Vanderbilt University School of Law

VU law student pressure group gets results

The Law School Transparency advocacy group started last year by two Vanderbilt law students has won a victory of sorts: U.S. News & World Report will next year publish much more of the data it uses to compute its influential law-school rankings, with a particular emphasis on the job market for graduates.

Dec 17, 2010 9:49 AM

Peabody is tops

U.S. News & World Report has rated Vanderbilt's Peabody College the country's best graduate school of education for the second straight year. A number of the university's other schools held their own on the new lists, which are availabe here.

Apr 15, 2010 1:20 PM

Nashville at law: Wine collection in bankruptcy auction

iPayment entrepreneur's $2 million in vintages up for sale [From our print edition featured in Monday's City Paper]

Aug 9, 2009 9:14 PM

Just go for the big jackpots

Research from Vanderbilt University School of Law shows, not surprisingly, the winning of mid-level lottery prizes is anything but a personal finance panacea, and in fact does little more in most cases than postpone bankruptcy filings.

Research from Assistant Professor of Law Paige Marta Skiba found that mid-level lottery winners did not pay off their debt or increase equity in new or existing assets. And though these mid-level lottery winners were less likely than small winners (those who won less than $10,000) to file for bankruptcy immediately after winning, they were 50 percent more likely to file for bankruptcy three to five years after winning their prize

Jul 7, 2009 11:21 AM