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2024-25 FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP REPORT

1. Professor Clare Ryan walks down the front hallway of the Law School with Camryn Sandoval and Lawrence Perry. 2. Professor Shalini Bhargava Ray chats with Keyondra Harrison in the Alex W. Newton Courtyard at the Law School. 3. Professor Fred Vars smiles while talking with students at the Law School. 4. Professor Russell Gold places a hood on Malcolm Lowe during the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2025. 5. Professor Yonathan Arbel chats with Lucie Dierikx at a patio table in the Alex W. Newton Courtyard at the Law School.

MESSAGE from

THE DEAN I

'm pleased to introduce the six new faculty members who joined the Alabama Law community this year and also to highlight the remarkable scholarship our faculty is producing. Our professors are leading national research on some of the most pressing issues facing our legal system—from the impact of artificial intelligence to immigration enforcement and federal student loans. My new colleagues are building on a long history of academic achievement at our law school. Our faculty regularly publish with top academic presses, place articles in leading law reviews, are cited by state and federal courts, and provide expert commentary for national media. More importantly, their work is advancing the state of knowledge in their respective fields, calling attention to underappreciated challenges, and proposing solutions to complex problems.

In the last two years alone, we’ve hired 13 new professors who are doing research across a wide spectrum of issues in law, public policy, and legal theory. To give only a few examples, new Alabama Law faculty colleagues are exploring the ways U.S. law hampers access to affordable prescription drugs, proposing practical frameworks for addressing injustices associated with mass incarceration, and working to correct critical misunderstandings of the mechanisms that ensure students with disabilities receive appropriate services.

Our faculty’s commitment to rigorous inquiry makes them better educators and mentors, preparing our students to shape the future of the legal profession. This year, eight of our students presented oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and our graduates continue to be selected for federal judicial clerkships in impressive numbers. It’s no surprise that The Princeton Review recently ranked Alabama Law #8 among the best law schools for federal clerkships—#3 among public institutions. It is my privilege to support the great work of this community of scholars as they continue to advance the law and inspire its next generation of leaders. All my best,

William S. Brewbaker III Dean and Professor of Law The University of Alabama School of Law The University of Alabama and the School of Law adhere to a policy of institutional neutrality with respect to political and social issues. The University and the School of Law are committed to complying with the law and protecting the academic freedom of faculty in their teaching, research, and service. These commitments should not be construed as an endorsement by the University or the School of Law of any particular statement, activity, or opinion of its faculty.

NEW FACULTY at ALABAMA LAW S. SEAN TU Professor of Law

ean Tu is a nationally recognized expert on patent law and drug law. A prolific scholar with over fifty publications, his work has appeared in top medical and law journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Nature Biotechnology, and Stanford Technology Law Review. He has also co-authored several amicus briefs—one of which was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court—and casebooks on biotechnology law and intellectual property law.

Professor Tu is affiliated with both Harvard Medical School’s Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) and Georgetown University Law Center's O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. From 2021-22, he was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. Prior to his tenure as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at West Virginia University College of Law, Professor Tu was an associate at Foley & Lardner LLP, where he prosecuted pharmaceutical patents. Professor Tu holds degrees in chemistry and microbiology from the University of Florida, his JD from the University of Chicago, and his doctorate in pharmacology from Cornell University. He has also worked as an expert witness in patent law cases and helped start companies focused on patent prosecution analytics and cancer cell biology.

TOMER S. STEIN Associate Professor of Law

omer Stein focuses his teaching and scholarship on corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, and corporate finance. Prior to joining the faculty at Alabama Law, Professor Stein was an assistant professor and Wilkinson Research Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and a research fellow in the Neel Corporate Governance Center at the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business. His publications have appeared in leading law journals, including Columbia Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Georgia Law Review, among others.

Professor Stein previously practiced corporate law at the New York office of Latham & Watkins, where he focused on capital markets, general securities, and corporate governance. He has served as a legal consultant and expert witness in contract, corporate, and other business law matters, including to the capital markets arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, and is a member of the executive committee of the Business Associations Section of AALS. He previously served as a foreign law clerk to Justice Isaac Amit of the Supreme Court of Israel. Professor Stein earned his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his JD from the University of Texas, and is a member of the bar in the State of New York.

JENNIFER MART-RICE Associate Dean of Legal Information Services Associate Professor of Law in Residence

ennifer Mart-Rice serves as the Associate Dean of Legal Information Services and an Associate Professor of Law in Residence. She is responsible for directing and leading the Bounds Law Library, teaching advanced legal research courses, and coordinating with the legal writing faculty to teach legal research to first-year law students. She speaks and writes regularly on leadership and organization, legal research pedagogy, library collections, and the intersection of law and technology.

Prior to joining Alabama Law, Dean Mart-Rice was the Associate Director at the University of Iowa Law Library, the Head of Collection Services at Washington & Lee University School of Law, and an assistant director and assistant professor at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law. She earned her BA degrees from Indiana University-Bloomington, MS in Library Science from the University of Kentucky, JD from Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, and previously practiced law in Indiana.

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GRANT T. CHRISTENSEN Associate Professor of Law

rant Christensen is a nationally recognized expert on Federal Indian Law whose research explores the intersection between Federal Indian Law and civil procedure, federal courts, and conflict of laws. He has served as a tribal appellate judge for the Standing Rock Sioux and Fort Peck and Assiniboine Sioux Tribes, co-chaired the ABA Business Law Section’s Tribal Litigation Subcommittee, and is a peer reviewer for American Indian Law Review.

Professor Christensen has co-authored two textbooks on Federal Indian Law and recently published articles in Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and University of Chicago Law Review, among others. His scholarship is frequently cited by courts and practitioners and has been included in major Indian Law treatises.

Prior to joining the faculty at Alabama Law, Professor Christensen was an associate professor at Stetson University College of Law, a professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law, and a visiting professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. In 2011, he spent a year in Vilnius, Lithuania, as a Fulbright Scholar and continues to be a Foreign Scholar Partner at Vilnius University Faculty of Law. Professor Christensen earned his BA from the University of Richmond, his JD from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, his LL.M in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy from the University of Arizona, and is a member of the bar in Minnesota.

JEFFREY R. BAKER

Associate Dean of Experiential Learning Clinical Professor of Law

eff Baker is the Law School’s first Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and a Clinical Professor of Law. He directs the Law School’s seven clinics and helps lead other programs of experiential education across the curriculum. His scholarship focuses on issues of human rights and dignity, social justice, legal education, and ethics at the intersections of law, theology, jurisprudence, and public policy. Dean Baker most recently served as the Associate Dean of Clinical Education and Global Programs at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and previously directed the clinical programs at Faulkner University Jones School of Law. Following his graduation from Vanderbilt University Law School, he returned to his home state of Mississippi, where he had a diverse trial and appellate practice in complex litigation. Outside of teaching, Dean Baker is an editor for the Clinical Law Prof Blog and is involved with the Clinical Legal Education Association and the AALS Clinical Legal Education Section. He has served as director and counsel for several nonprofits devoted to human rights, social justice, and community development and is active in church service and leadership. This past year, he was named a 2025-26 Fellow of the Fred D. Gray Institute for Civil and Human Rights. Dean Baker is a member of the Alabama, Mississippi, and California bar associations.

ANNE MILES GOLSON Assistant Professor of Legal Writing

nne Miles Golson is the Law School’s newest member of the legal writing faculty. Prior to joining Alabama Law, Professor Golson practiced healthcare law and appellate litigation for a national, full-service law firm in Birmingham, Alabama. She has argued cases before various judicial and administrative bodies, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Provider Reimbursement Review Board, and Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals. She also maintained an active pro bono practice, representing several incarcerated individuals in both state and federal post-conviction appeals. Before entering private practice, Professor Golson clerked for Hon. Andrew L. Brasher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Professor Golson graduated summa cum laude from Alabama Law in 2020, where she was a member of the national championship-winning New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition team and was named overall best advocate at the competition. She also served as a junior editor for Alabama Law Review and was inducted into Order of the Barristers, Order of the Coif, and Bench & Bar Legal Honor Society.

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FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP CASSANDRA W. ADAMS Assistant Dean of Public Interest Law Assistant Professor of Law in Residence

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Lawyers are Set Apart for Leadership: Ethical and Professional Responsibilities During Unprecedented Times, Alabama State Bar Annual Meeting (2025) (with Jeff Baker). Leading in High Heels: Tips on Professional and Personal Growth for Women, Alabama State Bar & Birmingham Bar Association Women’s Sections (2025) (with Hon. Martha Reeves Cook).

The Basics Still Matter, Historic Bethel Baptist Church of Collegeville (2025).

Facilitator, Small Group Discussion, Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights Inaugural Symposium (2025). Panelist, Restorative Justice Practices in Hate Crimes: A Wholistic Approach to Addressing Crimes, Inaugural Hate Crimes Grantee Conference, U.S. Department of Justice & Bureau of Justice Assistance (2024). Conflict Resolution Workshop, Junior League of Birmingham (2024) (with Hon. Martha Reeves Cook).

Rotaract Club Luncheon, Rotaract Club of Birmingham (2024) (with Hon. Martha Reeves Cook).

SELECTED HONORS

Chair, Fred Gray Courtyard Committee, Alabama State Bar (2025). Michael D. Ermert Award of Merit, Alabama State Bar (2024).

YONATHAN A. ARBEL

William Alfred Rose Professor of Law Director, Artificial Intelligence Legal Studies Initiative Artificial Intelligence | Commercial Law | Contracts | Law & Economics | Torts

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

How Smart are Smart Readers? LLMs and the Future of the No-Reading Problem, in The Cambridge Handbook on Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology (Stacy-Ann Elvy & Nancy S. Kim eds., Cambridge University Press 2025) (with Samuel Becher). Time and Contract Interpretation: Lessons from Machine Learning, in Research Handbook on Law and Time (Frank Fagan & Saul Levmore eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Governing Generative AI Beyond the Grave, Fla. St. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) (with Alberto Lopez).

