Year: 2018

• Alabama Law Announces Call for Entries for 2018 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction

  The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal are now accepting submissions for the 2018 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The Prize, authorized by Ms. Lee, is given annually to a book-length work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change.  Past…

• Professor Hill Comments on Cannibas Banking Policy

  Professor Julie Hill is quoted in The Los Angeles Times about the effect Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s decision to scrap a policy that offered legal shelter for state marijuana sales may have on marijuana businesses. For more, read “Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Pot Sales Could Push Banks out of Cannabis Industry.”

• Professors Delgado and Stefancic Argue that the First Amendment Should Not Protect Hate Speech and White Supremacy

  Professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic are quoted in an NBC News op-ed about why regulating hate speech would make the United States a fairer country. For more, read “Is the First Amendment Too Broad? The Case for Regulating Hate Speech in America.”

• Alabama Law Students Provided More Than 28,000 Hours of Volunteer Service to Surrounding Community

  The Class of 2017 contributed a cumulative total of 28,183 hours of volunteer service while attending Alabama Law.  Each year the American Association of Law Schools asks member institutions to calculate the number of hours their students have spent in providing free legal help in their communities. This number includes time spent working in the…