Registration is now open! Click on the "May Registration" box on the right side of this page.
Make plans to attend and reconnect with old friends and the Law School!
Law School Reunion - May 20-21
for classes originally scheduled to celebrate their Reunion in 2020 and 2021
We are looking forward to a combined celebration this May with Reunion 2020 and 2021 alumni. This includes Quinqs, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2015, and 2016.
Class pages and additional information are located in the drop down boxes at the top of this page.
If you have questions or need assistance, please email reunion@law.vanderbilt.edu or call 615.322.2606.
Weekend Highlights
Friday, May 20
5–8 p.m.
Check In
Law School Lobby, 21st Avenue South entrance
Main entrance
Pick up your nametag(s) and other Reunion information for the weekend. Nametags will also be available Saturday morning at the breakfast, before the programs, and at class parties on Saturday evening.
5:30 p.m.
Law School building tours
Law School, 21st Avenue entrance
Main Lobby
30-minute tours will be given prior to the cocktail reception. Meet at the receptionist desk in the main lobby.
6–8 p.m.
Law School Cocktail Reception—for all Law School Reunion Classes
Law School, 21st Avenue entrance
Main Lobby, North Lobby and Blackacre
$45
Celebrate with your classmates, other Law School alumni, some faculty and staff. Then head out to dinner at one of Nashville's popular restaurants!
Saturday, May 21
Beginning at 8 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Law School North Lobby, outside Flynn Auditorium
Pastries, muffins, tea, coffee, and juice will be available.
9 a.m.
"A Snapshot of Vanderbilt Law School"
Chris Guthrie, Dean
John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law
Law School
Flynn Auditorium
10 a.m.
"Back to the Classroom"
Professor Daniel Sharfstein
Dick and Martha Lansden Chair in Law and Professor of History
Co-Director, George Barrett Social Justice Program
Law School
Flynn Auditorium
The Invention of the Civil Rights Lawyer
At the same time that civil rights attorneys were changing twentieth-century American society, they were inventing a new kind of lawyering. Students in American Legal History explore the origins and emergence of civil rights lawyers, from the first African Americans admitted to state Bars in the North before the Civil War through the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s early lawsuits challenging racial segregation. Professor Sharfstein will discuss the professional and cultural contexts that produced the first modern civil rights lawyers as well as the ways in which these pioneering practitioners enlisted the courts in the struggle for liberty, equality, and citizenship.
11 a.m.
Tours of the Law School
Meet outside Flynn Auditorium
Saturday Evening Class Parties
Class parties are taking place at various locations. Please go to the second tab at the top of this page titled "Classes Celebrating May 2022" to see your class page and information about your class party.
The university continues to follow CDC guidelines for its on-campus gatherings. We will keep you updated with guidance on Vanderbilt’s policies for Reunion Weekend.
October Law School Reunion Weekend date,
for classes originally scheduled to celebrate their Reunion in 2022
October 6-8, 2022 in Nashville
For Quinqs and the Classes of 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017
Official festivities for the Law School begin on Friday, October 7th. There is an event the evening of Thursday, October 6, being coordinated by the undergraduate Reunion Office, and all Vanderbilt alumni (undergraduate and professional schools) are welcome to attend, if you arrive early.
Registration will open later in the summer for classes ending in 2 or 7. To update your contact information, please complete this form.
If you have questions or are interested in volunteering to help with your class Reunion please email reunion@law.vanderbilt.edu or call 615.322.2606.
See you at Vanderbilt in 2022!