Category: Law News

• Professor McMichael Coauthors Piece for Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

  Professor Ben McMichael recently copublished a piece in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies titled Responses to Liability Immunization: Evidence from Medical Devices.

• Professor Hill Comments on Banks Backing Social Media App OnlyFans

  Professor Julie Hill was recently quoted on Marketplace discussing banks’ involvement with the app OnlyFans. 

• Professor Vance Coauthors Piece for USA Today

  Professor Joyce Vance recently coauthored an opinion piece on presidential reform under Joe Biden for USA today titled Voters want progressive prosecutors. Biden must follow through on promise to guide reform.

• Scott Sloss Begins Equal Justice Works Fellowship

  Today is the official start of the Veterans Law Project at Alabama Law as Equal Justice Works Fellow, Scott Sloss, begins his two-year fellowship bringing legal services to veterans and their family members in the Tuscaloosa County area. This project is being sponsored by Thomson Reuters and Shearman & Sterling LLP. Read more about the…

• Professor Hamill Quoted in Huffpost

  Professor Susan Hamill was recently interviewed about the ethics of doctors choosing not to treat unvaccinated patients for a Huffpost article titled An Alabama Doctor Is Refusing To See Patients Unvaccinated Against COVID-19. Can He?

• Professor Brewbaker Quoted on AL.com

  Professor William Brewbaker recently shared insights on HIPAA privacy laws with AL.com in an article titled There’s a crisis in Alabama hospitals. Here’s why you can’t see it.

• Professor Carroll Publishes Article in Florida Law Review

  Professor Jenny Carroll‘s paper, titled Beyond Bail, was recently published in the Florida Law Review.

• Alabama Law Welcomes Professor Daiquiri Steele

  Alabama Law is proud to announce that Professor Daiquiri Steele has rejoined the School of Law as an Assistant Professor. Her research examines whether and how anti-discrimination laws help ensure equal access to employment and education—both of which are crucial determinants of socioeconomic mobility. Professor Steele originally joined The University of Alabama School of Law…

• Alabama Law Alum Frees Man from Lifelong Prison Sentence

  Alabama Law alum (’21) and Alabama Appleseed intern, Allen Slater, recently helped free a man— who was serving a life sentence for a crime that, nowadays, receives a much lesser penalty— after 27 years in Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County, Alabama. Read more about it on the Alabama Appleseed Webpage.

• Professor Gold Publishes with Oxford University Press

  Oxford University Press recently released The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution, which is co-edited by Professors Russell Gold (Alabama Law), Ronald F. Wright (Wake Forest Law), and Kay L. Levine (Emory University School of Law).  In addition to serving as co-editor, Professor Gold also authored a chapter in that volume and co-authored the introduction….