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The Vanderbilt University Law School is the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. One of the top law schools in the United States, it was ranked 17th in the 2006 U.S. News and World Report survey of U.S. law schools. The school has a student body of approximately 600 students and is known for the scholarly productivity of its faculty and its collegial atmosphere.
Recognized for some time as a Southern powerhouse, the school has gained an excellent national reputation and consistently places its students at top law firms across the country. The dean of the law school is Edward Rubin, formerly the Theodore K. Warner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The school currently has one former student serving as a Clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court (Ashley Jones Johnson '04 for Justice Clarence Thomas).
Vanderbilt is home to several of the nation's leading constitutional law scholars, including Suzanna Sherry (who specializes in federal courts), James F. Blumstein (who has argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court), and Tom McCoy (who is an expert in First Amendment jurisprudence). It also has great strength in the area of corporate law and offers students the ability to earn a Certificate in Law & Business.
In the spring of 2006, the law school announced the creation of a new program to award a Ph.D. in Law & Economics -- the first program of its kind in the nation. They anticipate admitting their first class in Fall 2007.
Publications
- Vanderbilt Law Review
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
Notable alumni
- Paul Atkins -- Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission
- Cornelia A. Clark -- Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court
- Martha Craig Daughtrey -- Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Pauline LaFon Gore -- Mother of former vice president Al Gore Jr. Met future husband, Albert Gore Sr., while working her way through Vanderbilt Law School, from which she graduated in 1936.
- Robert Hays, Jr. -- Chairman, King & Spalding LLP
- Ric Keller -- Congressman (R-FL)
- Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. -- Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Jim Neal -- Noted defense attorney and former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee
- Paul Ney, Jr. -- Principal Deputy General Counsel, Department of the Navy
- John T. Nixon -- Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
- Bill Purcell -- Mayor of Nashville
- Fred Thompson -- Former United States Senator and actor on the television drama Law & Order
- Jody Wagner -- Secretary of Finance, Commonwealth of Virginia
- Justin P. Wilson -- Former Deputy Governor of Tennessee
- Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. -- Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Select faculty
- Margaret Mendenhall Blair (Corporations, Corporate Finance)
- James F. Blumstein, (Constitutional Law, Health Law & Policy)
- Lisa S. Bressman (Administrative Law)
- Rebecca Brown (Constitutional Law)
- John W. Bruce (Real Property)
- James W. Ely, Jr. (Constitutional Law, Legal History)
- John Goldberg (Torts)
- Donald Hall (Criminal Law and Procedure)
- Larry Helfer (International Law)
- Joni Hersch (Law & Economics)
- Nancy King (Criminal Procedure)
- Tom McCoy (Constitutional Law, Conflict of Laws)
- Harold G. Maier (Emeritus) (International Law)
- Richard Nagareda (Complex Litigation, Evidence, Administrative Law)
- Erin A. O'Hara (Conflict of Laws, Law & Economics, Public Choice Theory)
- Edward Rubin (Legal Theory)
- Suzanna Sherry (Federal Courts & Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure)
- Jeffrey A. Schoenblum (International Taxation, Wills & Trusts)
- W. Kip Viscusi (Law & Economics)
- Justin P. Wilson (Local Government Law)