Racing to Safety: Tax Policy for AI Governance, 79 SMU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (with Mirit Eyal). Judicial Economy in the Age of AI, 96 U. Colo. L. Rev. (2025).

The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. (2024).

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Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. (2024) (with Albert Lin & Matthew Tokson). Generative Interpretation, 99 NYU L. Rev. (2024) (with David A. Hoffman).

SELECTED ESSAYS The False Choice in the Debate Over Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Lawfare (2024) (with Albert Lin & Matthew Tokson). The Promises and Perils of Open-Source AI, Lawfare Daily (2024) (with Kevin Frazier & Chinmayi Sharma).

Open Questions in Law and AI Safety: An Emerging Research Agenda, Lawfare (2024) (with Ryan Copus, Kevin Frazier, Noam Kolt, Alan Z. Rezenshtein, Peter N. Salib, Chinmayi Sharma & Matthew Tokson). SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES ChatGPT Will Come for Partners' Work in Contract Law, Says Prof., Bloomberg Law (2024). Is Progress on Generative AI Too Fast or Too Slow?, Broadband Breakfast (2024).

JEFFREY R. BAKER

Associate Dean of Experiential Learning Clinical Professor of Law

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Legal Foundations for the Business of Incarceration, in The Business of Incarceration: Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Prison-Industrial Complex ( Justin Bronson Barringer, Sarah Farmer & James McCarty eds., Cascade 2025).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Christian Realism and the Sins of Mass Incarceration, 2 Ga. Crim. L. Rev. (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Lawyers are Set Apart for Leadership: Ethical and Professional Responsibilities During Unprecedented Times, Alabama State Bar Annual Meeting (2025) (with Cassandra Adams).

Opportunities to Strengthen and Expand Clinical Programs Under New and Emerging ABA Standards, Clinical and Experiential Law Program Directors Workshop, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education (2025) (with Julie Dahlstrom, Nakia C. Davis, Tameka Lester & Sarah Wolking). Organizer, Moderator & Section Leader, Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights Inaugural Symposium (2025) (with Dr. David Fleer & Jonathan Entin). FEMA: Individuals & Household Programs, Disaster Relief Clinic, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law (2025).

Attorney Training for Pro Bono FEMA & Insurance Practice, Disaster Relief Clinic, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law (2025). National Disaster Response Training Workshop for Law School Clinics (2024) (with Davida Finger).

Clinical Professors in Law School Leadership, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education (2024) (with Carmia N. Caesar, Nakia C. Davis, Jill Engle, Hemanth C. Gundavaram, Laurie Kohn, Tameka E. Lester, Jenny Roberts & Emily Suski).

Where Do I Go from Here: The Path of a Clinical Professor, Arc of Career Program, AALS Annual Meeting (2024) (with Sameer Ashar, Patty Roberts, Crystal Shin & Julie Waterstone). Respondent, Discussing Polarizing Topics in a Polarizing Time, AALS Annual Meeting (2024). Mapping and Normative Analysis of International Guidelines for Combating Human Trafficking and Protecting Victims, The Justice Movement (2024) (with Cátedra da OEA, Mackenzie Presbyterian University & Public Actions Group at Universidad del Rosario).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

As Los Angeles Deals with Wildfires, Law Schools Offer Support, ABA Journal (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Freedoms of Speech and Their Discontents, Forum on Free Speech and Media Law, Ludovika University of Public Service (2024). Rights to Privacy in an Ossified Constitution, Forum on Privacy and Governmental Transparency, University of Luxembourg (2024).

Freedoms of Speech and Their Discontents, Comparative Law Workshop Series, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Member, American Law Institute.

Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Life Fellow, Alabama Bar Foundation.

Advisory Board Member, Blackburn Foundation.

MONTRÉ CARODINE

Faith and the Law with Professor Jeff Baker, Race Matters (2024) (with Edward Carson).

Professor of Law

SELECTED HONORS

Critical Race Feminism | Critical Race Theory | International Litigation | Law & Popular Culture | Race & the Law

Fellow, Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights (2025-26). Stephen J. Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award, AALS Clinical Legal Education Section (2025).

Faculty Award, The Belonging Awards, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law (2025).

KIMBERLY K. BOONE

Professor of Legal Writing Director, Legal Writing & Moot Court Programs 2L Moot Court | Coach, Civil Rights & Liberties Moot Court Team and New York City Bar Association National Moot Court Team | Legal Writing | Moot Court Board Advisor

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Birmingham Breakfast Briefing: Ethics & AI Update, CLE Presentation (2024). You Better 'Think': Getting Students to Think Independently, Act Professionally, and See the Pervasive Role Both Play in Effective Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University McKinney School of Law (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Alumni Achievement Award in Education, Huntingdon College (2025).

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Race is Evidence/Evidence is Race: Flipping the Script on the 'Racial Lens', in Critical Evidence (Cambridge University Press 2025). Trial by Fire: Teaching Race and Evidence in a Hostile Environment, in Integrating Doctrine and Diversity in the Law School Classroom: Beyond the First Year (Carolina University Press 2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Race as Evidence/Evidence as Race, Prior Conviction Impeachment and Race Panel (2024). Race as Evidence/Evidence as Race, Constance Baker Motley Speaker Series on Racial Inequality, Connecticut Bar Association (2024). Critical Approaches to Pedagogy and Practice, Evidence Through a Critical Lens, Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. Symposium (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Alabama Law on Helping Disabled Voters Highlights the Challenges They Face, Alabama Public Radio (2025). Biden’s Most Underrated Feat Might Also Be His Most Enduring Legacy, New Republic (2024).

MARK E. BRANDON

GRANT T. CHRISTENSEN

Thomas E. McMillan Professor of Law Academic Director, Shelby Institute for Policy and Leadership

BOOKS

Constitutional Law | Constitutional History & Theory | Law & Politics | Legal Philosophy

States of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order (University Press of Kansas 2013).

Associate Professor of Law

BOOKS

Civil Procedure | Conflict of Laws | Federal Courts | Federal Indian Law | Tribal Law

Introduction to American Indian Studies: Policies, Histories, and Contemporary Issues (Kendall Hunt 2021) (with Sebastian Braun & Birgit Hans). Reading American Indian Law: Foundational Principles (Cambridge University Press 2020) (with Melissa Tatum).

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Return to Autochthonous Law, U. Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026). Tribal Judicial Power, S. Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).

The Lone Dissent, Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (with Anne Mullins).

The Right to Protest in Indian Country, 125 Colum. L. Rev. (2025). Article IV and Indian Tribes, 110 Iowa L. Rev. (2025).

Tribal Courts are Courts of General Jurisdiction, 77 Fla. L. Rev. (2025). Article III and Indian Tribes, 108 Minn. L. Rev. (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Tribal Court Judgments, 2nd Annual Conflict of Laws Workshop, University of Oklahoma College of Law (2025). Tribal Court Judgments, 10th Annual Civil Procedure Workshop, University of Richmond School of Law (2025).

The Right to Protest in Indian Country, Colum. L. Rev. Symposium (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Co-Chair, Tribal Litigation Subcommittee, ABA Business Law Section.

BETH BYRNE CRUTCHFIELD Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Interim Director, Domestic Violence Clinic

Clinical Legal Education | Domestic Violence Law Clinic Seminar

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dodging a Stray Bullet: Can a Permanent PFA Survive a Rahimi/ SCOTUS Analysis? (forthcoming).

HEATHER ELLIOTT John J. Sparkman Chairholder of Law

BOOKS

Alabama Water Law & Policy: A Comparative Treatise (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming 2026).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

An Improved 21st Century Judicial System with Environmental Science Expertise is Needed for Resolving Interstate Water Conflicts, Am. Chem. Soc’y Env’t Sci. & Tech. Water (2024) (with Prabhakar Clement & Nimisha Wasankar).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Markets as Regulatory Alternatives: Challenges in Creating Markets for the Priceless and the Unpriced, Symposium on Environmental Regulatory Alternatives in a Diminished Administrative State, Land Use & Natural Resources Center, Samford University Cumberland School of Law (2025). Alabama Civil Procedure, Alabama Probate Judges Association Orientation and Winter Conference (2025).

Academic Freedom and Divisive Concepts Laws, Justice William O. Douglas Colloquium, Whitman College (2024).

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Managing Service as a Junior Faculty Member, Junior Faculty Development Workshop, Society of American Law Teachers-LatCritClassCrits, Boston University School of Law (2024). Whither Chevron?, Southeast Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Citi Hit by New Fed Rebuke, Setbacks on Consent Orders, Reuters (2024). Abortion Pill Case Highlights Supreme Court Flip on Who Can Sue, Bloomberg Law (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Member, Board of Governors, Society of American Law Teachers. Member, Board of Directors, Black Warrior Riverkeeper. House of Representatives, AALS.

STEVE EMENS Clinical Professor of Law

Evidence | Jury Selection | Jury Voir Dire | Trial Advocacy

SELECTED HONORS

Member, Alabama Evidence Rules Committee.

Member, Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions Committee.

MIRIT EYAL

Joseph D. Peeler Professor of Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Racing to Safety: Tax Policy for AI Governance, 79 SMU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (with Yonathan Arbel). Taxing Investment Crowdfunding, 21 Co. Tech. L.J. (2024).

SELECTED COMMENTARIES

A review of Theories of University Endowment Taxation by Lauren Libby, 103 Wash. U. L. Rev., TaxProf Blog (2025).

A review of Global Tax Wars in the Digital Era by Assaf Harpaz, 103 Am. U. L. Rev., TaxProf Blog (2025).

A review of The Intellectual Origins of the Modern International Tax Regime: Edwin R.A. Seligman, Economic Allegiance, and the League of Nations’ 1923 Report by Ajay K. Mehrotra, TaxProf Blog (2025). A review of A Roadmap to NIL and Taxation by Doron Narotzki & Yariv Brauner, TaxProf Blog (2024).

