Category: Alumni News
March 2020
News Alabama Law Launches Strategic Planning Initiative As you know, the Law School is engaged in a strategic planning process to define priorities and goals and guide decision making for the coming three to five years. We want to gather ideas, reflections, and suggestions from all members of our community to support that process. Accordingly,…
February 2020
News Yusef Salaam, Member of Exonerated Five, Speaks at Alabama Law Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five, formerly known as the Central Park Five, discussed his legal case on Monday with Judge John H. England, Jr. (’74) in the Bedsole Moot Court Room. On April 19, 1989, a young woman was raped and…
January 2020
News Professor Meghan Boone Wins 2020 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition The Association of American Law Schools has chosen Assistant Professor Meghan M. Boone as one of two recipients of the 2020 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition for law school faculty members in the field for five years or fewer. In her article, “Reproductive Due Process,” Boone…
December 2019
News Justice Harwood to Receive 2020 Pipes Award Justice Robert Bernard Harwood, Jr., founder of Rosen Harwood in Tuscaloosa, has been selected to receive the 2020 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award. The award is given by The Law School Foundation to an outstanding alumnus who has distinguished himself or herself through service to the…
November 2019
News Alabama Law Honors William B. Hairston, Jr. (’50) with Classroom That Bears His Name Alabama Law honored the life and legacy of William B. Hairston, Jr. (’50) and named a lecture classroom the Hairston Classroom. A plaque, displayed outside of the classroom, notes that the Law School received a generous gift to enhance the…
October 2019
News Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Speaks at Alabama Law Professor James Forman, Jr., of Yale Law School, spoke at Alabama Law about his book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Professor Forman said he wrote the book for two reasons. First, he wanted to write a book that was “rooted in black…
September 2019
News James Forman, Jr. to Speak at Alabama Law James Forman, Jr. is scheduled to speak at noon Friday, September 20 in the Bedsole Moot Court Room. Professor Forman, of Yale Law School, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for his book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.” “Locking Up…
April 2019
News Moot Court Team Wins National HNBA Competition Steven Arango, Cameron Rentschler, and Zach Smith, all 3Ls, won the 2019 Hispanic National Bar Association’s Uvaldo Herrera Moot Court Competition. This is the University of Alabama’s first championship in the competition. Thirty-two teams from law schools around the country competed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The problem involved complex…
March 2019
News UA Names Residence Hall for Law School Alumnus Judge John England, Jr. The University of Alabama’s newest student residence hall has been named for one of the University’s and state’s greatest civic leaders, the Honorable John H. England Jr., a member of the Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama System and Circuit…
February 2019
News Senator Richard Shelby Receives 2019 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award Senator Richard Shelby (’63) received the 2019 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award at the Alabama Law Alumni Society Banquet in Birmingham. The award is given by The Law School Foundation to an outstanding alumnus who has distinguished himself or herself through service…