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Join Us for The 50th Anniversary Gala on April 21
On the evening of Friday, April 21, The University of Alabama School of Law, in conjunction with The 50th Anniversary Executive Committee & Advisory Board, will be hosting The 50th Anniversary Gala: A Legacy Fundraising Event in honor of the first Black graduates at Alabama Law. The Gala program will include artistic performances, reflections, and stories from students and alumni of the School of Law. Seating for this event is limited. Learn more and RSVP today.
Alabama Law Honors 2023 Alumni Awardees
On March 3, the School of Law hosted the annual Alabama Law Alumni Society Banquet at The Florentine in Birmingham. Six distinguished alumni were honored this year for their significant contributions to the legal community and the School of Law. Read about the award ceremony and view pictures from the event here.
A New Day, a New Building: Albert J. Farrah’s Years
In collaboration with the 50 | 150 Anniversaries, Bounds Law Library Special Collections has released an article titled A New Day, a New Building: Albert J. Farrah’s Years of Victory. This piece is the second in a series designed to carry readers through highlights from 150 years of history at Alabama Law, and it covers incidents, developments, and personalities concerning the deanship of Albert Farrah, which began in 1913. Read the full article on the Bounds Law Library Special Collections Blog, Litera Scripta.
Register for the Wiregrass Alabama Social – April 13
On Thursday, April 13, Alabama Law will be hosting an alumni social at The Cochran Firm in Dothan, Alabama. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see old friends and make new connections. RSVP today to secure your spot.
Class Notes
David “Leon” Ashford (’73) was inducted into the 2023 Limestone County Sports Hall of Fame.
Alexia B. Borden (’05) was named senior vice president of Customer and Community Engagement at Alabama Power.
Monica G. Graveline (’00) was elected senior vice president and general counsel at Alabama Power.
Benjamin A. Owens (’12) joined Haynes and Boone LLP as a partner of the Finance Section of the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina office.
Edward J. Peterson III (’99) was named partner at Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel, & Burns, LLP in Tampa, Florida.
Shaun Ramey (’00) of McGlinchey Stafford’s Nashville office was named co-chair of the firm’s national Financial Services Litigation (FSL) practice group.
Collin Rich (’11) was promoted to founding executive director of The University of Alabama Office for Export Controls.
Jesse S. Vogtle, Jr. (’88) was chosen to serve on Synovus Bank’s Advisory Board, a Georgia-chartered, FDIC-insured bank in Birmingham.
Correction: Last month, this newsletter incorrectly listed the publication that Brig. Gen. Richard Allen’s (’73) article The Cold War Was Just That was published in. The piece was originally featured in the November 2022 issue of ARMY Magazine.
Gifts
Sara F. Kimberley contributed $10,000 to the Law School Foundation Building Fund.
The Albert G. Rives Charitable Trust Support Fund contributed $11,000 Albert G. & Hester Rives Fund.
Faculty Notes
Professor Deepa Das Acevedo guest-edited a symposium collection, titled “Symposium on Legal Anthropology,” that appears in Volume 48, Iss. 1 (Mar. 2023) of Law & Social Inquiry. The issue, as well as a sibling collection published in Alabama Law Review in 2022, emerged from a series of roundtables and virtual workshops between 2018-21 that involved an international group of legal anthropologists and that was led by Professor Das Acevedo. Both collections are prefaced with introductions written by Professor Das Acevedo: What’s Law Got To Do With It? Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship(LSI) and Sweet Old-Fashioned Notions: Legal Engagement with Anthropological Scholarship (ALR).
Professor Heather Elliott is coauthor of a chapter titled “Civil Procedure: The Institutional Pragmatist,” in Ryan Vacca and Ann Bartow, editors, The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (New York University Press, forthcoming 2023), pp. 77-92.
Professor Shalini Ray’s essay, Citizenship and Racial Subordination, is forthcoming in the American Journal of Law and Equality, a peer-reviewed journal founded by Professors Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, and Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School.
Professor Kenneth Rosen was recently appointed by Governor Ivey to represent Alabama on the Uniform Law Commission for a term running through April 4, 2027. As a Commissioner, Professor Rosen has served Alabama as the Commission has considered a variety of uniform acts that can be utilized by states as they enact legislation on significant issues. Commission Presidents also have appointed Professor Rosen to serve on multiple committees during his tenure. For example, Professor Rosen currently serves on committees studying the Singapore Convention on the recognition of mediation results and The Hague Judgements Convention.
Professor Adam Steinman joined a U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae brief in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh on behalf of Anti-Terrorism Act Scholars in Support of Respondents.
In addition, Professor Adam Steinman‘s article, What Is a Fair Price for Objector Blackmail? Class Action Objectors and the 2018 Amendments to Rule 23 (with Elizabeth Cabraser) was cited by the Supreme Court of Hawai’i in Pub. Access Trails Hawai’i v. Haleakala Ranch Co., ___ P.3d ___, 2023 WL 2523649.
Professor Joyce Vance has served as a guest multiple times on MSNBC throughout the month of March. She also narrated an animated video overview presenting our work on the junk science of using bite mark evidence for identification in criminal cases, in connection with my service on the advisory board for the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences. The video is available here.