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Recent News About Vanderbilt Law School

• ABA panel discusses class action lawsuits and their bad repuation

  By Bethany Krajelis | Monday, Aug 6, 2012 @ 11:42am

  Karon CHICAGO - After the rule governing federal class actions was adopted in 1938, a constitutional lawyer who co-authored a treatise on federal practice and procedure commented that the rule made a "bold attempt" to encourage class action lawsuits.

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• Washington University law dean to oversee BP gulf fund

  By Staff reports | Monday, Aug 9, 2010 @ 11:00am

  Syverud Kent D. Syverud, dean of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law (WUSTL) and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor, has been named a trustee of the $20 billion Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust.

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