Year: 2015

• Professor Bryce Says Alabama Is in Final Budget Countdown

  Professor James Bryce recently told taxnotes.com that Alabama may join other states where tax issues have delayed budgets. Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed tax increases to help close the state’s $700 million budget gap, but the legislature has passed — and Bentley has vetoed — budgets that rely on spending cuts. Alabama’s fiscal year begins…

• September 2015

  Alabama State Bar Installs Lee Copeland As 140th President The Alabama State Bar recently installed Montgomery attorney Lee H. Copeland (’82) as its 140th president, while J. Cole Portis (’90) was installed as the bar’s president-elect. He will serve one year before assuming the presidency in 2016. UA-ANU Summer School Program Celebrates Its 15th Year…

• Professor Vars Launches StopGunSuicide.com

  Professor Fredrick Vars has an idea that could significantly reduce the number of firearm suicides every year. He wants anyone at high risk of suicide to confidentially add their names to a federal background check system, making it more difficult for them to buy a gun during a suicidal crisis. The database would give the…

• Essayist and Literary Critic Praises ‘The Secret of Magic’

  Philip D. Beidler, the Margaret and William Going Professor of English at The University of Alabama, appreciates the literary prose of “The Secret of Magic,” winner of the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Beidler writes: Here in “The Secret of Magic,” we encounter the familiar omniscience of traditional realism, but with a stunning versatility—narration,…

• UA-ANU Summer School Program Celebrates Its 15th Year

  Ten UA law students have just returned from studying at the Australian National University College of Law.  The group spent a month at the ANU, where they took a Survey of Australian Law taught by the ANU faculty and Comparative Race Law, which was team-taught by Anne Macduff of the ANU faculty and UA law…

• Liz Huntley (’97) Writes Memoir

  Liz Huntley (’97) has released “More Than a Bird,” an autobiography that chronicles the inspirational story of an Alabama woman who overcame tremendous adversity during her childhood to become a successful attorney and motivational speaker. Alabama First Lady Dianne Bentley was among the guests when the book was recently launched at Clanton Elementary School, which…

• Professor Andreen: Update Clean Water Act

  Professor William Andreen recently told Circle of Blue that the Clean Water Act doesn’t address new water pollution challenges and needs to be updated. The nation needs to ensure enough water circulates in rivers and streams to support their biological functioning, he said. “You have no water quality if you have no water, or so…

• August 2015

  News Law School Welcomes Class of 2018 Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed an impressive Class of 2018 during First-Year Orientation. The Class of 2018 has 154 students and was drawn from a pool of nearly 1,600 applicants. Eighty-four percent of those applicants came from outside the state of Alabama. Members of the Class of 2018…

• Professor Krotoszynski Comments On Mississippi Law Forbidding Adoptions By Same-Sex Couples

  Prof. Ronald Krotoszynski recently told The New York Times it is unlikely a Mississippi law banning adoptions by same-sex couples would survive a legal challenge. “In the federal courts, I’m pretty confident Obergefell will be construed broadly,” said Krotoszynski, referring to the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages. “ I think it would be hard…

• Law School Welcomes Class Of 2018; Morris Dees Urges Class To Make A Difference

  Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed an impressive Class of 2018 during First-Year Orientation. “The heart of what makes Alabama a superb place to study, and I should say the reason that we do what we do here, are you, our students, and you are a distinguished group by any proper measure,” Brandon said. The Class…