Professor Montrè Carodine recently provided insight for two stories featured on NPR’s Morning Edition after a federal judge ruled BP is the responsible party for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier blamed the oil giant’s thirst for money and willful misconduct for the explosion in 2010. “It’s close to acting intentionally,…
Orientation The Law School is proud to announce that the Class of 2017 has been seated. First-Year Orientation took place Aug. 11-13, and classes began on Aug. 14. This year the Law School received about 1,900 applications, a slight increase over the number of applications received last year. Only 18 percent of all ABA-accredited law…
For his work in Sycamore Row, New York Times bestselling author, lawyer and previous Harper Lee Prize winner John Grisham received the 2014 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The prize, authorized by Ms. Lee and co-sponsored by The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, is given annually to a book-length…
Jamie Leonard and Marcus Cotton recently hosted the Boys and Girls Club of West Alabama, and the group’s visit was featured on WVUA. Click on “Boys and Girls Club Career Week” to view the story.
Ken Rosen, associate professor of law, is in Vienna, Austria, serving as the United States National Reporter on Company Law and the Law of Succession as part of the 19th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law. The IACL brings together noted legal experts from around the world every four years to assist the…
Joseph Colquitt, the Jere L. Beasley Professor of Law and director of Trial Advocacy, recently received the Chief Justice’s Professionalism Award from the Alabama State Bar. The honor recognizes a judge or lawyer for outstanding contribution in advancing the professionalism of the legal profession in Alabama. Colquitt served as a Circuit Court Judge in Tuscaloosa…
Dean Brandon The Law School welcomes Dean Mark E. Brandon. Brandon is a member of the first class to take classes outside of Farrah Hall. He graduated from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1978, and he practiced law in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. He earned a master’s degree in political…
Heather Elliott, associate professor of law, recently joined other legal scholars in The Wall Street Journal, saying House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to sue President Barack Obama will face obstacles. Delays in Affordable Care Act deadlines, No Child Left Behind law waivers and other Obama administration actions are executive abuses, Republicans say. It’s unclear, Elliott…
Professor Paul Horwitz recently wrote in The New York Times that Americans should expect many more Hobby Lobbies. “A country that cannot even agree on the idea of religious accommodation, let alone on what terms, is unlikely to agree on what to do next,” wrote the Gordon Rosen Professor of Law and author of First Amendment Institutions.…
The innovative course, The Business of Being a Lawyer, is now a book. The Business of Being a Lawyer (West Academic Publishing) by Pamela Bucy Pierson provides practical tips and advice on how lawyers should treat themselves as a business. The book focuses on the changing economics of the legal marketplace, 20 financial decisions most lawyers make, the importance of emotional…