A review of An APA for Tax by David A. Weisbach, TaxProf Blog (2024).

A review of Wealth Taxes Under the Constitution: An Originalist Analysis by David M. Schizer & Steven G. Calabresi, TaxProf Blog (2024). A review of Efficiency vs. Welfare in Benefit-Cost Analysis: The Case of Government Funding by Zachary D. Liscow & Cass R. Sunstein, TaxProf Blog (2024).

A review of Taxing People, Not Residents by Yariv Brauner, TaxProf Blog (2024).

A review of Phaseouts by Daniel J. Hemel, TaxProf Blog (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Tax Levers for AI Safety, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (2025).

KARA DEAL GAMBLE Assistant Professor of Legal Writing

Tax Levers for AI Safety, Tax Policy Colloquium, Hebrew University Faculty of Law (2025).

Law & Entrepreneurship, Faculty Workshop, University of Tennessee College of Law (2024). Promoting Vaccine Innovation, Faculty Workshop, William & Mary Law School (2024). Panelist, Tax Complexity, 117th National Tax Association Annual Conference (2024). Mapping the AI Landscape, Law & Entrepreneurship Association Annual Meeting (2024).

BOOKS

Associate Editor, Age Discrimination in Employment Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA 2019).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Replacing Fear with Curiosity: Utilizing AI in Problem Creation, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University McKinney School of Law (2024).

Taxing Electronic Agency, 8th Annual International Tax Roundtable, Netanya Academic College Law School (2024).

RUSSELL M. GOLD

Frank M. Bainbridge-Walter L. Mims Professor of Law

Mapping the AI Landscape, Law & Entrepreneurship Association Annual Meeting, University of California San Francisco School of Law (2024). Taxation of Artificial Entrepreneurs, Faculty Colloquium, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

Mapping the AI Landscape, Tax Policy Colloquium, Hebrew University Faculty of Law (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Editor, SSRN Weekly Roundup, Tax Prof Blog.

Co-Organizer, CRN 31: Taxation, Law & Society Association. Board Member, Alabama Federal Tax Clinic.

BRYAN K. FAIR

Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law University Distinguished Teaching Professor Advanced Due Process | Advanced Equal Protection | Constitutional Law | First Amendment Law | U.S. Races and the Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Preparing for a Career in Law in the 21st Century (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Courage Under Fire: Celebrating the Remarkable Career and Legacy of Fred Gray, Inaugural Symposium, Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights (2025). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast, The Links, Inc. Selma Chapter (2024).

Alabama Lawyers Association Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Ala. (2024). Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: Contemporary Legal Perspectives, Washington College (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Interim Director, Southern Poverty Law Center. Member, American Law Institute.

Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Alabama.

Fellow, Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights (2025-26).

Member, Commencement Hooding Team, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

Consumer Protection Litigation | Employment Litigation

BOOKS

Civil Procedure | Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Faculty Advisor, Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review

The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution (Oxford University Press 2021) (with Kay L. Levine & Ronald F. Wright) (edited volume).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Look What You Made Me Do, 82 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) The Price of Criminal Law, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Criminal Legislative Exceptionalism, CrimFest, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2025).

Criminal Legislative Exceptionalism, Crim Works-in-Progress Workshop (2025).

Look What You Made Me Do, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (2025). Look What You Made Me Do, Markelloquium Criminal Theory Colloquium (2025).

Criminal Legislative Exceptionalism, Democracy Works-in-Progress Conference (2025).

Look What You Made Me Do, Faculty Workshop, University of Kansas School of Law (2025). Look What You Made Me Do, Faculty Colloquium Series, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

Students for Fair Admissions a Year Later, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024).

Becoming a Productive and Fulfilled Scholar, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024).

Navigating the Hiring Market, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024). Look What You Made Me Do, CrimFest, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Alabama Bill Would Give Law Enforcement Additional Protection from Lawsuits, Alabama Reflector (2025). ... Now Imagine You're Not Trump, AL.com (2024).

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LUKE HERRINE The Student Debt Reset

114 California Law Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Jonathan Glater)

etween March 2020 and September 2023, federal student loan borrowers did not have to make payments and interest did not accrue. This provided enormous relief for borrowers and created the space for the Biden Administration to attempt to implement sweeping changes to the federal aid system, including the mass cancellation of indebtedness for tens of millions of borrowers—an effort that attracted national attention and partisan opposition, but was only part of a broader set of regulatory actions that would have collectively restructured the student loan system, had they not been stymied by courts and undone by a new administration. This Article provides an account of the Biden reforms and an analysis of their vulnerability, situating the changes made during the payment pause in a broader history of the development of the federal system of higher education finance and the politics surrounding it. The authors argue that the pre-COVID federal student aid system was incoherent, focused on maximizing debt collection and minimizing cost while managing a motley mix of largely ineffectual programs intended to ease the burdens of indebtedness. The reforms would have attempted to resolve the tensions in favor of the burden-easing programs, pushing the system toward the longstanding center-left goal of making the student loan system a "grant-and-tax" regime. Though unsuccessful, the effort itself has changed the politics of student debt moving forward: its failure means that any future effort at reform must go through Congress (or await judicial reform), and the increasingly partisan battles over federal aid policy have empowered new actors and made the politics of higher education finance less insider-driven and more volatile.

New York Hush Money Trial Judge Considers if Trump Violated Gag Order, PBS News Hour (2024). How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System, Politico (2024).

In Trump, System Meets a Challenge Unlike Any Other, Crime and Justice News (2024).

Bail Reform Petitioned to SCOTUS, The Cullman Times (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Chair, Criminal Procedure Section, AALS.

Fellow, The University of Alabama Teaching Academy.

Outstanding Faculty Member, Student Bar Association, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

Member, Commencement Hooding Team, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

SUSAN PACE HAMILL Research Professor of Law

Alabama’s Constitution, Tax Policy Analyzed Ethically, Ethics Laws, and History & Culture | Business Organizations & Limited Liability Companies | Federal, State, and Local Tax Laws & Policy Analyzed Ethically

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

The Political Elusiveness of Judeo-Christian Inspired Tax Policy, in Render Unto Caesar: Christian Theological Perspectives on Tax Law (Routledge Press, forthcoming). Evangelicals and Other Contemporary Protestant Denominations in the United States, in Christian Perspectives on the Role of the State, Justice, and Taxation (Springer 2025).

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The Political Elusiveness of Tax and Constitution Reform, in Never Gonna Change? An Examination of the 1901 Constitution (North Alabama Digital Press 2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

As Certain as Death: A Fifty State Survey of State and Local Tax Laws (Carolina Academic Press 2007) was featured prominently by Judge Beverly Luther Quast in her Minnesota Tax Court investiture ceremony (2025). Alabama’s Grocery Tax Cut: A ‘Cosmetic Band-Aid’ Without City and County Cuts?, AL.com (2025). How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes, ProPublica (2024).

Alabama Passes Law to Protect I.V.F. Treatments, The New York Times (2024). Alabama Shields IVF Providers with New Law, The Wall Street Journal (2024).

With Pressure Growing After IVF Pause, Alabama GOP Rushes to Pass Protections, The Wall Street Journal (2024). Alabama IVF Bills are a ‘Band-Aid’ to Explosive Court Ruling, Axios (2024). Alabama’s IVF Ruling is Having Ripple Effects. What it Does—and Doesn’t—Do., The Christian Science Monitor (2024).

A Tech Billionaire Has Quietly Bought Hundreds of Acres in Hawaii. Locals Wonder Why., NPR's All Things Considered (2024). How the Alabama Supreme Court’s Ruling in IVF Could Cost Donald Trump the White House, AL.com (2024).

After Public Funds Went to a Private School, Helena Council Wants to Take More Control, The Birmingham Lede (2024). Kulturkampf ums Kind, German Newspaper Group (2024). Alabama’s 1901 Constitution, The New Yorker (2024).

ANITA KAY HEAD

Assistant Dean of Students Associate Professor of Legal Writing

Bar Exam Prep | Coach, Andrews ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition Teams and Civil Rights & Liberties Moot Court Team | Introduction to the Study of Law | Legal Writing | Moot Court

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Grading, Feedback, and Rubrics in LRW, Boot Camp for New Teachers, Legal Writing Institute (with Michael Higdon, Heather Baxter & Danielle Shelton) (2025).

Panelist, Dangerous Curve Ahead: Using Legal Writing and Academic Support Programs to Sustain Ourselves on the Road to Law School Success, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University McKinney School of Law (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Fellow, SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (2024-25).

Member, Commencement Hooding Team, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

LUKE HERRINE

Higher Education Access and the Future of Student Debt Relief, AALS Annual Meeting (2024).

Are Antitrust and Consumer Law the New Work Law?, AALS Annual Meeting (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Nonprofit Urges Alabama Mayors to Broaden Antisemitism Definition, Strengthen Hate Crime Laws, Alabama Daily News (2025).

How an Unrelated Supreme Court Decision Could Jeopardize Biden’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Before it Even Goes into Effect, Business Insider (2024). Federal Judge Extends Block on Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Plan, CNBC (2024).

Biden Administration Did Not Fast-Track Student Loan Relief Before Final Rule: Official, CNBC (2024). Biden Administration Will Soon Roll Out a Sweeping New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan, CNBC (2024). Here’s Why 2024 Could be the Year Student Loan Borrowers Finally Get Forgiveness, CNBC (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Reimagine America Fellow, The Roosevelt Society (2025-26). Board of Directors, Law and Political Economy Blog.

Assistant Professor of Law

PAUL S. HORWITZ

Gordon Rosen Professor of Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Student Debt Reset, 114 Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) (with Jonathan Glater). Regulating Cutthroat Business, 103 N.C. L. Rev. (2025). Unfairness, Reconstructed, 42 Yale J. on Reg. (2025).

SELECTED ESSAYS

What Katie Britt Gets Dangerously Wrong About Antisemitism: Op-Ed, AL.com (2025) (with Jared Margulies, Janek Wasserman & Emily Wittman). On Writing Down Our Dreams During a Living Nightmare, Law and Political Economy Blog (2025).

