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Law School Hosts Middle School Students for Open House

  More than 100 Tuscaloosa middle school students recently visited the Law School. Students from Hillcrest, Eastwood and Collins-Riverside middle schools participated in the Law School’s first Middle School Open House, a program designed to introduce middle school students to law school. Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed the students and encouraged them to take courses…


Professor Gross Dispels the Myth that Law Students Can Close the Justice Gap

Professor John Gross argues in the Boston College Law Review that the idea that law students could close the existing justice gap overestimates the number of law students enrolled in the nation’s law schools and underestimates the volume of low-income Americans who need legal services. For more, read “Dispelling the Myth that Law Students Can Close…


Bruce Siegal Intellectual Property Moot Court Team Wins Award

UA Law students Alyssa Barksdale (‘17), William Logan (‘17 ), Buddy Rushing (‘17 ), and Carter Spires (‘17 ) competed Saturday in the Southern regional of the Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court Competition.  The Bruce Siegal Intellectual Property Moot Court Team faced 11 other teams from throughout the Southeast. The team had an outstanding…


Judge Patrick Higginbotham Receives 2017 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award

Congratulations to Judge Patrick Higginbotham (’61), the recipient of the 2017 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumnus Award. Higginbotham received the award at the Farrah Law Alumni Society Banquet Friday in Birmingham. The award is given to an outstanding alumnus of the University of Alabama School of Law who has distinguished himself or herself through service to the…


U.S. Senate Confirms Jeff Sessions (’73) as the 84th Attorney General of the United States

Jeff Sessions (’73) was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 8 to serve as the 84th Attorney General of the United States. Born in Selma, Alabama, Sessions received his Juris Doctor from The University of Alabama School of Law after completing his undergraduate education at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. He has represented Alabama…