Year: 2015
Professor Fair Weighs In On Conflict of Interest Question
Prof. Bryan Fair says there are few fixed rules to guide judges when a conflict of interest question arises. Factors other than a judge’s prior association could cause a judge to recuse himself from a case. For example, sometimes a judge may decide he will not to preside over cases in which litigants have spent…
Professor Emens Says Prosecutors Have A Duty To Investigate New Evidence, Even If It’s Through Media
Prof. Steve Emens says prosecutors have a duty to investigate new evidence, even if it comes through the media. “I think we have to keep in mind that the district attorney has an obligation whenever new evidence comes to their attention, to investigate it even if it came from a 20/20 (show),” Emens said. “It…
Professor Steinman Signs Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court To Review Lower Court’s Decision
A group of fourteen leading civil procedure scholars, including UA’s Prof. Adam Steinman, is urging the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision making it more difficult for workers to recover lost wages. The scholars explained that lower courts have reached inconsistent results following a pair of Supreme Court pleading decisions handed down in…
U.S. News Ranks Alabama School of Law Among Top 25 Law Schools
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 22nd among the nation’s top law schools, both public and private, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Graduate Schools” rankings for 2016. This is the third consecutive year that Alabama Law has been ranked among the top 25 law schools in…
Professor Gross Weighs In On Prosecution’s Strategy
Prof. John Gross recently told AL.com that prosecutors often assert that defendants were well aware of their actions before committing a crime. “I think the tendency is almost always for prosecutors to claim the defendants were aware of what they were doing and deny they have some kind of diminished capacity,” Gross said. “Just because…
March 2015
Moot Court Team Advances To Finals The team of Stanley Blackmon, Caitlin Looney and Chelsea Phillips will advance to the ABA Moot Court national finals in Chicago in April. The team of Lauren Breland, Ben Hardison and Drew Hudson narrowly lost the final, under a tie-breaker. Stanley won an oral advocacy award, and Lauren, Drew…
Professor Krotoszynski Says Alabama Supreme Court Is Lobbying U.S. Supreme Court
Prof. Ronald Krotoszynski recently told The New York Times that the Alabama Supreme Court is trying to influence the U.S. Supreme Court with its decision to halt same-sex marriages. “You might read it as kind of a brief or a political document to the Supreme Court of the United States,” he said. “They’re trying to…
Professor Hill To Receive President’s Faculty Research Award
Julie A. Hill is one of thirteen faculty members representing a cross section of the University of Alabama campus who will receive the President’s Faculty Research Award Wednesday, April 8, as part of the first Faculty Research Day. Prof. Hill has published about the examination process regulators use to police banking practices, analyzed the appeals…
Crawford Addresses Farrah Law Alumni Society Banquet
Jan Crawford, CBS News chief legal correspondent, said Justice Clarence Thomas is “the most misunderstood and misreported figure in modern political and legal history.” Crawford served as the keynote speaker at the Farrah Law Alumni Society Banquet in Birmingham, where the society honored Justice Janie L. Shores with the Sam W. Pipes Award for distinguishing…
Professor Joyner Weighs In On CIA’s Strategy Of Misleading Iranian Scientists
Information from a 15-year-old Central Intelligence Agency sting emerging from a U.S. court case may prompt United Nations monitors to reevaluate some evidence about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. The CIA’s strategy of providing misleading design information to Iranian scientists is an example of how the U.S. and its allies have worked against Iran, Professor…