. Prior to her studies, she spent two years working as a research associate at the Aei-Brookings Joint Center for regulatory Studies.

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