Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Guide by Vanderbilt Law School

Faculty Guide

2022

Many professors at Vanderbilt are leading legal scholars in their areas of focus and receive national attention in the legal academy and during significant legal events. But—more importantly to the student experience— professors do not subscribe to the false trade-off between scholarship and teaching. They want to excel in both, and it shows. Vanderbilt professors are knowledgeable, interesting and entertaining teachers who genuinely care about their students’ success. GRIFFIN FARHA

| Class of 2019 Associate, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C. 2021–22 Clerk, Judge Kent A. Jordan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 2022–23 Clerk, Judge Richard J. Leon, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

CONTENTS

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

2-45

Clinical and Skills Faculty

46-57

Legal Research and Writing Faculty

58-61

Jointly Appointed Faculty

62-69

Affiliated Faculty

70-75

Learn from leading legal scholars.

Vanderbilt’s law faculty ranked 5th among U.S. law schools in a study, “Ranking the Academic Impact of 100 American Law Schools,” published in 2019. The study, by Paul J. Heald of Illinois Law and Ted M. Sichelman of University of California San Diego Law, ranked faculty impact based on how often their scholarly work was downloaded and cited by other scholars.

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

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Dean | John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Chris Guthrie is a leading expert on behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation and judicial decision-making. He has served as dean of Vanderbilt Law School since 2009, having previously served as associate dean for academic affairs from 2004 to 2008 Over the course of his academic career, Dean Guthrie has been recognized for his research and teaching with two CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution Professional Article Prizes, the 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. He is one of the authors of the influential textbook Dispute Resolution and Lawyers and has published more than 50 scholarly articles and essays in leading law journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Guthrie joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2002 following six years on the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Law. During his academic career, Guthrie has served as a visiting professor at the Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Washington University law schools. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California. Guthrie graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University and then earned his master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a law degree from Stanford Law School. At Vanderbilt, Dean Guthrie has taught Torts, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Dispute Resolution and Lawyers, West Publishing (6th edition, 2019) (with Leonard R. Riskin, Richard C. Reuben, Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Nancy A. Welsh and Art Hinshaw) 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) 3

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

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

CHRIS GUTHRIE

] REBECCA HAW ALLENSWORTH

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REBECCA HAW ALLENSWORTH Tarkington Chair in Teaching Excellence | Professor of Law

J.D. Harvard Law School; M.Phil. Cambridge University; B.A. Yale University RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Antitrust law, state regulatory law, professional licensing

Rebecca Haw Allensworth studies antitrust and the regulatory infrastructure of professional licensing. Her research on professional licensing explores how lawmakers should balance the need for expertise in regulating the professions with the problems that can arise from self-regulation. Her essay about unethical prescribers, “Licensed to Pill,” appeared in the New York Review of Books in June 2020, and she is currently writing a book about professional licensing boards and selfregulation. Her work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and has received the 13th annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for groundbreaking antitrust scholarship. Professor Allensworth earned her undergraduate degree from Yale and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University before earning her J.D. at Harvard Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Allensworth served as law clerk to Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School before coming to Vanderbilt. Allensworth teaches Contracts, Antitrust Law and an advanced antitrust course focused on Big Tech. She is a four-time winner of the Hall-Hartman Award for excellence in teaching and was also selected by the class of 2019 to be their Commencement speaker.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Foxes at the Henhouse: Occupational Licensing Boards Up Close,” 105 California Law Review 1567 (2017) n “The New Antitrust Federalism,” 102 Virginia Law Review 1387 (2016) n “The Commensurability Myth in Antitrust,” 69 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2016) n “Law and The Art of Modeling: Are Models Facts?” 103 Georgetown Law Journal 825 (2015) n “Cartels by Another Name: Should Licensed Occupations Face Antitrust Scrutiny?” 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1093 (2014) (with Aaron Edlin) (Cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC 574 U.S. 494 (2015))

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University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law and Policy Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management Director, Vanderbilt Health Policy Center

Jim Blumstein ranks among the nation’s most prominent scholars of health law, law and medicine, and voting rights. He is currently one of eight 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 School of Medicine. The director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, 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 Blumstein to the National Academy of Sciences’ National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), and he was awarded the Earl Sutherland Prize, which is 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. Blumstein has been the Olin Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an adjunct professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and a visiting professor at Duke Law School and at Duke’s Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs. He has served as former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s counsel on TennCare reform and has participated actively in a number of Supreme Court cases, arguing three. In 2014, Blumstein received a secondary appointment as a professor of management at the Owen Graduate School of Management. A dedicated teacher, Blumstein has received the law school’s student-sponsored Hall-Hartman Award for excellence in teaching. He joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 1970. He teaches Constitutional Law I and II and the Health Policy seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Enforcing Limits on the Affordable Care Act’s Mandated Medicaid Expansion: The Coercion Principle and the Clear Notice Rule,” 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) 5

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Health law and public policy, constitutional law

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

JAMES F. BLUMSTEIN

] LISA SCHULTZ BRESSMAN

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LISA SCHULTZ BRESSMAN RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Administrative law, constitutional theory, statutory interpretation

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law

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

Lisa Schultz Bressman is an innovative scholar in administrative law and statutory interpretation. She ranks among the top 10 most-cited scholars in the area of public law for the period from 2013 to 2017 in the Leiter Score scholarly impact rankings. Her recent work offers current snapshots of the administrative state, including an article with colleague Kevin Stack describing Chevron as a phoenix likely to rise from the ashes even if overruled, an essay examining the view of Chief Justice Roberts on the legitimacy of modern agency structure, and an essay exploring an early effort of President Biden to reenvision regulatory review. Her prior work includes an article with Abbe Gluck of Yale Law School discussing the results of the largest empirical study to date of congressional drafting and the implications for statutory interpretation and administrative law. Other articles attempt 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. Her article, 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 as well as an empirical study done with colleague Michael Vandenbergh on the agency experience with presidential control. She has co-authored, with Vanderbilt colleagues Edward Rubin and Kevin Stack, The Regulatory State, a course book designed to teach statutes and regulations to students, particularly in the first year of law school. Bressman began a term as associate dean for academic affairs in 2021, having previously served in the same position from 2010 to 2016. She was co-director of Vanderbilt’s Regulatory Program from 2006 to 2010. 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge José A. Cabranes when he was Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut. She was a Roscoe Pound Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in fall 2008. Bressman teaches Administrative Law, Regulatory State and the Behind the Curtain of the Supreme Court seminar. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Chevron Is a Phoenix,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review 465 (2021) (with Kevin Stack) n “Statutory Interpretation from the Inside—An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation and the Canons: Part I,” 65 Stanford Law Review 901 (2013); “Part II,” 66 Stanford Law Review 725 (2014) (with Abbe R. Gluck) n “Reclaiming the Legal Fiction of Congressional Delegation,” 97 Virginia Law Review 2009 (2011) n “Procedures as Politics in Administrative Law,” 107 Columbia Law Review 1749 (2007) n “Inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control,” 105 Michigan Law Review 1 (2006) (with Michael Vandenbergh) 6

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Professor of Law

Brian Broughman’s research focuses on corporate governance and financial contracting, particularly in startup firms financed by venture capital. Professor Broughman entered the legal academy after earning his Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation examined how governance arrangements mitigate the risk of opportunistic conduct between business founders and venture capital investors. His research also includes empirical studies related to mergers and acquisitions, shareholder voting, founder control rights, and the dominance of Delaware corporate law nationwide. Broughman’s work has been published in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Studies and Journal of Corporate Finance. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Broughman taught for 11 years at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, where he also served for two years as associate dean for research. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He practiced corporate law in Chicago immediately after earning his J.D. from the University of Michigan.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Do Founders Control Startup Firms that Go Public?” 10 Harvard Business Law Review 49 (2020) (with Jesse Fried) n “Merger Negotiations in the Shadow of Judicial Appraisal,” 62 Journal of Law and Economics 281 (2019) (with Audra Boone and Antonio Macias) n “Shareholder Decision Rights in Acquisitions: Evidence from Tender Offers,” 53 Journal of Corporate Finance 225 (2018) (with Audra Boone and Antonio Macias) n “CEO Side-Payments in M&A Deals,” 2017 Brigham Young University Law Review 67 (2017) n “After the Override: An Empirical Analysis of Shadow Precedent,” 46 Journal of Legal Studies 51 (2017) (with Deborah Widiss)

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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; J.D. University of Michigan; B.A. University of Chicago

Venture capital, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, financial contract design, corporate governance

BRIAN BROUGHMAN

] EDWARD K. CHENG

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EDWARD K. CHENG Hess Chair in Law RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Scientific evidence, statistical approaches to evidence

Ph.D. Columbia University; J.D. Harvard Law School; M.S. London School of Economics and Political Science; B.S.E. Princeton University 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, a five-volume treatise that is updated annually, and he is the host of Excited Utterance, a podcast focusing on scholarship in evidence and proof. His articles, in which he explores evidence law from an empirical and statistical perspective, have been published in the Journal of Legal Studies, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review, among other prestigious law journals. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia University. Professor Cheng teaches Evidence, Torts, and a seminar on Scientific Evidence, and is a seven-time winner of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award for excellence in teaching. He was also selected by the graduating classes of 2013 and 2017 to be their Commencement speaker.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Modern Scientific Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, Thomson West (5 volumes, 2020–21 edition) (with David Faigman, Jennifer Mnookin, Erin Murphy, Joseph Sanders and Christopher Slobogin) n “Sequencing in Damages,” 74 Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2022) (with Ehud Guttel and Yuval Procaccia) n “The Consensus Rule: A New Approach to Scientific Evidence,” 75 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2022) n “Distributing Attorneys’ Fees in Mass Litigation,” 12 Journal of Legal Analysis (forthcoming 2021) (with Paul Edelman and Brian Fitzpatrick) n “Beyond the Witness: Bringing a Process Perspective to Modern Evidence Law,” 97 Texas Law Review 1077 (2019) (with G. Alexander Nunn)

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Professor of Law | Chancellor Faculty Fellow Co-Director, George Barrett Social Justice Program

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Jessica Clarke’s research focuses on American equality law. She studies constitutional and statutory guarantees of nondiscrimination based on traits such as race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and disability. Her work has been selected for the Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum and has received the Dukeminier Award for the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity. She is a member of the 2021–23 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows at Vanderbilt University and was the law school’s 2020–21 FedEx Research Scholar. After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Clarke clerked for Judges Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also worked as an associate in the New York office of Covington & Burling and spent two years teaching at Columbia Law School as an associate-in-law. From 2011 to 2018, Clarke was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. In the fall of 2016, she was the Walter V. Schaefer Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She teaches Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, and a seminar on Antidiscrimination.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “They, Them, and Theirs,” 132 Harvard Law Review 894 (2019) n “Explicit Bias,” 113 Northwestern University Law Review 505 (2018) n “Protected Class Gate Keeping,” 92 New York University Law Review 101 (2017) n “Against Immutability,” 125 Yale Law Journal 2 (2015) n “Inferring Desire,” 63 Duke Law Journal 525 (2013)

Equality law, constitutional law, employment discrimination, law and sexuality, feminist legal theory

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J.D. Yale Law School; B.A. Whitman College

JESSICA CLARKE

] ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON

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ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics | Professor of Law | Professor of Health Policy

M.D. Harvard University; J.D. Yale University; M.S. Stanford University; B.S. Duke University

Ellen Wright Clayton is an internationally respected leader in the field of health law, focusing on the conduct of genomics research and its translation to clinical care while protecting the interests of patients and communities. She is currently co-principal investigator of a transdisciplinary Center for Excellence in ELSI Research study addressing genomic privacy and recently completed another study analyzing legal issues in liability, quality, privacy and access, and the clinical-research interface, all with the goal of developing more effective solutions. She has published two books and more than 200 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. Her teaching interests include law and genomics, bioethics and law, reproductive rights, and public health and research ethics. Professor Clayton has worked on numerous projects for the National Academy of Medicine, including serving as a member of its Advisory Council and chair of the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She is currently co-chair of the Report Review Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, in that role supervising the academies’ work on COVID-19. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Does the Law Require Reinterpretation and Return of Revised Genomic Results?” Genetics in Medicine epub (2021) (with Colin Halverson, Sarah Jones, Laurie Novak, Chris Simpson, Digna Velez Edwards and Kathy Zhao) n “What Results Should Be Returned from Opportunistic Screening in Translational Research?” 10 Journal of Personalized Medicine 13 (2020) n “How Can Law and Policy Advance Quality in Genomic Analysis and Interpretation for Clinical Care?” 48 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 44 (2020) (with Barbara J. Evans, Gail Javitt, Ralph Hull, Megan Robertson, Pilar Ossorio, Susan M. Wolf and Thomas Morgan for the LawSeqTM Quality Working Group) n “The Law of Genetic Privacy: Applications, Implications, and Limitations,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences 36 (2019) (with Barbara J. Evans, James W. Hazel and Mark A. Rothstein) n “A Systematic Literature Review of Individuals’ Perspectives on Privacy and Genetic Information in the United States,” 13 PLoS ONE (2018) (with Colin M. Halverson, Nila A. Sathe and Bradley A. Malin) 10

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Professor of Mathematics | Professor of Law

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

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure?” 97 Texas Law Review 991 (2018) (with R. Thomas and W. Jiang) n “Political Hypotheses and Mathematical Conclusions” in Future of Economic Design (Laslier, Moulin, Sanver and Zwicker, editors) 395-400 (2019) n “Is Groton the next Evenwel?” 117 Michigan Law Review Online 63-74 (2018) n “Evenwel, Voting Power and Dual Districting,” 45 Journal of Legal Studies 203 (2016) n “Shareholder Voting in an Age of Intermediary Capitalism,” 87 Southern California Law Review 1359 (2014) (with Randall Thomas and Robert Thompson)

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

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Paul Edelman holds a joint appointment in Vanderbilt’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, the electoral vote system, public choice and corporations. Before joining Vanderbilt’s faculty, Edelman taught at the University of Minnesota, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches the Law and Business Seminar and Introduction to Law and Economics.

