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Year: 2024

  • Art Competition Kick-Off for the 25th Anniversary of the Public Interest Institute

    The Public Interest Institute at Alabama Law will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025! Students, alumni, and friends of the Law School are invited to help kick off the celebration by submitting an original work of art that represents the theme “Cultivating a lifelong commitment to service.” The winning piece, which will be chosen…

  • Alumni News

    December 2024 Year-End Giving to Alabama Law As you consider your charitable giving prior to the end of the year, please keep Alabama Law in mind. Your gift goes toward a number of initiatives that help the Law School remain one of the best in the country. Click here to learn how to complete your 2024…

  • Judge L. Scott Coogler to Join Faculty Following Retirement

    Judge Scott Coogler will be retiring from the federal bench in January. Following his retirement, Judge Coogler will join the Alabama Law faculty as Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law. This spring, Judge Coogler will teach Federal Jurisdiction and Complex Litigation. Judge Coogler has served as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama since 2003, including as…

  • Year End Giving to Alabama Law

    As you consider your charitable giving prior to the end of the year, remember that gifts made now could generate income tax deductions that may help reduce your tax bill for 2024. Here’s how to complete your 2024 gift to The University of Alabama School of Law by year-end. Gifts by Check Mailed via USPS…

  • Judge Michelle Childs Delivers Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Lecture

    On November 22, Judge J. Michelle Childs of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Lecture in Constitutional Rights and Liberties as part of a reunion hosted for former clerks of Judge Johnson and the Law School community. In her address, Judge Childs emphasized the lasting importance of voting…

  • Maynard Nexsen Contributes $250,000 to Honor First Black Graduates at Alabama Law

    Lightfoot & Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama’s Caring Foundation Also Join in Supporting the Path Makers Legacy Plaza Maynard Nexsen and the firm’s Alabama Law alumni have pledged $250,000 to support the construction of the Path Makers Legacy Plaza at the University of Alabama School of Law. Established in 2023, the Plaza will…

  • Professor Fred Vars Publishes Op-Ed in the Washington Post

    Professor Fred Vars has published a new op-ed in the Washington Post with Ian Ayres (Yale Law School) about Hallie Biden’s actions upon finding Hunter Biden’s gun – throwing it in a dumpster – and the potential of her facing criminal charges for her actions while Hunter Biden has been pardoned by President Joe Biden….

  • Professor Ray Continues Work on Agency Guidance with Panel Discussion and New Essay

    Professor Shalini Ray recently participated in a panel discussion, When “No Action” Means “Final Action”: Current Issues in Agency Guidance, at the fall conference of the ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section.   The Regulatory Review at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School recently published an essay by her as well, Promoting Transparency and Consistency in Individualized Guidance.

  • Protected: Professor Krotoszynski Publishes Essay with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

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  • Alabama Law to Host Judge J. Michelle Childs of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

    The Honorable J. Michelle Childs of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will be providing the keynote address for the Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Lecture in Constitutional Rights and Liberties this Friday, November 22, at noon in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom. Afterwards, Professor Daiquiri Steele will offer her reflections and lead a discussion…