Year: 2019

• Alabama State Bar Inducts Five Alumni into Hall of Fame

              The Alabama State Bar recently inducted five alumni of the Law School in the Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame. Inductees into the Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame must have had a distinguished career in the law. This could be demonstrated through many different forms of achievement, leadership, service, mentorship,…

• ABA Honors Alumna with Champion of Diversity and Inclusion Award

  The American Bar Association honored Montrece M. Ransom (‘01) with its Champion of Diversity and Inclusion Award during the Health Law Section’s Emerging Issues in Health Law Conference in Orlando. The award honors an ABA Health Law Section member, who has made exceptional efforts to promote diversity and inclusion within the section or the legal…

• Kyle Campbell, 2L, Receives Peggy Browning Fellowship

  The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a 10-week summer fellowship to Kyle Campbell, a second-year student at The Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. School of Law. During his fellowship, Campbell will work at Bush Gottlieb in Los Angeles. “I came to law school to be a labor lawyer, and Peggy Browning Fund fellowships are the preeminent…

• Professor Krotoszynski: The Bigger Reason Mnuchin Should Release Trump’s Tax Returns

  Professor Ronald Krotoszynski writes an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune about why Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should release President Trump’s tax returns.  For more, read “The Bigger Reason Steven Mnuchin Should Turn Over Trump’s Tax Returns.”

• Alabama Law, ABA Journal Name Finalists for Harper Lee Prize

  The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal have announced the finalists for the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The three books chosen to compete for the prize are: “The Boat People” by Sharon Bala, “Class Action” by Steven B. Frank and “The Widows of Malabar Hill” by Sujata Massey. “This…

• Professor Krotoszynski: States Could Succeed in Getting Candidates to Release Tax Returns

  Professor Ronald Krotoszynski writes an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times about states currently considering legislation that would require presidential candidates to release their tax returns to be listed on election ballots. For more, read “States Could Succeed in Getting Trump’s Tax Returns Where Congress Has Failed.”

• Professor Vars Comments on Deferment of Louisiana Bill Designed to Prevent Suicide

  Professor Fred Vars is quoted in a Nola.com story about the deferment of a Louisiana bill that would allow residents to place themselves on a no-gun purchase registry. For more, read “Bill to Create Louisiana’s ‘Do-Not-Sell’ Gun Self-Registry Deferred until 2020.”

• Alabama Law Confers 134 Juris Doctor Degrees; Paula Hinton (’79) Delivers Commencement Address

  Paula Weems Hinton (’79) reflected on her own legal career and encouraged the members of the Class of 2019 to find “the next you.” Graduates will surely meet resistance, obstacles, and setbacks. Hinton, though, urged graduates to press forward. “The defining moments of our lives often don’t come with an advance warning – they present…

• Law School Professor, Staff Attorney, and Students Help Grandmother Get a Chance at Freedom

  Courtney Cross, Director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic, and Terrika Shaw, a Staff Attorney in the Elder Law Clinic, are quoted in a WBRC story about a grandmother sentenced to life without parole for drug trafficking. Cross, Shaw, Tuscaloosa Criminal Defense Attorney Joel Sogol, and six law students strategized on legal options for Geneva…

• Professor Vars Says Research on “Red Flag” Bills Suggests They Help Prevent Gun Suicides

  Professor Fred Vars is quoted in an American Military News article about an Alabama bill that would allow residents to place themselves on a no-gun purchase registry. For more, read “AL Bill Would Take Guns away from People Deemed Dangerous.” AL bill would take guns away from people deemed dangerous