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PAUL H. EDELMAN

] JOSEPH FISHMAN

JOSEPH FISHMAN Associate Professor of Law

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J.D. Harvard Law School; M.Phil. University of Cambridge; A.B. Harvard College RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Intellectual property, entertainment law, law and creativity

Joseph Fishman’s research focuses on intellectual property, particularly its relationship to creativity and the creative process. He is also interested in how law shapes the production and consumption of music. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in leading journals, including the Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Professor Fishman joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in fall 2015 after serving as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. He earned his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College with a joint major in music and religion, his M.Phil. in musicology from the University of Cambridge, and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. After law school, he was a law clerk for Judge Jeffrey R. Howard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He practiced as an associate at Jenner & Block in the firm’s content, media and entertainment group, where he specialized in litigation involving the music industry, before entering the legal academy. He teaches Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Survey, and the Music and Copyright Seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Originality’s Other Path,” 109 California Law Review 861 (2021) n “Derivable Works,” 67 UCLA Law Review 122 (2020) n “Music as a Matter of Law,” 131 Harvard Law Review 1861 (2018) n “The Copy Process,” 91 New York University Law Review 855 (2016) n “Creating Around Copyright,” 128 Harvard Law Review 1333 (2015)

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Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise

J.D. Harvard Law School; B.S. University of Notre Dame RESEARCH INTERESTS:

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n The Conservative Case for Class Actions, University of Chicago Press (2019) n “The Ideological Consequences of Judicial Selection,” 70 Vanderbilt Law Review 1729 (2017) n “The Constitutionality of Federal JurisdictionStripping Legislation and the History of State Judicial Selection and Tenure,” 98 Virginia Law Review 839 (2012) n “An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards,” 7 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 811 (2010)

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Brian Fitzpatrick’s research at Vanderbilt focuses on class action litigation, federal courts, 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 went on to clerk for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, 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. Before earning his law degree, 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 and Federal Courts and the Federal System. He was the law school’s 2014–15 FedEx Research Professor.

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

BRIAN T. FITZPATRICK

] TRACEY E. GEORGE

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TRACEY E. GEORGE RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Federal courts and judges, state judicial systems, judicial selection, judicial elections, multidistrict litigation, legal education, the legal profession, contract law

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty Professor of Political Science

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

Tracey George brings a social science perspective to a range of topics, including judges and courts, judicial selection and elections, legal education and the legal profession, and contract law and theory. She has published numerous studies in which she examines how institutional design influences actions and outcomes in state and federal judicial systems. She is also a recognized expert on the study of legal education. She and UCLA Law Professor Russell Korobkin have published an innovative casebook on contract law, a subject for which she has earned Vanderbilt’s student-selected Hall-Hartman Award for excellence in teaching eight times. Before joining the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2004, Professor George served as a professor of law at Northwestern University. She was appointed to the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty in fall 2013. She currently serves as university vice provost for faculty affairs, overseeing faculty hiring and retention, appointments and promotions, awards and honors, and development and support.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n K: A Common Law Approach to Contract Law, Aspen (3rd edition, 2021) (with Russell Korobkin) n 2021 Statutory Supplement: Selections from the Restatement (Second) Contracts and Uniform Commercial Code for First-Year Contracts, Wolters Kluwer (with Russell Korobkin) n “The Emerging Authority of Magistrate Judges within U.S. District Court,” Journal of Law and Courts (2021) (with Christina L. Boyd and Albert W. Yoon) n What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law, Wolters Kluwer (3rd edition, 2020) (with Suzanna Sherry) n “Courts of Good and III Repute: Garoupa and Ginsburg’s Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory,” University of Chicago Law Review (2016) (with G. Mitu Gulati)

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Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law | Professor of French Director, Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program Faculty Co-Director, LL.M. Program

Daniel Gervais focuses on international intellectual property law and the law of artificial intelligence. He spent 10 years researching and addressing policy issues as a legal officer at the World Trade Organization, as head of the Copyright Projects section of the WIPO, and deputy secretary general of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), and vice-chair of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations. He is the author of The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, a leading guide to the text that governs international intellectual property rights. Before joining Vanderbilt Law School in 2008, Professor Gervais served as acting dean and vice-dean for research of the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. Before entering the academy, he practiced law as a partner with the technology law firm BCF in Montreal. He was also a consultant with the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He has been a visiting professor at numerous international universities and a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. In 2012, he was the Gide Loyrette Nouel Visiting Chair at Sciences Po Law School in Paris. He is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of World Intellectual Property. In 2012, he was the first North American law professor admitted to the Academy of Europe. In 2017 he became chairman of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). He is a member of the American Law Institute, where he serves as associate reporter on the Restatement of the Law, Copyright Project. He teaches International Intellectual Property, the Intellectual Property Survey; Robots, Artificial Intelligence and the Law; and the Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n (Re)Structuring Copyright: A Comprehensive Path to International Copyright Reform, Elgar Publishing (2nd edition, 2019) n International Intellectual Property: An Advanced Introduction, Elgar Publishing (2016) (with Susy Frankel) n The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis, Sweet & Maxwell (5th edition, 2021) (Previous edition cited by the Supreme Court of the United States and several Advocate Generals’ Opinion, Court of Justice of the European Union) n Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, Kluwer Law International (3rd edition, 2015) n “The Machine as Author,” 105 Iowa Law Review 2053 (2020)

International intellectual property law

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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. (Science) Jean-de-Brebeuf College, Montreal

DANIEL J. GERVAIS

] JONI HERSCH

JONI HERSCH

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair | Professor of Law and Economics Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics

Ph.D. Northwestern University; B.A. University of South Florida RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Labor economics, discrimination, law and economics

Joni Hersch is an economist who works in the areas of employment discrimination and empirical law and economics. She has published numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. Professor Hersch’s research focuses on the influence of gender, race, national origin, skin color and family background on labor market outcomes, higher education and inequality. Her research has received international media attention and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vox, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic and the L.A. Times. Professor Hersch joined Vanderbilt Law School as a professor of law and economics in 2006, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management. That same year, she and W. Kip Viscusi cofounded Vanderbilt’s Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics. She is a research fellow with IZA Institute for Labor Economics and was co-editor of the peer-reviewed IZA Journal of Labor Economics from 2015 to 2018. She also serves as associate editor of the Review of Economics of the Household. She is the author of Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006) and co-editor of Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century (University of Chicago, 2004). Before joining Vanderbilt’s faculty, Hersch was a lecturer on law, an adjunct law professor and co-director of the Program on Empirical Legal Studies 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.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Affirmative Action and the Leadership Pipeline,” 96 Tulane Law Review (forthcoming 2021) n “Catching Up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium,” 10 Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 503 (Fall 2019) n “Valuing the Risk of Workplace Sexual Harassment,” 57 Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 111 (2018) n “Opting Out among Women with Elite Education,” 11 Review of Economics of the Household 469 (2013) n “Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height,” 26 Journal of Labor Economics 345 (2008)

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

J.D. Yale University; B.A. Amherst College Owen Jones specializes in the intersection of law and brain sciences, with an emphasis on decision-making and behavior. Holding joint academic appointments, he uses methods and insights from brain imaging (fMRI), evolutionary biology and behavioral economics to learn more about how the brain’s varied operations affect behaviors relevant to law. With four grants from the MacArthur Foundation, he designed, created and directs the national Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, which has published 108 brain-scanning and conceptual works. Professor Jones has authored or co-authored more than 50 scholarly articles, book chapters and essays in such legal venues as the Columbia, Chicago, Pennsylvania, California, NYU, Northwestern, Cornell, Vanderbilt and Michigan law reviews, and in such leading scientific journals as Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, the Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology, Evolution and Human Behavior and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most recently, he and colleagues discovered: the brain activities distinguishing knowing and reckless states of mind; the interactions of rational and emotional brain regions during punishment decisions; and the brain activities that separately correlate with assessing harms, discerning mental states, integrating those two, and choosing punishment amounts. Testing predictions of his 2001 theory that many patterns, including cognitive biases, and errors in human decision-making reflect evolutionary origins, he and colleagues published, as proof of concept, the first clear evidence of a trade-based “endowment effect” in a nonhuman species (chimpanzees), and successfully predicted contextual variations in the size of the effect in humans. Jones has directed or codirected more than 50 interdisciplinary academic conferences. Before joining the legal academy, Jones was a law clerk for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the D.C. District Court and practiced law with Covington & Burling. Jones was named a Chancellor’s Chair in 2010 and became the inaugural holder of the Weaver Chair in 2019. He was the 2014 recipient of the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award, which annually honors one member of the Vanderbilt University faculty for research that bridges multiple disciplines and yields significant new knowledge. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Law and Neuroscience, Aspen Publishers (2nd edition, 2021) (with Jeffrey Schall and Francis Shen) n “Detecting Mens Rea in the Brain,” 169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (2020) (with Read Montague and Gideon Yaffe) n “Predicting Variation in Endowment Effect Magnitudes,” 41 Evolution & Human Behavior 253 (2020) (with Christopher Jaeger, Sarah Brosnan and Daniel Levin) 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) 17

Law and brain sciences, law and behavioral sciences, law and behavioral biology, law and neuroscience, evolutionary analysis in law, errors in decision-making, including cognitive biases

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Glenn M. Weaver, M.D. and Mary Ellen Weaver Chair in Law, Brain, and Behavior Professor of Biological Sciences Director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

OWEN D. JONES

] NANCY J. KING

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NANCY J. KING Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Post-investigation criminal procedure, plea bargaining, trials, sentencing, appeals, habeas corpus, juries

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 postconviction review. Over the course of her academic career, she has authored or co-authored two leading multivolume 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 (2011). Professor King is an associate reporter for and former member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and a member of the American Law Institute. She was Touroff-Glueck Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in fall 2015. 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, “Jury Sentencing in Practice: A Three-State Study” (2004), which she co-authored with Rosevelt Noble, director of Vanderbilt University’s Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. She and two researchers from the National Center for State Courts led a national study of habeas litigation in U.S. District Courts funded by an award from the National Institute of Justice. In 2010, King received the university’s Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award, given each year to a single faculty member whose research has made distinctive contributions to the understanding of contemporary society.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Handling Aggravating Facts after Blakely: Findings from Five Presumptive Guideline States,” 99 North Carolina Law Review 1241 (2021) n “Appeals by the Prosecution,” 15 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 482 (2018) (with Michael Heise) n “Plea Bargaining’s Invisible Revolution: Managerial Judging and Judicial Plea Negotiations,” 95 Texas Law Review 325 (2016) (with Ronald Wright) 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, Thompson Reuters (7-volume treatise covering state and federal criminal procedure, 4th edition, 2015, updated annually) (with Wayne LaFave, Jerold Israel and Orin Kerr)

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Robert S. and Theresa L. Reder Chair in Law Professor of Medicine, Health and Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Terry Maroney investigates the intersection of law and emotion. She is also a scholar of criminal law, with specializations in wrongful convictions and in juvenile justice. Professor Maroney’s work on the role of emotion in judicial behavior and decision-making forms the backbone of her scholarly work. Weaving legal analysis together with the psychology, sociology and philosophy of emotion, her work illuminates how emotional experiences, dynamics and their management interact with the constraints and demands of varied judicial roles, with deep implications for both judges and the public they serve. Maroney’s many publications in this area—such as (What We Talk About When We Talk About) Judicial Temperament, Angry Judges, Emotional Regulation and Judicial Behavior, and The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion—have been widely read among the U.S. judiciary. She frequently consults with and presents to judicial audiences in both the United States and abroad. With Judge Jeremy Fogel (ret.) and the Federal Judicial Center, she co-founded a novel intensive seminar focused on the human side of judging, now offered regularly to midcareer federal judges. Before becoming a law professor, Maroney was a litigator with WilmerHale and a Skadden Fellow at the Urban Justice Center, both in New York City; she draws on that practice experience— which included a high-profile triple exoneration, U.S. Supreme Court advocacy, and direct representation of children—in her teaching and writing. A 1998 summa cum laude graduate of New York University School of Law, Maroney clerked for Judge Amalya L. Kearse on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; has held academic fellowships at the law schools of NYU and the University of Southern California; and from 2016 to 2017 was the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. At Vanderbilt she was a 2017–19 Chancellor Faculty Fellow and received a 2019–21 Discovery Grant. Maroney teaches Criminal Law, Juvenile Justice and Actual Innocence.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “(What We Talk About When We Talk About) Judicial Temperament,” 61 Boston College Law Review 2085 (2020) n “Angry Judges,” 65 Vanderbilt Law Review 1207 (2012) n “Emotional Regulation and Judicial Behavior,” 99 California Law Review 1485 (2011) n “The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion,” 99 California Law Review 629 (2011) n “Law and Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy of an Emerging Field,” 30 Law and Human Behavior 119 (2006)

Law and human behavior, law and emotion, juvenile justice, judicial excellence

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J.D. New York University; B.A. Oberlin College

TERRY A. MARONEY

] SARA MAYEUX

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SARA MAYEUX Associate Professor of Law | Associate Professor of History RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, American legal history

Ph.D. Stanford University; J.D. Stanford Law School; B.A. Princeton University

Sara Mayeux is a legal historian of the twentieth-century United States, focusing on criminal law and procedure, constitutional law and legal culture. She is also interested broadly in the interplay between law and history. Her book, Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth Century America (UNC Press, 2020), was praised in The Nation magazine as “a definitive history of this important yet conflicted institution” and received the 2020 Langum Prize in American Legal History. The book chronicles debates about indigent criminal defense from the Progressive Era through the Cold War. In 2017, Professor Mayeux’s Columbia Law Review article on the effects of Gideon v. Wainwright, “What Gideon Did,” received the Cromwell Article Prize, awarded annually for the best article in American legal history published by an early-career scholar. Mayeux earned her law degree and her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2016, she was a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the BergerHowe Legal History Fellow at Harvard Law School. Before entering the legal academy, she clerked for Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She teaches Constitutional Law, First Amendment Constitutional Law, and Law and History.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, University of North Carolina Press (2020) n “Youth and Punishment at the Roberts Court,” 21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 543 (2018) n “The Idea of ‘the Criminal Justice System,’” 45 American Journal of Criminal Law 55 (2018) n “Federalism Anew,” 56 American Journal of Legal History 128 (2016) (with Karen Tani) n “What Gideon Did,” 116 Columbia Law Review 15 (2016)

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TIMOTHY MEYER Professor of Law | Director, International Legal Studies Program

Timothy Meyer is an expert in public international law with specialties in international trade, investment and environmental law. His current research examines how international economic agreements relate and respond to concerns about economic opportunity and inequality and the role of the constitutional separation of powers in U.S. international economic policymaking. His past research has examined the interaction of international and local rules on energy subsidies, the role of local governments in free trade agreements, and the creation of nonbinding “soft law” obligations. Professor Meyer’s work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Journal of Legal Analysis, and the European Journal of International Law, among others. He is also the author of a book on international soft law (with Andrew Guzman), forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Meyer has testified before the U.S. Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and the Judiciary and has served both as counsel and as an expert in cases raising international law issues in U.S. courts. He serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. At Vanderbilt, Meyer was 2018–19 FedEx Research Professor and the 2015–17 Enterprise Scholar. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2015, he taught for five years at the University of Georgia School of Law. He entered the legal academy after practicing law for several years at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where he represented the United States in commercial arbitrations and real property transactions all over the world and in negotiations with foreign governments on diplomatic law issues. Before joining the State Department, Meyer was a law clerk for Justice Neil M. Gorsuch when he sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. and Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he held a Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Fellowship from the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He teaches Constitutional Law, International Arbitration, International Business Transactions, International Trade Law, International Energy Law and the Globalization and Expertise seminar. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Trade Law and Supply Chain Regulation in a Post-COVID World,” 114 American Journal of International Law 637 (2020) n “Misaligned Lawmaking,” 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 151 (2020) n “Trade and the Separation of Powers,” 107 California Law Review 583 (2019) (with Ganesh Sitaraman) n “Free Trade, Fair Trade and Selective Enforcement,” 118 Columbia Law Review 491 (2018) n “Saving the Political Consensus in Favor of Free Trade,” 70 Vanderbilt Law Review 985 (2017) 21

