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The Vanderbilt Law School Public Interest Office prepares students for fulfilling and sustainable public interest careers through robust advising, programming, and community support. It fosters …
Student Organizations
Vanderbilt law students are active, public-minded, and come from a variety of backgrounds - all qualities reflected by a wide variety of thriving student organizations …
The Necessity of Firearm Stores During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gun owners and would-be gun purchasers are arguing that state measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infringe on their Second Amendment rights. …
A general approach for predicting the behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States
Building on developments in machine learning and prior work in the science of judicial prediction, we construct a model designed to predict the behavior of …
Reconstituting Corporate Power & Accountability
Introduction Modern society faces a paradox: While corporations can be useful engines of innovation and value creation, they increasingly operate as vectors for profound public …
Curbing Private Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act: Thoughts on Recent Developments
For decades, private plaintiffs have brought claims to enforce key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Recent decisions have tossed out these claims on …
The Secular Decline of the American State
The Trump Administration’s assault on the administrative state has received significant attention. But it is a mistake to interpret the weakening of the administrative state …
Due Process of War
ARTICLE Due Process of War Nathan S. Chapman* The application of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the government’s deprivation of rights …
After SFFA: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing as a Remedy to Federal Housing Discrimination
Nearly sixty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), racial segregation, housing discrimination, and consequent disparities in health and opportunity stubbornly persist. …