Professor Joyce Vance was featured on NPR to discuss the verdict in the case of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who was pronounced guilty by a jury on all three charges — second and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. You can listen to her interview here.
Professor Susan Pace Hamill published her latest article on Canopy Forum titled “Religiously Based Ethical Arguments Favoring Estate Taxes.” The full piece can be viewed here.
Over the past few years, gig workers-individuals who provide services to customers of companies such as Uber, Door Dash and Instacart-have been making headlines as law makers, corporations and workers have tried to navigate the complexities that the gig economy has presented. In 2019, California’s state legislature passed a law, AB 5, effectively granting gig…
CAFE and Vox Media announced that Professor Joyce Vance has joined the CAFE Insider podcast as a co-host with Preet Bharara. Professor Vance previously served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, and she is now a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, a frequent contributor for NBC…
The University of Alabama School of Law boasts seven different legal clinics in which students, under the supervision of a practicing attorney, gain hands-on experience by providing free legal assistance to low-income individuals, business startups, and non-profit organizations. These clinics focus on a variety of substantive areas and cases such as civil litigation, entrepreneurship, criminal defense, children’s…
March 25th marked the 90-year anniversary of the arrest of nine black teenagers who were unjustly convicted for the rape of two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama. In memoriam of this landmark case, several student organizations from the University of Alabama School of Law hosted a week of events beginning on March 23rd. Blacks…
Professor Allyson Gold published a piece titled “How Eviction Courts Stack The Deck Against Tenants” in The Appeal. The article provides an overview of the eviction process and points out the inequalities within the process that have led to an eviction crisis. Read the full article here.
Every year, The University of Alabama School of Law awards one fortunate student the Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Endowed Scholarship. Tyler Smoot, an Alabama Law 3L student, has been the recipient of this scholarship for the past two years, and he credits the financial support of this endowment for enabling him to earn his law…
On Friday, April 9, The White House announced that Alabama Law’s Charles E. Tweedy, Jr., Endowed Chairholder of Law and Director of the Program in Constitutional Studies, Tara Leigh Grove, has been selected as a Commissioner for the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States—which was formed by an executive order issued…
Professor Jenny Carroll explains the two main types of sedition for an article published in The Guardian. You can read the full article titled “Why aren’t we calling the Capitol attack an act of treason?” here.