Year 2018

Professor Richard Delgado participated in an online roundtable discussion of a provocative new essay “Can Free Speech Be Progressive?” by Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown University Law Center. First Amendment Watch invited five leading First Amendment scholars to write commentaries on Seidman’s forthcoming essay, which will be published in a future issue of Columbia Law…

Professor Julie Hill is quoted by the Associated Press in a story about a proposed U.S. banking fix for marijuana. For more, read “Proposed U.S. Banking Fix for Marijuana May Not Open All Doors.”  

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Annemarie Carney Axon (’99) to serve as a district court judge for the Northern District of Alabama. Axon, an attorney for Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, LLC, was nominated in 2017 by President Donald Trump.

Professor Joyce White Vance was among 14 lawyers and legal scholars who rebutted a memo that says President Donald Trump could not have obstructed the federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia. For more, read “Law Professors Torch Trump Legal Memo.”

The University of Alabama School of Law welcomed the inaugural class of the Alabama LSAC Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program to the rigors of legal education this week. The program, funded by a $300,000 grant from the Law School Admission Council, aims to help prepare students for the law school admission process, success in law school,…

Professor Jenny Carroll is quoted in The Montgomery Advertiser about Alabama courts of civil and criminal appeals. For more, read “Primary Primer: Alabama Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals.”

The lead article for the next edition of The Alabama Law Review (Volume 70) has garnered national media attention due to the article’s connection to current events involving renewed tensions between the White House and the Department of Justice. The article, authored by Rebecca Roiphe, a law professor at New York Law School, and Bruce A. Green,…

News Alabama Law Confers 135 Juris Doctor degrees; Frank S. James (’78) Delivers Commencement Address Frank S. James (’78) congratulated The University of Alabama School of Law’s Class of 2018 for having a median a LSAT score of 163 and an overall grade-point average of 3.76. “I can say that I, and many of my…

The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal have named the finalists for the 2018 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. The three books chosen to compete for the prize are: “Exposed” by Lisa Scottoline, “Proof” by C.E. Tobisman and “Testimony” by Scott Turow. “The winnowing committee has chosen three great novels that you…

Frank S. James (’78) congratulated The University of Alabama School of Law’s Class of 2018 for having a median a LSAT score of 163 and an overall grade-point average of 3.76. “I can say that I, and many of my classmates, should be happy that we did not have to compete for a place in…