Category: Students
Alabama Law Student Organizations Honor the Scottsboro Nine
March 25th marked the 90-year anniversary of the arrest of nine black teenagers who were unjustly convicted for the rape of two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama. In memoriam of this landmark case, several student organizations from the University of Alabama School of Law hosted a week of events beginning on March 23rd. Blacks…
University of Alabama Law Student Wins Fulbright Award
A Fulbright award is a prestigious accomplishment for any student. Each year more than 11,000 students apply and a mere 1,500 on average are granted this honor. This year, The University of Alabama was the only SEC university named a Top Producing Institution for Fulbright awards –an accomplishment UA has now achieved six years running. …
Alabama Law 1L Student Selected as Co-Host on “Third Degree” Podcast
Kyra Perkins, a 1L Alabama Law student, was selected to join Elie Honig, CNN legal analyst, as a co-host on the Café Studios Podcast “Third Degree.” Perkins is the only 1L and one of just three law students from across the country who was selected for this honor—the other two selectees being Harvard Law and…
Alabama Law Student Groups To Host Virtual Town Hall on Policing, Systemic Racism, and the Law
The Student Bar Association, Black Law Students Association, and the Criminal Law Society will present a virtual town hall on Policing, Systemic Racism, and the Law at 6 p.m. Monday, July 20 on Zoom. The program will feature professors Montre Carodine, Richard Delgado, Yuri Linetsky, Anil Mujumdar, and Jean Stefancic. Professor Bryan Fair will moderate…
Alabama Law Student Receives Peggy Browning Fellowship
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a paid fellowship to Rubayet Lasker, a rising 2L. Lasker said she is honored to receive the fellowship, which will help her connect and network with other law students who have similar interests around the country. During her fellowship, Lasker will work at Adelante Alabama Worker Center in Birmingham….
Alumnus and Law Student to Hunt for House on HGTV
Luke Kiszla, ’18, and Jayme Smith, 3L, will be featured on an episode of HGTV’s “House Hunters” later this year. Kiszla, who is engaged to Smith, sent in an application to be on the HGTV show just for fun. That application quickly became an on-camera house hunt in Montgomery, where Kiszla and Smith plan to…
Students Win Moot Court Award
Queena Ruffin and Brittney Wormely, both 3Ls, recently participated in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Compeition in Columbia, South Carolina, and received the Best Brief of the Petitioner award.
Law Student Receives Trailblazer of the Year Award
Second year student Shalyn Smith was selected by the Southern Region of the Black Law Students Association as the recipient of the 2015 Trailblazer of the Year Award. The award recognizes students for their hard work and dedication to excellence through exemplification of the SRBLSA theme: Onward and Upward: Blazing the Trail. The theme is a reflection…
Clinic Interns Win Jury Trial
Civil Law Clinic Certified Legal Interns Scott MacLatchie and Austin Whitten recently won a two-day jury trial in the Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court. The Civil Law Clinic’s client alleged that the contractor who made repairs to her roof and home after the April 2011 tornado did not complete the work properly. After hours of deliberation,…
Paul Sloderbeck Wins First Place in Environmental Law Essay Contest
Paul Sloderbeck recently won first place in the 2014 Environmental Law Essay contest sponsored by the Environmental Law Section of the Alabama State Bar. He will receive $1,000 for “Ecuador’s 2008 Constitutional Rights of Nature: A Step Toward Nature-Centered Rights in South America or Utilitarian Anthropocentrism in Disguise?” for a paper he wrote in International Environmental Law Seminar.