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J.D., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.A., B.A. Stanford University

International trade law, international investment law, international environmental law, constitutional law

TIMOTHY MEYER

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

] ROBERT A. MIKOS

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ROBERT A. MIKOS LaRoche Family Chair in Law RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Federalism, constitutional law, drug law and policy, marijuana law and policy

J.D. University of Michigan Law School; A.B. Princeton University

Robert Mikos is one of the nation’s leading experts on federalism and drug law. His most recent scholarship analyzes the struggle among federal, state, and local governments for control of marijuana law and policy, which includes a first-of-its-kind casebook, Marijuana Law, Policy and Authority (2017), Professor Mikos has written, consulted, testified, and lectured on the states’ constitutional authority to legalize marijuana, the application of the Dormant Commerce Clause to state marijuana markets, federal preemption of state marijuana regulations, the political and budgetary considerations that limit enforcement of the federal marijuana ban, federal law’s influence on state regulation and taxation of the marijuana industry, and the desirability of marijuana localism. He has also written on the states’ constitutional authority to withhold information from the federal government, tactics states can use to deter federal preemption of state regulatory authority, the political safeguards of federalism, accuracy in criminal sanctions, the economics of private precautions against crime, and remedies in private law. 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 was a law clerk 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, 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 courses in Federalism, Constitutional Law, Marijuana Law and Policy, Federal Criminal Law, and Drug Law and Policy.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Marijuana Law, Policy, and Authority, Wolters Kluwer (2017) (Chapter 1 available on SSRN) n “Unauthorized and Unwise: The Lawful Use Requirement in Trademark Law,” 75 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2022) n “Interstate Commerce in Cannabis,” 101 Boston University Law Review 857 (2021) n “POTUS and Pot: Why the President Could Not Legalize Marijuana Through Executive Action,” 89 University of Cincinnati Law Review 668 (2021) (keynote address) n “Making Preemption Less Palatable: State Poison Pill Legislation,” 85 George Washington Law Review 1 (2017)

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SPRING MILLER

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Assistant Dean and Martha Craig Daughtrey Director for Public Interest Lecturer in Law RESEARCH INTERESTS:

J.D. Harvard University; B.A. Brown University

Spring Miller creates public interest law opportunities for Vanderbilt Law students and facilitates entry into public interest law careers for students and recent graduates. In addition to mentoring and advising students seeking careers in public interest law, she oversees the law school’s pro bono and externship programs. Dean Miller also teaches the Public Lawyer course. A former farmworker legal services attorney, Dean Miller was named assistant dean for public interest in July 2015. Miller received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow with Southern Migrant Legal Services, a project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, and remained with the organization as a staff attorney when the two-year fellowship ended. She later served as the managing attorney for Texas RioGrande Legal Aid’s practice area dedicated to the representation of human trafficking victims. In addition to directing the law school’s public interest and externship program, Miller teaches The Legal Profession, The Public Lawyer: Professional Responsibility and Practice, and the Workers Advocacy Practicum.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “The Generalist Externship Seminar: A Unique Curricular Opportunity to Teach about the Legal Profession,” 27 Clinical Law Review 279 (2021) n “Externships as a Vehicle for Teaching Access to Justice,” 28 Clinical Legal Education Association 9 (2019) n “Using Anti-trafficking Laws to Advance Workers’ Rights,” Clearinghouse Review (2015) (with Stacie Jonas) n No Place to Hide: Gang, State and Clandestine Violence in El Salvador, Harvard University Press (2010) (with Laura Pedraza-Fariña and James Cavallaro)

Access to justice issues, immigration law, employment law

] LARRY R. REEVES

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LARRY R. REEVES Associate Dean and Director, Alyne Queener Massey Law Library 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. Dean Reeves 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 in Arlington, Virginia. 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 in New York, 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 in Los Angeles and Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York. He has taught as a member of the adjunct faculty of the Catholic University School of Library and Information Science and served on the school’s Law Librarianship Advisory Committee. He 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 numerous conferences. Reeves 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. Reeves was elected to a two-year term as secretary of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, named a fellow with the Association of Research Libraries Leadership program for 2013 to 2015, and was elected in 2015 to a three-year term as chair of the Society of Academic Law Library Directors. He teaches Advanced Legal Research and Legal Writing.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography, Hein (2007) (editorial adviser) 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

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Professor of Law | 2020 Chancellor Faculty Fellow | Enterprise Scholar 2019–21

Morgan Ricks studies financial regulation. He is the author of the groundbreaking 2016 book The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation (University of Chicago Press), which offers a blueprint for a modernized system of money and banking that can be accomplished through incremental change. Professor Ricks joined the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2012 and was the 2019–21 Enterprise Scholars. Before he entered the legal academy, he was a senior policy adviser 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. Ricks 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. At Vanderbilt, he teaches Corporations and Business Entities, Regulation of Financial Institutions, and the Economic Regulation of Finance seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Federal Corporate Law and the Business of Banking,” University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming 2021) (with Lev Menand) n “FedAccounts: Digital Dollars,” 89 George Washington Law Review 113 (2021) (with John Crawford and Lev Menand) n “Regulation and the Geography of Inequality,” 70 Duke Law Journal 1763 (2020) (with Christopher Serkin and Ganesh Sitaraman) n “Money, Private Law, and Macroeconomic Disasters,” 83 Law and Contemporary Problems 65 (2020) n “Money as Infrastructure,” 2018 Columbia Business Law Review 757 (2018)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Financial institutions, financial stability, capital markets regulation and corporate finance

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J.D. Harvard Law School; B.A. Dartmouth College

MORGAN RICKS

] AMANDA M. ROSE

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AMANDA M. ROSE Professor of Law | Professor of Management 2021–22 FedEx Research Professor RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

J.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.S. (Finance) Vanderbilt University; B.A. University of San Francisco Amanda Rose is an expert 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 was a law clerk for Judge William Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then served as a litigation associate with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco for five years, where her practice included the defense of state regulatory proceedings, SEC 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 United States 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 joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2008 and was a Roger J. Traynor Summer Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2011. Rose’s publications appear in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and Minnesota Law Review, among other top journals, and she has presented her work at venues around the globe. She is a member of the State Bar of California and admitted to practice before the 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, Securities Regulation and Advanced Securities Regulation.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Classaction.gov,” 88 University of Chicago Law Review 487 (2021) n “A Response to Calls for SEC-Mandated ESG Disclosure,” 98 Washington Law Review 1819 (2021) n “Cutting Class Action Agency Costs: Lessons from the Public Company,” 54 University of California Davis Law Review 337 (2020) n “Calculating SEC Whistleblower Awards: A Theoretical Approach,” 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 2047 (2019) n “The ‘Reasonable Investor’ of Federal Securities Law: Insights from Tort Law’s ‘Reasonable Person’ and Suggested Reforms,” 43 Journal of Corporation Law 101 (2017)

[ JIM ROSSI

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JIM ROSSI Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law

LL.M. Yale Law School; J.D. University of Iowa College of Law; B.S. Arizona State University

Jim Rossi is nationally recognized for his research on administrative and energy law topics. His recent articles focus on the role of public utility doctrines and principles in modern energy markets, as well as federalism and other shared jurisdictional issues affecting agency regulation. His 2019 article “Energy Exactions,” co-authored with Christopher Serkin, received the 2020 Morrison Prize, which recognizes the most impactful sustainability scholarship published during the previous year. His books include Energy, Economics and the Environment (4th edition, 2015, co-authored with Joel Eisen, Emily Hammond, David Spence, Jacqueline Weaver and Hannah Wiseman); Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law (2005); and an edited collection of essays, Dual Enforcement of Constitutional Norms: The New Frontier of State Constitutionalism (2010, with James Gardner). Professor Rossi served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States’ Committee on Collaborative Governance project on Improving Coordination of Related Agency Responsibilities, which resulted in a set of recommendations adopted by the conference on how agencies should coordinate. 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. Rossi has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Texas School of Law and the University of North Carolina School of Law. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced energy law in Washington, D.C. Rossi was the law school’s 2013–14 FedEx Research Professor and was named to the Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law in 2018. He served as associate dean for research from 2017 to 2020. He teaches Torts and the Public Governance seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “The Gap-Filling Role of Private Environmental Governance,” 38 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1 (2020) (with Michael Vandenbergh and Ian Faucher) n “Energy Exactions,” 104 Cornell Law Review 643 (2019) (with Chris Serkin) (Winner of the 2020 Morrison Prize) n “Carbon Taxation by Regulation,” 107 Minnesota Law Review 277 (2017) n “The Brave New Path of Energy Federalism,” 95 Texas Law Review 399 (2016) n “Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space,” 125 Harvard Law Review 1131 (2012) (with Jody Freeman)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Energy law, administrative law, regulatory federalism, state constitutions

] EDWARD L. RUBIN

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EDWARD L. RUBIN University Professor of Law and Political Science RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Federalism, administrative law, legal theory

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

Ed Rubin specializes in administrative law, constitutional law and legal theory. A productive and erudite scholar whose work integrates legal history and theory, Professor Rubin is the author of numerous books, articles and book chapters. His most recent book, Making Regulation Work: Policies, Techniques and the Abolition of Property Restrictions (2021), makes a practical case for regulation as an essential feature of modern government. Rubin joined Vanderbilt Law School as dean and the first John Wade–Kent Syverud Professor of Law in July 2005, serving a four-year term that ended in June 2009. Previously, he was the Theodore K. Warner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1998 to 2005, and the Richard K. Jennings Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he had taught since 1982 and served as an associate dean. Rubin has chaired the Association of American Law Schools’ sections on Administrative Law and Socioeconomics and its Committee on the Curriculum. After graduating from Princeton, he worked as a curriculum planner for the New York City Board of Education. He received his law degree from Yale University in 1979. He was a law clerk for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then practiced law as an associate in the entertainment law department of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in New York. He has served as a consultant to the People’s Republic of China on administrative law and to the Russian Federation on payments law. Rubin teaches Administrative Law and Regulatory State.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Making Regulation Work: Policies, Techniques and the Abolition of Property Restrictions, Eliva Press (2021) n Soul, Self and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State, Oxford University Press (2015) n The Regulatory State, Wolters Kluwer (3rd edition, 2019) (with Lisa Bressman and Kevin Stack) n Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise, Michigan University Press (2008) (with Malcolm Feeley) n Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State, Princeton University Press (2005)

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David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law Director, Program on Law and Innovation Co-Director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University; LL.M. George Washington University; J.D., B.A. University of Virginia J.B. Ruhl is an expert in environmental, natural resources and property law, focusing his research on climate change adaptation, ecosystem services and adaptive governance. He was named director of Vanderbilt’s Program on Law and Innovation in 2014 and co-directs the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. Before he joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty as a David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law in 2011, Professor Ruhl was the Matthews & 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 leading peer-reviewed scientific journals. His works have been selected by peers as among the best law review articles in the field of environmental law 12 times from 1989 to 2021. Over the course of his career, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and George Washington University Law School and has taught in summer terms at the University of Texas Law School, Vermont 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, Ruhl was a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in Austin, Texas, where he also taught on the adjunct faculty of the University of Texas School of Law. He teaches Property Law, Law Practice 2050, Comparative Environmental Regulation, Climate Change Governance, and the Food System seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “The Roman Public Trust Doctrine—What Was It, and Does It Support an Atmospheric Trust?” 41 Ecology Law Quarterly 117 (2020) (with T. McGinn) n “Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Services at the Wildland-Urban Interface,” 14 International Journal of the Commons 611 (2020) (with R. Craig) n “Designing Law to Enable Adaptive Governance of Modern Wicked Problems,” 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 1687 (2020) (with B. Cosens (lead author), N. Soininen and L. Gunderson) n “What Happens When the Green New Deal Meets the Old Green Laws?” 44 Vermont Law Review 693 (2020) n “Governing Cascade Failures in Social-EcologicalTechnological Systems: Framing Context, Strategies, and Challenges,” 22 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 407 (2020) 29

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J.B. RUHL

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, legal industry and legal technology

J.B. RUHL

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

] HERWIG J. SCHLUNK

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HERWIG J. SCHLUNK Professor of Law RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

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

Herwig Schlunk’s scholarship is concentrated on questions of corporate income taxation and individual income taxation. Before joining the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 1999, Professor Schlunk clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago and spent several years in the private sector, first as an attorney with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago and then as a mergers and acquisitions specialist at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas. He has been a visiting professor at New York University Law School and University of Virginia Law School. He is currently teaching courses in individual income taxation and corporate income taxation.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

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,” Virginia Tax Review (2007) n “A Minimalist Approach to Corporate Income Taxation,” SMU Law Review (2006) n “A Lifetime Income Tax,” Virginia Tax Review (2006)

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Centennial Professor of Law

J.D. Harvard University; B.A. Johns Hopkins University

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n 2022 Multistate Guide to Estate Planning, Kluwer (2021) n Family, Kinship, Descent and Distribution, Bloomberg (2021) n “The Non-Fiduciary Trust,” 46 ACTEC Law Journal 3 (2021) n “U.S. Conflict of Laws Involving International Estates and Marital Property: A Critical Analysis of Charania v. Shulman,” 103 Iowa Law Review 2119 (2018) n “Trusts Without Borders,” The Tax and Estate Planning Forum (2017)

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Jeff 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, the Nottingham Lecture and, most recently, the 2015 Hugh J. and Frank Tamisea Lecture at the University of Iowa Law School. In 2016, Schoenblum was elected to the Estate Planning Hall of Fame. 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 has been honored on numerous occasions with the student-selected Hall-Hartman Award for excellence in teaching and was selected by students to deliver the inaugural Commencement speech by a law professor in 2010. He teaches Federal Tax Law, Wills and Trust, and Conflicts of Laws.

