Year: 2025
Alumni News
February 2025 Announcing Public Interest Institute 25th Anniversary Art Competition Winners To kick off the 25th anniversary of the Public Interest Institute at Alabama Law, the Law School hosted an art competition surrounding the anniversary theme, “Cultivating a Lifelong Commitment to Service.” After reviewing a collection of outstanding submissions, the Public Interest Student Board and…
Professor Amber Polk Published in Boston College Law Review
Professor Amber Polk’s article, Toxic Battery: Pollution as a Dignitary Tort, was published in Boston College Law Review. In this article, Polk argues that many of our exposures to toxic pollutants from factories, train derailments and their attendant chemical spills, through our use of consumer goods, and in the workplace constitutes an offensive battery, a…
Announcing Public Interest Institute 25th Anniversary Art Competition Winners
To kick off the 25th anniversary of the Public Interest Institute at Alabama Law, the Law School hosted an art competition surrounding the anniversary theme, “Cultivating a Lifelong Commitment to Service.” After reviewing a collection of outstanding submissions, the Public Interest Student Board and members of the Law School community have selected “Seeds of Service”…
Prof. Fred Vars Published in Stanford Law Review Online
Professor Fred Vars’ article, The Coming Assault on Categorical Gun Prohibitions (with Ian Ayres, Yale Law School), was published in the Stanford Law Review Online. The essay focuses on existing prohibitions on categories of individuals (e.g., felons) and proposes “ex ante and ex post reforms [that] would help to insulate state and federal category-based prohibitors from constitutional attack.”
Professors Clare Ryan and Ben McMichael to Publish in SMU Law Review
Professors Clare Ryan and Ben McMichael’s article, The Future of Frozen Embryos, is forthcoming in the SMU Law Review. A draft of the article is available on SSRN. The article focuses on the effects of the Alabama Supreme Court decision in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, which declared frozen embryos to be “children.” Ryan and…
Alabama Bar Association Congratulates Public Interest Institute for 25 Years
Thank you to Alabama State Bar President Tom Perry (Class of 1986) for his kind words in celebration of the 25th anniversary of our Public Interest Institute! We are so grateful for the continued support of the Alabama State Bar. To learn more about the 25th anniversary, click here, and stay tuned for updates as…
Alumni News
January 2025 Public Interest Institute Celebrates 25 Years In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Public Interest Institute at Alabama Law, Professor Pam Pierson (founder of the Institute) and Cassandra Adams (Assistant Dean for Public Interest Law and Assistant Professor in Residence) join Dean Bill Brewbaker in discussing how the Institute was formed, the…
Prof. Larry Solum Kicks Off Spring 2025 Colloquium Series at Alabama Law
On January 27, Professor Larry Solum (University of Virginia School of Law) visited Tuscaloosa to present his research to the faculty at Alabama Law. Professor Solum was the first among nine distinguished professors who will be featured in the Alabama Law 2025 Spring Colloquium Series. A list of upcoming Spring presenters includes: Each year, Alabama…
Public Interest Institute Celebrates 25 Years
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Public Interest Institute at Alabama Law, Professor Pam Pierson (founder of the Institute) and Cassandra Adams (Assistant Dean for Public Interest Law and Assistant Professor in Residence) join Dean Bill Brewbaker in discussing how the Institute was formed, the impact it makes for students and the local…
Professor Krotoszynski’s Monograph Nominated Book of the Year
Professor Ron Krotoszynski’s monograph Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press 2024) was nominated for the 2024 Book of the Year by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. Finalists were selected by an Expert Council consisting of seven constitutional…