Year: 2016

• Gross: Trump’s Immigration Policies Would Restrict Justice

  Professor John Gross writes an op-ed for AL.com about President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies. For more, read “Trump’s immigration policies would restrict justice.”

• Law School Installs Art Exhibit

  The University of Alabama School of Law recently installed an exhibit of American art. The Law School’s exhibit features five works by four artists: Israel Aten, Adger Cowans, Sam Gilliam and Lionel Lofton. The pieces are on loan from The Paul R. Jones Collection, which is part of UA’s College of Arts & Sciences. In…

• Professor Rushin Weighs in on How President-Elect Donald Trump Will Handle Police Reform

  Professor Stephen Rushin is quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times about how President-Elect Donald Trump will handle the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of Chicago police. For more, read “Big Question What Trump Will Do About U.S. Probe of Chicago Cops.”  

• Krotoszynski: A Poll Tax by Another Name

  Professor Ronald Krotoszynski writes an op-ed in The New York Times about long lines at the polls. For more, read “A Poll Tax by Another Name.”

• Professor Rushin Comments on How Role of Department of Justice Could Change Under Donald Trump

  Professor Stephen Rushin is quoted in The Baltimore Sun about how President-Elect Donald Trump’s administration may address policing and federal oversight. Rushin said: “It’s hard to imagine a Rudy Giuliani DOJ being the same rigorous enforcement arm as Eric Holder’s or Loretta Lynch’s DOJ” on police reform. For more, read “Trump, the self-styled ‘law and…

• Law School Graduates Featured as Women Who Shape the State

  AL.com has named its 2016 Women Who Shape the State, a list of Alabama women who have changed their neighborhoods, cities and Alabama for the better. The program evolved out of the Birmingham-based Women Who Make a Difference, which launched in 2013. Last year the list was expanded to honor women throughout Alabama. More than…

• Professor Vars’s Research Featured in Forbes

  Research conducted by Professor Fredrick Vars (along with Karen Cropsey and Richard Shelton of UAB and Cheryl McCullumsmith of Cincinnati) is featured in a Forbes story about how to reduce firearm-related suicides. For more, read “A Clever, Low-Cost, Non-Inflammatory Strategy To Reduce Firearm-Related Suicides.”

• U.S. News Ranks Alabama School of Law Among Top Law Schools for Salary-Debt Ratio

  The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 2nd among 10 law schools where starting salaries exceed debt, according to U.S. News & World Report. The magazine compiled a list of the 10 law schools where the salary-debt ratio was highest among 2014 graduates. Unranked law schools, which do not submit enough data for U.S….

• November 2016

  News Law School, ADAP Reunite The University of Alabama School of Law and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program are pleased to announce they have reunited. ADAP was housed at the Law School for 28 years. In 2004, ADAP moved from the Law School to UA’s Office of Academic Affairs, where the program’s director reported to…

• Norman Singer, a Professor for Nearly 40 Years, Was a Prolific Scholar

  Norman Singer, the Charles O. Stokes Professor Emeritus of Law and Anthropology, passed away Monday at Druid City Hospital. His family was with him, as was his friend and former student Anil Mujumdar. Singer took his bachelor’s degree from the Wharton School (Penn) and his J.D. (summa) from Boston University Law School.  After law school, he…