Multistate and multinational estate planning and comparative wealth transfer laws

JEFFREY A. SCHOENBLUM

] CHRISTOPHER SERKIN

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CHRISTOPHER SERKIN Elisabeth H. and Granville S. Ridley Jr. Chair in Law Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Property, land use, local governments, the Takings Clause

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

Chris Serkin teaches and writes about land use and property law. His provocative scholarship addresses local governments, property theory, the Takings Clause, land use regulations and eminent domain. His articles have appeared in the Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, 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 2013, and a co-editor of a leading casebook, Land Use Controls (5th edition, 2020) with Robert Ellickson, Vicki Been and Roderick Hills. Professor Serkin was the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs from 2019 to 2021 and its associate dean for research from 2015 to 2017. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Serkin taught at Brooklyn Law School from 2005–13. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and New York University. 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 School of Law, where he was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, 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. He teaches Property Law and Land Use Planning.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Regulation and the Geography of Inequality,” 70 Duke Law Journal 1763 (2021) (with Ganesh Sitaraman and Morgan Ricks) n Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials, Aspen Publishers (5th edition, 2020) (with Robert Ellickson, Vicki Been and Roderick Hills) n “A Case for Zoning,” 96 Notre Dame Law Review 750 (2020) n “Insuring Takings Claims,” 111 Northwestern Law Review 75 (2016) n “Passive Takings: State Inaction and the Duty to Protect Property,” 113 Michigan Law Review 345 (2014)

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Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law | Professor of History Co-Director, George Barrett Social Justice Program

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

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War, W.W. Norton & Company (2017) n The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, Penguin Press (2011) n “Brown, Massive Resistance and the Lawyer’s View: A Nashville Story,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2021, featured in the 2021 Dean’s Lecture Series on Race and Discrimination) n “Atrocity, Entitlement, and Personhood in Property,” 98 Virginia Law Review 635 (2012) n “The Secret History of Race in the United States,” 112 Yale Law Journal 1473 (2003) 33

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Daniel Sharfstein’s scholarship focuses on the legal history of race and citizenship in the United States. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to research his 2017 book on post-Reconstruction America, Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War, which was a Montana Book Award Honor Book and Southern Book Award finalist. His first book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for excellence in nonfiction 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 appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, New York Times, Slate 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-Mark DeWolfe Howe Visiting Fellowship in Legal History at Harvard Law School. He has twice won the law school’s Hall-Hartman Award for excellence in teaching. 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. Sharfstein holds a secondary appointment in Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science as a professor of history. He was in the inaugural cohort of Vanderbilt University Chancellor Faculty Fellows. He teaches Property Law, American Legal History and Federal Indian Law.

American legal history, race and the law, property law

DANIEL J. SHARFSTEIN

] SUZANNA SHERRY

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Constitutional law and theory, federal courts and the federal judicial system, federalism, litigation and dispute resolution, and the U.S. Supreme Court

SUZANNA SHERRY Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law

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

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 100 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 the Honorable 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 the Vanderbilt 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 the Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law in 2006. She teaches Civil Procedure and Evidence.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Our Kardashian Court (and How to Fix It),” 106 Iowa Law Review 181 (2020) n “Term Limits and Turmoil: Roe v. Wade’s Whiplash,” 98 Texas Law Review 121 (2019) (with Christopher S. Sundby) n “The Imaginary Constitution,” 17 Georgetown Journal of Law and Policy 441 (2019) n “Property is the New Privacy: The Coming Constitutional Revolution,” 128 Harvard Law Review 1452 (2015) n Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law, Oxford University Press (1997) (with Daniel A. Farber)

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Professor of Law

Ph.D., J.D. Vanderbilt University; B.A. Harvard College

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Protecting Pregnancy,” 106 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2021) n “When Equitable is Not Equal: Experimental Evidence on the Division of Marital Assets in Divorce,” 18 Review of Economics of the Household 655 (2020) (with Joni Hersch) n “The Pregnancy Penalty,” 103 Minnesota Law Review 749 (2018) n “Something to Talk About: Information Exchange under Employment Law,” 165 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 49 (2017) (with Joni Hersch) n “The Substantially Impaired Sex: Uncovering the Gendered Nature of Disability Discrimination,” 101 Minnesota Law Review 1099 (2017)

Employment law, employment discrimination, health economics, labor economics, gender, disability

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Jennifer Bennett Shinall’s research focuses on discrimination, particularly in the areas of gender and disability. Her research, which has been published in peer-reviewed economic journals and law journals, examines how obesity, pregnancy, and health status more generally affect labor market outcomes. Her work further considers how these effects may differ by gender and how the legal system can address any observed disparities. 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, she was a clerk for Judge John Tinder of 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 Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Shinall teaches Employment Discrimination Law and Employment Law to J.D. students and also teaches Labor Markets and Human Resources and the Ph.D. Workshop for the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

JENNIFER BENNETT SHINALL

] GANESH SITARAMAN

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Constitutional law, constitutional theory, foreign relations law, administrative law, regulation, political theory, institutional design, international law

GANESH SITARAMAN New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law Director, Program in Law and Government

J.D. Harvard Law School; M.Phil. University of Cambridge; A.B. Harvard College Ganesh Sitaraman teaches and writes about constitutional law, the regulatory state, economic policy, democracy and foreign affairs. He joined the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2011 and was named to the New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair in Law in 2021. Professor Sitaraman has been a longtime adviser to Elizabeth Warren, including serving as a senior adviser on her 2020 presidential campaign, her senior counsel in the Senate, and her policy director during her 2012 Senate campaign. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the co-founder of the Great Democratic Initiative, which develops bold, innovative and detailed policy plans. He has been profiled in The New York Times and Politico for his work at the nexus of politics and ideas. Sitaraman is a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a member of the American Law Institute, and serves on the boards of The American Prospect, the American Constitution Society and Foreign Policy for America. He was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2018, and he was a visiting assistant professor at Yale Law School in 2016. At Vanderbilt, he was awarded a Chancellor’s Award for Research and a Chancellor’s Faculty Fellowship. Before joining Vanderbilt, Sitaraman was the Public Law Fellow and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, a research fellow at the Counterinsurgency Training Center – Afghanistan in Kabul, and a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Sitaraman is the author of four books, including The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America. An Eagle Scout and a Truman Scholar, he earned his A.B. in government, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, a master’s degree in political thought from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He teaches The Regulatory State, Constitutional Law, and the Law of Economic Security and Industrial Policy seminar.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n The Great Democracy: How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America, Basic Books (2019) n The Public Option, Harvard University Press (2019) (with Anne Alstott) n The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, Alfred A. Knopf (2017) n The Counterinsurgent’s Constitution: Law in an Age of Small Wars, Oxford University Press (2012) Winner of the 2013 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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. Her current research focuses in two distinct areas: the causes and consequences of borrowing on high-interest credit, such as payday loans, auto-title loans and pawnshops, and labor arbitration. She has received 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 serves on the board of the American Law and Economics Association and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. She is currently chair-elect for the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Law and Economics and will serve as the section’s chair in 2022. She has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, Université Paris Nanterre and the University of California, Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. Skiba teaches Bankruptcy and Behavioral Law and Economics to J.D. students and Law and Economics Theory and Econometrics for Legal Research in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Predictability of Arbitrators’ Reliance on External Authority,” 69 American University Law Review 1827 (2020) (with Ariana Levinson and Erin O’Hara O’Connor) n “Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy?” Journal of Law and Economics, August 2019 (with Jeremy Tobacman) n “Payday Loan Choices and Consequences,” 47 Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 223 (2014) (with Neil Bhutta and Jeremy Tobacman) n “Tax Rebates and the Cycle of Payday Borrowing,” 16 American Law and Economics Review 550 (2014) n “Information Asymmetries in Consumer Lending: Evidence from Payday Lending,” 5 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 256 (2013) (with Will Dobbie)

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Behavioral economics, applied microeconomics, law and economics, arbitration

Professor of Law | Professor of Economics

PAIGE MARTA SKIBA

] CHRISTOPHER SLOBOGIN

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CHRISTOPHER SLOBOGIN RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Criminal law and procedure, mental health law, evidence law

Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law | Director, Criminal Justice Program Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry

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

Chris Slobogin has authored more than 100 articles, books and chapters on topics relating to criminal law and procedure, mental health law and evidence. Named director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program in 2009, Professor Slobogin is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure law professors in the country over the past five years, according to the Leiter Report. Particularly influential has been his work on the Fourth Amendment and technology and his writing on mental disability and criminal law, appearing in books published by the Cambridge, Chicago, Harvard and Oxford university presses and in journals such as the Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Virginia Law Review. Slobogin has served as reporter for three American Bar Association task forces (on Law Enforcement and Technology, the Insanity Defense, and Mental Disability and the Death Penalty) and as chair of both the ABA’s task force charged with revising the Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards and the ABA’s Florida Assessment team for the Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project. He is currently an associate reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Police Investigation Project. In recognition for his work in mental health law, in 2016 Slobogin received both the American Board of Forensic Psychology’s Award for Distinguished Contributions and the American Psychology-Law Society’s Distinguished Contribution of Psychology and Law Award; only five law professors have received either of these awards in the award’s 30-year history, and Slobogin is the only one to receive both awards. He received Vanderbilt’s 2020 Harvie Branscomb Award for creative scholarship and teaching. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Slobogin held the Stephen C. O’Connell chair at the University of Florida’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, where he was the Edwin A. Heafey Visiting Scholar, and at the Hastings, University of Southern California and University of Virginia law schools and the University of Frankfurt Law School in Germany, the Montpellier Law School in France, and the University of Kiev, Ukraine, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, the Today Show, National Public Radio and many other media outlets, and has been cited in almost 5,000 law review articles and treatises and more than 200 judicial opinions, including five U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Slobogin holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. He teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Mental Health Law, and Sentencing. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk, Cambridge University Press (2021) n “A World of Difference?: Law Enforcement, Genetic Data and the Fourth Amendment,” 70 Duke Law Journal 705 (2021) (with James Hazel) n “The Case for a Federal Criminal Court System (and Sentencing Reform),” 108 California Law Review 941 (2020) n Advanced Introduction to Criminal Procedure, Elgar (2020) n “Psychological Assessments in Legal Context: Are Courts Keeping ‘Junk Science’ Out of the Courtroom?” 20 Psychological Science in the Public Interest 135 (2019) (with Tess Neal, Michael Saks, Kurt Geisinger and David Faigman) 38

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KEVIN M. STACK Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Chair in Law | Director of Graduate Studies

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 interpretation of regulations, rulemaking processes, statutory interpretation 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 was awarded the 2015 Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research for his Michigan Law Review article and follow-on study. He is a co-author (with Lisa Bressman and Ed Rubin) of The Regulatory State, a casebook on statutes and administrative lawmaking in its third edition. Professor Stack has served as 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 and again from 2012 to 2015. 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. Before earning his J.D., he spent two years studying philosophy at Oxford University supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars. Stack teaches Administrative Law, the Regulatory State, Legislation, the Nonmarket Environment of Business, Presidential Power, Civil Procedure, and European Union Law.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Internal Administrative Law,” 115 Michigan Law Review 1239 (2017) n “An Administrative Jurisprudence: The Rule of Law in the Administrative State,” 115 Columbia Law Review 1986 (2015) n “Purposivism in the Executive Branch: How Agencies Interpret Statutes,” 109 Northwestern University Law Review 871 (2015) n “Interpreting Regulations,” 111 Michigan Law Review 355 (2012). Co-winner of the 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 P. Vandenbergh). Selected for inclusion in the 2013–14 Land Use and Environmental Law Review 39

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

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J.D. Yale University; M.Litt. Oxford University; B.A. Brown University

] RANDALL S. THOMAS

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RANDALL S. THOMAS RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business | Director, Law and Business Program Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management

J.D., Ph.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. Twelve of his papers have been selected by his peers as among the “10 Best Corporate and Securities” articles in the year they were published by Corporate Practice Commentator. Professor Thomas joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2000 to develop and direct the Law and Business Program, having served previously for 10 years on the law faculty of the University of Iowa. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Duke University, Harvard Law School, Boston University and the University of Washington. Prior to teaching law, Thomas was in private practice for four years and was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner of the Eastern District of Michigan. An acclaimed teacher, Thomas teaches courses in the area of corporate law, including Corporations and Mergers and Acquisitions.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure?” 97 Texas Law Review (2019) (with Paul H. Edelman and Wei Jiang) n “Revolving Elites: The Unexplored Risk of Capturing the SEC,” 107 Georgetown Law Journal 845 (2019) (with James D. Cox) n “Quieting the Shareholders’ Voice: Empirical Evidence of Pervasive Bundling in Proxy Solicitations,” 89 Southern California Law Review 1179 (2016) (with James Cox, Fabrizio Ferri and Colleen Honigsberg). Reprinted in 59 Corporate Practice Commentator 199 (2017). Selected as one of the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Law Articles of 2017 by Corporate Practice Commentator. n “Delaware’s Retreat: Exploring Developing Fissures and Tectonic Shifts in Delaware Corporate Law,” 42 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 323-389 (2018) (with James D. Cox). Selected as one of the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2018 by Corporate Practice Commentator. n “Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism by Labor Unions,” 96 Michigan Law Review 1018 (1998) (with Stewart Schwab). Reprinted in 40 Corporate Practice Commentator (1998), Employee Representation in the Emerging Workplace: Alternatives/ Supplements to Collective Bargaining (1998), and in The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, 2nd Series (2000). Selected as one of the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 1998 by Corporate Practice Commentator.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in 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

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Beyond Politics, Cambridge University Press (2017) (with Jonathan Gilligan) n “Beyond Gridlock,” 41 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 217 (2015) (with Jonathan A. Gilligan) (winner of the 2018 Morrison Prize) n “Private Environmental Governance,” 99 Cornell Law Review 129 (2013). Selected for inclusion in the 2015 Land Use and Environment Review. n “The One Percent Problem,” 111 Columbia Law Review 1385 (2011) (with Kevin Stack). Selected for inclusion in the 2013 Land Use and Environment Law Review n “The Carbon-Neutral Individual,” 82 New York University Law Review 1673 (2007) (with Anne Steinemann). Selected for inclusion in the 2009 Land Use and Environment Law Review. 41

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Michael Vandenbergh is an award-winning teacher and scholar whose research focuses on working with interdisciplinary teams to explore environmental governance, environmental behavior and climate change. His interdisciplinary research has developed the concept of private environmental governance and explored how private governance initiatives can address polarization and other barriers to climate change mitigation. His interdisciplinary work with Vanderbilt’s Climate Change Research Network focuses on the reduction of carbon emissions from the household sector, and he is one of the top 25 law professors in the U.S. based on peer-reviewed literature citations. His book with physicist Jonathan Gilligan, Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was favorably reviewed in Science, Nature Climate Change and Legal Planet; won the 2018 Chancellor’s Award for Research; and was named by the Environmental Forum as one of the most important environmental policy books of the last 50 years. His article “Beyond Gridlock,” also co-authored with Gilligan, won the 2015 Morrison Prize for North America’s best sustainability article. His other writings have appeared in PNAS, Nature Climate Change and the Columbia, Cornell, Michigan and NYU law reviews. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, Professor Vandenbergh was a partner at Latham & Watkins 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 for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. A recipient of teaching awards at Vanderbilt and at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Vandenbergh teaches courses in environmental law, climate change justice and property. He has been a visiting professor at the Wharton School’s Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and at the University of Chicago and Harvard law schools. He is a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers and a member of the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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