Did More Competition Make Meatpacking Fairer?, Law and Political Economy Blog (2024). Have You Heard the Good News About Consumer Protection?, Law and Political Economy Blog (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Price Fairness: In General & In Consumer Finance, Project on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities Annual Conference, Vanderbilt University Law School (2025). Horizontal Horizons for Agricultural Antitrust, Competition Policy and Agriculture (2025). Reimagining Administrative Capacity and Organization, Reimagining Administrative Law (2025).

The Student Debt Reset, Consumer Law Scholars Conference, Boston University School of Law (2025). Channeling Competition, Antitrust Enforcement Symposium, Centre on Competition Law and Policy, Oxford University Faculty of Law (2024).

What State AGOs Can Do to Encourage More Robust Competition, Beef Market Workshop, Agricultural Competition Partnership (2024).

BOOKS

First Amendment Institutions (Harvard University Press 2013). The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution (Oxford University Press 2011).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Panelist, Revolutionary Incitement and the Limits of Free Speech, A Symposium Commemorating the Centenary of Gitlow v. New York, Center for Constitutional Design, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (2024).

Participant, Conference on Traditionalism and the Law, Center for Church, State, and Society, Notre Dame Law School, Connemara, Ireland (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Expressive Discrimination: Universities’ First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action, Reason (2025).

What Can the Feds Legally Demand of Columbia University?, The CATO Institute (2025).

First Amendment Dispute Intensifies as Alabama Libraries Resist Book Relocation Demands, AL.com (2025).

Legal Foundations for Non-Reformist Media Reforms, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (2024). A Climate of Fear Comes for Scholarship, Chronicle of Higher Education (2024).

Old Cases Regulating Ten Commandments Displays May be on ‘Shaky Ground’, Alabama Reflector (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Co-Blogger, Prawfsblawg.

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RONALD J. KROTOSZYNSKI JR.

Co-Editor, Constitutional Law Section, Jotwell.

John S. Stone Chairholder of Law Director, Program in Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement Director, Faculty Research

Co-Organizer, Annual Law and Religion Roundtable.

JD HSIN

Assistant Professor of Law

Civil Rights | Disability Law | Education Law | Legal Theory | Torts

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Special Education Bargain, 87 Pitt. L. Rev. (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Rethinking the 'Discrimination' Label at School, Junior Scholars Workshop, University of Richmond School of Law (2025).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Why Trump’s Move to Shift Special Ed. to HHS is Rattling Educators, Education Week (2025).

Trump Shakeup Stops Most Work at Education Department’s Civil Rights Office, Education Week (2025). How Special Education Might Change Under Trump: Five Takeaways, Education Week (2024).

How Trump’s Policies Could Affect Special Education, Education Week (2024).

DANIEL H. JOYNER Elton B. Stephens Professor of Law Director, International Programs

BOOKS

Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Law: From Confrontation to Accord (Oxford University Press 2016).

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Nuclear Free Zones, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Polar Law (Donald R. Rothwell, et al. eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025) (with Anna Hood).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Economic Nationalism as the Fourth Era of International Trade Law, 22 Manchester J. of Int’l. Econ. L. (2025).

SELECTED ESSAYS

Trade Update: Navigating Trump Administration Tariffs—Reciprocal Tariffs and Further Developments (2025) (with Alan Enslen, et al.).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Economic Nationalism as the Fourth Era of International Trade Law, London School of Economics Faculty of Law (2025).

BOOKS

Administrative Law | Comparative Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law | First Amendment Law | Telecommunications Law

Administrative Law (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed. 2025) (with Kent Barnett, Michael Healy & John M. Rogers). Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press 2025) (co-edited with Charlotte Garden & András Koltay).

Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press 2024).

First Amendment: Cases and Theory (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2022) (with Caroline Mala Corbin, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky & Timothy Zick). Administrative Law (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. 2021) (with Kent Barnett, Michael Healy & John M. Rogers). The Disappearing First Amendment (Cambridge University Press 2019).

Privacy Revisited: A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone (Oxford University Press 2018, 2016). Administrative Law (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2017) (with Michael Healy & John M. Rogers).

First Amendment: Cases and Theory (Aspen Publishers, 3rd ed. 2017) (with Caroline Mala Corbin, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky & Christina E. Wells).

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

Regulating Private Social Media Platforms in the Shadow of the First Amendment: Some Comparative Law Observations and Lessons, in Platform Regulation and Freedom of Expression in the United States and Europe: Across the Great Divide (András Koltay, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., Emily Laidlaw & Bernát Török eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming 2027).

Democratic Self-Government and the First Amendment’s 'Forgotten' Clauses: On the (Many) Potential Benefits of Reclaiming and Reanimating the Press, Assembly, and Petition Clauses, in Elgar Companion to Freedom of Speech and Expression (Alan Chen & Ashutosh Bhagwat eds., Edward Elgar Publishing forthcoming 2026). Consensus, Conflict, and Complementarity: A Global Perspective on the Freedom of Expression, in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Miguel Schor & Gary J. Jacobsohn eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2nd ed. 2025). Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Defining the Problem, Identifying Potentially Effective Solutions, and the Merits of Using a Comparative Legal Approach, in Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in Comparative Context (Charlotte Garden, András Koltay & Ronald J. Krotoszynski eds., Cambridge University Press 2025).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Gitlow Revisited: Disentangling Ideas and Crimes Via the Harm Principle, 7 J. Free Speech L. (forthcoming 2026). The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Whistleblowing Speech, the Government’s Managerial Domain, and the Imperatives of Democratic Self-Government, 110 Minn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).

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Do Elections Really Have Consequences?: Presidential Indifference, Attenuated Accountability, and Policy Paralysis Within the Administrative State, 58 Ga. L. Rev. (2024).

Reimagining First Amendment Remedies, 109 Iowa L. Rev. (2024) (with Caprice L. Roberts).

SELECTED ESSAYS

Reforming Pickering to Better Protect Government Employees’ Speech, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Regulating Private Social Media Platforms in the Shadow of the First Amendment: Some Comparative Law Observations and Lessons, Society of Internet Platforms, Ludovika University of Public Service (2025). Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture—Not Constitutional Text—Shape the Freedom of Speech, University of Utah S.J. Quinney School of Law (2025).

Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech, University of South Alabama (2025).

Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. and Constitutional Fealty: Some Reflections on the Essential Role of the Federal Courts in Protecting Our Fundamental Constitutional Rights and Liberties and Securing the Rule of Law, Wilters Memorial Lecture, University of South Alabama (2025). Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture—Not Constitutional Text—Shape the Freedom of Speech, Luminaries Lecture, Seattle University School of Law (2025).

Panelist, Is Meaningful Government Regulation of Private Social Media Platforms Even Possible in the United States?: The State Action Doctrine, Effective Remedies for Social Media Harms, and the Omnipresent Shadow of the First Amendment, IMODEV, Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University Faculty of Law (2024).

Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech, Global Law at Reading Program, University of Reading School of Law (2024). Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech, University of Leeds School of Law (2024). Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture—Not Constitutional Text—Shape the Freedom of Speech, Bonavero Human Rights Institute, University of Oxford Faculty of Law (2024).

Panelist, Is Democracy a Democratic Form of Government?, Free Speech Project, Georgetown University (2024).

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Defining the Problem, Identifying Effective Solutions, and the Potential Merits of Using a Comparative Legal Approach, Faculty Workshop Series, Villanova University School of Law (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Pro-Life Amicus Brief in Georgia Adult-Entertainment Case, Reason (2025).

Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues: Is Democracy a Democratic Form of Government?, Georgetown University Free Speech Project & Future of the Humanities Project (2024). Free Speech and the Irrelevancy of Text and History to Constitutional Interpretation, Dorf on Law (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Fellow, American Bar Association. Member, American Law Institute.

Council Member, ABA Administrative Law Section.

Editorial Review Board Member, American Journal of Comparative Law.

Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Free Speech Law.

YURI R. LINETSKY

Clinical Associate Professor of Law Director, Civil Law Clinic

Civil Procedure | Clinical Legal Education | Criminal Procedure | Police Training & Policing | Trial Practice & Procedure

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Cars, Cars, Cars, Global Café, The University of Alabama (2024).

What You Need to Know About Landlords and Apartment Leases, Global Café, The University of Alabama (2024).

Detention, Arrest, and Use of Force Law; Search & Seizure Law; Criminal/Civil Liability & Civil Rights; and Effective Report Writing, Alabama Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission Academy (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Member, Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s Law Enforcement Training Officers’ Committee.

Member, Alabama Peace Officers Stands and Training Commission Committee of Law Enforcement Legal Training.

Moderator, SFFA One Year Later: The Current and Future State of Law School Admissions, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024). The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Whistleblowing Speech, the Government’s Managerial Domain and the Imperatives of Democratic Self-Government, Permission to Speak Freely?: Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University (2024). Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Defining the Problem, Identifying Effective Solutions, and the Potential Merits of Using a Comparative Legal Approach, Faculty Workshop Series, Drake University School of Law (2024).

ALBERTO LOPEZ Professor of Law

Decedents’ Estates | Legal History | Wills

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Governing Generative AI Beyond the Grave, Fla. St. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) (with Yonathan Arbel).

Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech, Distinguished Lecture Series, Constitutional Law Center, Drake University School of Law (2024).

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ANIL MUJUMDAR

BENJAMIN MCMICHAEL

Assistant Dean of Leadership & Professional Identity Assistant Professor of Law in Residence

Associate Professor of Law Director, Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Initiative

Faculty Advisor, Alabama Law Review | Health Law | Law & Economics | Torts

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws on Preventable Hospitalizations, 103 J. Health Econ. (forthcoming 2025).

Impact of Fentanyl Test Strips as Harm Reduction for Drug-Related Mortality, 82 Med. Care Res. Rev. (2025) (with Moiz Bhai & David T. Mitchell). Scope-of-Practice Laws and the Practice Patterns of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, 43 Contemp. Econ. Pol'y (2024).

