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An Inside View on History

During the primaries and the general election season, professors Samuel Issacharoff and Richard Pildes worked as part of the Obama campaign’s legal team on voting and...

A Tribute to Lowenfeld

Christopher Borgen ’95, a former student of Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus Andreas Lowenfeld, shall always remember the Alamo. In 1999, mentor...

Making a Law Class of a Fine-Feathered Story

Professor of Law Katrina Wyman picked up the New York Times Sunday Book Review in February of last year without any particular academic intentions. The cover...

Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown

A scholar of financial institutions, Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant Comfort Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Study of Central Banks and Financial Institutions,...

Meron on International Criminal Justice

Judge Theodor Meron of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) made a case for the importance of his domain in his February lecture,...

Introducing José Alvarez

International law scholar José Alvarez is known to ruffle feathers. Giving a keynote speech that became “Torturing the Law” in the Case Western Reserve Journal of...

Introducing Barton Beebe

Nix the bookshelves; pump up the tech budget. That’s what Barton Beebe requested for his new Vanderbilt Hall office. All that Beebe really needs to feel...

Introducing Richard Epstein

A classical libertarian arguing against universal health care, Richard Epstein was clearly at a disadvantage when he took the podium in April 2008 to debate Americans’...

Introducing Ryan Goodman

His gentle voice doesn’t dominate a panel discussion, yet he’s the one to further the debate. He won three best-paper prizes at Yale Law School but...

Introducing Katherine Strandburg

She didn’t successfully crash-land a plane or seize the political spotlight, but Katherine Strandburg nonetheless got her proverbial 15 minutes of fame—via cans of mixed nuts....

China’s Legal Lion

Jerome Cohen has spent his life bridging East and West, and promoting the rule of law in China....

Thomas Franck, 1931-2009

Colleagues and his longtime assistant remember a beloved and distinguished professor on the faculty since 1960....