Rebecca Haw Allensworth's latest publication, “The Licensing Racket,” details how occupational licensing limits competition at the expense of consumer safety.
“Bending the Rules of Evidence,” co-authored by Edward K. Cheng, G. Alexander Nunn, and Julia Ann Simon-Kerr, offers a doctrinal fix to issue of evidentiary rule-bending.
In Chapter 5 of his book Rehabilitating Criminal Justice, Chris Slobogin argues that a technology-fueled solution exists which could reduce rates of pretrial detention while addressing legitimate concerns about public safety.
Sannoy Das examines the production of doctrine around the terms “fair and equitable” in a new article, “Fine Balance: Empire, Neoliberalism, and the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law.”
In this Vanderbilt Law series, students engage in meaningful dialogues with our esteemed faculty. Each episode explores the research, teaching, and insights of professors across legal disciplines, offering a glimpse into their expertise and contributions to the field.
Excited Utterance is a podcast focusing on scholarship on evidence law and proof. The podcast aims to provide a weekly virtual workshop in the world of evidence throughout the academic year. More broadly, the podcast has four goals:
1) distribute evidence scholarship to a broader audience;
2) provide a biweekly forum on evidence scholarship;
3) demonstrate a new, more efficient medium for academic discourse; and
4) serve a democratizing function in the legal academy.
Hosted by J.B. Ruhl, the Climate at Vanderbilt podcast reports on faculty, students, research, and programs at Vanderbilt University focused on climate change. Faculty at Vanderbilt conducting research on climate change come from a broad array of disciplines, including engineering, public health and medicine, earth sciences, religious studies, law, biological sciences, history, business, and anthropology. Vanderbilt also offers an innovative undergraduate major in climate studies. Listen to this podcast to learn more about how Vanderbilt is working on the challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
From the Vanderbilt Project on Prosecution Policy, True Bill Talk is about getting to the truth of criminal prosecution in America right now: what it is, how people experience it, and how prosecutors can better serve their communities.
The podcast features in-depth conversations with prosecutors, policy experts, and advocates to provide diverse perspectives on the challenges and responsibilities of prosecution.
Faculty Profile: Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Faculty Profile: Edward K. Cheng
Faculty Profile: Yesha Yadav
Each year, several Vanderbilt Law professors are honored with Hall-Hartman Awards for outstanding teaching during the previous academic year. The awards recognize faculty whose teaching is deemed outstanding in each of the three first-year student sections and for large and small upper-level elective courses and are based on the results of a student poll conducted by the Vanderbilt Bar Association.
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