2024 LAW FACULTY SCHOLA R SHIP R EPORT
ALABAMA LAW Message from Dean
I'mBrewbaker
eager to share the scholarship that has been produced over this past year by our faculty at Alabama Law. With topics spanning from First Amendment rights to international nuclear arms control, I'm sure you will find this collection of recently released monographs, edited volumes, and articles insightful and useful.
It is an exciting time to be a part of our community. Our faculty are leading experts in their respective fields – lecturing around the world, publishing books with world-class university presses and placing articles with leading law journals, as well as in interdisciplinary forums.
We also continue to recruit outstanding students. One of our recent graduates placed three articles in law journals before finishing his 3L year. Three others secured the early release of a woman who was subject to abuse and retaliation while in prison. Our BLSA Mock Trial team placed second at its national competition, our Federalist Society group was named national Chapter of the Year, and our law school ranked second in federal clerkship placements among all public law schools. We're also proud of the great value an Alabama Law legal education offers.
I've been a member of our faculty for over 30 years. Our law school has accomplished a lot during that time period, and we're continuing to grow. We hired several talented faculty members this year and will be searching for five additional tenure-track colleagues in the year to come. My colleagues care deeply about their students, our communities, and the law. I am proud of our law school and am grateful to be a part of a community whose work makes a difference in our State, our nation, and around the world.
If you're looking for an academic home, please keep Alabama Law in mind. We are actively searching for great scholars to add to our number in a variety of fields, and our junior colleagues, in particular, are as productive and passionate about their work as any group I've seen. I look forward to having the opportunity to tell you more about the great things that are happening at Alabama Law.
All my best,
William S. Brewbaker III Dean and Professor of Law
The University of Alabama School of Law
MEREDITH RENDER
Waste, Property, and Useless Things
Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2025)
Howshould the law respond to intentionally useless objects that are constructed from scarce materials and thrust into an overcrowded world? Approximately 60 million tons of electronic waste, or “e-waste”—e.g., discarded iPhones, refrigerators, desktop computers—is produced each year. This annual pile of electronic rubbish represents $62 billion worth of tangible raw materials (such as gold and other scarce metals) that has been rendered useless. In addition to wasting raw materials, e-waste clogs our landfills, poisons the ground water, and taxes our capacity to store it. Worst of all, much of this waste is intentionally created by electronics manufacturers through the profit-maximizing strategy of planned obsolescence, a strategy by which manufacturers intentionally limit the utility of their products so that consumers are forced to discard them and buy new products.
This Article offers three principal contributions. First, a normative thesis: more of the social cost of intentionally useless objects should be borne by the manufacturers that profit from the strategy. Second, a theoretical insight: avoiding waste is a central commitment of property law. In fact, property law is rendered more coherent when it is understood as a series of instantiations of an anti-waste imperative. Often confused with an efficiency principle, property law’s anti-waste commitment best explains doctrinal choices that otherwise would seem inconsistent. Finally, a doctrinal analysis: the anti-waste imperative (when applied to the existing rules of property) disallows the conveyance of a simple fee in an intentionally useless object. Instead, manufacturers can only convey a defeasible interest in the object, retaining a reversionary interest that serves to correct some of the negative externalities associated with the strategy of planned obsolescence.
CLARE RYAN
The
Public/Private
Home
110 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2025)
Familiestoday are more private and more public than traditional family law doctrine ever envisioned. This Article reveals how many elements of family life, which the law often assumes will occur in public—work, school, social life—have moved into the private sphere of the home. At the same time, private family life has become increasingly visible and public through social media and continuous data collection within the home.
The balance of public and private life has shifted with profound implications for the field of family law, especially as it governs the parent-child relationship. Transformations in home life have the potential to ameliorate deep inequities inherent in traditional family privacy law. At the same time, they risk exacerbating issues of family violence, oppressive state intervention, and inequality.
