UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF LAW DEAN SEARCH STATEMENT For 140 years, Alabama Law has produced attorneys who become leaders locally, nationally, and globally. Our graduates do more than practice law – they shape the future. CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS The University of Alabama School of Law seeks a dean with excellent academic credentials, extensive administrative leadership…
Richard Jaffe, a 1976 graduate of Alabama Law, was recently named a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Jaffe said, “I am humbled and honored to be a 2013 inductee as a Fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers, along with the other 2013 inductees. It is one thing to be acknowledged…
Professor Ronald J. Krotoszynski, John S. Stone Chairholder of Law and Director of Faculty Research, was elected to serve as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). The ALI drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, in model statues, and principles of law that are influential in the courts and legislatures. Professor Krotoszynski…
Art Richey, a 3L student, won first place in the 2013 Mid-South Commercial Law Institute Writing Competition. The competition called for essays addressing a current issue within the area of commercial or bankruptcy law. Mr. Richey’s paper analyzed the principal standards defining the “undue hardship” provision of Section 523(a)(8) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in…
Professor Andrew Morriss, cited today in The Economist in an article which examined the changing American economy: “The new American capitalism: Rise of the distorporation”.
Enduring Hierarchies in American Legal Education—co-authored by Andrew Morriss, University of Alabama School of Law; Olufunmilayo Arewa, University of California Irvine School of Law; and William Henderson, Indiana University Maurer School of Law—was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for Legal Scholarship Network. This study is the first of its kind to look…
The video of the 2013 Harper Lee Prize ceremony is now available. Please go to HarperLeePrize.com .
Professor Dan Joyner, an expert on nuclear non-proliferation, was recently quoted by Bloomberg News regarding the UN resolutions calling for the cessation of uranium enrichment in Iran. Read the full Bloomberg News article.
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Associate Dean Montré Carodine was interviewed today on NPR’s Morning Edition regarding the ongoing civil trial against British Petroleum.