Category: Law News

• Law Alumni Featured on 20/20 Season Premiere

  The law firm of Frohsin & Barger, LLC, founded by Law School alumni Henry Frohsin (’67) and Jim Barger (’05), was recently featured on the season premiere of 20/20. When Michael Wohlschlaeger’s fifth wife Shirley Seitz dies, Frohsin & Barger are hired by the grieving Seitz family to seek justice for Shirley. Read the press release.

• Washington, D.C.-area Alumni Social Reminder

  If you live in the D.C.-area, or will be traveling to the area, please join us for a complimentary cocktail reception.  The event will be hosted by Mike House (’71) at Hogan Lovells LLP on Wednesday September 18, at 5:30 p.m. To R.S.V.P, please contact Jami Gates at (205) 348-6775 or jgates@law.ua.edu.

• Professor Dan Joyner on West’s Legal Options in Syria Intervention

  Professor Dan Joyner was recently interviewed by The Guardian regarding the options for western intervention in the Syrian conflict. Click here to read the full article.

• UA Law Professor’s Role in Uniform Law on Human Trafficking

  Judge Joseph Colquitt served as the associate reporter charged with preparing criminal provisions for the passage of the comprehensive Uniform Act on Prevention of and Remedies for Human Trafficking Act.  This law holds traffickers accountable, while placing a great deal of emphasis on the protection of trafficking victims. The uniform act was approved by the Uniform…

• Law School Opens Foreclosure Clinic

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala., August 13, 2013 -The University of Alabama School of Law has added a new legal clinic specializing in foreclosure issues.  The clinic will offer legal assistance to individuals in Lamar, Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Greene, Hale and Bibb country who are in foreclosure, or who face the threat of foreclosure, on their home….

• Associate Dean Carodine on the Aftermath of the Zimmerman Trial

  In the days following the Zimmerman trial many news sources have sought the expert advice of Associate Dean Montré Carodine. Click here to see her interview with CBS 42 regarding Alabama’s “Stand Your Ground” law. To read Washington Times articles “Trayvon Martin’s Family Has Little Chance for Recourse in Court”, in which Associate Dean Carodine…

• Paul Goldstein Named 2013 Harper Lee Prize Winner

  Paul Goldstein’s Havana Requiem has been awarded the 2013 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.  Click here to read more.

• Professor Pam Pierson on Zimmerman Prosecution

  Professor Pierson was recently interviewed on NPR’s Tell Me More regarding the George Zimmerman trial. “I think the government’s got a weak case and it hinges on that intent element. That government has got to prove that, of course, that he killed – that Zimmerman killed Trayvon, but that he did so – and here’s…

• Professor Ron Krotoszynski: Commentary on Shelby Co. v. Holder Decision

  The Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, struck down the preclearance formula used to determine which state and local jurisdictions must pre-clear changes in voting procedures with the U.S. Department of Justice. This is clearly a landmark decision that will have important effects on voting rights in the United States for…

• Professor Fred Vars: A Different Angle on the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door

  “There are two types of institutions: ones people want to get into and ones people want to get out of. In both cases equality can be achieved only by opening the door.  The struggles and successes of patients at Bryce are far less well known than the events across town, but connected to them in…