Professor Susan Pace Hamill was quoted in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article titled Homes in the shadows: Out-of-state LLCs often conceal ownership of Allegheny County’s dangerous and decaying homes. You can read the full piece here.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.– The University of Alabama School of Law is pleased to announce that Dean William S. Brewbaker III has appointed Professor Julie Hill as vice dean of the School of Law at the University of Alabama.
“I am honored and thrilled to serve as the vice dean of the University of Alabama School of Law,” said Hill. “This institution has a long-standing tradition of excellence, and I am excited to work alongside Dean Brewbaker and our esteemed faculty and staff to further enhance the law school’s reputation and support our talented students.”
Vice Dean Hill joined the University of Alabama School of Law in 2013—where she teaches in the areas of banking and commercial law. Previously, she served as a faculty member at the University of Houston Law Center, and she practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. There, as part of the litigation group, she represented large financial institutions under government investigation.
Vice Dean Hill is a nationally recognized expert on financial institution regulation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation, Boston University Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Washington University Law Review and other respected publications. She is also frequently featured as a source expert in top-tier media outlets such as NPR’s Marketplace, International Business Times, Bloomberg Law, NASDAQ.com, and American Banker.
“In addition to being an accomplished scholar and teacher, Vice Dean Hill brings exceptional leadership skills, organizational gifts, and experience to this role.” said Dean Brewbaker. “I greatly appreciate her willingness to serve the Law School in this capacity.”
Vice Dean Hill received her undergraduate degree in economics summa cum laude from Southern Utah University and earned her J.D. degree summa cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. There she served as managing editor of the Brigham Young University Law Review. Following Law School, Vice Dean Hill clerked for Judge Wade Brorby on the United State Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
This announcement falls just shortly after Dean Brewbaker began his role as dean of the University of Alabama School of Law earlier this week. Read more about his appointment to this position on the Law School’s website.
About The University of Alabama School of Law
For more than 150 years, UA School of Law has produced attorneys who become leaders locally, nationally and globally. Alabama Law provides a top-rate education that results in enviable bar passage and employment rates, all within a supportive and diverse environment. Its low student-to-faculty ratio paired with robust curricular offerings draws students to study under faculty who are skilled teachers as well as leading researchers and scholars.
For more information, please contact:
Josh Bird, Manager of Communications
The University of Alabama School of Law
205.348.5195 | jbird@law.ua.edu
Professor Luke Herrine presented his article, The New Consumer Protection, at the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum on June 29-30, 2023. Twelve-to-twenty junior law faculty (one-to-seven years of teaching) were selected to present at the Forum. The article discusses the shift in consumer protection practices – read the Abstract below:
We seem to be in the middle of a paradigm shift in consumer protection. Practices that have long been seen as problematic, such as add-on fees, drip pricing, and negative option marketing, are now, for the first time, the targets of coordinated action from multiple agencies. Newer business tactics that make use of Big Data—such as engagement maximization, price customization, and algorithmic discrimination—are close to being subject to new comprehensive regulatory regimes. Agencies have even begun to experiment with the use of consumer laws to protect small businesses and gig workers who have been exploited in part due to big businesses’ arbitrage of other regulatory regimes. Most importantly, policy analysis now focuses less on the need to “preserve choice” and to let the market “self correct” and more on substantive notions of quality and fairness against which business conduct is measured.
This Article describes this shift and attempts to nudge—no, shove—it forward. It argues that, whereas consumer protection was once guided by the value of “consumer sovereignty”, a growing appreciation for the limits of consumer choice and market competition has led bureaucrats and scholars to shift toward interpreting consumers interests and thinking pragmatically about how to shape regulation to further those interests. The Article provides a theoretical grounding for this shift, articulating a pluralist theory of consumer protection under the label “moral economy.”
The central legal focus of the Article is the statutory authority that has grounded much of the recent regulatory activity: the prohibition on “unfair acts or practices” shared by many federal and state agencies with consumer protection jurisdiction. The descriptive and normative arguments of this Article explain why it is now at the center of the action—and why that should be welcomed.
Click here to learn more about the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.– The University of Alabama School of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of William S. Brewbaker III as the new dean of the School of Law, effective today, July 10, 2023.
“It is a great privilege to lead an institution that is so important to the life of my home State, and that also happens to be a place where I have loved teaching and working for the past 30 years,” said Dean Brewbaker. “We have a strong Law School with skilled faculty and staff, dedicated University support, and outstanding alumni who have served and continue to serve as leaders in Alabama and throughout the nation. I want our Law School to continue to be a place where every single student can flourish and grow.”
About The University of Alabama School of Law
For more than 150 years, UA School of Law has produced attorneys who become leaders locally, nationally and globally. Alabama Law provides a top-rate education that results in enviable bar passage and employment rates, all within a supportive and diverse environment. Its low student-to-faculty ratio paired with robust curricular offerings draws students to study under faculty who are skilled teachers as well as leading researchers and scholars.
For more information, please contact:
Josh Bird, Manager of Communications
The University of Alabama School of Law
205.348.5195 | jbird@law.ua.edu
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In Axios, Professor Julie Hill commented on how the Federal Reserve treats cryptocurrency banks versus traditional banks. Click here to read more. |
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, University of North Carolina, et al. overturning the use of race-based affirmative action in admissions processes for public universities and private universities that accept federal funding, Professor Ronald Krotoszynski commented on the potential impact of this decision on the racial diversity of student populations for University World News. Read more here: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20230630173259631 |
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Last week, the Supreme Court issued an opinion overturning the use of race-based affirmative action in the college admissions process. Professor Bryan Fair commented on the impact that could have on the racial make-up of student populations. Read more here: https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/alabama-higher-education-official-says-scotus-ruling-on-affirmative-action-could-have-unexpected-impacts/ |
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Last week, the Supreme Court issued an opinion declaring President Biden’s proposed Student Loan Forgiveness Plan unconstitutional. Now, the White House is moving on to Plan B. Professor Luke Herrine commented on potential strategies for student loan forgiveness, specifically the use of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA)’s “compromise and settlement” authority. Click here to read the article from Vox.
Professor Herrine was also featured in two articles from MarketWatch. You can read them here and here.
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