Alabama Law Review

The Alabama Law Review, now approaching its sixty-second volume, is building on a rich tradition of scholarship aimed at exploring issues of national as well as local significance to scholars, legislators, jurists, and practitioners. In its early years, the Review published articles by such leading national figures as Justice Hugo Black, Judge Charles Clark of the United States Court of Appeals and Harry Jones of Columbia Law School, as well as then-emerging (now distinguished, senior) scholar Daniel J. Meador of the University of Virginia. Going back to the very first issue of the Alabama Law Review, published in 1948, the Review has taken progressive stances on the issues of race and civil liberties. In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, Alabama Professor Jay Murphy argued against the constitutionality of a legislative attempt to set up segregated schools. His advocacy led to the demise of the proposal. Murphy had previously argued — in “Free Speech and the Atom Bomb” — for expansive protection of civil liberties during Read more…