Year: 2020

• Professor Krotoszynski Weighs in on Trump’s Privilege Claim on Witnesses

  Professor Ronald Krotoszynski, Jr. writes an op-ed for The New York Times about President Trump’s executive privilege claim on witnesses at his impeachment trial. For more, read “The Senate Must Reject Trump’s Privilege Claim on Witnesses: Failing to Do So Would Be an Abdication of Its Responsibilities as a Separate But Equal Branch of Government.”

• January 2020

  News Professor Meghan Boone Wins 2020 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition The Association of American Law Schools has chosen Assistant Professor Meghan M. Boone as one of two recipients of the 2020 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition for law school faculty members in the field for five years or fewer. In her article, “Reproductive Due Process,” Boone…

• Alabama Law Announces Call for Entries for 2020 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction

  The University of Alabama School of Law is now accepting submissions for the 2020 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.  Recent winners include “Gone Again“…

• Australian Students Visit Alabama Law for Exchange Program

  The Law School’s Summer Exchange Program with the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law has entered its 20th year with the arrival of 10 law students from the ANU.  They arrived in Tuscaloosa on January 4 for a five-week visit at the Law School. The ANU students are taking a class on Comparative Approaches…

• ALI Elects Professor Vance as Member

  The American Law Institute has elected Professor Joyce White Vance as one of its 45 new members, who will bring their expertise to the Institute’s work of clarifying the law through Restatements, Principles, and Model Codes. “I am deeply honored to have been selected for membership with ALI and I am looking forward to being…

• Professor Boone Wins 2020 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition

  The Association of American Law Schools has chosen Assistant Professor Meghan M. Boone as one of two recipients of the 2020 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition for law school faculty members in the field for five years or fewer. In her article, “Reproductive Due Process,” Professor Boone explores whether additional procedural due process protections might be…

• Alabama Law to Host Symposium on Risk-Based Gun Regulation

  The Law & Psychology Review has scheduled a one-day symposium on February 21 at the Law School that will examine the recent trend of state-enacted “red flag” laws. The symposium, Seeing Red: Risk-based Gun Regulation, will address many of the most prominent issues and concerns with red-flag legislation, including constitutional and due process concerns, the importance of…

• Justice Harwood to Receive 2020 Pipes Award

  Justice Robert Bernard Harwood, Jr., founder of Rosen Harwood in Tuscaloosa, has been selected to receive the 2020 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award. The award is given by The Law School Foundation to an outstanding alumnus who has distinguished himself or herself through service to the bar, The University of Alabama, and the School of Law….