Year: 2015

• Professor Elliott Analyzes U.S. Supreme Court Actions In Blog Post For The London School of Economics And Political Science

  Prof. Heather Elliott says the U.S. Supreme Court’s actions on gay marriage suggest it will rule in favor of marriage equality. “The United States Supreme Court will decide before Independence Day – July 4th, 2015 – whether same-sex couples have the right to marry throughout America,” Elliott wrote in a blog post for the London…

• Professor Krotoszynski Comments On Gay Marriage Ruling In National And International Media

  U.S. District Court Judge Callie V.S. Granade, who struck down Alabama’s ban on gay marriage as unconstitutional, has scheduled a hearing that could determine whether Alabama probate judges must issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Prof. Ronald Krotoszynski says ultimately Alabama probate judges will have to follow the federal court’s ruling. “We’ll see same-sex marriage…

• Professor Krotoszynski Analyzes Attacks On Federal Judiciary In Washington Post Op-Ed

  For weeks, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has been urging state court judges to ignore a federal court order lifting the ban on gay marriage, and on Sunday he ordered the state’s probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Prof. Ron Krotoszynski writes in a Washington Post op-ed that it’s…

• Professor Fair Weighs In On Chief Justice Roy Moore’s Comments On Gay Marriage

  Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore says Alabama’s probate judges are independent constitutional officers and should not be affected by the federal court’s decision to lift a ban on gay marriage. But University of Alabama School of Law Professor Bryan Fair said Moore is disregarding federal law. Fair told FOX6 the supremacy clause of…

• Professor Krotoszynski Comments On Alabama Lawyers Face-Off With Chief Justice Roy Moore

  As a stay on the federal ruling striking down the state’s ban on gay marriage is set to expire, Alabama lawyers and Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore continue to disagree on same-sex marriage. Moore recently told Alabama’s probate judges they are not required to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the stay…

• Second Harper Lee Novel To Be Published In July

  More than 50 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published, a second Harper Lee novel is set to be released in July. “Go Set a Watchman,” a novel completed in the 1950s, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last year, the work is essentially a sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” although it was…

• February 2015

  Bounds Law Library Launches Special Collections Blog The Bounds Law Library is sharing information about books, manuscripts, and artifacts on its new blog, Litera Scripta. Bounds preserves and catalogs documents and objects, with an eye to the evolution of common law. Its primary focus is on legal history in Alabama; but it is also interested…

• Professor Dillbary To Address Second International Law and Economics Conference

  Professor Shahar Dillbary has accepted an invitation to serve as a keynote speaker at the Second International Law and Economics Conference (ILEC), which will take place in May in Turkey. Last year the U.S. keynote speakers were Professors Robert Cooter (Berkeley) and William Kovacic (George Washington University and former FTC Chairman).

• Professor Delgado Defends Use Of His Book In Course, Criticizes Fox Network

  After a Fox News host said an Arizona State University course studies whiteness and stokes anti-white resentment among students, Professor Richard Delgado, whose book is listed on the syllabus, criticized the news network. “I think Fox’s main criticism is absurd,” Delgado recently told HuffPost. “Critical race theory — at least in my view of it…

• Professor Krotoszynski Weighs In On Justice Roy Moore’s Letter to Gov. Bentley

  Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, in a letter to Gov. Robert Bentley, encouraged state judges to ignore a federal ruling striking down the state’s ban on gay marriage. Professor Ronald Krotoszynski told Reuters that Moore’s letter carries little legal weight because federal law trumps state law. “There is no credible legal argument that…