Category: Law News

• Professor Vars’s Research Shows Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear Arms

  Professor Fred Vars, along with Ian Ayres, published an article, “Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear Arms,” in the Emory Law Journal. The article finds broad support of Donna’s Law, a voluntary measure to reduce gun suicide.    

• Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy Publishes Journal Article Written by Law Student

  Allen Slater (3L) recently published an article in the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. His article, “It Should Never Be Justified: A Critical Examination of the Binary Paradigm Used to Categorize Police Shootings,” makes the case for a more nuanced, transparent, and accountable framework for evaluating police shootings.  

• Professor Vance Writes Op-Ed about President Trump’s Record on Law and Order

  Professor Joyce White Vance, along with Barbara McQuade, Chuck Rosenberg, Andrew Weissmann, and Mimi Rocah, writes an op-ed for USA Today about President Trump’s record on law and order. For more, read “Kenosha Visit Reality: Trump is Anything But a ‘Law and Order’ Leader.”  

• Alabama Law Welcomes New Faculty, Executive Staff Members

  Dean Mark E. Brandon recently announced four new appointments to the faculty and two new appointments to the Executive Staff at The University of Alabama School of Law. Kara Deal Gamble is a graduate of Alabama Law. While a student here, she was Acquisitions Editor of the Alabama Law Review.  After graduating she served as a…

• Professor Vars Weighs in on the Federal Government’s Plans to Execute Lezmond Mitchell

  Professor Fred Vars writes a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic that argues the federal government should not execute Lezmond Mitchell on Aug. 26. Mitchell is a member of the Navajo Nation, which opposes the death penalty and has called on President Trump to commute his sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility…

• Professor Grove Comments on What a Second Term for President Trump Could Mean for Judiciary

  Professor Tara Leigh Grove is quoted in a Bloomberg story about what a Trump reelection could mean for the federal judiciary. For more, read “Trump’s Court Redo Is Set to Be Even Broader If He Wins New Term.”  

• Professor Steinman Reviews Article on Laughter at the Supreme Court

  Professor Adam Steinman reviews a recent article by Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag, Taking Laughter Seriously at the Supreme Court, 72 Vand. L. Rev. 1423 (2019). For more, read “No Laughing Matter.”

• Professor Ray to Present Paper at Yale Roundtable

  Professor Shalini Bhargava Ray is scheduled to present her paper, “Abdication Through Enforcement,” this fall at the 2020 Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable. The article argues a president can abdicate his duty of faithful execution in immigration law by enforcing the law, for example, by deporting deportable noncitizens without adequately supervising line officers’ exercise of enforcement discretion. 

• Professor Ray Publishes Article on Law of Rescue

  Professor Shalini Bhargava Ray published The Law of Rescue, 108 Calif. L. Rev. 619 (2020). This article analyzes humanitarian aid to migrants at the border in the context of laws of rescue.

• Professor Steinman Publishes Article on Notice Pleadings after Iqbal Decision

  Professor Adam Steinman recently published Notice Pleading in Exile, 41 Cardozo L. Rev. 1057 (2020). This article—part of a symposium commemorating the Iqbal decision’s tenth anniversary—highlights decisions during those ten years that have continued to endorse notice pleading despite Iqbal. It also argues that those decisions reflect the best way to read the Iqbal decision.