Year: 2026
How Alabama Told the Story of 9/11: A Front-Page Archive at the Bounds Law Library
Held in the library’s John C. Payne Special Collections, the September 11, 2001, Memorial Newspaper Collection preserves how Alabama’s own newspapers reported the attacks in the days that followed. Read together 25 years later, the papers trace a single terrible day as it reached the state, from the first bulletins to a place trying to…
August 2026 Alumni Newsletter
Welcome back to Alabama Law! Dean Brewbaker and the rest of the Alabama Law team are excited to welcome back our students, faculty, and staff for another wonderful year here at Alabama Law. Roll Tide! Alabama Law is proud to welcome the Class of 2029 into the Law School Community. Drawn from a competitive pool…
McCurley and Silver Inducted into the Alabama Lawyer Hall of Honor
In July, the Law School hosted receptions in Mobile and Point Clear to honor Robert L. “Bob” McCurley Jr. (’66) and Irving Silver (’65) as 2026 inductees into the Alabama Lawyer Hall of Honor. Established in 2020 by the Law School Foundation Board of Governors, the Alabama Lawyer Hall of Honor recognizes the outstanding achievements of Alabama Law alumni…
Alabama Law Celebrates Its Staff
The people who keep The University of Alabama School of Law running took center stage this summer — and they deserved it. Across two celebrations, the school recognized long-serving staff, presented the Distinguished Staff Service Award, and marked the retirement of a colleague whose tenure spans more than half a century. At a staff social…
Professor Grant Christensen Publishes on Tribal Sovereignty and State Tax in the Yale Law Journal Forum
The University of Alabama School of Law’s Professor Grant Christensen, a nationally recognized expert in federal Indian law, has published a new essay in the Yale Law Journal Forum, the online publication of the Yale Law Journal. In “State Tax Exemptions for Tribal Cultural Property,” 136 Yale L.J.F. 1 (2026), Christensen and co-author Andrew Appleby…
Finch Fellowship Initiative Prepares Future Lawyers to Serve Rural Alabama
This summer, six University of Alabama School of Law students spent their days in rural courtrooms in Scottsboro, Fayette, Union Springs, and Ozark, working alongside the judges and attorneys who serve rural Alabama, where one lawyer may cover the full sweep of a community’s legal work. That is the purpose of the Finch Fellowship Initiative….
Former Appellate Judge Scott Donaldson Joins Alabama Law to Lead Graduate Law and CLE Programs
The University of Alabama School of Law welcomes Scott Donaldson as Executive Director for Graduate Law and CLE Programs and Assistant Professor of Law in Residence. Donaldson, who joined June 1, 2026, leads the school’s continuing legal education and graduate law programs. Donaldson served 18 years on the Alabama bench, as a circuit judge from…
Hinton, Davis & Liles Honored by Alabama Law Alumni Society
In May, the Law School hosted a reception in Birmingham, to honor Paula W. Hinton (‘79) as the 2026 Sam W. Pipes Distinguished Alumna Award recipient. This award is the highest honor presented by the Law School Foundation to an outstanding alumnus/a of The University of Alabama School of Law who has distinguished themselves through…
May 2026 Alumni News
Sign Up to Mentor a 1L! The Law School’s Comprehensive Advising Program (CAP) ensures that our incoming students feel connected and supported throughout their time in law school. Through CAP, our 1L students are assigned four mentors — a faculty advisor, a student mentor, an alumni mentor, and a Career Services counselor — each playing…
Professor Ben McMichael’s Healthcare Research Cited in The Wall Street Journal
Professor Ben McMichael’s research on the impact of medical scope-of-practice laws on healthcare access was cited in the Wall Street Journal article, Nurse Practitioner Is Now the Hottest Job in Healthcare. In 2023, Professor McMichael published Supply-side health policy: The impact of scope-of-practice laws on mortality in the Journal of Public Economics. Based on an…