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Alabama Law Remembers Professor Tom Jones
Dear Alabama Law Alumni: With a heavy heart, I write to let you know that Tom Jones passed away last night. Tom came to the School of Law in 1962. Since then, he served in virtually every position available to a member of the faculty – from professor (rising through the ranks), to Acting…
Alabama Law Hosts Symposium on Water Resources Law
Some of the nation’s leading experts on water law visited Alabama Law today for the symposium on Water Resources Law. Participants discussed the laws governing ownership of surface water, groundwater, and other water resources in Alabama and throughout the Southeast. They addressed interstate water law conflicts, the types of water policies that have worked in…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice to Visit Alabama Law for Albritton Lecture
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will participate in a conversation with Dean Mark E. Brandon and Judge William Harold Albritton III at The University of Alabama School of Law for the Fall 2017 Albritton Lecture Sept. 12. “We are pleased and honored to be able to welcome Justice…
Alabama Law Remembers Justice Janie L. Shores
Justice Janie Shores, celebrated alumna of the Law School, has passed away at the age of 85. She grew up in Baldwin County, took her bachelor’s degree from Samford University, and earned her law degree from Alabama Law in 1959. Her notes and outlines at the School of Law were legendary; for years after she…
Alabama Law Welcomes New Faculty Members
The University of Alabama School of Law announces the hiring of six new faculty members: Professors Yonathan Arbel, Alfred Brophy, Courtney Cross, Allyson Gold, Shalini Ray, and Philip Reich. Professor Arbel is an expert on the enforcement of contracts and commercial obligations. His work covers not only contracts, but also commercial law, torts, and consumer…
UA Military Law Society, Alabama Law Student Gain Parking Privileges for Purple Heart Recipients
Purple Heart recipients will soon have premium parking privileges at The University of Alabama. On Aug. 9 at 11 a.m., UA will unveil a parking space in the Ferguson Center lot designated for veterans who have received the Purple Heart, an award given to men or women who have either been wounded or killed in…
Alabama Law Welcomes Class of 2020
Dean Mark E. Brandon applauded the Class of 2020 for being “a distinguished group by any proper measure” during First-Year Orientation. The class has 126 students and was drawn from a pool of more than 1,500 applicants. Forty-five percent of the class members are women, and 19 percent identify as members of a racial or…
Alabama Law Alumni Receive Awards for their Contributions to the Legal Profession
Professor Pamela Bucy Pierson and Alabama Law alumni received awards from the Alabama State Bar during its annual meeting in Point Clear. William H. “Bill” Broome (’77) received the Commissioners’ Award for his long-standing commitment to the improvement of the administration of justice in Alabama. Samuel N. Crosby (’78) received the J. Anthony “Tony” McLain…
President Trump Nominates Three Alabama Law Alumni as Federal Judges
President Donald Trump has nominated Annemarie Carney Axon (’99) and Liles C. Burke (’94) for positions as District Judges on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Chip Campbell, Jr. (’01) was tapped to serve as District Judge in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. All…
“Gone Again” Wins 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal have announced that James Grippando, author of “Gone Again,” will receive the 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Grippando is the seventh winner of the Prize. The award, authorized by Lee, is given annually to a book-length work of fiction that best illuminates…