The ("'''VULS'''") is the Law School at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , Tennessee . Vanderbilt was ranked 16th in the 2007 '' U.S. News & World Report '' ranking of U.S. law schools.
The ''. 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 settlement of a class action lawsuit. Vanderbilt also has programs in law and human behavior, constitutional law, regulatory law and environmental law.
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—directed by economists W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch . The program will admit its first class in Fall 2007.
Vanderbilt Law School also offers a summer study program, Vanderbilt in Venice , {Link without Title} which is open to students from all accredited law schools and offers courses in comparative and international law.
- Greg Abbott - Texas Attorney General
- Paul Atkins {Link without Title} - 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 . 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 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.
- W. Kip Viscusi, economist and health and safety risk scholar who is the award-winning author of more than 20 books and 250 articles
- Richard Nagareda {Link without Title} , author of ''Mass Torts in a World of Settlement'' ( University Of Chicago Press - released in 2007)
- Suzanna Sherry {Link without Title} , author of numerous books on constitutional interpretive theory and casebooks on Civil Procedure and Federal Jurisdiction.
- James F. Blumstein {Link without Title} , health law and Constitutional law scholar, he also has argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court.
- Edward L. Rubin {Link without Title} , 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 {Link without Title} , 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 {Link without Title} , an individual rights constitutional theorist and co-chair of the American Constitution Society's "Constitution for the 21st Century" project.
- Nancy J. King {Link without Title} , author of a Criminal Procedure casebook and member of the Rules Committee for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
- Jeffrey Schoenblum {Link without Title} , scholar in choice of law in international wealth transfers and probate.
- John C.P. Goldberg {Link without Title} , a proponent for constitutionalizing the right to redress through tort, on which he published an article recently in Yale Law Journal.
- Michael Vandenbergh {Link without Title} , an environmental law scholar who explores the relationship between formal legal regulation and informal social regulation
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