New Class Action Landscape

On February 11, Professor Alexandra Lahav will be a featured speaker at "The New Class Action Landscape," a continuing legal education course being offered by the Boston Bar Association.

Professor Lahav is an expert on complex litigation. She has published articles on class actions, mass torts and the political economy of civil litigation. She is especially interested in procedural justice and the limits of due process. She currently is working on a book exploring lawyer resistance and cooptation in injustice, in addition to projects on civil procedure and mass litigation. The fourth edition of her casebook (with Stephen Subrin, Martha Minow , Mark Brodin, and Thomas Main), Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context, was recently released by Aspen Publishing.

Each spring, Vanderbilt Law School’s Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program holds an annual New Voices in Civil Justice Workshop.” Alexandra Lahav was chosen as a “New Voice” in 2012.




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  • Classes Resume Tues, 2/12
    The Law School will return to normal operations on Tuesday, February 12. Classes will resume as scheduled.

  • Lunar New Year
    Members of the Law School community are invited to a Lunar New Year Celebration on Wednesday, February 13. RSVP is required.

  • Certificate Programs
    The Law School offers certificate programs in Intellectual Property, Tax Studies, Law and Public Policy, and Human Rights. The Law School's Center for Energy and Environmental Law also offers a certificate program in energy and environmental law.

  • Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights
    On February 9, Richard Wilson will deliver a keynote address at a conference on "Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights: Framing the Field" at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

  • Promoting Innovation
    On February 9, Professor Hillary Greene will present 'The Role of the Competition Community in Promoting Innovation" at an international conference at Nagoya University entitled International Issues Relating to a Pro-Innovation Patent System and Competition Policy.

  • Bar Admissions and Lawyer Discipline
    On February 8, Associate Dean Leslie Levin will be a presenter for "The Relationship Between Bar Admissions Standards and Subsequent Lawyer Discipline" at the 2013 Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers' Mid-Year meeting in Dallas.

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