Reproductive Objectification, 108 Minn. L. Rev. (2024) (with Meghan Boone). The Future of Frozen Embryos, 78 SMU L. Rev. (2024) (with Clare Ryan).

A Constitutional False Claims Act, 102 Wash. U. L. Rev. (2024) (with Mackenzi Barrett & W. Kip Viscusi). Inequitable Organ Allocation, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Sharing is Caring: Does Organ Allocation Policy Work?, Faculty Colloquium, Emory University School of Law (2025).

Sharing is Caring: Does Organ Allocation Policy Work?, Law and Economics Colloquium, New York University School of Law (2024). Scope-of-Practice Laws in a Wider Context, Central Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association Annual Conference (2024).

Scope-of-Practice Laws and the Practice Patterns of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Conference (2024).

BOOKS

LexisNexis Practice Guide: Alabama Civil Procedure (LexisNexis 2019-2025) (with Othni J. Lathram).

Alabama Criminal Procedure & Law with Forms (LexisNexis 2023).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Lawyers’ Roles in Our Shared Past and Shared Futures (2025). Panelist, Making Space: Black History Month Edition (2025). Panelist, SB129 Lunch & Learn (2025).

Panelist, 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Lunch Discussion with Lisa McNair and Doug Jones, The Honorable Frank M. Johnson Jr. Clerk Reunion, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024). Coffee and Conversation: Bloody Tuesday—Civil Rights History and Violence in Tuscaloosa, The Honorable Frank M. Johnson Jr. Clerk Reunion, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

Panelist, Civil Discourse Panel, American Constitution Society and Federalist Society, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

History of Alabama’s Legal Profession, Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers Section Orange Beach CLE (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Board Leadership Award, ACLU of Alabama (2025).

Dean Thomas W. Christopher Award, Student Bar Association, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

JOEL A. NICHOLS

The Nation’s Organ Donation Process is Failing Because of this Crucial Link, Hacker Noon (2024).

Vice Dean Professor of Law

Alabama’s I.V.F. Protection Law Will Reopen Clinics but Curb Patient Rights, The New York Times (2024). Immunity Law May Not be the End of IVF Legal Issues, Fox 13 Birmingham (2024).

Family Law | Law & Religion | Leadership | Legal Education | Professional Identity & Professionalism

Frozen Embryos, Fox 10 Mobile (2024).

BOOKS

SELECTED HONORS

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (Oxford University Press, 5th ed. 2022) (with John Witte Jr. and Richard W. Garnett).

IVF Decision, Fox 5 DC (2024).

Outstanding Faculty Member, Student Bar Association, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

Member, Commencement Hooding Team, The University of Alabama School of Law (2025).

Research Handbook on Family Law and Religion (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2026) (with Karin Carmit Yefet).

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Religion in Family Law, in Research Handbook on Family Law and Religion (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2026) (with Karin Carmit Yefet).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Practical Strategies for Working with General Counsel, ABA Associate Deans Conference (2025).

Disruption in Legal Education (plenary session), ABA Associate Deans Conference (2025). Read Between the Lines: Law Schools and Character and Fitness Issues, NCBE Annual Bar Admissions Conference (2025).

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Read Between the Lines: Law School Honor Code Violations (plenary session), Bar Admissions Administrators Conference (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Fellow, American Bar Foundation.

Senior Fellow, Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

Co-Chair, ABA Associate Dean’s Conference Planning Committee.

E. TRAVIS RAMEY

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Director, Appellate Advocacy Clinic

Appellate Advocacy | Appellate Procedure | Torts

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Wrongful Birth After Dobbs and the Limits of Tort Law in Areas of Dissensus, 103 Nebraska L. Rev. (2025).

AMBER POLK

Assistant Professor of Law

Environmental Law & Justice | Legal Philosophy | Property Law

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

In Defense of (Some) Plant Rights, in The Vegetal Turn (Marcello di Paola ed., Springer Nature 2024).

Interlocutory Appeals in Complex Litigation: A Rule 23( f ) Analog for Collective Actions, 100 Tulane L. Rev. (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Interlocutory Appeals in Complex Litigation, New Scholars Workshop, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (2025).

SELECTED HONORS

Member, Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Toxic Battery: Pollution as a Dignitary Tort, 65 B.C. L. Rev. (2024).

Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene, 54 Envtl. L. Rep. (2024) (with Karrigan Bork, et al.).

SHALINI BHARGAVA RAY

What Do Rights Have to Do with It?, 24 Am. J. Bioeth. (2024) (with Eric Scharffe).

Administrative Law | Citizenship | Immigration Law | Statutory Interpretation

SELECTED ESSAYS

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Commentator, State Administration as Agents by Pia Chible, 3rd Annual Conference of The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy, University of Illinois Program in Law & Philosophy (2025). Canary in the Coal Mine: Environmental(ist) Constitutionalism as Environmental Governance, 15th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship, Vermont Law and Graduate School (2024).

Canary in the Coal Mine: Environmental(ist) Constitutionalism as Environmental Governance, 6th Annual EnviroSchmooze, Texas A&M University School of Law (2024). Canary in the Coal Mine: Environmental(ist) Constitutionalism as Environmental Governance, Internal Faculty Summer Workshop, Florida International University College of Law (2024).

Canary in the Coal Mine: Environmental(ist) Constitutionalism as Environmental Governance, Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute, Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (2024).

Panelist, State Constitutions and Climate Change, Climate Constitutionalism Conference, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law (2024). Panelist, Green Amendments, 3rd Annual Environment Forum, Florida International University (2024). Canary in the Coal Mine: Environmental(ist) Constitutionalism as Environmental Governance, AALS Annual Meeting (2024).

Professor of Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Agency Capture in Immigration Law, 78 SMU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).

Individualized Guidance in the Federal Bureaucracy, Final Report to the Admin. Conf. of the United States (2024).

SELECTED ESSAYS

Using Immigration Court as a Trap, Verfassungsblog (2025).

Promoting Consistency and Transparency in Individualized Guidance, The Regulatory Review (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Agency Capture in Immigration Law, Immigration Enforcement Workshop, Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law (2024).

When 'No Action' Means 'Final Action': Current Issues in Agency Guidance, ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section Fall Conference (2024). Migration Law as Administrative Law, International Association of Regulation and Governance Inaugural Meeting (2024). Individualized Guidance in the Federal Bureaucracy, Administrative Conference of the United States Spring Plenary (2024).

Moderator, The Promise, Perils, and Future of Policymaking Through Enforcement, ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section Spring Conference (2024).

Immigration Law Overview, Health Equity Scholars Retreat, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

President’s Faculty Research Award, The University of Alabama (2024).

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Rogue Prosecutors, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (2024).

MEREDITH RENDER Professor of Law

Civil Rights | Gender & Sexuality and the Law | Legislation & Regulation | Property Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Waste, Property, and Useless Things, 138 Harv. L. Rev. (2025).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Waste, Property, and Useless Things, Grey Fellows Forum, Stanford University School of Law (2024).

Practical Textualism, Barry University School of Law (2024).

ESG, the SEC Climate Rule, and the Limits of Securities Regulation, American University Washington College of Law (2024).

Practical Textualism, AALS/Federalist Society Faculty Conference (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Member, American Law Institute.

Member, Alabama Law Institute Council.

Commissioner, Uniform Law Commission.

Waste, Property, and Useless Things, Faculty Colloquium, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Alabama IVF Ruling Divides Devout Christians: 'Fewer Children will be Born', BBC (2024). Experts are Skeptical of an Alabama Bill to Protect IVF Clinics from Prosecution, NPR’s Morning Edition (2024).

KENNETH M. ROSEN Professor of Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

ESG, the SEC Climate Rule, and the Limits of Securities Regulation, 85 Ala. Lawyer (2024). A Scholarly Judge, 75 Ala. L. Rev. (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

International Business Transactions, Academy of American and International Law (2025).

Artificial Intelligence and the Dangers of Regulatory Exceptionalism, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (2025). Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, Cornell University Law School (2025).

Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, Emory University School of Law (2025).

Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law (2025).

Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, Syracuse University College of Law (2025). Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, University of Houston Law Center (2025). Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, University of Maine School of Law (2025). Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, Samford University Cumberland School of Law (2025).

Sharpening the Teeth of the DOGe, Federalist Society Lawyers Chapter of Huntsville, Ala. (2025). Panelist, Artificial Intelligence and the Dangers of Regulatory Exceptionalism, AALS/Federalist Society Annual Meeting (2025). Artificial Intelligence and the Dangers of Regulatory Exceptionalism, Federalist Society Lawyers Chapter of Montgomery, Ala. (2025).

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CLARE F. RYAN Associate Professor of Law

BOOKS

Family Law | International Human Rights Law

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2018) (with Alec Stone Sweet).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Future of Frozen Embryos, 78 SMU L. Rev. (2025) (with Benjamin McMichael). The Public/Private Home, 110 Cornell L. Rev. (2025).

SELECTED ESSAYS

Children’s Autonomy Rights Online, Chi. L. Rev. Online (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

The Future of Frozen Embryos, Faculty Colloquium, University of Georgia School of Law (2025).

Anti-Democratic Civil Society: Interventions Before the European Court of Human Rights, Legal Infrastructures and Democracy Workshop (2025). The Public/Private Home, Southeastern Junior/Senior Faculty Workshop, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

The Public/Private Home, PhD in Law 10th Anniversary Conference, Yale University Law School (2024). Students as Future Lawmakers, Society of American Law Teachers Teaching Conference (2024). The Public/Private Home, Faculty Colloquium, Northeastern University School of Law (2024).

The Public/Private Home, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024). Moderator, Family Law Pedagogy, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024).

The Future of Frozen Embryos, West Virginia Bar Association Annual Meeting (2024). The Public/Private Home, Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference (2024).

The Public/Private Home, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (2024). The Public/Private Home, West Coast Gender, Sexuality & the Law Conference, Loyola University Los Angeles Law School (2024).

