Professor Susan Hamill was recently interviewed about the ethics of doctors choosing not to treat unvaccinated patients for a Huffpost article titled An Alabama Doctor Is Refusing To See Patients Unvaccinated Against COVID-19. Can He?
Professor William Brewbaker recently shared insights on HIPAA privacy laws with AL.com in an article titled There’s a crisis in Alabama hospitals. Here’s why you can’t see it.
Professor Jenny Carroll‘s paper, titled Beyond Bail, was recently published in the Florida Law Review.
Alabama Law is proud to announce that Professor Daiquiri Steele has rejoined the School of Law as an Assistant Professor. Her research examines whether and how anti-discrimination laws help ensure equal access to employment and education—both of which are crucial determinants of socioeconomic mobility.
Professor Steele originally joined The University of Alabama School of Law in 2016 through a hybrid administrative/faculty role as Director of Diversity & Inclusion and Assistant Professor of Law in Residence. From 2019-2021, she served as a Forrester Fellow at Tulane University Law School before rejoining the Alabama Law faculty. Professor Steele formerly served as a Civil Rights Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, where she provided legal counsel relating to federal investigations of discrimination involving the nation’s school districts, colleges, universities, and state educational agencies. Professor Steele’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, and Boston University Law Review and her recent projects focus on retaliation and whistleblower statutes.
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Alabama Law alum (’21) and Alabama Appleseed intern, Allen Slater, recently helped free a man— who was serving a life sentence for a crime that, nowadays, receives a much lesser penalty— after 27 years in Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County, Alabama. Read more about it on the Alabama Appleseed Webpage.
Oxford University Press recently released The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution, which is co-edited by Professors Russell Gold (Alabama Law), Ronald F. Wright (Wake Forest Law), and Kay L. Levine (Emory University School of Law). In addition to serving as co-editor, Professor Gold also authored a chapter in that volume and co-authored the introduction. Learn more about this newly released handbook on the Oxford University Press site.
Professor Joyce Vance recently coauthored an Opinion piece with Laurence H. Tribe (Harvard Law School) and Barbara McQuade (University of Michigan Law School) in The Washington Post. The article is titled Here’s a roadmap for the Justice Department to follow in investigating Trump which can be accessed on The Washington Post website.
On Monday, August 9, Dean Mark E. Brandon welcomed the Class of 2024 during the opening day of First-Year Orientation. In his speech, Brandon highlighted that the incoming class consists of 152 students—drawn from a pool of over 1,500 applicants. More than 50 percent of the 1Ls are women and just under 20 percent identify as members of a racial or ethnic minority. Members of this class have studied, lived, or worked in 43 countries outside of the United States, including those in Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, and they read or speak 12 different languages and dialects from around the world
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Emphasizing the diverse backgrounds, skills, and experiences of this new incoming class, Brandon challenged the students to “make your mark on the School of Law, [and] on your community, nation, and world” through the practice of law. “Today is the 1st day of your professional lives. And the way you approach Law School—the way you approach your studies, and the way you engage with one another—will form the foundation of your professional reputation for decades to come.”
Brandon also offered his vote of confidence and reassurance in all the students sitting in the room who may “feel overwhelmed or lost, or feel they just won’t make it.”
“If you’ve been admitted, we strongly believe that you have what it takes to succeed here,” said Brandon. “Talk to me, talk to your teachers and mentors, [and know] that we have additional resources to support you. . . There’s a future for you at the Law School. . . You belong. Don’t doubt it.”
Professor Joyce Vance authored an opinion piece for MSNBC titled Britney Spears finally won the right to pick her own lawyer. Here’s why that matters.
Professor Deepa Das Acevedo recently published “(Im)mutable Race?” in the Northwestern University Law Review Online. To learn more, download the full piece on SSRN.
