Current •
Lauren Benton,
historian known for works on the history of empires, Nelson O. Tyrone Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Law •
James Blumstein, University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law and Policy •
Lisa Schultz Bressman, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Professor of
administrative law •
Ellen Wright Clayton, Professor of Law, leader in the field of law and genomics, 2013
David Rall Medal winner •
Brian T. Fitzpatrick, Professor of Law, Complex Litigation, Civil Procedure, Visiting professor at
Harvard Law School •
Chris Guthrie, Dean, John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law, expert on behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation •
Kent A. Jordan,
United States circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit •
Terry Maroney, Professor of Medicine, Health and Society •
Jim Rossi, Associate Dean for Research, Judge D. L. Lansden Chair in Law, scholar of Energy Law and
Administrative Law •
J. B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law, among the most cited U.S. academics in environmental law •
Paige Skiba, Professor of Law and Economics, and a leading scholar in the regulation of high-interest consumer loan industries •
Suzanna Sherry, author of numerous books on constitutional interpretive theory and casebooks on Civil Procedure and Federal Jurisdiction •
Ganesh Sitaraman, Professor of Law, Director, Program in Law and Government,
Elizabeth Warren adviser,
Center for American Progress senior Fellow •
W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management and the co-director of the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics
Former •
Earl C. Arnold, author of
Outlines of Suretyship and Guardianship, former Dean (1930–1945) •
Robert Barsky, Professor of Law, scholar of immigration and refugee law •
Rebecca Latham Brown,
constitutional law theorist, former Allen Chair in Law •
Terry Calvani,
anti-trust law scholar, former Commissioner of the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission •
Jonathan Charney, former Lee S. and Charles A. Spier Professor, co-editor-in-chief of the
American Journal of International Law •
William Frierson Cooper, nominated to serve on the Confederate Supreme Court by Jefferson Davis; first Dean from 1874 to 1875 •
James W. Ely Jr., Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor of History Emeritus, recipient of the
Brigham–Kanner Property Rights Prize •
Barry E. Friedman, authority on constitutional law, policing, criminal procedure, and federal courts, working at the intersections of law, politics and history •
Jefferson B. Fordham, former professor of law, 9th Dean of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School •
William Ray Forrester, former Dean, Constitutional Law scholar •
Joel Gerber, former Chief
Justice of the
United States Tax Court •
Horace Harmon Lurton (1844–1914),
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Dean from 1905 until 1909 •
Jacob M. Dickinson, 44th
United States Secretary of War, Professor of Law from 1897 to 1899 while he was an attorney for the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad •
Harold G. Maier, expert in
Private International Law, International Civil Litigation (retired in 2006) •
Thomas H. Malone (1834–1906), Confederate veteran, judge, Dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School for two decades •
Lyman Ray Patterson, influential
copyright scholar and
historian, served as an assistant
United States Attorney while teaching at Vanderbilt •
Robert K. Rasmussen, expert in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, former Dean of the
USC Gould School of Law •
Larry Soderquist, Professor of Law (1981–2005), director at Corporate and Securities Law Institute •
Kent Syverud, former Garner Anthony Professor of Law, expert on complex litigation,
insurance law, and
civil procedure •
Christopher Yoo, professor (1999–2007), former director of Vanderbilt's Technology and Entertainment Law Program, among the most frequently cited scholars of technology law, media law and copyright ==References==