Year: 2020

• Professor Elliott Discusses Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Professor Heather Elliott, a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appeared on WVTM-13 and discussed Ginsburg’s legacy. For more, read Alabama Reacts to Death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

• September 2020

  News Student Organizations Host Town Hall on Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice For more than an hour recently, faculty and students discussed mass incarceration and criminal justice during a town hall meeting. The online program attracted 100 participants. Sponsored by the Student Bar Association, Black Law Students Association, and the Criminal Law Society, it featured…

• Professor Carroll Weighs in on Charging Violent Protesters with Sedition

  Professor Jenny Carroll is quoted in The Wall Street Journal about charging violent protesters with sedition. For more, read “Barr Tells Prosecutors to Consider Charging Violent Protesters with Sedition.”  

• Student Organizations Host Town Hall on Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice

  For more than an hour on Wednesday, faculty and students discussed mass incarceration and criminal justice during a town hall meeting. The online program drew as many as 100 participants. Sponsored by the Student Bar Association, Black Law Students Association, and the Criminal Law Society, the town hall featured Professor Jenny Carroll, a former public…

• Professor Vars’s Research Shows Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear Arms

  Professor Fred Vars, along with Ian Ayres, published an article, “Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear Arms,” in the Emory Law Journal. The article finds broad support of Donna’s Law, a voluntary measure to reduce gun suicide.    

• Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy Publishes Journal Article Written by Law Student

  Allen Slater (3L) recently published an article in the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. His article, “It Should Never Be Justified: A Critical Examination of the Binary Paradigm Used to Categorize Police Shootings,” makes the case for a more nuanced, transparent, and accountable framework for evaluating police shootings.  

• Professor Vance Writes Op-Ed about President Trump’s Record on Law and Order

  Professor Joyce White Vance, along with Barbara McQuade, Chuck Rosenberg, Andrew Weissmann, and Mimi Rocah, writes an op-ed for USA Today about President Trump’s record on law and order. For more, read “Kenosha Visit Reality: Trump is Anything But a ‘Law and Order’ Leader.”  

• Alabama Law Welcomes New Faculty, Executive Staff Members

  Dean Mark E. Brandon recently announced four new appointments to the faculty and two new appointments to the Executive Staff at The University of Alabama School of Law. Kara Deal Gamble is a graduate of Alabama Law. While a student here, she was Acquisitions Editor of the Alabama Law Review.  After graduating she served as a…

• Professor Vars Weighs in on the Federal Government’s Plans to Execute Lezmond Mitchell

  Professor Fred Vars writes a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic that argues the federal government should not execute Lezmond Mitchell on Aug. 26. Mitchell is a member of the Navajo Nation, which opposes the death penalty and has called on President Trump to commute his sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility…

• August 2020

  News Alabama Law Welcomes the Class of 2023 Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed the Class of 2023 on Monday, August 10, for First-Year Orientation. More than 50 percent of the 129 class members are women, and 21 percent identify as members of a racial or ethnic minority. The members of the Class of 2023 have…