Professor Tracey E. George

George is the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty, and a Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.  As vice provost, her portfolio includes faculty hiring and retention authorizations, faculty appointments and promotions, faculty development, faculty awards and honors, and endowed chair appointments. She works with academic leaders across campus to enhance Vanderbilt’s efforts to support faculty.  In her research, she brings a social science perspective to the study of judges and courts, judicial selection and elections, legal education and the legal profession, and contract law and theory.  She teaches Contracts and Evidence in the law school, where she has won the first-year teaching prize eight times.