This Article unpacks three foundational assumptions of family privacy: 1) What happens within the home is protected from outside view; 2) The home is separate from the market; and 3) Provision of public goods happens outside of the home—and demonstrates how these assumptions produce a doctrinal vision of family life that is starkly at odds with lived experience. In response, this Article contends that parental rights should be untethered from the private home. Instead, law governing parent’s rights to make decisions for their children should be grounded in a core element of the parent-child relationship: the parent’s right—and duty—to protect their child’s wellbeing.
RONALD J. KROTOSZYNSKI JR.
Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the
Freedom of Speech
Oxford University Press (2024)
Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech examines and explains the limited relevance of constitutional text to the scope and vibrancy of free speech rights within a particular national legal system. Across jurisdictions, text or its absence will serve merely as a starting point for judicial efforts to protect speech activity. These judicial efforts, involving an ongoing and dynamic process of common law constitutionalism, will set the precise metes and bounds of expressive freedom within a particular polity.
The strength or weakness of free speech protections depends critically on the willingness and ability of judges to police government efforts to censor speech – in conjunction with the salience of speech as a sociolegal value within the body politic. Thus, a legal system featuring independent courts, ideally vested with a power of judicial review, but that lacks a written free speech guarantee will likely feature broader protection of the freedom of expression than a legal system with a written guarantee that lacks independent courts. Across jurisdictions, text or its absence invariably serves as, at best, a starting point for judicial efforts to protect speech. Judges, engaged in a common law enterprise, matter far more than text, and common law constitutionalism constitutes the global rule rather than the exception.
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in a Comparative Context
Cambridge University Press (2024)
Intoday's digital age, the spread of dis- and misinformation across traditional and social media poses a significant threat to democracy. Yet, repressing political speech in the name of truth can also undermine democratic values. This volume brings together prominent legal scholars from democracies worldwide to explore and evaluate different regulatory approaches for addressing this complex problem – all taking into account that the cure must not be worse than the disease. Using a comparative lens, this book offers important and novel insights into methods ranging from national regulation of politicians' speech to empowering civil-society groups that are well-positioned to blunt the effects of disinformation and misinformation. The book also provides solutions-oriented recommendations for policymakers, judges, legal practitioners, and scholars seeking to promote democratic values by encouraging free political speech while combatting disinformation and misinformation.
FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP
WILLIAM ANDREEN
Research Professor of Law
Professor Emeritus of Law
Administrative Law
Climate Change Law
Environmental Federalism
U.S. & International Environmental Law Water, Water Management, and Water Pollution Law
Selected Book Chapters
Water Pollution Law in the USA: The Clean Water Act, in Water Policy and Governance (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) (with Oliver Fritsch & David Benson).
Alabama Water Law, in 4 Waters and Water Rights AL-1 – AL-52 (Amy Kelley ed., LexisNexis/Matthew Bender 2022-2024).
Selected Honors
Final Peer Review Board, Land Use and Envtl. L. Rev. (Thomson Reuters).
Board of Directors, Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP).
Member, Commission on Environmental Law, International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Scholar Member, Center for Progressive Reform.
William Alfred Rose Professor of Law Director, Artificial Intelligence Initiative 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 (Elvy & Kim eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024) (with Samuel Becher).
Time and Contract Interpretation: Lessons from Machine Learning, in Research Handbook on Law and Time (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Selected Publications
Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, Ariz. St. L.J. (forthcoming) (with Matthew Tokson and Albert Lin).
Generative Interpretation, 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2024) (with David A. Hoffman).
On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts, Harv. J. L. & Tech. (2023).
A Status Theory of Defamation Law, U.C. Irvine L. Rev. (2023).
Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News, N.C. L. Rev. (2023).
The Credibility Effect, J. Legal Stud. (2023).
Defamation with Bayesian Audiences, 52 J. Legal Stud. (2023) (with Murat C. Mungan).
Selected Essays
The False Choice in the Debate Over Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Lawfare (2024) (with Matthew Tokson and Albert Lin).
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, and Matthew Tokson).
Selected Presentations
The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, Penn-NYU Empirical Contracts Workshop, New York University School of Law (2023).
The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, Conference on Data Science & Law, Fordham University School of Law (2023).
