Category: Alumni News
December 2018
News Senator Shelby to Receive 2019 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award The 2019 Alabama Law Alumni Society Banquet is scheduled for Friday, February 1, at The Florentine in downtown Birmingham. The banquet will honor U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (’63) as the recipient of the 2019 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award. Senator Shelby was…
November 2018
News FMJ 100: Honoring the Legacy of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Using a video produced by the American Academy of Achievement, Deborah Long (’80) and Judge W. Keith Watkins (’76) narrated the life and judicial decisions of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. on what would have been his 100th birthday. As Judge Johnson remembered…
October 2018
News A New Name for the Next Great Era On September 20, 2018, the Law School announced that it has received a transformative gift from Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr. The gift is the largest in The University of Alabama’s 187-year history, and it will help develop innovative programming, enhance the physical presence of the Law…
September 2018
News Alabama Law Welcomes the Class of 2021 Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed the Class of 2021 during First-Year Orientation. Brandon said the class is joining a long list of former law students who have made a positive mark on the community, the nation, and the world, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Judge…
May 2018
News Alabama Law Confers 135 Juris Doctor degrees; Frank S. James (’78) Delivers Commencement Address Frank S. James (’78) congratulated The University of Alabama School of Law’s Class of 2018 for having a median a LSAT score of 163 and an overall grade-point average of 3.76. “I can say that I, and many of my…
April 2018
News Alabama Law Hosts Symposium on Life After Scalia: Justice Gorsuch and Modern Textualism on the Supreme Court Legal scholars discussed the future of textualism on the U.S. Supreme Court Friday, March 23, at The University of Alabama School of Law. The occasion was a symposium on Life After Scalia: Justice Gorsuch and Modern Textualism…
March 2018
News Alabama Law Hosts Symposium on the Role of Lawyers in Government Sitting and former U.S. Attorneys visited The University of Alabama School of Law March 2 and discussed the role lawyers play in government. The symposium, “The Role of Lawyers in Good Government,” was held in the McMillan Lecture Hall in Room 287 and…
February 2018
News Professor Margaret Montoya Visits Alabama Law, Discusses Latinx and the Law Margaret Montoya, Professor Emerita of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, lectured Monday, January 22, at The University of Alabama School of Law. During her lecture titled, “Latinx and the Law,” Montoya said law schools haven’t yet acknowledged that…
December 2017
News Alabama Law Receives Grant to Help Increase Diversity in Legal Profession The University of Alabama School of Law has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Law School Admission Council to create the Alabama Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program. The program is designed to help prepare students for the law school admission process, to promote…
November 2017
News UA Law Receives $1.5 Million Gift for Endowed Chair The University of Alabama School of Law is pleased to announce a $1.5 million gift from Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr., a trial attorney, investor, and land owner in Sarasota, Florida. The gift will establish the Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr. Chair in Constitutional Law and will…