MICHAEL P. VANDENBERGH

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Regulation of health, safety, and environmental risks; law and economics; tort liability; risk and uncertainty

W. KIP VISCUSI University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics and Management Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics

A.B., M.P.P., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

W. Kip Viscusi is Vanderbilt’s first University Distinguished Professor, with tenured appointments in the Department of Economics and the Owen Graduate School of Management as well as in the law school. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Professor Viscusi was the Cogan Professor of Law and Economics and director of the Program on Empirical Studies at Harvard Law School. He has also been the Allen Professor of Economics at Duke University and professor of economics at Northwestern University. Viscusi is the award-winning author of more than 30 books and nearly 400 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. Viscusi’s estimates of the value of risks to life and health are currently used throughout the federal government. His book Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society synthesized much of his work in this area. In the Carter administration, he was deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, which was responsible for White House oversight over all new federal regulations. He has served on different panels of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for over a decade and as president of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Southern Economic Association. Viscusi is the founding editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, which he has edited since 1988. In 2019 he received the Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research, which is Vanderbilt’s most prestigious honor for faculty research and scholarship.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Pricing Lives: Guidepost for a Safer Society, Princeton University Press (2018; paperback edition 2020). Winner of the Kulp-Wright Award, Best Book of 2020, American Risk and Insurance Association. n Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, MIT Press (5th edition, 2018) (with Joseph E. Harrington Jr. and David Sappington) n Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal, University of Chicago Press (2002) 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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Associate Dean for Research | Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law Director, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program

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

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “The Due Process and Other Constitutional Rights of Foreign Nations,” 88 Fordham Law Review 633 (2019) n “Immunity from Execution of State-Owned Banks” in Cambridge Handbook on the International Law of Immunity (2019) n “The Future of the Federal Common Law of Foreign Relations,” 106 Georgetown Law Journal 1825 (2018) n “International Law in the Post-Human Rights Era,” 96 Texas Law Review 279 (2017) n “The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law,” 128 Harvard Law Review 1897 (2015) (with Ganesh Sitaraman)

Territorial conflicts, state-owned enterprises, immunity, jurisdiction, human rights

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Ingrid Wuerth is a leading scholar of foreign affairs, public international law and transnational litigation. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2007, was appointed director of the International Legal Studies Program in 2009 and was appointed director of the Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program in 2018. She was named to the newly endowed Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law in 2015 and is currently serving as associate dean for research. Dean Wuerth has served on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and on the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Public International Law. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was named 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 German Society of International Law, election to the Order of the Coif and many teaching awards. She clerked for Judge Jan E. DuBois in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for Judge Jane Roth on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Wuerth is a contributing editor at Lawfare. She teaches Civil Procedure, Foreign Affairs and Public International Law.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

INGRID BRUNK WUERTH

] YESHA YADAV

YESHA YADAV

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Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Community | Professor of Law Faculty Co-Director, LL.M. Program RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

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

Yesha Yadav’s research interests lie in the area of financial and securities regulation, notably with respect to the evolving response of regulatory policy to innovations in financial engineering, market microstructure and globalization. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2011, Dean Yadav worked as legal counsel with the World Bank in its finance, private-sector development and infrastructure unit, where she specialized in financial regulation and insolvency and creditor-debtor rights. Before joining the World Bank in 2009, she practiced from 2004 to 2008 in the London and Paris offices of Clifford Chance, in the firm’s financial regulation and derivatives group. As part of her work in the area of payments regulation, she was assigned to advise the European Payments Council on the establishment of the Single Euro Payments Area, an initiative that seeks to integrate the domestic payments markets across the European Economic Area and Switzerland. Since joining Vanderbilt, Yadav has served as honorary adviser to India’s Financial Services Law Reform Commission and on the Atlantic Council’s Task Force on Divergence and the Transatlantic Financial Reform and G-20 Agenda. She is a member of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee and the Tennessee State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She earned an M.A. in law and modern languages with First Class honors at the University of Cambridge, after which she earned an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, where she focused on financial and capital markets regulation, payment systems and terrorist financing. Yadav was the law school’s Enterprise Faculty Fellow for 2017–19 and a Vanderbilt University Chancellor Faculty Fellow for 2019–21. She teaches Securities Regulation, Corporate Bankruptcy and two seminars, Financial Markets in an Age of Crisis and Technology and Financial Market: Past, Present and Future. She was honored in 2020 as a secondtime winner of the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award for excellence in teaching. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “The Failed Regulation of U.S. Treasury Markets,” 121 Columbia Law Review 1173 (2021) n “Oversight Failure in Securities Markets,” 104 Cornell Law Review 1799 (2019) n “Too Big to Fail Shareholders,” 103 Minnesota Law Review 587 (2019) n “Fintech and the Innovation Trilemma,” 107 Georgetown Law Journal 235 (2019) (with Chris Brummer) Selected for reprinting in the Corporate Practice Commentator. n “Insider Trading and Market Structure,” 63 UCLA Law Review 968 (2016)

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Chancellor Emeritus | Cornelius Vanderbilt Chancellor Emeritus Chair University Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science

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

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

n “Monitoring Government Disposition of Assets: Fashioning Regulatory Substitutes for Market Controls,” 52 Vanderbilt Law Review 1705 (1999) (with H. Krent) n “Department of Justice Litigation: Externalizing Costs and Searching for Subsidies,” 61 Law & Contemporary Problems 171 (1998) n “Reforming a Private Legislature: The Maturation of the American Law Institute as a Legislative Body,” 23 Law & Social Inquiry 657 (1998) n “Judicial Review of Agency Action: The Problems of Commitment, NonContractibility and the Proper Incentives,” 44 Duke Law Journal 1133 (1995) n “The Use of Authority in Statutory Interpretation: An Empirical Analysis,” 70 Texas Law Review 1073 (1992)

Civil procedure, administrative law, higher education, health care

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Nicholas S. Zeppos rejoined the law faculty in 2020, where he teaches and studies civil procedure, after serving for more than a decade as Vanderbilt University’s eighth chancellor. An esteemed legal scholar and teacher, Chancellor Zeppos was honored in November 2019 with two new appointments as University Distinguished Professor and Cornelius Vanderbilt Chancellor Emeritus Chair, the highest appointments a university can bestow. He joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 1987 and was a professor of law and associate dean before joining the university administration as associate provost for academic affairs and vice chancellor and provost. He was named chancellor in 2008. Under Zeppos’ leadership, Vanderbilt University has become one of America’s foremost research institutions. In 2008 Zeppos led the launch of Opportunity Vanderbilt, a pioneering financial aid program that replaced undergraduate student loans with scholarships. In 2016 Zeppos led the complex transition of the university and Vanderbilt University Medical Center into two separate legal and financial entities, positioning both institutions for long-term success. Zeppos has been an outspoken advocate for the university’s imperative to foster opportunities and respect for all and to offer a welcoming and inclusive environment and supportive campus culture. He created the role of vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer. Throughout his career, Zeppos has been an effective advocate for higher education and the essential value and impact of academic research and a vigorous and successful defender of critical funding for research and education. In 2015 he co-chaired the bipartisan Senate Task Force on Government Regulation of Higher Education and conducted the foremost national study on the high cost of regulatory burdens on America’s research universities. Zeppos has served as the chair of the Association of American Universities Board of Directors, and as a board member for the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

NICHOLAS S. ZEPPOS

Clinical and Skills Faculty

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SUSAN L. KAY Associate Dean for Experiential Education | Clinical Professor of Law

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 teaches courses on Criminal Law and Evidence. She is active in many professional and service activities 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 board of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. For 10 years, she chaired the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee. Kay is a member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, having formerly served as a member of the Section’s Accreditation Committee and Standards Review Committee. Within the clinic, she has conducted major public law litigation concerning jail overcrowding, inmates’ rights and juvenile justice. She recently served as a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Indigent Representation Task Force. 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 the TennCare program. In 2005, Kay was co-reporter with on the Tennessee Bar Association Criminal Justice Section’s study of effectiveness of counsel in death penalty cases. Kay has been elected as a fellow of both the Nashville Bar Foundation and the Tennessee Bar Foundation and is a recipient of the ACLU of Tennessee’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She directs the Criminal Practice Clinic and teaches Criminal Law.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n Skills and Values: Criminal Procedure, Carolina Academic Press (2012) (with William B. 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 “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) n Report of The Tennessee Bar Association Study Committee on Effective Assistance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (co-reporter with Donald Hall) (2006) n Tennessee Evidence: 2011–12 Courtroom Manual (with G. Weissenberger)

Criminal law, criminal procedure, clinical legal education

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

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

] GARY M. BROWN

GARY M. BROWN Professor of the Practice of Law | Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

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J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Securities compliance and corporate governance

Gary Brown is a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Nashville office, where he focuses on securities compliance and corporate governance. An expert in securities regulation who taught at Vanderbilt as a member of the adjunct law faculty from 1996 to 2011, Professor Brown spent six years as the CEO of a Florida-based financial services company that specialized in the life insurance settlement industry before returning to legal practice in 2018. A specialist in securities fraud forensic investigations, Brown has supported the U.S. Senate investigations into the causes of the 2002 collapse of Enron Corp. and the role of investment banks in the 2008 financial crisis over his more than 30 years of legal practice. In those roles, he provided advice on the resulting legislation, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. He has represented boards of directors, special committees of boards and corporate executives in matters involving SEC and Department of Justice investigations, activist shareholders and strategic decisions. Brown was inducted into the Order of the Coif after earning his J.D. at Vanderbilt, where he was editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He also is a frequent speaker and author for the Practising Law Institute, where he authors the Securities Law and Practice Deskbook and Master the 8-K. He teaches Drafting Securities Filings and Lifecycle of a Corporation.

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Professor of the Practice of Law | Director, Clerkship Program AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

J.D. Harvard Law School; B.A. Vanderbilt University

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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 law, 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, Bressman was a law clerk for Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has served 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.

Intellectual property law, internet law, contracts

MICHAEL B. BRESSMAN

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Freedom of speech, press, and association; law and technology; intellectual property; privacy and surveillance; legal ethics and profession

G.S. HANS Associate Clinical Professor of Law

J.D., M.S. University of Michigan; B.A. Columbia University

An expert on First Amendment law and policy, Gautam Hans analyzes, through research and advocacy, how individuals and organizations address the complex legal and policy issues implicating technology and civil liberties. Professor Hans also works on issues relating to clinical legal education, with a particular focus on social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Hans’ scholarship addresses current issues in First Amendment doctrine, with a focus on digital platforms and new technologies. He also studies the dynamics of clinical education within legal academia. He currently serves as a board member of the Clinical Legal Education Association and the Center for Study of Applied Legal Education; as an adviser to the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment; and as a nonresident fellow for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Hans worked at CDT for four years prior to teaching, focusing on privacy, free speech, and surveillance law and policy. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Hans was a clinical teaching fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. While studying at the University of Michigan, where he earned an M.S. at the School of Information and his J.D., Hans was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review and served as a student-attorney in the Entrepreneurship Clinic and the Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Changing Counterspeech,” 69 Cleveland State Law Review 749 (2021) n “No Exit: Ten Years of ‘Privacy vs. Speech’ PostSorrell,” 62 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 19 (2021) n “Clinical Fellowships. Faculty Hiring and Community Values,” 27 Clinical Law Review 253 (2021) n “How and Why Did It Go So Wrong? Theranos as a Legal Ethics Case Study,” 37 Georgia State University Law Review 427 (2021) n “The Diversity Imperative Revisited: Racial and Gender Inclusion in Clinical Law Faculty,” 26 Clinical Law Review 127 (2019) (with D. Archer, C. Barry, D. Howard, A. Karteron, S. Mahadev and J. Selbin)

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

J.D. Duke University School of Law; B.A. Spelman College

Immigration, refugee law, civil rights, race and the law

Karla McKanders is an expert on immigration, race and the administrative state. Her research, scholarship and advocacy have taken her throughout the U.S. and abroad teaching and researching the efficacy of immigration policies, laws and legal institutions charged with processing migrants. Professor McKanders was appointed associate director of Vanderbilt’s clinical program in 2020. As founding director of the Immigration Practice Clinic, she supervises students providing representation to asylum seekers and unaccompanied minor children in their humanitarian immigration cases before the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and federal courts of appeals. Her clinic has also worked in Nashville, Tennessee and nationally advocating for immigrant communities in Supreme Court amicus briefs and legislative and policy advocacy. In 2016–17, McKanders was a visiting associate professor of law at Howard University School of Law, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinic, in which her students collaborated with NAACP LDF, the Advancement Project and other national organizations writing appellate and Supreme Court amicus briefs in civil rights and social justice litigation. Before joining Vanderbilt’s law faculty, McKanders was a tenured associate professor at University of Tennessee College of Law, where she started the first Immigration Clinic in Tennessee. While teaching at Tennessee, she received a Fulbright grant to lecture on refugee and humanitarian law in Rabat, Morocco, in 2011, where she helped start a refugee legal aid organization for asylum seekers presenting their refugee status determinations before UNHCR. She was selected in 2018 as the Scholar in Residence with the Hilary Clinton Center for Gender at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, where she examined the application of the Refugee Convention in Morocco. In 2019, she collaborated with scholars from the Middle East, North Africa and the United States as the editor of the volume, Arabs at Home and in the World: Human Rights, Gender Politics and Identity. McKanders chairs the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration and is an advisory committee member for the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University. Before joining the legal academy, she clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Detroit. She directs the Immigration Practice Clinic and teaches Immigration Law and Policy, Refugee Law and Critical Race Theory. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Immigration and Racial Justice: Enforcing the Borders of Blackness,” Georgia State University Law Review (2021) n “Deconstructing Invisible Walls: Sotomayor’s Dissents in Era of Immigration Exceptionalism,” 27 William & Mary Journal of Women and Law 95 (2020) n “Immigration and Blackness: What’s Race Got to Do with It?” in American Bar Association Human Rights Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2019) n Arabs at Home and in the World: Human Rights, Gender Politics and Identity, Taylor & Francis (2019) (editor) n “Morocco at the Crossroads: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Refugee Status” in Women and Social Change in North Africa: What Counts as Revolutionary? Cambridge University Press (2017) ( D. Gray and N. Sonneveld, editors) 51

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Clinical Professor of Law | Associate Director, Legal Clinic

KARLA MCKANDERS

] MICHAEL A. NEWTON

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

International humanitarian law, international criminal law, special tribunals, terrorism/ counterterrorism, national security law, human rights

MICHAEL A. NEWTON Professor of the Practice of Law | Professor of the Practice of Political Science Director, Vanderbilt in Venice

