Professor Deepa Das Acevedo’s edited volume, Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, has been published by Cambridge University Press. In Beyond the Algorithm, Deepa Das Acevedo and a collection of scholars and experts show why government actors must go beyond mass surveys and data-scrubbing in order to truly understand the realities of…
News Justice Sotomayor Delivers 2020 Albritton Lecture The University of Alabama School of Law hosted Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the Albritton Lecture on Nov. 10. The Lecture, held virtually, was moderated by W. Harold Albritton, Senior District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle…
The University of Alabama School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic has been operating for more than 25 years. And despite changes in laws, changes in clinic directors, and even paradigm-shifting changes in technology, perhaps no change has been as big as the change brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The spring was difficult,” said Amy…
Alabama Law’s moot court team comprised of Joe Barnello, Ben Seiss, and Zach Starr, all 3Ls, gave an outstanding performance in November 2020 at the regional rounds for the New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition. The team wrote one of the top briefs and advanced from preliminary rounds as the tournament’s third seed.…
The University of Alabama School of Law hosted Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the Albritton Lecture on Nov. 10. The Lecture, held virtually, was moderated by W. Harold Albritton, Senior District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and Mark Brandon,…
News Professor Elliott Wins Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award Brilliant. Approachable. Great. Dedicated. Caring. When you ask Alabama Law students about Professor Heather Elliott, these are words you hear repeated often. When she received The University of Alabama’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award at the 2020 Virtual Campus Assembly on October 12, students as well…
During the October 2020 celebration of Pro Bono Month, the Alabama State Bar highlighted recipients of the Pro Bono Awards, including two members of the Alabama Law community. Susan Donovan, the director of the Mediation Law Clinic, won the Mediator Award, and Mindy Kidd, third-year student, won the Law Student Award. “Volunteer work led…
News Alabama Law Enrolls Three PLUS Participants in Class of 2023 When the University of Alabama School of Law welcomed the Class of 2023, three of the students had already walked the halls of the building as members of the inaugural class of the Alabama Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program (PLUS). In 2018, Layne Lightfoot, Roxana…
Professor Fred Vars, along with Ian Ayres, published an essay in The Wall Street Journal about a proposal that would allow individuals at risk of suicide to voluntarily place their name on a gun registry. For more, read “Suicide Accounts for Most Gun Deaths. A Libertarian Approach Could Help.”
Professor Tara Leigh Grove served as a guest on Bloomberg TV‘s “Balance of Power” and discussed the potential effect Judge Amy Coney Barrett could have on the U.S. Supreme Court. For more, watch “Balance of Power.”