Category: Law News

• Professor Julie Hill Comments on Current State of Regional Banks – Marketplace

  Professor Julie Hill commented on the current state of regional banks following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and others. Read more and listen to the episode here: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/06/16/regional-banks-still-face-challenges-after-bank-runs/

• Professor Joyce Vance Quoted in “USA Today”

  Professor Joyce Vance commented on the potential charges former President Donald Trump could face regarding his role in the “Jan. 6 Capitol riot.” Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/19/will-trump-face-indictment-over-jan-6-fbi/70335807007/

• Balch & Bingham Commits $500,000 to Establish Roundtable in Law and Business at Alabama Law

  Tuscaloosa, AL—Balch & Bingham—a corporate law firm based in Birmingham—pledged $500,000 to the University of Alabama School of Law to establish the Balch & Bingham Endowed Roundtable in Law and Business. This roundtable is designed to bring together legal scholars, business practitioners, and persons engaged in enterprise to discuss issues, opportunities, and areas of concern…

• Professor Russell Gold Interviewed on “Public Defenseless”

  Professor Russell Gold, with his co-author, Kay Levine, was interviewed on the “Public Defenseless” podcast to discuss their article, Voice of the Public Defender. The article is focused on the need for an increase in public advocacy for public defenders. Listen to the episode here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/128-fostering-the-public-voice-of-the-public-defender/id1600528975?i=1000617131470 Read Voice of the Public Defender here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=441672

• Alabama Law Faculty Present at Richmond Junior Faculty Forum

  Professors Amy Kimpel and Daiquiri Steele each presented at the Richmond University School of Law Junior Faculty Forum last month. The Junior Faculty Forum is an opportunity for junior law school faculty from around the country to come together and receive constructive feedback from their peers. Professor Kimpel presented her draft, Outsider Prosecutions, about Texas’s…

• Professor Joyce Vance Publishes Essay in New York Times

  Professor Joyce Vance, with Norman Eisen, special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump, and Andrew Weissman, a senior prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, published an essay in the New York Times outlining the four main hurdles prosecutors will face to convict Trump in the…

• Professor Russell Gold Comments on Results of 2023 Alabama State Legislature Session

  Professor Russell Gold commented on the results of the Alabama State Legislature session regarding criminal justice reform. Read more here: https://alabamareflector.com/2023/06/09/criminal-justice-reform-advocates-see-mixed-results-in-2023-alabama-legislature/

• Professor Clare Ryan’s Article Accepted in American University Law Review

  Professor Clare Ryan’s article Are Children’s Rights Enough? has been accepted for publication in American University Law Review. Read about the forthcoming piece on SSRN.

• Alabama Law Faculty Present at Law & Society Association Annual Meeting

  Four faculty members of the University of Alabama School of Law gave presentations at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, held from June 1-4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Separate and Unequal,” referring to the United States’ “doctrine of territorial incorporation,” or the constitutional doctrine that allows…

• Professor Joyce Vance Comments on Georgia Election Interference Case – The New York Times

  Professor Joyce Vance was quoted in an article from The New York Times regarding Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis’ potential charges against former President Trump for his alleged interference in the 2020 election result in Georgia. The case against Trump, if it goes forward, will have a high burden of proof. “Proof of…