Category: Law News
Expert to Lecture at Law School on Legal Responses to Catastrophes
The University of Alabama School of Law will host Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Kenneth Feinberg at noon Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom 140. The lecture is free and open to the public. Feinberg is an expert in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He has handled financial claims for major crises and disasters. He…
Legal Scholars to Visit and Discuss Law’s Rhetorical Life
Legal scholars will visit The University of Alabama School of Law and discuss law’s rhetorical life Sept. 18 during a symposium. The Rhetorical Process and Legal Judgments Symposium begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom, Room 140. Legal scholars will investigate how questions of rhetoric shape the development of legal and judicial decisions,…
Alabama Law Ranks 10th Best in Study of Graduates’ Debt Load
Students, academics, and commentators are all paying more attention to the debt load with which law graduates enter the workforce. Many recent articles have detailed the negative impact that large law school debt has on career choices. According to one recent examination, Alabama Law graduates fare well in this metric. The University of Alabama School…
Professor Hobbs Discusses Arguments for Opening Bentley Divorce File
Motions filed Monday by state media outlets to unseal Gov. Robert Bentley’s divorce proceedings argue the case file should be open to the public because most of the state’s divorce cases are open. Professor Steven Hobbs recently told the The Decatur Daily the best argument to unseal the Bentley files may be because it involves the highest elected…
Professors Rushin and Delgado Comment on Trial of Alabama Police Officer
Federal prosecutors plan to retry the Alabama police officer who was charged with violating an Indian man’s civil rights after a jury deadlocked Friday and a mistrial was declared in the case. Madison police officer Eric Parker was accused of using unreasonable force when he slammed Sureshbhai Patel, 58, to the ground in February. Professor…
Professor Krotoszynski Weighs in on Marriage License Case in Kentucky
Professor Ronald Krotoszynski Jr. recently told The New York Times and “Background Briefing with Ian Masters” same-sex couples in Kentucky who have been denied marriage licenses will ultimately receive them. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to allow a county clerk in Kentucky who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds to continue to deny…
Professor Bryce Says Alabama Is in Final Budget Countdown
Professor James Bryce recently told taxnotes.com that Alabama may join other states where tax issues have delayed budgets. Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed tax increases to help close the state’s $700 million budget gap, but the legislature has passed — and Bentley has vetoed — budgets that rely on spending cuts. Alabama’s fiscal year begins…
Professor Vars Launches StopGunSuicide.com
Professor Fredrick Vars has an idea that could significantly reduce the number of firearm suicides every year. He wants anyone at high risk of suicide to confidentially add their names to a federal background check system, making it more difficult for them to buy a gun during a suicidal crisis. The database would give the…
Essayist and Literary Critic Praises ‘The Secret of Magic’
Philip D. Beidler, the Margaret and William Going Professor of English at The University of Alabama, appreciates the literary prose of “The Secret of Magic,” winner of the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Beidler writes: Here in “The Secret of Magic,” we encounter the familiar omniscience of traditional realism, but with a stunning versatility—narration,…
UA-ANU Summer School Program Celebrates Its 15th Year
Ten UA law students have just returned from studying at the Australian National University College of Law. The group spent a month at the ANU, where they took a Survey of Australian Law taught by the ANU faculty and Comparative Race Law, which was team-taught by Anne Macduff of the ANU faculty and UA law…