Norman Stein
Douglas Arant Professor of Law
205-348-1136 / 205-348-11
nstein@law.ua.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Labor Law
Employee Benefits
Tax Law
Gender And The Legal System
Business Organizations
Norman Stein
Professor Stein received his B.A. in 1973 from New College in Sarasota, Florida, and his J.D. in 1978 from Duke University, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter until 1980. From 1980 to 1981, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. After his clerkship, he practiced law in Atlanta. Professor Stein is a member of the advisory panel of the BNA Pension Reporter, has served as counsel to the American Association of Retired Persons in several pension cases, was a consultant to the General Accounting Office, taught in the IRS General Counsel's continuing education program, has testified before Congress on pension issues, and has been chair of the Employee Benefit Section of the Association of American Law Schools and the Teaching Employee Benefits Subcommittee of the American Bar Association. He has also been president of the University of Alabama Faculty Senate and is treasurer of the Society of American Law Teachers. Professor Stein has provided pro bono representation for indigent criminal defendants on death row. Professor Stein joined the faculty of the School of Law in 1984. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas during spring semester 1987, Indiana University (Bloomington) during the 1991 academic year, and the University of California at Davis during the 1996-97 and 1997-98 academic years. Professor Stein has taught Federal Taxation I and II; ERISA; Corporate Tax; Business Organizations; Labor Law; Gender and the Law; and seminars in tax policy, will drafting, law and literature, and law and the elderly. Professor Stein also has taught classes in deferred compensation and tax accounting in the LL.M. program.
