TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 21, 2021

TBA law student member and Vanderbilt Law School student Ramon Ryan has won the American Bar Association’s 2020 K. William Kolbe Writing Competition according to the school. His winning article, “The Fault in Our Stars: Challenging the FCC’s Treatment of Commercial Satellites as Categorically Excluded from Review under the National Environmental Policy Act,” was first published last fall in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law. Ryan serves as editor-in-chief of the publication. The article led two members of the U.S. Congress to ask the FCC to look into the issue. The Kolbe award includes a $2,500 cash prize, membership in the ABA’s Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section (which sponsors the competition) and free registration and airfare to attend the section’s spring meeting. Ryan plans to join the Nashville office of Bass Berry & Sims when he graduates later this year.