Category: Law News
Morris Dees Receives Courageous Advocacy Award
The American Board of Trial Advocates presented its Courageous Advocacy Award to Morris Dees, founder and chief trial attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, at the organization’s National Board of Directors Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. The organization presents the award to a judge or advocate anywhere in the world who has demonstrated exemplary…
Law School Ranks in Top 10 as “Best Value” for Fifth Consecutive Year
The University of Alabama School of Law is ranked 5th among the nation’s “Best Value Law Schools,” according to The National Jurist magazine’s rankings for 2015. This is the ninth time since 2004 The National Jurist magazine has published the list, and it is the fifth consecutive year the Law School has been ranked among the…
Professor Delgado Helps Identify Best and Worst Supreme Court Cases Since 1960
Professor Richard Delgado was one of 16 constitutional law professors who helped Time magazine identify the best and worst Supreme Court decisions since 1960. Time surveyed more than 50 legal scholars and received 34 responses. Decisions that championed civil and individual liberties or made democracy more participatory were repeatedly praised, while professors were more critical…
Professor Carodine Weighs in on Federal Settlement Alabama Will Receive for Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Professor Montre Carodine recently told Al.com it’s “an unfortunate development” that Alabama legislators are moving forward with a plan to divert $950 million of a federal settlement for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the state’s General Fund. Alabama lawmakers have not specified how they plan to spend the money that will go into the General…
Law School Selects Millard Fuller as 2015 Profile in Service
The University of Alabama School of Law Profiles in Service Series Millard Dean Fuller Millard Fuller, a 1960 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, co-founded one of the most well-known and successful nonprofit Christian organizations in the world, Habitat for Humanity International. Fuller, who received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University, began…
Feinberg Lectures on Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Kenneth Feinberg addressed the Law School about mediation and alternative dispute resolution, emphasizing the kinds of cases he administers fall into two categories and often take an unseen emotional toll. Feinberg has managed claims arising from the nation’s “darkest moments” and posing the problem of determining what a life is worth, said…
Bradley Hargett: Serving the State
Bradley C. Hargett (’16) was surprised when he learned in June that he had won the Alabama State Bar’s Pro Bono Law Student Award. “I had no idea I had been nominated and it was very exciting to know that the state bar recognizes the efforts of law students and attorneys in pro bono service,”…
Professor Delgado Named Faculty Fellow for Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study
Professor Richard Delgado has been selected as a faculty fellow for the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study for the 2015-2016 academic year. Each faculty fellow will partner with one or more of the departments offering graduate degrees housed in Texas A&M’s 16 colleges or schools, or the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Delgado, the…
Professor Gross Says Drug Laws Are Designed to Demand Guilty Pleas, Not to Find Justice
Professor John Gross recently wrote in a guest op-ed for Al.com that police and prosecutors are constantly urging legislatures to give them “overly broad” and “unnecessarily punitive” laws to help fight crime. The result is 94 percent of criminal convictions are the result of guilty pleas. “Plea bargaining, something that occurs largely without judicial supervision,…
Professor Gross Weighs in on Prosecution of Chemical Endangerment Cases
Professor John Gross recently told ProPublica there is a disparity in the way prosecutors in Alabama’s 67 counties have applied the “chemical endangerment of a child” statute. “Each county is its own little fiefdom,” said Gross, director of the Law School’s criminal defense clinic. “You get vastly different results in terms of how the cases are…