DAIQUIRI J. STEELE Integrating Interference Theory

104 Boston University Law Review (2024)

obust retaliation protections are an essential component of any effective enforcement regime. Recognizing this, Congress has included a provision prohibiting retaliation in nearly every workplace statute passed in the past century. Antiretaliation protections are undoubtedly integral to effective enforcement; however, they have an equally important counterpart that is often overlooked in compliance discussions: interference protections.

Several workplace statutes contain interference provisions—statutory language that makes it unlawful for employers to interfere with the substantive rights created by the statute. However, interference clauses are much less common than retaliation clauses, despite interference clauses appearing to be a stronger mechanism for enforcing the regulatory scheme Congress has created for labor and employment laws. They enjoy broader judicial interpretation and have an analytical framework that makes it easier for employees to successfully prove employer misconduct given the information asymmetries that exist between companies and their employees. This Article explores the origins of interference theory and investigates the presence of interference clauses in some statutes and their absence in others. It argues that, like they have interpreted retaliation proscriptions, the courts should interpret workplace statutes as containing implied interference prohibitions, as protections against interference with workplace rights is an essential component of compliance with any regulatory intervention. The Article further argues that Congress can broaden protections for employees, strengthen enforcement, and better support the goal of the statutory regimes by expressly including interference clauses in all workplace statutes.

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

FREDERICK SPIGHT

How a Denton Divorce Could Imperil IVF Access in Texas, Texas Tribune (2024).

Texas Supreme Court Considers Taking Up Question of Whether Frozen Embryos are People, Ms. Magazine (2024).

Alabama Passes Law to Protect I.V.F. Treatments, The New York Times (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Co-Chair, Younger Comparativists Committee, American Society of Comparative Law. Honorary Order of the Samaritan, Alabama Law Public Interest Institute (2024).

TOBIE SMITH

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Director, Criminal Law Clinic

Clinical Legal Instruction | Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Juvenile Delinquency

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Calling Balls and Three Strikes, CrimFest, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2025).

State and Federal Postconviction Remedies, Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Police Employment History is Usually a Public Record. In Alabama, It’s a State Secret, AL.com (2024).

Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Interim Director, Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Clinic

Civil Rights | Clinical Legal Instruction | Criminal Justice Reform | Nonprofit & Entrepreneurship Clinical Instruction | Transactional Law

BOOKS

Editorial Board, The Community Land Trust Guide for Lawyers (ABA/Terra Nostra Press, forthcoming 2026).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Name, Image, and Likeness Workshop (2025).

Legal Considerations for Entrepreneurship in Fashion (2025). Choosing a Legal Entity, BIG Ideas Contest (2025).

The Business of Art, Coleman Center for the Arts (2024).

A New Horizon: A Perspective of Community Economic Development Through Economic Justice, Southern Poverty Law Center Legal Department Retreat (2024).

Panelist, Creating Community Impact: It Starts Within the Clinical Setting, Transactional Clinical Conference, St. Louis University School of Law (2024).

Moderator, The Role and Perspective of State Legislators and Local Litigants, Ala. L. Rev. Symposium, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024). Fines and Fees, Birmingham Bar Association (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Partner, Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute, Culverhouse College of Business, The University of Alabama.

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S. SEAN TU

Differential Legal Protections for Biologics vs Small-Molecule Drugs in the U.S.

332 Journal of the American Medical Association (2024) (with Olivier J. Wouters, Matthew Vogel, William B. Feldman, Reed F. Beall & Aaron S. Kesselheim)

iologic drugs, which are made from living cells, get 12 years of protection from competition, while regular drugs made from chemicals (called small-molecule drugs) only get five years. A recent law also gives biologics a longer break—11 years instead of seven—before Medicare can negotiate their prices. These longer protections were based on the idea that biologics are harder and more expensive to develop and don’t have strong patent protection. This study looked at real-world data on drug development, costs, patents, sales, and prices. The researchers found that biologics aren’t significantly harder or more expensive to develop, and, in fact, they earn more money and have more patents than smallmolecule drugs. The study concludes that the current system gives biologics more protection than necessary, making them more profitable than small-molecule drugs without clear justification. This article was named 2025 Publication of the Year by AcademyHealth. The award recognizes the best and most relevant peer-reviewed, scientific work in the fields of health services research and health policy.

DAIQUIRI J. STEELE

Associate Professor of Law Irving Silver & Frances Grodsky Silver Faculty Scholar

BOOKS

Learning Employment Law (West Academic, 2nd ed. 2024) (with Michael Malanska, Francis Mootz, Angela Morrison & Leticia Saucedo).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Surveillance as Retaliation, 59 Ga. L. Rev. (2025).

Integrating Interference Theory, 104 B.U. L. Rev. (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Surveillance as Retaliation, Faculty Colloquium, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (2025). Discharge of Government Employees, ABA Midyear Meeting (2025).

Panelist, Workplace Torts, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel and Louisiana Judicial College (2024). Whistleblower Parity, Work Law Junior Scholars Workshop, Cornell University Law School (2024).

Panelist, Exploring Gender Dynamics in Law Teaching, AALS Women in Legal Education Midyear Meeting (2024). Whistleblower Parity, 16th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law, University of San Diego School of Law and California Western School of Law (2024). Whistleblower Parity, AALS Section on Employment Discrimination Law Summer Workshop (2024).

Whistleblower Parity, Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop, Duke University School of Law (2024). Surveillance as Retaliation, Culp Colloquium, Harvard University Law School (2024).

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Surveillance as Retaliation, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Georgetown University Law Center (2024).

Moderator, A Conversation About the Role Race, Gender, and Class Play in Elections, Ala. L. Rev. Symposium, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

Recognizing and Addressing Potential Child Labor Violations, Wage & Hour Litigation and Compliance Conference, Practising Law Institute (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Muldrow v. City of St. Louis and its Impact on Title VII Discrimination Cases, KCBS San Francisco All News (2024). Reforming Occupational Enforcement, The Regulatory Review (2024).

Victories Would be Nothing Less than an Earthquake: Can UAW Win in the South?, The Guardian (2024). What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs, The New York Times (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Member, American Law Institute.

Member, Alabama Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Volunteer of the Year, Birmingham Business Journal (2024).

TOMER S. STEIN Associate Professor of Law

Contracts | Corporate Finance | Corporate Law | Mergers & Acquisitions | Securities Regulation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Leaving Delaware? The Essential Role of Specialized Corporate Courts, Colum. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) (with Zohar Goshen). The Merging of Ownership and Control, 59 Ga. L. Rev. (2025).

Lobbying by Brief: Unveiling the Dominance of Amicus Lobbying in the Development of Business Law, 78 SMU L. Rev. (2025) (with William Bunting).

Judicial Review in Public and Private Governance, 102 Wash. U. L. Rev. (2024). The Constitutional Meaning of Financial Terms, 2024 Utah L. Rev. (2024) (with Shelby Ponton).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Leaving Delaware? The Essential Role of Specialized Corporate Courts, American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York University School of Law (2025).

The Merging of Ownership and Control, Allard Centre for Business Law, University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law (2025). The Essential Role of Directors: A New Theory of the Firm, Business Law and Economics Workshop, University of Texas School of Law (2024).

The Essential Role of Directors: A New Theory of the Firm, Case Western Reserve School of Law (2024).

The Essential Role of Directors: A New Theory of the Firm, AALS Annual Meeting (2024).

GARY SULLIVAN

Associate Professor of Law in Residence Director, Trial Advocacy Program

Bankruptcy Law | Creditor Rights | Commercial Litigation | Trial Advocacy

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Subchapter V: Small Business Reorganizations, Bankruptcy CLE (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Alabama Law Opens Path to Jackson Hospital’s Dual Bankruptcy, Bloomberg Law (2025).

SELECTED HONORS

Edition Editor, The Bankruptcy Issue, The Alabama Lawyer.

S. SEAN TU Professor of Law

BOOKS

Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, Copyright, Patent, and Trademark (Wolters Kluwer, 8th ed. 2024) (with Jessica M. Keiser & Amanda Reid).

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (LawCarta, 2023) (with John R. Allison, et al.). Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, Copyright, Patent, and Trademark (Wolters Kluwer, 7th ed. 2021) (with Jessica M. Keiser & Amanda Reid). Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, Copyright, Patent, and Trademark (Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed. 2018) (with Jessica M. Keiser & Amanda Reid). Biotechnology, Bioethics, and the Law (LexisNexis 2015) (with Michele Goodwin & John J. Paris).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Drug Versioning and Legal Accountability-Reply, J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2025) (with Timothy Bonis).

Prescription Drug Method-of-Use Patent Protection, 1991-2018, J. Gen. Intern. Med. (2025) (with Doni Bloomfield, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Theodore W. Teng). Revenue, Patents, and New Generic Competition for Prescription Drugs in the U.S., J. Gen. Intern. Med. (2025) (with Ravi Gupta, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Joseph S. Ross).

The Strength and Importance of Government-Funded Patents for Approved Drugs, 43 Nat. Biotechnol. (2025) (with Sarah Gabriele, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Matthew J. Martin). Drug Versioning and Legal Accountability for Preventable Product Harms, 333 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2025) (with Timothy Bonis). Use of Means-Plus-Function Claiming to Evade the Enablement Requirement, 33 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. (2025) (with Timothy Bonis).

Certification Marks for Supporting Generic Drug Quality, 53 J. L. Med. Ethics (2025) (with Aaron S. Kesselheim & Lars Lindgren). Changes in Biologic Drug Revenues After Administrative Patent Challenges, 44 Health Affairs (2025) (with Aaron S. Kesselheim, Adam J.N. Raymakers & Victor L. Van de Wiele). The Puzzle of Biologics Manufacturing Platform Patents, 43 Nat. Biotechnol. (2025) (with Osmat Azzam Jefferson, W. Nicholson Price II, Arti K. Rai & Saurabh Vishnubhakat).

