Professor Heather Elliott recently received The University of Alabama’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award. See Prof. Elliott at the 10:40 mark. 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…
Professor Joyce White Vance, along with Jenny A. Durkan and Peter F. Neronha, writes an op-ed for USA Today about voting by mail. For more, read “Voting by Mail Protects Our Democracy and Our Families.”
Professor Fredrick Vars appears on WBRC and discusses his proposal to reduce gun suicides. He developed the proposal that would allow those at risk of suicide to voluntarily place their name on a registry, prohibiting gun stores from selling them a firearm. The proposal has been adopted in Virginia and Washington state. For more, read…
Professor Julie Hill is quoted by Law 360 about the potential effect the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett may have on the banking industry. For more, read “Barrett May Reinforce High Court Trends for Banking Industry.”
A new article in one of the nation’s most prestigious medical journals suggests that doctors and mental health professionals could use voluntary do-not-sell lists for firearms as a new tool in their suicide prevention toolkit. Professor Fredrick Vars, the Ira Drayton Pruitt, Sr. Professor of Law, developed the proposal, which would allow those at risk…
Professor Tara Leigh Grove discusses the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Bloomberg TV. For more, view “Supreme Court Appointments Process Is Ugly, Says Alabama Professor.”
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 Ramos, and Courtney Zotaj, all 1Ls, had learned in the classrooms,…
Victor Methos, the author of The Hallows, received the 2020 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction during a virtual ceremony at the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival. Methos and the members of the Selection Committee discussed The Hallows in relation to To Kill a Mockingbird. Dean Mark E. Brandon moderated the discussion. Ten years ago,…
Professor Joyce White Vance writes an op-ed for TIME magazine about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the legacy of her dissent in Shelby County v. Holder. For more, read “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lost Her Battle to Save Voting Rights. Here’s How We Can Take Up the Fight and Honor Her Legacy.”
Professor Tara Leigh Grove is quoted in Law 360 about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opinions. For more, read “RBG’s Biggest Opinions, From Civil Rights To Civil Procedure.”