LL.M., J.D. University of Virginia; LL.M. The Judge Advocate General’s School; B.S. United States Military Academy at West Point Michael Newton is an expert on terrorism, accountability, transnational justice and conduct of hostilities issues. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 90 books, articles, op-eds and book chapters. He has been an expert adviser in terrorism-related trials and is admitted to the counsel list of the International Criminal Court, where, in 2018, he helped prepare the appeal of Jean-Pierre Bemba and participated in oral arguments in the Appeals Chamber. At Vanderbilt, he developed and teaches the innovative International Law Practice Lab, which provides expert assistance to judges, lawyers, legislatures, governments and policymakers worldwide. An authority on the law of armed conflict, Professor Newton served as the senior adviser to the Ambassador-atLarge for War Crimes Issues in the U.S. State Department from January 1999 to August 2002, during which he implemented a wide range of policy positions, including U.S. support to accountability mechanisms worldwide. He negotiated the “Elements of Crimes” for the International Criminal Court and was the senior member of the team teaching international law to the first group of Iraqis who began to think about accountability mechanisms and a constitutional structure. While serving as the International Law Adviser from 2006 to 2008 he shuttled to Baghdad repeatedly to aid international and Iraqi lawyers and jurists prosecuting cases before the Iraqi High Tribunal. He began assisting Iraqi officials, victims and civil society groups on legal issues associated with documentation and investigation of crimes committed by Da’esh on Iraqi soil days after Yazidi victims fled toward Mount Sinjar. He was the U.S. representative on the U.N. Planning Mission for the Sierra Leone Special Court and a founding member of its academic consortium. He is an elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the expert roster of Justice Rapid Response. He was appointed to the Arctic Research Commission by the president in 2020. Newton has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and as an invited expert for the Genocide Prevention Task Force established by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He serves on the advisory board of the ABA International Criminal Court Project. Newton served in the U.S. Army more than 21 years. He has taught international and operational law at the Judge Advocate General’s School and Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, and international law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In addition to the Practice Lab, he teaches International Criminal Law and courses in international human rights and counterterrorism and coordinates international legal externships for students. REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Absolutist Admissibility at the ICC: Revalidating Authentic Domestic Investigations,” 54 Israel Lew Review 143 (2021) n “The Interoperability of the Laws of Armed Conflict” in The Legal Pluriverse Surrounding Multinational Military Operations, Oxford University Press (2020) (Robin Geiß and Heike Krieger, editors) n The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual: Commentary and Critique, Cambridge University Press (2018) (editor) n Proportionality in International Law, Oxford University Press (2014) n “Exceptional Engagement: Protocol I and a World United Against Terror,” 42 Texas Journal of International Law 2 (2009) 52

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Associate Clinical Professor of Law AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

J.D. University of Michigan; B.A. Grinnell College

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Jennifer Prusak directs Vanderbilt’s Housing Law Clinic, in which she and her students represent tenants facing eviction proceedings, advance Fair Housing Act claims on behalf of disabled clients, and advocate for affordable and accessible housing. Professor Prusak directed the Nonprofit Legal Clinic at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, a transactional clinic which she created and managed for six years, and served as faculty supervisor of Maurer’s Tenant Assistance Project, through which law students met with and counseled pro se tenants immediately before and during their eviction hearings in Monroe County, Indiana. In 2011, she taught a Disability Law Clinic as a member of Maurer’s adjunct faculty. Before joining the clinical law faculty at Maurer, Prusak was a staff attorney and an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at Indiana Legal Services, where she worked with local nonprofit agencies on projects aimed at preventing homelessness in southern Indiana and defended eviction actions brought against Section 8 tenants, public housing residents and tenants renting from private landlords in southern Indiana courts. Her work also included negotiating with public housing authorities and private landlords on behalf of tenants at risk of eviction, helping disabled clients advance Fair Housing Act disputes, and bringing actions against landlords for breaching warranty of habitability. Prusak earned her law degree at the University of Michigan and then spent seven years in private litigation practice, focusing on disability and employment discrimination law, before joining Indiana Legal Aid. She joined Vanderbilt’s clinical faculty in summer 2020.

Housing rights, housing law, nonprofit law

JENNIFER PRUSAK

] ROBERT S. REDER

ROBERT S. REDER Professor of the Practice of Law Partner, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy (retired 2011)

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J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. Williams College AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance

Bob Reder has more than 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, health care, manufacturing and technology, in M&A and capital market transactions, and advised them on a variety of corporate governance matters. While earning his J.D. at Vanderbilt Law School, from which he graduated in 1978, Reder was an articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. As a professor of the practice of law at Vanderbilt, he teaches fullsemester courses in transactional M&A practice, corporate drafting and corporate governance and intensive short courses in structuring private M&A transactions and an introduction to public M&A. He frequently works with students to co-author comments on current cases in the Delaware Court of Chancery for the Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “No Corwin, No Problem: Chancery Court Discusses Revlon’s Role in Analyzing Post-Closing Damages Claims Against Target Company Directors,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 71 (2021) (with Spencer H. Lutz) n “Chancery Court Denies Pleading-Stage Dismissal Under Corwin due to Presence of Control Group,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 61 (2021) (with Robert W. Dillard) n “Failure to Satisfy Four Prongs of MFW Framework Dooms Pleading-Stage Dismissal of Claim Arising from Controlling Stockholder-Led Redemption of Minority Shares,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 47 (2021) (with Kirby W. Ammons) n “Chancery Court Questions Whether Nominally Designated ‘Independent’ Directors Satisfied Requirements of Stockholders Agreement,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 37 (2021) (with Eunice Lim) n Chancery Court Again Rejects Motion by Large Minority Blockholder to Dismiss Fiduciary Break Claims under Corwin,” 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 25 (2021) (with G. Parker Kolodka)

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LAUREN ROGAL Associate Clinical Professor

Lauren Rogal developed and teaches Vanderbilt’s Turner Family Community Enterprise Clinic, in which students support nonprofit organizations and start-up entrepreneurs. Professor Rogal began her legal career as an associate with Klamp & Associates, a D.C.-based law firm that represents nonprofits and social enterprises, where she focused on developing sustainable financing structures for community development and facilitated complex international transactions. She continued to practice of counsel with the firm from 2015 to 2017 while pursuing an LL.M. in advocacy and teaching students in the Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law Clinic at Georgetown. Her current scholarship focuses on reforming executive compensation in the nonprofit sector. Rogal is affiliated with the law school’s Social Justice, Law and Business, and Law and Innovation programs. She earned her J.D. cum laude at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar; also earned her B.A. magna cum laude in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar; and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where she was associate editor of Perspectives Journal of International Development.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

n “Executive Compensation in the Charitable Sector: Beyond the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” 50 Seton Hall Law Review 449 (2019) n “Legal Strategies for Economic Empowerment of Persons in Recovery,” 120 West Virginia Law Review 1025 (2018)

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LL.M. Georgetown Law Center (advocacy); J.D. University of Michigan Law School; M.A. Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; B.A. University of Pennsylvania

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Advocacy, executive compensation in the nonprofit sector

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Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

J.D. Harvard Law School; B.A. University of Pennsylvania AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Juvenile justice, education law

Cara Suvall teaches the Youth Opportunity Clinic, which supports teenagers and young adults who are at risk for criminal legal involvement by providing civil legal representation in the areas of education, housing and employment. After earning her J.D. cum laude at Harvard Law School, Professor Suvall began her legal career as a staff attorney at The Bronx Defenders, where she represented more than 700 clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies through all phases of their criminal cases. After receiving a fellowship from the Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale, Suvall created a pilot program representing young clients in school discipline and other education matters in addition to their criminal cases. She then co-founded The Bronx Defenders’ Adolescent Defense Project, which provides holistic, individualized representation to clients age 14 to 17 who are charged in adult criminal proceedings. Suvall was a law clerk for Judge Jeffrey R. Howard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She has also served as a staff attorney in the Nashville office of A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center, a nonprofit that promotes policies and legal protections that support working families. Early in her career, she was an organizer and facilitator of the Summer Theory Institute, a weekly social theory reading group for Harvard Law students working in public interest summer internships in New York City.

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CAITLIN MOON

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Director of Innovation Design, Program on Law & Innovation Director, PoLI Institute | Lecturer in Law Instructor in Radiology and Radiological Sciences

J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University; M.A. Western Kentucky University As director of innovation design for the Program on Law and Innovation, Caitlin “Cat” Moon designs the J.D. curriculum for PoLI with the goal of empowering students to lead in the innovation of 21st century legal services delivery. Professor Moon also founded and directs the PoLI Institute, which provides interactive post-graduate executive education to legal professionals. She also co-founded and produces the Summit on Law and Innovation, which brings together experts across legal, technology and other disciplines in collaborative innovation projects. She has developed and teaches several core courses in the Law and Innovation curriculum, including Law as a Business, Legal Project Management, Leading in the Law, a skills course, and Legal Problem Solving, which focuses on human-centered design for law. She also teaches a short course in Blockchains, a form of decentralized database, that addresses the implications of this technology for legal practice. In addition to her roles at Vanderbilt, Moon works with law firms, legal departments and law schools globally to apply the methods and mindsets of human-centered design to re-imagine legal professional formation and modernize the delivery of legal services. Her current research focuses on innovation in legal professional formation and includes co-creation of a 21st century framework for lawyer competency, the Delta Model. Before joining the Vanderbilt Law faculty, Moon provided legal counsel and strategic guidance to startup companies throughout her 20 years of legal practice in Nashville. She serves on the College of Law Practice Management’s Board of Trustees and on the advisory board for the MIT Computational Law Report. Moon holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Radiology at Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Blockchain, legal technology, humancentered design, law firm operations

Legal Research and Writing Faculty

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Associate Professor of Law Director of Legal Research and Writing

Jennifer Swezey joined Vanderbilt’s legal writing faculty in 2007 and was named director of the program in 2015. She teaches Legal Research and Writing to first-year J.D. students as well as Introduction to Legal Analysis in the United States to LL.M. students. She has worked in legal education since 1999, having 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. At both schools, Professor Swezey was actively involved in the American Bar Association accreditation process and developed, implemented and administered the academic support and bar preparatory programs. She has been admitted to the bar in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania.

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J.D. Rutgers University School of Law; M.A. University of Nottingham, England; B.A. Ursinus College

JENNIFER S. SWEZEY

Roger W. Alsup

Sarah Dunaway

Instructor in Law

Research Services Librarian Lecturer in Law

Teaches Legal Writing

Teaches Introduction to Legal Research, Writing and Analysis in the U.S.; Advanced Legal Research; Legal Writing

J.D. Washington and Lee University M.B.A., B.A. Vanderbilt University

J.D. St. Thomas University School of Law M.L.I.S. University of Washington B.A. Hendrix College

Rachel Anderson-Watts

Mariah Ford

Instructor in Law Director, Academic Success Institute

Head of Digital Initiatives, Law Library Lecturer in Law

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

Teaches Advanced Legal Research, Advanced Regulatory Legal Research, Legal Writing M.S.L.I.S. Wayne State University J.D., B.S. University of Idaho

Meredith Capps

Katie Hanschke

Foreign and International Law Librarian Head of Faculty Services, Law Library Lecturer in Law

Head of Instruction and Access Services, Law Library Lecturer in Law

Teaches Transnational Legal Research, Legal Writing

Teaches Introduction to Legal Research, Writing and Analysis in the U.S.; Advanced Legal Research; Legal Writing

M.S.L.S. Catholic University of America J.D. Vanderbilt Law School B.A. George Washington University

J.D. Georgia State University College of Law M.L.I.S. University of Arizona B.A. Emory University

Debra S. Lee

Barbara A. Rose

Instructor in Law

Teaches Legal Writing for LL.M.s, Professional Responsibility for LL.M.s

Teaches Legal Writing J.D., M.A.T. Vanderbilt University A.B. Brown University

J.D., B.A. University of Tennessee M.A. University of Memphis

Kelly Lise Murray

Elon Slutsky

Instructor in Law

Teaches Legal Writing

Teaches Legal Writing for LL.M.s

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

J.D. Cornell Law School M.S. Pace University B.A. Amherst College

Clanitra Nejdl

Mark J. Williams

Research Services Librarian, Law Library Lecturer in Law

Head of Digital Initiatives, Law Library Lecturer in Law

Teaches Advanced Legal Research, Legal Writing

Teaches Advanced Legal Research, Business and Securities Research, Legal Practice Technology, Legal Writing

J.D. Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University M.L.I.S., B.A. University of South Carolina

M.S.L.I.S. Wayne State University J.D., B.S. University of Idaho

Meghan Phillips

Karin Wolfe

Instructor in Law

Teaches Legal Writing

J.D. University of Georgia B.A. Indiana University

L.L.M. University of Munich J.D. New York University School of Law B.A. Centre College

Jointly Appointed Faculty

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BROOKE ACKERLY Ph.D. (Political Science) Stanford University; B.A. (Economics) Williams College

PHILLIP ACKERMAN-LIEBERMAN Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Law | Associate Professor of Religious Studies | Affiliated Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and History

Ph.D. (Near Eastern Studies) Princeton University; M.Sc. London School of Economics; M.A. (Talmud and Rabbinics) Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbinic Ordination Jewish Theological Seminary; B.A. University of Washington Phil Lieberman is Vanderbilt’s specialist in rabbinic literature. He is also an historian of medieval Jewry, particularly Jews in Muslim lands. 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 serves on the advisory board of the Cairo Geniza Project at Princeton University and is an editor and contributor to The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (edited by Norman Stillman). His book, The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt, published in 2014 by Stanford University Press, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.

SAMAR S. ALI Research Professor of Political Science and Law | Co-Chair, Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy

J.D., B.S. Vanderbilt University Samar Ali’s research initiatives focus on positive compromise through promoting conflict-resolution best practices among people, communities and nations experiencing polarization due to the connection between violence and labeling. Professor Ali joined Vanderbilt’s political science and law faculties in 2020 with 14 years of experience in international relations and legal practice. She helped to establish the UAE office of Hogan Lovells and then served at a 2010 White House Fellow in President Barack Obama’s administration, working on counterterrorism measures. She also served as Tennessee’s assistant commissioner of international affairs. She is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations, a Winrock International board member and a recipient of the White House Fellows IMPACT Award.

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Brooke Ackerly focuses her research and teaching on pressing problems of global justice, including human rights and climate change. Using feminist methodologies, she integrates into her theoretical work empirical research on activism and the experiences of those affected by injustice. Professor Ackerly teaches courses on justice, ethics and public policy, feminist theory, feminist research methods, human rights, contemporary political thought, and gender and the history of political thought. She has served as co-editor-in-chief of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and is the founder of the Global Feminisms Collaborative, a group of scholars and activists developing ways to collaborate on applied research for social justice. She serves on the editorial boards of the Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and Politics, Gender and Identities.

