Year: 2023

• Professor Steinman Named the Robert W. Hodgkins Endowed Chairholder in Law

  The University of Alabama School of Law has named Professor Adam Steinman as the Robert W. Hodgkins Endowed Chairholder in Law. This endowed position offers distinction and meaningful support to aid Professor Steinman in his research, teaching, and service to the School of Law. Professor Steinman joined the University of Alabama School of Law faculty…

• 3L Students Argue Case Before Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

  Alabama Law Civil Law Clinic students, Ben Clark (3L) and Marjorie Head (3L) successfully argued a case on behalf of their client, Gary Lee Johnson, before the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. The case concerned the demolition of the client’s family residence and the appeal considered the steps required of indigent appellants to perfect their…

• ABA Journal: The Value of a Small-Town Lawyer and a Law Student’s Summer Experience

  Emily Sims (3L) shared her thoughts in the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal about her experience serving as a Finch Fellow in Covington County with Circuit Judge Ben Bowden. Named with permission of the estate of Nelle Harper Lee, the Finch Initiative was launched in 2017 in the town of Andalusia, Alabama, under the guidance…

• Professor Vars Explores the “Slayer Rule” in Forthcoming Duke Law Journal Article

  Professor Fredrick Vars’s article Murder and Money: The Dark Side of Taylor Swift has been accepted for publication in the Duke Law Journal online. The piece examines some of the complex questions connected to the seemingly straightforward “Slayer Rule” (murderers cannot inherit from their victims) through the lens of music written by Taylor Swift. Read…