Year: 2026
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…
Professor Fred Vars Publishes New Book on Peer-Led Mental Health Treatment
Professor Fred Vars, a leading expert on mental health law, has published his latest book, Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness are Empowering Each Other. Through the Fire focuses on successful, impactful peer-led mental health response programs that have already been implemented, and proposes a shift in thinking about mental health as a…
Professor Grant Christensen Publishes on Federal Indian Law in University of Chicago Law Review
Professor Grant Christensen, a nationally recognized expert in federal Indian Law, has published his newest essay, The Return to Autochthonous Law, in Vol. 93 of the University of Chicago Law Review. The piece is a review of Indigenous Governance by David Wilkins, but uses Wilkins’ text to make an original contribution to the field of federal Indian Law. A…
Alabama Law Celebrates the Class of 2026
On Sunday, May 3, The University of Alabama School of Law awarded 129 Juris Doctor degrees, with an additional two students receiving their Master of Business Administration, during the Class of 2026 commencement ceremony at Coleman Coliseum. Sav Miles delivered the valedictory address, and outgoing Student Bar Association President Madeline Martin offered a reflection for…
April 2026 Alumni News
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Meets with Alabama Law Students as Part of Albritton Lecture Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States was the featured speaker for the most recent Albritton Lecture at The University of Alabama School of Law. During her visit, Justice Sotomayor participated in a lunch with Alabama Law…
Professor Tu Publishes on Anticompetitive Mergers in The New England Journal of Medicine
Professor Sean Tu recently published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, with Jamie King, titled Anticompetitive Mergers — Pharmaceutical Buyouts as a Strategy for Maintaining Market Dominance. In the piece, Tu and King explore how some pharmaceutical mergers framed as engines of innovation are being used to quietly eliminate competition. By acquiring…
Alabama Law Remembers J. Mason Davis Jr.
J. Mason Davis Jr., civil rights leader and the first Black adjunct professor at The University of Alabama School of Law, has passed away at the age of 90. Mr. Davis graduated from Talladega College in 1956 and wanted to attend law school at UA. However, at that time, the State of Alabama provided “out-of-state…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Meets with Alabama Law Students as Part of Albritton Lecture
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States was the featured speaker for the most recent Albritton Lecture at The University of Alabama School of Law. During the visit, Justice Sotomayor participated in a lunch with Alabama Law student leaders and three separate Q&A sessions with first-year law students, the larger…
Alabama Law Ranks #7 Nationally in Federal Judicial Clerkship Placements
In annual law school rankings released today, US News and World Report ranked Alabama Law #7 among all US law schools — #2 among public institutions — for the percentage of graduates employed in federal judicial clerkships. This ranking comes on the heels of data recently reported to the ABA showing a 10-month employment rate of 98.6% for the Class…