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Professor of Political Science | Professor of Philosophy | Professor of Law Affiliated Faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies

ROBERT BARSKY Professor of French, European Studies and Jewish Studies | Professor of Law

Ph.D. McGill University Robert Barsky works at the intersection of humanities and law, with a focus on border crossings. He is the author of Clamouring for Legal Protection: What the Great Books Teach Us about Vulnerable Migrants (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury Press, 2021), written while he was a Rockefeller Resident Fellow at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio. He is also working on an edition of the travaux préparatoires to the 1967 Refugee Protocol, negotiated in 1965. He is the author or editor of numerous books on narrative and law, including Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and the Plight of Peoples’ Deemed ‘Illegal’ (2016); Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugees’ Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country (2000); and Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearing (1994). He is the founding editor of AmeriQuests, an international open-access journal.

ARI BRYEN Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies | Associate Professor of History | Associate Professor of Law

Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. University of Maryland Ari Bryen is a historian of the ancient Roman world. His interests in ancient legal documents have led him to ask about the role of law and courts in day-to-day life in Rome’s provinces and in imperial encounters in general. Working with ancient documents has also given him an interest in historical methodology, specifically in the array of humanistic and social-scientific reading techniques for extracting new answers and questions from old, fragmentary and occasionally intractable bits of ancient trash. This has involved looking at processes of drafting and archiving, interpreting visual and literary modes of presenting legal information, and tracing how stories about laws, courts and rulers come to be redacted and retold by non-elite actors. His first book, Violence in Roman Egypt (2013), was a study of petitions from Roman-period Egypt, some of our only extant non-elite narratives from the ancient world. Professor Bryen has held fellowships from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, the American Council for Learned Societies and the Institute for Advanced Study. He is currently the section editor for the ancient world for the journal History Compass.

CHRISTOPHER (KITT) CARPENTER E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics | Professor of Law | Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organizations | Professor of Medicine, Health and Society | Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies | Director, Program in Public Policy Studies

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; B.A. Albion College Kitt Carpenter is a health and labor economist who studies the effects of public policies on health and family outcomes. At Vanderbilt, he is the founder and director of the LGBT Policy Lab. Professor Carpenter directs the NBER Health Economics Program. He has published widely on the effects of legal same-sex marriage, the causes and consequences of youth substance use and the effects of public policies on health behaviors such as bicycle helmet use, seatbelt use smoking, cancer screening and vaccination. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Cancer Society. He is an editor at the Journal of Health Economics and a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He serves on the board of the American Society of Health Economists and is co-founder and co-chair of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession.

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WILLIAM G. CHRISTIE Ph.D. (Finance and Economics) University of Chicago; M.B.A. (Finance) University of Chicago; B.S. (Commerce) Queens University

MARK A. COHEN Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise | Professor of Law University 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 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. He has served on Tennessee’s Environmental Justice Steering Committee and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Panel on Illegal Competitive Advantage and Economic Benefits and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis and Managerial and Decision Economics. Professor Cohen holds a primary appointment at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Before joining the academy, he served as a staff economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He co-founded and directed the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies. From 2008 to 2011, he was vice president for research at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C.

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By studying the operations of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s, Bill Christie, along with Paul Schultz of Notre Dame University, 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, the introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules and a $1.027 billion settlement against the defendants. Professor Christie was co-editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation from 1999 through June 2005 and was the executive editor of Financial Management from 2006 to 2011. He currently serves as chair of the board of trustees of the Financial Management Association International. He was Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management from 2000 to 2004 and served as associate dean for faculty development at Owen from September 1999 to July 2000 and from August 2007 to October 2008. He received a Vanderbilt Chair of Teaching Excellence in 1996 and Owen’s James A. Webb Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching on five occasions between 1994 and 2014. At Owen, he has taught Managerial Finance in the MBA and Executive MBA programs, as well as in the college.

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Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management in Finance | Professor of Law

COLIN DAYAN Robert 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— the focus of her two most recent books. In her 2007 book, The Story of Cruel and Unusual, she 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. Her 2011 book, The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, examines how the fictions and language of law turn persons—and other legal non-entities, such as slaves, felons, terror suspects and dogs—into “rightless objects.” The Law Is a White Dog was selected by Choice as one of the top 25 “outstanding academic books” for 2011. In recent years, she has written widely on prison rights, the legalities of torture, canine profiling, animal law and the racial contours of U.S. practices of punishment for the Boston Review, The New York Times, The London Review of Books and Al Jazeera America, where she is a contributing editor.

LEOR HALEVI Associate Professor of History | Associate Professor of Law

Ph.D. Harvard University; M.A. Yale University; B.A. Princeton University Leor Halevi’s scholarship explores the interrelationship between religious laws and social practices in various contexts. He is the author of Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press, 2007), for which he won four prestigious awards. His most recent book, Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935, was published in 2019 by Columbia University Press. He has published articles in Past & Present, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Speculum, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, History of Religions and other journals. His research has been funded by a John W. Kluge fellowship at the Library of Congress and by an American Philosophical Society grant and supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, a Social Science Research Council grant and a fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris.

SARAH E. IGO Andrew Jackson Chair in American History | Professor of Law | Professor of Politic Science | Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., M.A. Princeton University; A.B. Harvard College Sarah Igo’s primary research interests are in modern American cultural, intellectual and legal history. Her prize-winning first book, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public (Harvard University Press, 2007), explores the relationship between survey data— opinion polls, sex surveys, consumer research—and modern understandings of self and nation. An Editor’s Choice selection of The New York Times and one of Slate’s Best Books of 2007, The Averaged American was the winner of the President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association and the Cheiron Book Prize as well as a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award of the American Sociological Association. Professor Igo’s second book, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2018), traces U.S. debates over privacy from “instantaneous photography” in the late nineteenth century to today’s debates over social media and big data. Winner of the 2019 Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History, The Known Citizen was named one of the Washington Post’s “notable non-fiction books” of 2018. Professor Igo has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Whiting Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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CRAIG LEWIS Ph.D. (Finance) University of Wisconsin; M.S. (Finance) University of Wisconsin; B.S. (Accounting) Ohio State University

DAVID E. LEWIS William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in Political Science | Professor of Law

Ph.D., M.A. Stanford University; M.A. University of Colorado, Boulder; B.A. University of California, Berkeley David E. Lewis’ research interests include the presidency, executive branch politics and public administration. He is the author of two books, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design (Stanford University Press, 2003) and The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008). He has also published numerous articles on American politics, public administration and management in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Public Administration Review and Presidential Studies Quarterly. His work has been featured in outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times and Washington Post. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and has earned numerous research and teaching awards, including the Herbert Simon Award, for contributions to the scientific study of the bureaucracy.

HOLLY J. McCAMMON Professor of Sociology | Professor of Law

Ph.D., M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington; B.A. Purdue University Holly McCammon’s work focuses the U.S. women’s movement and how it has gained greater political and economic rights for women, including investigations of the woman suffrage movement, women’s campaigns in the first part of the 20th century to win the right to sit on juries, and feminist litigators and their successes before the Supreme Court. She is the author of The U.S. Women’s Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation: A More Just Verdict (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and co-edited 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism (Oxford University Press, 2018). She served as editor of the American Sociological Review from 2010 to 2015. Professor McCammon joined Vanderbilt’s sociology faculty in 1990 and has since served as the Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science’s associate dean for graduate studies from 2006 to 2008 and as associate director for doctoral training of the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies in 2008–09.

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In May 2011, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro named Craig Lewis chief economist and director of the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis. During his three years at the SEC, Professor Lewis led efforts to bolster the role of economic analysis in the financial regulatory process, particularly with implementation of the landmark Dodd-Frank financial reform law. He returned to Vanderbilt in 2014. His work focuses on corporate financial policy and asset pricing. Most recently, he has employed textual analysis of qualitative factors in corporate disclosures to detect potential fraud. Earlier work included topics such as convertible debt financing, corporate capital formation, forecasting stock market volatility and herding by equity analysts.

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Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Finance | Professor of Law

THOMAS A. J. MCGINN Professor of History | Professor of Law | Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies

Ph.D. University of Michigan; M.A. Cambridge University; A.B. Harvard College Thomas McGinn studies Roman law and social history and Latin literature. He has taught in Vanderbilt’s Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies since joining the faculty in 1986. Professor McGinn is the author of several books, including Widows and Patriarchy: Ancient and Modern (Duckworth, 2008) and editor of the two essay collections, Obligation in Roman Law: Past, Present and Future (University of Michigan Press, 2012), and Ancient Law, Ancient Society, co-edited with Dennis Kehoe. His book Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press, 1998) was the recipient of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South’s inaugural Outstanding Publication Award in 2002. McGinn has received numerous fellowships, including Fulbright, American Academy in Rome and National Endowment for the Humanities, for his research.

EVELYN PATTERSON Associate Professor of Sociology | Associate Professor of Law | Affiliated Faculty, Centers of Medicine, Health and Society and Society for the Study of Democratic Institutions | Health Policy Associate, Center for Health Policy, Meharry Medical College

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; B.A. Rice University Evelyn Patterson studies how the U.S. judicial system creates and perpetuates inequality. Drawing on her training in sociology, demography and criminology, she studies the intergenerational transfer of racial and social inequalities in America with a particular focus upon social systems, organizations and institutions. Most of her work to date examines the role of the U.S. judicial system in creating and perpetuating inequality. Interaction with the judicial system disproportionately impacts marginalized populations by limiting their social mobility, blocking their economic opportunities, ensuring poor health outcomes and minimizing their opportunities to escape the self-sustaining system of inequality embedded in America’s social structure. She was a 2019–21 Chancellor Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt.

MATTHEW P. SHAW Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education | Assistant Professor of Law

Ed.D., Ed.M. Harvard University; J.D. Columbia University; A.B. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Matthew Shaw is a sociologist whose work focuses on educational institutions. He joined the faculty of Vanderbilt’s Peabody College in 2016 after completing his doctorate in education at Harvard University. Professor Shaw earned his law degree at Columbia in 2005, after which he served for two years as a clerk for Chief Judge W. Louis Sands of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. He practiced law in Atlanta at King & Spalding and Schulten Ward & Turner before pursuing his Ed.D. at Harvard, where his dissertation, “Shaping the DREAM: Law as Policy Defining Undocumented Students’ College Access,” addressed federal law and education policy and the insularity of minority status. Shaw delivered a lecture, “Education Justice,” as part of the law school’s 2021 Dean’s Lecture Series on Race and Discrimination.

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

KIMBERLY WELCH Assistant Professor of History | Assistant Professor of Law

Ph.D. University of Maryland; M.A. American University; B.A. Fort Lewis College Kim Welch is a historian of the United States with a focus on slavery, race and the law in the American South. She is particularly interested in the world of free and enslaved African Americans, how they understood their place in southern society and how they advanced it. Her first book— Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2018)—is a historical and socio-legal study of free and enslaved African Americans’ use of the local courts in the cotton South. The book investigates unpublished and unexplored lower court records from the Natchez district of Mississippi and Louisiana between 1800 and 1860 in which free Blacks and enslaved people sued whites and other African Americans. Black Litigants received the 2019 J. Willard Hurst Prize for the best book in socio-legal history. Professor Welch is also the principal investigator for the National Science Foundation’s Law and Social Sciences Research Grant, “Variation in Use of Courts by Legal Status and Jurisdiction,” SES 1353231 & 1700856 ($149,605). This project gathers, analyzes and compares local court records involving black litigants in four counties in the Deep South.

ALAN E. WISEMAN Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Political Economy | Professor of Law | Chair, Department of Political Science

Ph.D. (Business), M.A. (Political Science) Stanford University; B.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. His books include Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers (Cambridge University Press, 2014), co-authored with Craig Volden, which won the 2015 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Price for best book in legislative studies.

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Lawrence Van Horn is a leading expert and researcher on health care management and economics. His research in consumer-driven markets supported a 2019 Executive Order requiring true price transparency in health care markets that was signed into law that year. His current research focuses on nonprofit conduct, governance and objectives in health care markets, and the measurement of healthcare outcomes and productivity. Prior to joining Owen, Professor Van Horn served as associate professor of economics and management at the Simon Business School 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 Fellow.

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Associate Professor of Management (Economics) | Associate Professor of Law Executive Director of Health Affairs

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Audrey Anderson (J.D. Michigan Law School, B.A. Northwestern University) was vice chancellor and general counsel for Vanderbilt University and a deputy general counsel with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She practices of counsel with Bass Berry & Sims, focusing on higher education. Linda K. Breggin (J.D. University of Chicago; B.A. Tulane University) has served as a senior attorney with the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C., for over 15 years. Her legal and policy research focuses on agriculture, nanotechnology, point- and non-point-source water pollution and environmental enforcement. During the 1990s, she was counsel with LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae in Washington. She also served as the special assistant to the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement program, as counsel to a U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Subcommittee and as the associate director for toxics and environmental education in the White House Office on Environmental Policy.

Larry W. Bridgesmith (J.D. Wayne State University; B.A. Oakland University) brings more than 30 years of experience in dispute resolution and innovative workplace strategies to clients, students and business entities by integrating the practical, legal and academic “best practices” into dispute resolution strategies. Kenneth Byrd (J.D. Boston College Law School; B.S. Samford University) is a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, where he represents clients in mass tort cases, defective product cases and consumer fraud litigation. He represents consumers in consumer class action cases as well as injured individuals and their loved ones in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits filed in across the country. Professor Byrd is also a member of Lieff Cabraser’s False Claim Act/ Fraud on the government practice group, assisting whistleblowers to stop fraud and the misuse of funds in government contracts and programs. 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, the Davidson Country Disproportionate Contact Task Force and the Youth Violence Task Force. Before her appointment to the bench in 2004, she worked at the Metropolitan Public Defender’s Office in both the adult and juvenile systems.

Mark Chalos (J.D. Emory University School of Law; B.A. Vanderbilt University) is the managing partner of the Nashville office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. Professor Chalos has been appointed to leadership roles in numerous complex civil proceedings involving product defects that caused injuries or unfair economic loss. He is currently representing city and county governments, Native American tribes and health benefit providers in litigation related to opioids. William B. Chandler III (LL.M. Yale Law School; J.D. University of South Carolina School of Law; B.A. University of Delaware) joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a partner after serving on the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation’s leading court for corporate law cases, for more than 25 years. He was appointed Chancellor in 1997, after serving as Vice Chancellor since 1989. Widely regarded as one of the country’s most influential judges on issues of corporate law and governance, Chancellor Chandler issued more than a thousand opinions and presided over some of the most contentious and high-profile corporate law disputes in the country. Jenny Diamond Cheng (Ph.D. University of Michigan; J.D. Harvard Law School; B.A. Swarthmore College) focuses on the political and legal treatment of families and children. 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. 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 was a law clerk for Chief Judge L. Clure Morton of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Christopher E. 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. Before joining TJC, Professor Coleman was an associate of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, where he represented plaintiffs in antitrust and mass torts litigation.

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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.

