On Friday, January 29, Alabama Law hosted its seventh Law, Knowledge & Imagination symposium titled “Transitions.” Panelists explored the relationship between law and transitions, particularly those occurring between U.S. presidential administrations, transitions as persons or goods cross from one legal regime to another, as well as the formation of new regimes.

The symposium's panel included: Akhil Reed Amar from Yale Law School, Jack Beermann from Boston University School of Law, Nina A. Mendelson from the University of Michigan School of Law, and Ruti G. Teitel from New York Law School. Click here for more information about "Transitions."

Podcasts of previous Law, Knowledge & Imagination symposia are located at this link.

On Thursday, January 21, the Law School welcomed Harvard Business School’s Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who presented a lecture titled, “Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter.” (download here) The presentation is part of the Meador Lecture series, established in 1995, to honor Daniel J. Meador, Alabama Law’s former professor and dean who is now the James Monroe Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia.

The article on which her presentation is based will be included as part of the Law School’s forthcoming special publication: “Meador Lectures on Rationality.”

Kanter serves as the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her current research topics include: leadership for the digital age; leadership of turnarounds and other significant changes of direction; and the role, legitimacy, and impact of the multinational corporation in the developed and developing world.

Podcasts of presentations in the Meador Lecture series are available online.

USA Today featured comments by Alabama Law Professor Gene Marsh in a recent article regarding the issue of compensation for college football coaches.

Alabama Law recently launched two new international exchange programs with Israel’s Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and India’s National Law University of New Delhi.

In addition to the Law School’s ongoing summer exchange programs in Switzerland and Australia, Alabama Law students in the coming year will have the opportunity to embark on semester-long study abroad programs at these universities in Israel and India.

Law students from Tel Aviv University as well as the National Law University of New Delhi are set to begin their semester-long visits at Alabama Law during the fall 2010 semester.

The Career Services Office reported 97.4% of Alabama Law’s 2008 graduates as employed within 9 months of graduation. This is the 13th consecutive year that the Law School has had its employment rate above 95%.

Also, employers scheduled to visit campus for interviews this spring has increased 5% compared to spring 2009. That number is expected to grow in the weeks ahead.

View video clips of Alabama Law graduates discussing "Life After Law School."