Year: 2025
Alabama Law Team Wins First Place at Nelson Mandela International Negotiations Competition
At the 57th Annual National Black Law Students Association Convention in Atlanta, 3Ls Claudia Bonney Amamoo and Tionna Taite represented Alabama Law in the Nelson Mandela International Negotiations Competition, where they competed against 16 other teams from around the country. The team was seeded first after each round, and finished in first place. The team…
Professor Susan Pace Hamill Featured in WalletHub’s Tax Survey
Professor Susan Pace Hamill was a featured expert in WalletHub’s recent survey on Americans’ attitudes toward taxes. Click here to learn more.
Belle Granholm (’24) Receives Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award
Belle Granholm (Class of 2024) has been selected as one of fifteen recipients of the Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Awards, presented by the Burton Awards, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit program run in association with the Library of Congress, presented by lead sponsor Law360, and co-sponsored by the American Bar Association and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP….
Professor Fred Vars Publishes Op-Ed in The Washington Post
Professor Fred Vars published an op-ed in The Washington Post titled Mel Gibson should have a way to get his guns back. Here’s why. (with Ian Ayres, Yale Law School). Professors Vars and Ayres are also the authors of Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights (2020). The article is centered around…
Professor Luke Herrine Places Three New Articles
Professor Luke Herrine has recently placed three articles: The Student Debt Reset in California Law Review (with Jonathan Glater, UC Berkeley Law School) (forthcoming 2025), Unfairness, Reconstructed in Vol. 42, Issue 1 of Yale Journal on Regulation, and Regulating Cutthroat Business in North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2025). Click the links above to read the…
In Memory of Former Dean Nathaniel “Nat” Hansford
The Alabama Law community mourns the passing of a beloved former dean and professor, V. Nathaniel “Nat” Hansford. Dean Hansford received his law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1968. Following graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, where he served for three years, including one year…
February 2025 Alumni News
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…
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.”