Year 2024

On November 7-8, Alabama Law hosted this year’s Southeastern Junior-Senior Workshop, organized by the Director of Faculty Research, Professor Shalini Ray. The annual workshop brings together junior and senior scholars from law schools across the Southeast, offering junior scholars a unique platform to present their work, receive formal comments from senior scholars, and benefit from constructive feedback. Participants this year hailed from the…

October 2024 3L Kyle Wise Leads Apache Helicopter Flyover for Football Game Against South Carolina On Saturday, Oct. 12, Kyle Wise, Alabama Law 3L and Alabama Military Law Society President, led his company in a four AH-64 Apache helicopter flyover for the Alabama vs. South Carolina football game. Though alumni from Alabama’s ROTC program are often…

NASA Attorney Dawn Oliver Served Under U.S. Executive Office of the President  Montgomery native and Alabama Law alumna, Dawn L. Oliver (Class of 2000) — assistant chief counsel for commercial partnerships at NASA — recently completed her time as a fellow in the 2024 White House Leadership Development Program in Washington, D.C. The year-long program,…

This semester, The University of Alabama School of Law welcomed seven new faculty members to its community. Read about each of them below. Joel Nichols, Vice Dean and Professor of Law Prior to joining Alabama Law, Nichols served as interim dean of University of St. Thomas School of Law (MN) from 2022-2024 after serving as…

This past weekend, Professor Daiquiri Steele won the Michael J. Zimmer Award at the Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law, held in San Diego. Named in honor of the late Michael Zimmer—a renowned expert on employment discrimination, labor, and constitutional law—the Zimmer Award honors, “a rising scholar who values workplace justice and community,…

Professor Luke Herrine interviewed with several major news outlets regarding student debt relief. His commentary is highlighted in BusinessInsider, MarketWatch, and CNBC, along with several additional outlets.

Patty L. Nelson, the Continuing Legal Education Coordinator for the Law School, has received the Vergil Parks McKinley, Sr. Employee Award from The University of Alabama. She was nominated by Daniel Powell, Director of Continuing Legal Education and Associate Dean for Graduate Law Programs; Charles W. Gamble, Dean Emeritus and Henry Upson Sims Professor Emeritus…

Congratulations to our Dorbin Women’s Association on being the 2024 recipients of the NCWBA Public Service Award! Initiated in 1985, The Public Service Award is given annually to a women’s bar association to recognize a wide variety of of outstanding and unique public service projects. For more information about NCWBA’s awards, please click here.

Professor Montré Carodine was recently quoted in The New Republic article, Biden’s Most Underrated Feat Might Also Be His Most Enduring Legacy, which highlights the Biden Administration as the most diverse in history. In the article, Carodine discusses the unique challenges people of color face when making appointments, obstacles that Biden has not had to…

Article Originally Published in the June 2024 edition of the Alabama Association for Justice Journal In Fall 2021, University of Alabama School of Law Professor Anil Mujumdar and former Dean Mark Brandon began a discussion about finding a new way to increase awareness of and access to the legal profession for undergraduate students. A few…