Class of 1997

Weekend Highlights

Friday, October 7

Parking is available for all events at the Law School in the Law School lots located on 21st Avenue and lots across the street from the front entrance to Law School, as well as in Terrace Garage which is off 21st on Terrace Place. Dress is business casual. 

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
ELPAR Open House
Downstairs in the new ELPAR Suite

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Law Review Open House
Downstairs in the new VLR Suite

4:30 p.m.-7:30 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 continental breakfast, before the programs, and at class parties on Saturday evening. 

5:00 p.m.
Law School building tours
Law School, 21st Avenue entrance
Meet in front of the Admissions Office at 4:45 p.m. for 30-minute tours given by students, prior to the cocktail reception.

5:30-7:30 p.m.
Law School Cocktail Reception-for all Law School Reunion Classes
Law School, 21st Avenue entrance
Main Lobby, North Lobby and Blackacre

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, October 8

Parking is available for all events at the Law School in the Law School lots located on 21st Avenue and lots across the street from the front entrance to Law School, as well as in Terrance Garage which is off 21st on Terrace Place.

Beginning at 8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Law School North Lobby, outside Flynn Auditorium

Pastries, muffins, tea, coffee, and juice will be available.

9:00 a.m.
"A Snapshot of Vanderbilt Law School"
Chris Guthrie, Dean
John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law
Law School
Flynn Auditorium

10:00 a.m.
"Back to the Classroom: Exchanges and Cryptocurrency Markets"
Yesha Yadav
Associate Dean and Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity and Community; Professor of Law; Faculty Co-director, LL.M. Program
Law School
Flynn Auditorium
Professor Yadav explores how a simple idea from the 1790s - an exchange - has come to become a centralizing and dominant actor within cryptocurrency markets. The big question now is whether a cryptocurrency exchange can also provide a stabilizing force within an otherwise frontier market, or does is it instead contribute to its risks? Even as crypto exchanges have lent their names to NBA Arenas and dominate Super Bowl ads, how much do we really know about how they work? For us as lawyers, does their size, scale and impact offer a way forward for policymakers to use them as quasi-regulators to oversee a market that has, thus far, managed to avoid any real oversight?

11:00 a.m.
"VLS Today"
Student Panel
Law School
Flynn Auditorium

11:45 a.m.
Law School building tours
Meet outside Flynn Auditorium for these 30-minute tours, given by students.

Saturday Evening Class Party
7 p.m.
At the home of Kris, JD'97 and Heather Kemp
1139 Crater Hill Drive
Nashville, TN 37215
Street parking is available along Crater Hill Drive.