2021–2022 FACULTY BOOK RELEASES
RECENT HONORS
RECENT APPOINTMENTS
• Brian Broughman, with Smith and Hurt, eds: The Cambridge Handbook of Law & Entrepreneurship in the U.S., 2022 • Edward K. Cheng, Christopher Slobogin, et al., eds.: Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, 2021–22 • Brian Fitzpatrick and Randall Thomas, eds: The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions: An International Survey, 2021 • Daniel Gervais: The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, Sweet & Maxwell, 5th ed. 2021; The Future of Intellectual Property (ed.), 2021 • Owen Jones (with Shall and Shen), Law and Neuroscience, 2nd ed. 2021 • Edward Rubin: Making Regulation Work: Policies, Techniques and the Abolition of Property Restrictions, Eliva Press, 2021 • Ganesh Sitaraman & Morgan Ricks (with Walton & Menand): Network, Platforms & Utilities: Law and Policy, 2022 • Christopher Slobogin: Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing, NYU Press, 2022
• Michael Vandenbergh is a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and was awarded $200,000 to support his research into overcoming political polarization to address climate change.
Rebecca Allensworth was named to a David Daniels Allen Chair in Law and was appointed associate dean for research effective Jan. 1, 2023. Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk has been named to the Tarkington Chair of Teaching Excellence. She also holds the Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law. Jessica Clarke and Amanda Rose were named to Cornelius Vanderbilt Chairs. Francesca Procaccini joined VLS as an assistant professor. Sean Seymore joined VLS as a Centennial Professor. Matthew Shaw joined VLS as an assistant professor. Yesha Yadav was named to a Milton R. Underwood Chair.
• Terry Maroney is a 2022 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, working on a book examining the role of emotion in judicial decision-making.
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AT VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL
• Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk is co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law. • Yesha Yadav received a 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Research to recognize her work focusing on regulatory oversight of the U.S. Treasury market. • Jennifer Shinall received a 2022 Chancellor’s Award for Research for her study of which laws designed to assist pregnant women in the workplace actually succeed.
STRONG SCHOLARLY METRICS
2021–2022 SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES • Rebecca Allensworth: “Honoring the Public Trust: Curbing the Bane of Physician Sexual Misconduct,” 9 Journal of Law & Biosciences 1 (2022, with Sindhu et al.) • Lisa Bressman: “The Rise and Fall of the Self-Regulatory Court,” 101 Texas Law Review 1 (2022) • Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk: “Sovereign Immunity as Liminal Space,” 32 European Journal of International Law 1501 (2021, with Stewart) • Edward Cheng: “Sequencing in Damages,” 74 Stanford Law Review 353 (with Guttel and Procaccia, 2022) • Brian Fitzpatrick: “Many Minds, Many MDL Judges,” 84 Law & Contemporary Problems 107 (2021) • Joseph Fishman: “Authorizing Prior Art,” 75 Vanderbilt Law Review 1159 (2022, with Garcia) • Daniel Gervais: “AI Derivatives: The Application to the Derivative Work Right to Literary and Artistic Productions of AI Machines,” 53 Seton Hall Law Review 1111 (2022)
• Joni Hersch: “Affirmative Action and the Leadership Pipeline,” 96 Tulane Law Review 1 (2021) • Owen Jones: “The Future of Law and Neuroscience,” 63 William & Mary Law Review 1317 (2022) • Nancy King: “Handling Aggravating Facts after Blakely - Findings from Five Presumptive Guideline States,” 99 North Carolina Law Review 1241 (2021) • Terry Maroney: “Judicial Temperament Explained,” 105 Judicature 48 (2021) • Sara Mayeux: “And a Public Defender for All,” Inquest (April 12, 2022) • Rob Mikos: “Unauthorized and Unwise: The Lawful Use Requirement in Trademark Law,” 75 Vanderbilt Law Review 161 (2022) • Francesca Procaccini: “Equal Speech Protection,” 108 Virginia Law Review 353 (2022) • Morgan Ricks: “Federal Corporate Law & the Business of Banking,” 88 University of Chicago Law Review 1361 (2021, with Menand) • Amanda Rose: “Classification.gov,” 88 University of Chicago Law Review 437 (2021)
• Jim Rossi: “Energy Federalism’s Claim,” 134 Harvard Law Review Forum 228 (2021) • Edward Rubin: “Criminal Justice through Management: From Police, Prosecutors, Courts and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency,” 100 Oregon Law Review 261 (2022, with Feeley) • J.B. Ruhl: “Adapting to 4 Degrees C World,” 52 Environmental Law Reporter 10211 (2022); “Whence We Came: Part II,” 26 TYL 4 (2021–22) • Jeffrey Schoenblum: “The Nonfiduciary ‘Trust,’” 46 ACTEC Law Journal 357 (2021) • Christopher Serkin: “What Property Does,” 75 Vanderbilt Law Review 891 (2022) • Sean Seymore: “Unclean Patents,” 102 Boston University Law Review (2022) • Daniel Sharfstein: “Brown, Massive Resistance and the Lawyer’s View: A Nashville Story,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review 1435 (2021) • Jennifer Shinall: “Without Accommodation,” 97 Indiana Law Journal 1147 (2022); “Protecting Pregnancy,” 106 Cornell Law Review 987 (2021)
VLS faculty rank among the most influential scholars in these areas based on 2016–20 citations: • Lisa Bressman (11th), Jim Rossi (18th), Edward Rubin (10th) and J.B. Ruhl (13th)—public law • Edward Cheng, 7th (tied)—evidence • Chris Guthrie, 5th—law and social science • Christopher Serkin, 8th—property law • Christopher Slobogin, 4th—criminal law/criminal procedure • Randall Thomas, 19th—corporate law • W. Kip Viscusi, 11th—law and economics
• Ganesh Sitaraman: ”The Regulation of Foreign Platforms,” 74 Stanford Law Review 1073 (2022) • Paige Skiba: “Time to Repay or Time to Delay? The Effect of Having More Time Before a Payday Loan Is Due,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2022, with Carter, Liu and Sydnor) • Christopher Slobogin: “Equality in the Streets: Using Proportionality Analysis to Regulate Street Policing,” 2 American Journal of Law & Equality 36 (2022) • Kevin Stack: “The False Allure of the AntiAccumulation Principle,” 102 Boston University Law Review 925 (2022, with Herz) • Randall Thomas: “A Revised Monitoring Model Confronts Today’s Movement Toward Managerialism,” 99 Texas Law Review 1275 (2021, with Cox) • Michael Vandenbergh: “Plan B: Linking Public and Private Governance Systems for Climate Change Mitigation,” 35 Amplify 35 (2022, with Fisk and Mahoney) • W. Kip Viscusi: “Efficient Ethical Principles for Making Fatal Choices,” 96 Notre Dame Law Review 1461 (2021) • Yesha Yadav: “The Failed Regulation of U.S. Treasury Markets,” 121 Columbia Law Review 1173 (2021)
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faculty publications in 2021–22 —books, journal articles, monographs and book chapters
• Ranked 5th in scholarly impact, Sag, “A Simple and Inclusive Citation Ranking of U.S. Law Schools,” 2021 • Ranked 5th in the nation in Heald & Sichelman’s 2019 comprehensive analysis of law faculty impact • Ranked 9th in the nation in a 2021 ranking of scholarly impact based on citations (Gregory Sisk, et al.) • Ranked 9th in the nation in interdisciplinary impact based on a 2019 count of citations conducted by Ruhl, Vandenbergh and Dunaway
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2021 Inclusive Citation Ranking by Matthew Sag based on the total of all faculty citations over the most recent five years