Year 2017

Professor Joyce Vance comments on the FBI’s Trump Investigation on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Watch until the end for the shout out to the University of Alabama School of Law.

Professor Paul Horwitz is quoted in U.S. News & World Report about whether U.S. senators are free to vote against anyone nominated for a governmental agency for religious reasons. For more, read “Experts: Bernie Sanders Can Vote Against Nominee Based on Christian Beliefs.” 

Alabama Law student Gonzalo E. Rodriguez recently won the Ninth Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. His essay, “Protecting Inland Waterways, from the Institutes of Gaius to Magna Carta,” was chosen as the winner of the contest sponsored by the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law…

Professor Fredrick Vars writes an op-ed for Al.com about an argument that could save lives in capital cases. For more, read “The Overlooked Argument That Could Save a Death Row Inmate’s Life.”

News Law School Confers 129 Juris Doctor Degrees; Debbie Long Delivers Commencement Address Attorney Debbie Long advised The University of Alabama School of Law graduates they must have a practical tool in their toolbox: common sense. “When you are trying to solve a problem, common sense tells us to respect the people involved, even if…

The University of Alabama School of Law announces the retirement of three longtime faculty members: Professor James Bryce, Vice Dean Jamie Leonard and Professor Pamela Bucy Pierson. Bryce retires after 39 years of service, having joined the faculty in 1978. He has taught hundreds of students  a variety of tax courses, dealing with federal, state…

The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal have announced the finalists for the 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The three books chosen to compete for the prize are: “Gone Again” by James Grippando, “Small Great Things” by Jodi Picoult and “The Last Days of Night” by Graham Moore. “The…

Mary Lauren Kulovitz, a new Alabama Law graduate, is going home again. After she passes the Alabama State Bar exam, she will be a trial attorney at Wooten, Thornton, Carpenter, O’Brien, Lazenby & Lawrence, a firm in Talladega, where she was born and raised. Talladega has roughly 15,700 residents. It’s a place where residents who…

Attorney Debbie Long advised The University of Alabama School of Law’s graduates that they must have a practical tool in their toolbox: common sense. “When you are trying to solve a problem, common sense tells us to respect the people involved, even if we disagree with them,” said Long, Executive Vice President, Secretary and Chief…

The Alabama State Bar on Friday inducted two alumni of The University of Alabama School of Law into the Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame. “The attorneys inducted into the Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame today spent their lives dedicated to improving the lives of others and the legal profession,” said Alabama State Bar President J.…