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Professor Steinman Signs Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court To Review Lower Court’s Decision
A group of fourteen leading civil procedure scholars, including UA’s Prof. Adam Steinman, is urging the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision making it more difficult for workers to recover lost wages. The scholars explained that lower courts have reached inconsistent results following a pair of Supreme Court pleading decisions handed down in…
U.S. News Ranks Alabama School of Law Among Top 25 Law Schools
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 22nd among the nation’s top law schools, both public and private, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Graduate Schools” rankings for 2016. This is the third consecutive year that Alabama Law has been ranked among the top 25 law schools in…
Professor Hill To Receive President’s Faculty Research Award
Julie A. Hill is one of thirteen faculty members representing a cross section of the University of Alabama campus who will receive the President’s Faculty Research Award Wednesday, April 8, as part of the first Faculty Research Day. Prof. Hill has published about the examination process regulators use to police banking practices, analyzed the appeals…
Crawford Addresses Farrah Law Alumni Society Banquet
Jan Crawford, CBS News chief legal correspondent, said Justice Clarence Thomas is “the most misunderstood and misreported figure in modern political and legal history.” Crawford served as the keynote speaker at the Farrah Law Alumni Society Banquet in Birmingham, where the society honored Justice Janie L. Shores with the Sam W. Pipes Award for distinguishing…
Second Harper Lee Novel To Be Published In July
More than 50 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published, a second Harper Lee novel is set to be released in July. “Go Set a Watchman,” a novel completed in the 1950s, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last year, the work is essentially a sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” although it was…
Professor Dillbary To Address Second International Law and Economics Conference
Professor Shahar Dillbary has accepted an invitation to serve as a keynote speaker at the Second International Law and Economics Conference (ILEC), which will take place in May in Turkey. Last year the U.S. keynote speakers were Professors Robert Cooter (Berkeley) and William Kovacic (George Washington University and former FTC Chairman).
Law School Welcomes Major Gifts Officer
The Law School welcomes Caroline Strawbridge to the Office of Advancement as the major gifts officer. Strawbridge is a 1997 graduate of the School of Law and has a bachelor’s degree in communication from UA. “She brings to the job an impressive resume of relevant experience and a deep knowledge of the Law School and…
Bounds Law Library Launches Special Collections Blog
Litera Scripta will share information about books, manuscripts, and artifacts. The Bounds Law Library preserves and catalogs documents and objects, with an eye to the evolution of common law. Its primary focus is on legal history in Alabama; but it is also interested in law and society in the South and the nation, in the…
Law School To Host Reunion Honoring Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Law Clerks
The Law School will host a reunion honoring former law clerks honoring former Law Clerks of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. on Feb. 27-28. Former law clerks will attend the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act Symposium, participate in a special lunch and dinner, and tour The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Students Win Moot Court Award
Queena Ruffin and Brittney Wormely, both 3Ls, recently participated in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Compeition in Columbia, South Carolina, and received the Best Brief of the Petitioner award.