Gregory Bressler (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.S. State University of New York, Binghamton) serves as general counsel of SunAmerica Asset Management and as deputy general counsel for AIG Consumer Insurance. Before joining SunAmerica in 2005, Professor Bressler was director of U.S. asset management compliance for Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a deputy general counsel for Credit Suisse Asset Management. His articles on topics relating to registered investment companies, private funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers have been published in The Investment Lawyer and The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation.

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Richard S. Aldrich Jr. (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; A.B. Brown University) is retired from his practice as a partner in the São Paulo office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, where he focused 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 Corp. 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.

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Phil Cramer (J.D. Vanderbilt University; B.A. University of Richmond) specializes in plaintiff’s recovery cases in the field of antitrust. As an attorney in private practice, he has assisted corporate claimants in obtaining recoveries that have totaled nearly $1 billion. He also represents clients in commercial litigation matters, including insurance coverage, false claims, property rights and complex business disputes. Professor Cramer also represents clients pro bono in high-profile civil rights cases, having brought cases to vindicate immigrant rights, women’s rights, voting rights, privacy rights, prisoner rights, death penalty relief and marriage equality. Matthew M. Curley (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. State University of New York, Albany) is a member at Bass Berry & Sims in Nashville, where he focuses on internal and governmental investigations and related civil and criminal proceedings, particularly within the health care industry. He previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee and as chief of the office’s Civil Division. Lauren Z. Curry (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, B.A. University of the South) is a partner at Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison in Nashville, where she focuses on commercial litigation and insurance matters. She was a law clerk to Judge Jane B. Stranch in 2011–12. James P. Danly (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. Yale University) is a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Professor Danly served as general counsel to FERC before his appointment as commissioner in 2020. Before joining FERC, he was a member of the energy regulation group at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. 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, environmental and other criminal cases.

Paul Deemer (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a retired partner of Vinson & Elkins, where he focused on international mergers and acquisitions and on the development and financing of international energy projects. Over the course of his career, he opened his firm’s offices in Moscow and Beijing, where he was based from 2002 to 2013. He currently works of counsel with the firm on energy transactions and projects, assisting companies headquartered in one country in the acquisition of energy companies and assets in other nations. He is admitted to legal practice in Texas and is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. 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. Sarah Luppen Fowler (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, B.A. University of Georgia) is senior deputy general counsel at the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, based in Los Angeles. She was in private practice for eight years before joining the legal staff of SAG-AFTRA. Susan Foxman (J.D., M.A., B.A. University of Michigan) practiced finance and real estate law with Bass Berry & Sims in Nashville from 1999 to 2017, representing public and private companies across a variety of industries. Her experience includes drafting, negotiating and analyzing complex legal documents, including credit agreements, purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements and joint venture agreements. Her work has involved syndicated credit facilities and other large corporate financings, commercial acquisitions, joint ventures, project financings, non-recourse

financings and real estate leasing, and her experience includes leading teams of lawyers across specialties in complex, multi-state transactions. Glenn R. Funk (J.D. University of Mississippi; B.A. Wake Forest University) is the district attorney general for the 20th Judicial District of Tennessee. A veteran trial attorney with 29 years of courtroom experience, he began his legal career as an assistant public defender in Shelby County, Tennessee, and then served as an assistant district attorney in Davidson County before starting his own law practice in 1989. Jason Gichner (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. Colgate University) has more than 15 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 Morgan & Morgan. Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III (J.D. Duke Law School; M.S., 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. Charles K. Grant (J.D. Washington & Lee School of Law; B.S. The Citadel) is a veteran litigator who has tried more than 50 jury trials to verdict in both federal and state courts and represented numerous clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings across more than a dozen states. An expert in complex employment litigation, Professor Grant has defended clients in class actions, collective actions and against claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. He has practiced as a shareholder at Baker Donelson, where he is a member of the board of directors, since 2004.

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 and 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. Martesha L. Johnson (J.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville; B.S. Tennessee State University) is Metro Nashville’s Public Defender. Since joining the Public Defender’s Office in 2009, she has represented clients from diverse social, economic and educational backgrounds in state criminal court, conducting hearings, trials, factual investigations, legal research and negotiations. She was elected Nashville’s public defender in 2018.

Suzanne H. Kessler (J.D., M.A. Stanford University; A.B. Brown University) is of counsel at Bone McAllester Norton, where she provides entertainment and intellectual property law counsel as a business and legal affairs consultant to individuals and entities in the entertainment industries. Kevin Klein (J.D. Cornell Law School; A.B. Brown University) is a founding partner of Klein Solomon Mills in Nashville, where he focuses on courtroom litigation. Over the course of his career, Professor Klein has tried more than 30 cases, ranging from negligence cases to federal trials, and briefed and argued 17 appeals, from straightforward state matters to federal appeals involving complex legal issues and millions of dollars. William E. Martin (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) has served in diverse roles as a lawyer, businessman and government official over the course of his career. His interest in international environmental issues is also reflected in his government work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on Fisheries in Rome and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Madrid, among other work.

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Abrar Hussain (J.D. Vanderbilt University; B.A. Cornell University) is CEO of Frost Capital and managing director of Elixir Capital Management, a private equity fund manager focused on growth-stage emerging market investments. Before co-founding Elixir in 2012, Professor Hussain was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis’ San Francisco office, where he represented multinational companies, including Alcatel-Lucent Corp. and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Andrew M. Kaufman (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. Yale University) is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of commercial law and secured transactions, financing and legal opinion practice. As a partner with Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, Professor Kaufman founded and headed the firm’s debt finance practice, and he has continued to work with the firm in an “of counsel” capacity since his retirement.

Richard McGee (J.D. University of Tennessee; B.A. Middle Tennessee State University) is an experienced criminal defense lawyer who has been lead or cocounsel on more than 100 murder cases. He began his career in Nashville’s Public Defender’s Office, where he worked for five years before founding his own criminal defense practice.

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Aubrey (Trey) Harwell III (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) joined Neal & Harwell after serving as a judicial clerk for Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. ‘54 (BA’52) on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. He focuses on civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense and crisis management and has conducted numerous independent investigations on behalf of individual and corporate clients throughout the U.S.

Judge Kent A. Jordan (J.D. Georgetown University; B.A. Brigham Young University) was appointed to 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 clerked for Judge James L. Latchum of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and then was an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.

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Ryan Greecher (J.D. University of Virginia Law School; B.A. Pennsylvania State University) is an expert in corporate governance and practices of counsel in the Delaware office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice focuses on providing Delaware corporate law advice with respect to fiduciary duties and statutory requirements through the various steps in a company’s life cycle, including incorporation, preferred stockholder investments, purchases and sales of assets, dividends and capital repurchases, tender offers and mergers and acquisitions, and liquidations and dissolutions.

James McNamara (J.D., B.A. University of North Carolina) is an attorney at Morgan & Morgan in Nashville. He has 20 years of trial and appellate experience and was a senior public defender in the Office of the Public Defender for Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County before joining Morgan & Morgan. Robert McNeal (LL.M., J.D. Tulane University; B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a shareholder with Liskow & Lewis who represents businesses as lead litigation employment, commercial and tort matters in both federal and state courts. He also advises clients regarding energy and environmental regulatory matters. Francisco Müssnich (LL.M. Harvard Law School; LL.B. Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) is a partner at Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão in 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. Danielle Insignares Nellis (J.D. Boston University; B.A. Spellman College) is former assistant district attorney in the Office of the District Attorney General for Metropolitan Nashville, where she prosecuted a variety of complex cases before the criminal courts of Davidson County. Before joining the district attorney’s office, Professor Nellis was the owner of Nellis Law for four years, where her solo practice focused on defending clients in criminal and child custody matters.

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William L. Norton (J.D., B.A. Vanderbilt University) is a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, where he practices in the business bankruptcy area, dealing in all aspects of bankruptcy cases, creditors’ rights and insolvency. 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, 2012). R. Gregory Parker (J.D. University of Notre Dame; B.A. Vanderbilt University) counsels global innovators whose businesses focus on a diverse range of technologies in the procurement and enforcement of intellectual property rights. He represents clients in all types of intellectual property disputes, including patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright and unfair competition matters in state and federal courts across the country. 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. He coaches Vanderbilt’s National Moot Court Team. Garrick Pursley (J.D., B.A. University of Texas) is an assistant professor of law at Florida State University, where he teaches constitutional law and federal courts. He writes about constitutional theory, federalism, campaign finance and energy issues. 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. Mozianio S. Reliford III (J.D. Stanford Law School, B.A. University of the South) is an associate at Neal & Harwell in Nashville, where he focuses on entertainment law, securities litigation, commercial litigation, crisis management and complex white collar and regulatory defense cases. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice Jeffrey S. Bivins of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2015–16.

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 health care fraud task force. He concentrates his practice on representing health care clients facing governmental investigations and related litigation. Edmund Sauer (J.D. University of Virginia; M.A. Queen’s University, B.A. Centre College) is a partner in the Nashville office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and focuses on handling federal and state appeals throughout the country. Early in his legal career, Professor Sauer clerked for Judges Jane B. Stranch ‘78 (BA ‘75) and Boyce F. Martin Jr., both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Before joining Bradley, Professor Sauer was an appellate lawyer at Mayer Brown in Washington, D.C. He also served as a deputy to Kentucky Gov. Steven L. Beshear, representing the governor in federal and state courts and helping coordinate executive-branch litigation. Mark D. Schein (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. Williams College) is senior vice president and chief compliance office at York Capital Management, where he has worked since 2005. Before joining the executive staff at York, where he has also served as chief compliance officer of the York Enhanced Strategies Fund, Professor Schein spent three years at U.S. Trust Co. and Schwab Capital Markets, where he served as director of broker dealer compliance and of anti-money laundering. Paul T. Schnell (J.D. New York University School of Law; B.A. Amherst College) is a partner with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, where his practice focuses on U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions. He is an internationally recognized lawyer in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, finance, corporate practice, corporate governance, health care and Latin America. Teresa Sebastian (LL.M. Wayne State University; J.D. Michigan State University College of Law; M.B.A. University of North Florida; B.G.S. University of Michigan) has more than 20 years of experience working in corporate legal departments. She was general counsel,

corporate secretary and chief compliance officer of Darden Restaurants, a global company, from 2010 to 2015. From 2008 to 2010, she served as general counsel and corporate secretary with Veyance Technologies, which had operations in the U.S., South America, Europe and China. Arjun Sethi (J.D. New York University School of Law; B.S. Georgetown University) is a writer and attorney based in Washington, D.C., and an expert in policing, counterterrorism, and racial and religious profiling. He is particularly active on domestic and international surveillance issues and pre-arrest police civilian encounters, including consensual stops, predictive policing, location tracking, biometric data collection and countering violent extremist programs. Dumaka Shabazz (J.D., B.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville) is a federal public defender based in Nashville, where he represents clients charged with fraud, homicide, and other violent, white-collar or large-scale narcotics crimes. Justin A. Shuler (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder) is an associate at Paul Weiss and focuses his practice on corporate and commercial litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Georgia Sims (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, B.A. Transylvania University) is assistant deputy public defender and training director at the Nashville Defenders. She is a graduate of the Gideon’s Promise Core 101 program and has taught public defenders throughout the nation. Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III (J.D. Washington & Lee University School of Law; B.S. James Madison University) was sworn in as a vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery on March 28, 2016. Before his appointment, Vice Chancellor Slights was a partner in the Delaware law firm Morris James, where he practiced corporate and business litigation and chaired the firm’s Alternative Dispute Resolution practice group.

Judge Amul R. Thapar (J.D. University of California, Berkeley; B.A. Boston College) sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to his appointment to the federal appellate bench in 2017, Judge Thapar had served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky starting in 2007. He was the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky and practiced law with Williams & Connolly and Squire Sanders Dempsey before taking the bench. He received the Daniel K. Inouye NAPABA Trailblazer Aware in 2015.

Leigh Walton (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School, B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College) is a partner at Bass Berry & Sims, where she advises public companies on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and securities offerings. She has over 40 years of experience and is an expert in public health care companies 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. Auburn University) became senior vice president and chief legal officer for the Metropolitan Nashville airport authority in 2007, after joining the Airport Authority as vice president of legal affairs and government relations in 2005. Before joining the airport authority, Professor Watson served in the Middle Tennessee Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 20 years, ultimately as the division’s civil chief and first assistant U.S. attorney.

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. Professor Wiseman is a member of the American, Tennessee, Kentucky and Nashville Bar Associations, and served as president of the Nashville Bar Association in 2001.

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Tatiana Stoljarova (J.D. Vanderbilt University; B.A. Saint Petersburg AllState University, Russia) is a senior legal counsel with Bridgestone Americas Inc. in Nashville, where she focuses on transactional law, business risk management and compliance to support the company’s North American business units. After earning her law degree at Vanderbilt in 2003, she practiced law with Jones Day based in Chicago, London and Moscow.

DarKenya Waller (J.D. University of Mississippi, MBA Belhaven University) is managing attorney of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. Her legal practice is focused primarily on family law.

Paul Werner (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. University of California, Los Angeles) is a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton in Washington, D.C. A seasoned first-chair litigator, he has represented clients at all levels of courts and administrative tribunals and federal and state arbitral tribunals.

Tyler Chance Yarbro (J.D. University of Virginia; B.A. Wellesley College) has extensive experience in courtroom advocacy. As an attorney with Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella in Nashville, she litigates cases involving employment, personal injury and criminal matters. Professor Yarbro has also worked in politics as a field director for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign in a number of states, beginning with the first-inthe-nation New Hampshire primary and ending with a lesser-known vote recount in the Oregon general election.

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John T. Spragens (J.D. Vanderbilt Law School; B.A. Kenyon College) focuses on national class action and complex litigation. Previously an associate in the Nashville office of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, Professor Spragens founded his own law practice in 2019. He represents plaintiffs in class action and whistleblower litigation against corporations that manufacture dangerous and defective products, conspire to fix prices and misuse taxpayer funds.

Wendy J. Tucker (J.D., B.A. Tulane University) has more than 20 years of courtroom experience. She began her career as an assistant public defender and then was in private practice, where her cases ranged from criminal trespass to capital murder. She later turned her focus to education law and 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 January 2012. She supported specific education reform initiatives as a member of the State Board of Education, to which she was appointed by former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, from 2014 to 2019.

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Saul Solomon (J.D. University of North Carolina Law School; B.A. University of Michigan) is a member of Klein Solomon Mills in Nashville, where he represents businesses. Professor Solomon has more than 35 years of experience working in private practice and in corporate legal departments, 18 of which he spent in the corporate legal and human resources departments of Bridgestone Americas Inc.

9th

Vanderbilt’s law faculty ranked 9th among U.S. law schools in a study, “Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021: Updating Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third,” conducted by a team led by University of St. Thomas professor Gregory Sisk. The ranking is based on citations of the scholarly work of tenured faculty from 2016 to 2020.

faculty members who are members of the American Law Institute

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