Using Trademarks to Ensure Completion of Postapproval Trials, 6 JAMA Health Forum (2025) (with Catherine S. Hwang). Accelerating Biosimilar Market Access: The Case for Allowing Earlier Standing, 12 J. L. Biosci. (2025) (with Rachel Goode, Matthew Turner & Victor Van de Wiele).

Leveraging Old Hepatitis C Therapies, 392 N. Engl. J. Med. (2024) (with Shyamasundaran Kottilil & T. Joseph Mattingly II).

Differential Legal Protections for Biologics vs Small-Molecule Drugs in the U.S., 332 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2024) (with Reed F. Beall, William B. Feldman, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Matthew Vogel & Olivier J. Wouters). Characteristics of Academic Inventors on Government-Linked U.S. Drug Patents, 332 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2024) (with Sarah Gabriele, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Matthew J. Martin).

Use of Public Research and Manufacturing Enterprises to Lower Prescription Drug Prices and Increase Innovation, 52 J. L. Med. Ethics (2024) (with Dana Brown & Alex Moss). Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets, 391 N. Engl. J. Med. (2024) (with Bernard Chao, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Ryan Whalen).

Extent of Drug Patents with Terminal Disclaimers and Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Rejections, 332 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2024) (with Bernard Chao & Aaron S. Kesselheim).

Measuring and Understanding Market Exclusivity Length for New Prescription Drugs in France, Australia, and the USA, 38 Pharmaceut. Med. (2024) (with Deborah Gleeson, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Zhigang Lu, Benjamin N. Rome & Victor L. Van de Wiele). AI Cannibalism and the Law, 22 Colo. Tech. L.J. (2024) (with Amy Cyphert & Samuel Perl).

Use of Track One Prioritized Examination for Pharmaceutical Patents, 5 JAMA Health Forum (2024) (with William B. Feldman).

Patent Portfolios Protecting 10 Top-Selling Prescription Drugs, 184 JAMA Intern. Med. (2024) (with Caroline Horrow, Sarah Gabriele, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Ameet Sarpatwari).

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The Cost of Drug Patent Expiration Date Errors, 42 Nat. Biotechnol. (2024) (with Dinis Cheian, Sarah Gabriele, Aaron S. Kesselheim & Benjamin N. Rome).

Abortion Jurisprudence: The Supreme Court’s Use of Scientific and Medical Evidence, Health Affairs Forefront (2024) (with Valarie Blake & Shweta Kumar). Artificial Intelligence: Legal Reasoning, Legal Research, and Legal Writing, 25 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. (2024). Delivery Device Patents on GLP-1 Receptor Agonists, 332 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2024) (with Rasha Alhiary, William B. Feldman, Sarah Gabriele & Aaron S. Kesselheim).

Patents on Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies for Prescription Drugs and Generic Competition, 331 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2024) (with Aaron S. Kesselheim, Sajeev Kohli & Ameet Sarpatwari).

Why Pharmaceutical Patent Thickets are Unique, 32 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. (2024) (with Michael A. Carrier). Biologic Patent Challenges Under the America Invents Act, 42 Nat. Biotechnol. (2024) (with Victor L. Van de Wiele & Aaron S. Kesselheim).

Biologic Patent Thickets and Terminal Disclaimers, 331 J. Am. Med. Assoc. (2024) (with Rachel Goode & William B. Feldman).

SELECTED ESSAYS

Lessons from Humira on How to Tackle Unjust Extensions of Drug Monopolies with Policy, BioSpace (2024) (with Timothy Bonis).

Prescription Drug Regulation: Affordability, Constitutionality, and Accessibility, J. Health Care L. & Pol’y Symposium, University of Maryland Law School (2024).

Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research and Decision-Making: Opportunities and Risks, Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. Symposium (2024).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Liquidia Drug Approved as Rival United Throws Hail Mary to Delay Actual Launch, Hunterbrook (2025). Accelerated Cancer Drugs Face Delayed Reckonings, American Association for Cancer Research (2025).

PBM Private Labeling Boosts Biosimilar Adoption, Raises Anticompetitive Concerns, Medscape (2025). FTC Highlights New Concern Over 'Pay-to-Delay' Deals that Determine When Generics are Sold, STAT News (2025). Researchers Make Case Against Gilead in HIV Product Hopping Fight, Endpoints News (2025).

WVU Legal Scholar Makes Case for Equal Protection Among Different Medication Classes, WVU Today (2025).

Earlier Patent Litigation Could Accelerate US Biosimilar Market Entry, The Center for Biosimilars (AJMC) (2024).

Liquidia v. FDA: FDA Decision on Extended Exclusivity, if Upheld by Court, Would Add Tool to Pharma’s Anticompetitive Toolbox, Experts Say, The Capitol Forum (2024).

When the Supreme Court Cites Modern Medical Evidence, Abortion Rights Expand. When Relying on Political Evidence, They Contract., Ms. Magazine (2024) (with Valerie K. Blake & Shweta Kumar).

Experts Weigh Benefits of Drug Price Negotiation and Other PriceCurbing Strategies, Med Page Today (2024).

Differential Legal Protections for Biologic vs. Small-Molecule Drugs, Competition Policy, and Pharmaceutical Markets, University of California-Irvine (2025).

USPTO Withdraws Proposed Patent Rule Criticized by Pharma Industry, Endpoints News (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Panelist, Reducing the Rx Burden: Pathways to Lower Drug Prices and Increase Access, Competition Policy, and Pharmaceutical Markets, National Institutes of Health Care Management (2024). Healthcare Careers and Professionalism, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (2024).

Health Care at a Reasonable Cost: The Hatch-Waxman Act at 40 and Beyond, New York University Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy (2024).

Congressional Briefing, How Patent Reforms Could Impact Drug Costs for Employers and Their Workers, The ERISA Industry Committee (2024).

Current Events in Pharmaceutical Patent Reform, PORTAL Conference, Harvard University Medical School (2024). Patent Expiration Errors and Patent Timing Gamesmanship for Pharmaceutical Patents, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, University of California-Berkeley School of Law (2024). Patent and Drug Pricing, R-Street (2024).

Ancillary Product Patents, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Professors Conference, Temple University (2024).

Ancillary Product Patents, BioLawpalooza, Stanford University School of Law (2024). Regulation and Innovation in the Biosciences, University of Michigan (2024). Panelist, Pharmaceutical Patent Policy, Harvard University Medical School (2024).

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FDA Heads to Court to Defend Unprecedented Decision Protecting Lung Drug Monopoly from Liquidia Competition, Hunterbrook (2024).

U.S. Patent Office Pulls Controversial Rule to Curb Pharma Patent Abuse, STAT News (2024). Patentees Left to Fix USPTO Patent Term Adjustment Errors, Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) (2024).

Why Many Drugs Remain Pricey 40 Years After Hatch-Waxman, Law360 (2024). Lawmakers Ask USPTO to Fix Patent Calculation Problem, Law360 (2024).

Lawmakers Urge U.S. Patent Office to Fix Patent Calculation Problem, STAT News (2024). Drugmakers Rely on ‘Use Codes’ to Vastly Expand the Nature of Their Patent Claims, STAT News (2024). Patent Thickets in Federal Government’s Crosshairs as Election 2024 Looms, BioSpace (2024).

U.S. Patent Office Software Mistakes Extend Patent Life for Drugs and Needs to be Fixed, Researchers Say, STAT News (2024). A Senate Bill was Touted as a Cure for 'Patent Thickets.' Some Say the Drug Industry Watered it Down., STAT News (2024).

Under Pressure to Thwart Pharma Patent Abuse, the PTO Proposes a New Rule. But Will it Fly?, STAT News (2024). Supreme Court Abortion Pill Decision Has Little Effect in West Virginia, West Virginia Public Broadcasting (2024). Congress Should Fund the Creation of a Similarity Checker for Music, Center for Data Innovation (2024). Study Suggests Controversial Patent Review Pathway is Effective for Biologics, Endpoints News (2024).

JOYCE WHITE VANCE Giving Up is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping A Democracy Penguin Random House (2025)

iving Up is Unforgivable examines current challenges to democratic institutions through the lenses of constitutional law, history, and civic engagement. Drawing on recent events—including debates over democratic norms, legal precedents, and political transitions—Vance situates these issues in a broader historical context to highlight both risks and enduring strengths. The book aims to provide readers not only with analysis of legal and institutional constraints but also with practical tools for engagement—ranging from local participation to organized action. Ultimately, it argues that sustaining democracy requires ongoing vigilance, collective effort, and informed citizenship.

New Congressional Bill Would Thwart Patent Thickets in Order to Speed Generic Drugs to Market, STAT News (2024).

Welch, Braun, and Klobuchar Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Streamline Drug Patent Litigation, Lower Cost of Prescription Drugs, Sen. Peter Welch Press Release (2024). Arrington Leads Bipartisan Effort to Address Patent Thickets and Increase Competition in Prescription Drug Market, Rep. Jodey Arrington Press Release (2024). Companies Bend Patent System to Head Off Competition Long-Term: Analysis, Biospace News (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Affiliate Scholar, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Harvard University Medical School.

Affiliate Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Scientific Advisory Board Member, LexisNexis Reed Technology. Editorial Board Member, Biotechnology Law Report.

JOYCE WHITE VANCE

Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law

BOOKS

Civil & Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law & Procedure | Democratic Institutions | Election Law

Giving Up is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy (Penguin Random House 2025).

SELECTED ESSAYS

The Supreme Court is Determined to Turn Voting into a Limited Privilege, Slate (2025) (with Allegra Lawrence-Hardy).

Pete Hegseth’s Disastrous Nomination Exposes the Biggest Lie of Trump’s 2024 Campaign, Slate (2025) (with Dahlia Lithwick & Mimi Rocah). The Presumption of Innocence Has Nothing to Do with Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation, Slate (2024) (with Dahlia Lithwick & Mimi Rocah).

