Editing Vanderbilt University Law School

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The '''Vanderbilt University Law School''' ("'''VULS'''") is the [[law school]] at [[Vanderbilt University]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]. Vanderbilt was ranked 16th in the [[2007]] [[U.S. News and World Report]] survey of U.S. law schools.

The ''[[Vanderbilt Law Review]]'' is ranked tenth among general-topic law reviews, based upon the number of times its articles are cited.[http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx] The dean of the law school is Edward L. Rubin [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=187], formerly the Theodore K. Warner, Jr. Professor of Law at [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|the University of Pennsylvania Law School]]. Future [[United States Supreme Court]] Justice [[James Clark McReynolds]] served on the faculty of the law school before becoming part of President [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s Justice Department.

Vanderbilt is home to [[Suzanna Sherry]] (who specializes in [[United States federal courts|federal courts]]), James F. Blumstein (who has argued several cases before the [[United States Supreme Court]]), John Goldberg [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=169] (who is an expert in [[tort law]]), and [[Lisa Schultz Bressman]], a highly regarded scholar of [[administrative law]].  Its [[corporate law]] program allows students to earn a Certificate in Law & Business, and it has strong programs in [[International law|international]] and [[constitutional law]]. In 2005, a new program -- the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program, headed by complex litigation scholar Richard Nagareda [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=183] -- received a $2.9 million endowment through a [[cy pres]] settlement of a class action lawsuit.

In the spring of [[2006]], the law school announced the creation of a new program to award a [[Ph.D.]] in [[Law and Economics|Law & Economics]] -- the first program of its kind in the nation, directed by economists W. Kip Viscusi [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=196] and Joni Hersch [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=173]. The program plans to admit its first class in Fall 2007.

Vanderbilt Law School also offers a summer study program, Vanderbilt in [[Venice]] [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/academics/vanderbilt-in-venice/index.aspx], which is open to students from all accredited law schools and offers courses in comparative and international law.

== Notable alumni ==
* [[Greg Abbott]] -- [[Texas]] Attorney General 
* Paul Atkins [http://www.sec.gov/about/commissioner/atkins.htm] -- Commissioner, [[Securities and Exchange Commission]]
* Cornelia A. Clark -- Justice, [[Tennessee Supreme Court]]
* [[Martha Craig Daughtrey]] -- Judge, [[United States Court of Appeals|U.S. Court of Appeals]] for the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|Sixth Circuit]]
* [[Pauline LaFon Gore]] -- Mother of former vice president Al Gore Jr. She met her future husband, Albert Gore Sr., while working her way through Vanderbilt Law School, from which she graduated in 1936.
* [[Ric Keller]] -- Congressman (R-FL)
* [[Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.]] -- Senior Judge, [[U.S. Court of Appeals]] for the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|Sixth Circuit]]
* 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]] (R-TN) and actor on the television drama ''[[Law & Order]]''
* Aleta Trauger -- District Court Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
* [[Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.]] -- Senior Judge, [[United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee]]
* Vice President [[Al Gore]] -- briefly attended the law school, but left without attaining a degree to pursue a career in Congress in 1976.

== Notable faculty ==
===Current===
* W. Kip Viscusi [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=196], economist and health and safety risk scholar who is the award-winning author of more than 20 books and 250 articles
* Richard Nagareda [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=183], author of'' Mass Torts in a World of Settlement'' ([[University of Chicago Press]] - released in 2007)
* Suzanna Sherry [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=190], author of numerous books on constitutional interpretive theory and casebooks on Civil Procedure and Federal Jurisdiction.
* James F. Blumstein [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=151], health law and Constitutional law scholar, he also has argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court.
* Edward L. Rubin [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=187], has authored numerous books and articles on legal theory and administrative law.  He is among the most cited members of the law faculty.
* Owen D. Jones [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=176], scholar on the impact of evolutionary biology on law, a subject on which he has published articles in Columbia Law Review, among other journals.
* Rebecca L. Brown [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=155], an individual rights constitutional theorist and co-chair of the American Constitution Society's "Constitution for the 21st Century" project.
* Nancy J. King [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=178], author of a Criminal Procedure casebook and member of the Rules Committee for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
* Jeffrey Schoenblum [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=189], scholar in choice of law in international wealth transfers and probate.
* Robert K. Rasmussen [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=185], bankruptcy scholar, and a current candidate for the deanship at [[USC Gould School of Law]].
* John C.P. Goldberg [http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/faculty-detail/index.aspx?faculty_id=169], an ALI Reporter on the Restatement 3d of the Law of Torts and proponent for constitutionalizing the right to redress through tort, on which he published an article recently in Yale Law Journal.

===Former===
* [[Harold G. Maier]] (Emeritus) &mdash; [[Private International Law]], International Civil Litigation
* [[Larry Soderquist]] (1944 - 2005) &mdash; Corporate Law

==External links==
*[http://law.vanderbilt.edu/ Vanderbilt University Law School homepage]

===Publications===
* ''[http://law.vanderbilt.edu/student-resources/publications/vanderbilt-law-review/index.aspx Vanderbilt Law Review]''
* ''[http://law.vanderbilt.edu/student-resources/publications/vanderbilt-journal-of-transnational-law/index.aspx Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law]''
* ''[http://law.vanderbilt.edu/student-resources/publications/vanderbilt-journal-of-entertainment--technology-law/index.aspx Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law ]''

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