Caitlin Moon Law Profs Are People Too

Caitlin “Cat” Moon teaches in the Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) at Vanderbilt Law School, where she also serves as the Director of Innovation Design and directs the PoLI Institute (innovatethelaw.com), Vanderbilt Law’s innovation-focused executive education platform. Cat co-founded PoLI’s Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI), which brings together experts across legal, technology, and other disciplines in collaborative legal innovation projects. She currently teaches Legal Problem Solving, a course in human-centered design for law, as well as Law as a Business, Legal Operations, Leading in Law, and Data in Law Practice. Cat also contributes to the Medical Innovators Development Program and is on the faculty of Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, where she brings cross-disciplinary experience to innovation across medicine and the law. 

Cat’s research focuses on how we might use the tools of innovation and human-centered design to improve and expand access to legal services and the law generally. She also studies the professional formation of lawyers in the 21st century from a holistic perspective. Cat is a co-creator of the Delta Model, a 21st-century framework for lawyer competency, and a co-founder, with Professor Alyson Carrel, of Design Your Delta, a playbook for holistic professional development grounded in human-centered design principles and methods.