Former U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) will be joining the Vanderbilt Law School faculty this coming spring. Cooper was a Democratic U.S. congressman for Tennessee’s 4th and 5th Districts from 1983 to 1995 and 2003 to 2023, respectively. Last year, he stepped down after Nashville’s Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered his Democratic stronghold into three Republican-held districts,...