What Happens to Sexual Assault Survivors if Matt Gaetz Runs the DOJ, Slate (2024) (with Dahlia Lithwick & Mimi Rocah). Jack Smith is Releasing More Evidence. No, That’s Not 'Election Interference.', Slate (2024) (with Mary B. McCord & Barbara McQuade).

Even if the Affair Allegations are True, Fani Willis is Not Disqualified from Prosecuting Trump, Slate (2024) (with Norman L. Eisen & Richard W. Painter).

Why Extreme Weather Won’t Disrupt the 2024 Election, MSNBC (2024). What’s Ahead for Jack Smith, Brennan Center for Justice (2024).

The Fulton County Disqualification Allegations: Myths, Facts, and Unknowns, Just Security (2024) (with Norman L. Eisen & Barbara McQuade).

Why Fani Willis is Not Disqualified Under Georgia Law, Just Security (2024) (with Norman L. Eisen & Richard Painter). What the Legal System Owes Americans in the Era of Trump, MSNBC Daily (2024).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Moderator, Café Insider recording, Texas Tribune Festival (2024).

Book talk with Professor Barbara McQuade, author of Attack from Within (2024). Panelist, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (2024).

Panelist, Ethics Panel, ABA White Collar Section Meeting (2024). Panelist, The Court of Appeals and Presidential Immunity (2024).

Moderator, The Future of Elections: A Broader Conversation on the Sanctity of Representative Democracy, Ala. L. Rev. Symposium, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).

MEDIA INVOLVEMENT

NBC News & MSNBC Legal Analyst.

Co-host, #SistersInLaw podcast (with Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Barbara McQuade & Jill Wine-Banks). Co-host, Café Insider podcast (with Preet Bharara). Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, Substack.

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

Discussion with Katie Couric, Substack Live (2025).

Emoluments Clause Discussion with Brennan Center President Michael Waldman, Substack Live (2025). Saved from Our Fourth Branch of Government, Salon (2025).

Trump Administration Fires DOJ Officials Who Worked on Criminal Investigations of the President, NBC News (2025). Scenes from MAGA’s WHCD Afterparties, Politico (2025).

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Trump’s Attack on Harvard is a False Flag, New York Magazine (2025). It Didn’t Start with Donald Trump, Salon (2025).

Blocked, Unblocked, Reblocked: How to Understand the Dizzying DOGE Court Rulings, New York Magazine (2025). Musk Calls to Impeach Judge Whose Order Blocks DOGE from Treasury Systems Access, CNBC (2025). Senior FBI Official Forcefully Resisted Trump Administration Firings, NBC News (2025). Trump Administration Fires DOJ Officials who Worked on Criminal Investigations of the President, NBC News (2025). Donald Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’ Campaign, Vanity Fair (2025).

The GOP’s Criminal Case Against Liz Cheney is a Total Mess, New York Magazine (2024). ‘Deeply Concerning:’ Ex-Prosecutor Calls ABC’s Trump Settlement ‘Far from Normal’, HuffPost (2024).

ABC’s $15m Settlement in Trump ‘Rape’ Defamation Case was Met with Surprise and Outrage. Here’s Why., The Independent (2024). What Christopher Wray’s Resignation is Costing Us, Slate (2024).

The Bizarre Infatuation with Luigi Mangione Won’t Help Him Beat a Murder Case, New York Magazine (2024).

Somebody Needs to Tell the Manhattan DA that the Trump Case is Over, New York Magazine (2024). ‘Dangerous and Effective:’ Experts Say Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi is ‘Frankly, Worse’ than Matt Gaetz, Forbes (2024).

So What Happens with All the Cases Against Trump Now?, New York Magazine (2024).

DOJ Moving to Wind Down Trump Cases Before He Takes Office, NBC News (2024). Thinking of Contesting the 2024 Election? Here’s Some Advice., New York Magazine (2024). Would Justice Department and FBI Officials Carry Out Trump’s Prosecution of his Rivals?, NBC News (2024).

‘Disgraceful:’ Experts Warn Supreme Court’s ‘Wrongheaded’ Decision on Virginia Voter Purge Ruling is an ‘Ominous’ Sign, Salon (2024). Trump Allies Deploying ‘Dastardly Plot’ with Election Lawsuit Wave: Analysis, The State (2024). How the 2024 Election will Shape the Supreme Court, New York Magazine (2024).

Appeals Court Strikes a Mississippi Law that Provided a Grace Period for Mail Ballots, NPR (2024). Kathy Hochul’s Dilemma, New York Magazine (2024).

Jack Smith Could Drop New Bombshells in Trump’s Federal Election Case this Week—Here’s Why, Forbes (2024). Kamala Harris’ Secret Weapon, New York Magazine (2024).

‘He Will Do It Again:’ Experts Alarmed by Trump’s ‘Disturbing’ Election Interference Claim, Salon (2024). Trump Tells Fox News he had ‘Every Right’ to Interfere in Presidential Election, The Independent (2024). Trump Ridiculed After Accusing Kamala Harris of Mistreating Mike Pence, The Guardian (2024).

Trump’s Fate Will Determine Merrick Garland’s Legacy, New York Magazine (2024).

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‘Hail Mary:’ Trump’s Latest Attempt to Delay his Hush Money Sentence ‘Will Likely Fail,’ Experts Say, Salon (2024).

Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Still Won’t Have Trial Before Election Day—Despite Slimmed-Down Indictment, Forbes (2024).

How Donald Trump May Dodge Sentencing Before Election, New York Magazine (2024). Jack Smith Can Still Hurt Donald Trump, New York Magazine (2024). Why this Election Can’t Deliver What America Actually Wants on Abortion, Slate (2024).

Three Reasons Why Smith Wanted to Delay Trump 2020 Election Case, Washington Examiner (2024). Jack Smith Faces Crossroads in Trump Prosecution, The Hill (2024). Trump Intends to Sue DOJ Over Mar-A-Lago Search, Forbes (2024).

Why Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial Won’t Happen Before Election Day—As Judge Grants Delay, Forbes (2024). Kamala Harris and Those ‘Lock Him Up’ Chants, New York Magazine (2024).

Outrage After Trump Claims Presidents Have ‘Complete and Total’ Immunity, The Guardian (2024).

The Accusations Against the Atlanta Prosecutor Fani Willis: What We Know, The New York Times (2024). Fani Willis Scandal: How an Alleged Romantic Relationship with a Prosecutor Could Upend Trump’s Criminal Trial, Forbes (2024).

Trump in Court for Classified Documents Hearing—Here’s How It Could Affect Trial, Forbes (2024). Step Aside, Fani Willis, The Atlantic (2024).

Fani Willis Turns the Tables on Her Attackers, The Washington Post (2024). Legal Experts Say Fani Willis Unlikely to be Disqualified as Judge Weighs Trump Challenge, Forbes (2024). Trump Trials’ Comedy of Errors—Is Legal Inexperience to Blame?, The Guardian (2024). Prosecutors Can Ask Trump About Fraud Case, E. Jean Carroll if He Testifies, Judge Rules, Forbes (2024).

Biden Says Democracy is in Peril. Did He Move Fast Enough to Prevent Another Jan. 6?, USA Today (2024).

Why Trump Can’t Use the ‘Idiot’ Defense Other Jan. 6 Defendants Often Lean On, NBC News (2024). Trump’s Immunity Gambit at Supreme Court: A Delay is Still a Victory, Bloomberg (2024).

SELECTED HONORS

Senior Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law. Board Member, American Constitution Society.

Board Member, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. Member, American Law Institute.

Member, Council on Criminal Justice.

Member, National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys. Member, Voter Protection Project Advisory Board.

FREDRICK VARS

Robert W. Hodgkins Chairholder of Law

BOOKS

Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights (Harvard University Press 2020) (with Ian Ayres).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Coming Assault on Class-Based Gun Prohibitions, Stanford L. Rev. Online (2025) (with Ian Ayres). The Dog that Didn’t Bark is Eating the Second Amendment, NYU L. Rev. Forum (2024).

SELECTED ESSAYS

The Cycle of Violence After Mass Shootings Can be Interrupted, The LA Times (2025).

Mel Gibson Should Have a Way to Get His Guns Back. Here’s Why., The Washington Post (2025) (with Ian Ayres).

Hallie Biden Threw Hunter’s Gun Away. This Shouldn’t be a Crime., The Washington Post (2024) (with Ian Ayres).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Tell Me What You Want: An Affirmative-Choice Answer to the Constitutional Concern About Concealed-Carry on Private Property, Faculty Colloquium (2025). Mental Health and Firearms (2025).

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

What to Do About a Father with Guns and Dementia?, The Boston Globe (2024). To Prevent Suicides, States Want to Let People Ban Themselves from Buying Guns, The Trace (2024).

A Law Lets People at Risk of Suicide Avoid Buying Guns. Will Kansas or Missouri Pass It?, KCUR (2024).

How Alabama Legislation Banning Glock Switches Revived the ‘Back the Blue’ Debate, AL.com (2024). 1. Professor Daiquiri Steele, Dean Bill Brewbaker, Judge J. Michelle Childs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Professor Ron Krotoszynski. Judge Childs delivered the 2025 Frank M. Johnson Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Law School. 2. Professor Bryan Fair laughs with Rachel Ducker while placing her hood during the commencement ceremony for the Class of 2025. 3. Professor Travis Ramey, Dalton Counts ('25), Alli Swann ('25), and Assistant Dean Anil Mujumdar outside of the Frank M. Johnson Jr. Courthouse for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Mongomery, Alabama. As part of their work for the Law School's Appellate Advocacy Clinic, directed by Professor Ramey, four pairs of students, including Counts and Swann, presented oral argument before the Eleventh Circuit. 4. Assistant Dean Cassandra Adams and Associate Dean Jeff Baker at the 2025 Alabama State Bar Meeting. They presented their session, Lawyers are Set Apart for Leadership: Ethical and Professional Responsibilities During Unprecedented Times, during the meeting. 5. Professor Heather Elliott smiles while chatting with students at the Law School.

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