Law School
Laying Down the Law with Class Action Lawsuits
Aug. 16, 2021—How do judges choose a fair amount for attorney’s compensation in class action lawsuits? Is the decision consistent across similar court cases? Are there quantifiable defining characteristics that form the basis for differentiation in attorneys’ fees awards? Attorney and Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise Law Professor Brian Fitzpatrick seeks to answer these questions....
Data Science for Social Good: Legal Assistance for Tennesseans
Jul. 6, 2021—The need for legal assistance across Tennessee outpaces the capacity of available lawyers. Legal representation is more available in urban than in rural counties, and the magnitude and type of unmet needs in rural counties is unknown. This summer, three Data Science for Social Good Fellows are building predictive models to estimate the number and...
Legal Natural Language Processing (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2020—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Henry Savich to work in the laboratory of Professor Brian Fitzpatrick in the Vanderbilt Law School during the summer of 2020. Henry graduated in May 2021 with a major in Mathematics and minors in Physics and Scientific Computing. The Legal Natural Language Processing (NLP) project, funded by this fellowship, aimed to...