The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, American Law & Economics Association Annual Conference, Boston University School of Law (2023). Panelist, Future of Disinformation, Harvard Law School (2023).
Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News, Law & Economics Seminar, Harvard Law School (2023).
On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (2023).
Selected Media Appearances ChatGPT Will Come for Partners' Work in Contract Law, Says Prof., Bloomberg Law (2024).
The Promising Use of AI Models in Contract Interpretation, Penn Carey Law (2024).
Is Progress on Generative AI Too Fast or Too Slow?, Broadband Breakfast (2024).
Fox on Trial as $1.6bn Dominion Defamation Case Set to Begin, Financial Times (2023).
Selected Honors Google Research Innovator.
Member, American Association of Law Schools Defamation Law and Privacy Section.
Member, American Association of Law Schools Law and Economics Section.
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Legal Writing
Trial Advocacy
White Collar Crime
YONATHAN A. ARBEL
STACEY BERGSTROM
Professor of Legal Writing
Director, Legal Writing Director, Moot Court Programs
2L Moot Court
Faculty Coach, Civil Rights & Liberties
Moot Court Team
Faculty Coach, NYC Bar Association
National Moot Court Team
Legal Writing
Moot Court Board Advisor
Thomas E. McMillan Professor of Law
Academic Director, Shelby Institute for Policy and Leadership
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Theory & History Law & Politics
Philosophy of Law
Books
States of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order (University Press of Kansas 2013).
Selected Presentations
Freedoms of Speech and Their Discontents, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2024).
Freedoms of Speech and Their Discontents, Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary (2024).
Rights to Privacy in an Ossified Constitution, University of Luxembourg (2024).
Selected Honors
Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Life Fellow, Alabama Bar Foundation.
Member, American Law Institute.
Dean
Professor of Law
Christian Legal Thought Jurisprudence
Property
Books
Christian Legal Thought: Materials and Cases (Foundation Press 2017) (with Patrick M. Brennan).
Selected Book Chapters
The Uses and Vocation of Law: Themes of Community, Reconciliation, and Friendship in the Work of John Witte, Jr., in Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr. (Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy P. Jackson eds., Brill Publishers 2024) (with Patrick M. Brennan).
Professor of Law
Critical Race Feminism
Critical Race Theory
International Litigation Law & Popular Culture Race & the Law
Selected Book Chapters
Trial by Fire: Teaching Race and Evidence in a Hostile Environment, in Integrating Doctrine & Diversity in the Law School Classroom: Beyond the First Year (Carolina University Press 2024).
Selected Presentations
Critical Approaches to Pedagogy and Practice, Evidence Through a Critical Lens, Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. Symposium (2024).
John J. Sparkman Chair of Law
Administrative Law
Civil Procedure
Environmental Law
Land Use Law
Water Law
Books
Alabama Water Law and Policy: A Comparative Treatise (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming).
Selected Book Chapters
The Institutional Pragmatist, in The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (NYU Press 2023) (with Elizabeth G. Porter).
Selected Presentations
Panelist, Recent Developments in Administrative Law for the Telecommunications Industry, Federal Communications Bar Association Annual Meeting (2023).
Civil Procedure: The Institutional Pragmatist, The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, University of New Hampshire School of Law (2023).
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, Faculty Senate, The University of Alabama (2023).
Member, Graduate Hooding Team, The University of Alabama School of Law (2023).
KIMBERLY K. BOONE
MARK E. BRANDON
WILLIAM S. BREWBAKER III
MONTRÉ D. CARODINE
HEATHER ELLIOTT
STEVE EMENS
Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction
Evidence
Jury Selection
Jury Voir Dire Trial Advocacy
Selected Honors
Member, Alabama Evidence Rules Committee.
Member, Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions Committee.
MIRIT EYAL-COHEN
Joseph D. Peeler Professor of Law
Artificial Intelligence Corporate Tax Entrepreneurship
Innovation Personal Income Tax
U.S. Tax Policy
Selected Publications
The Tax Entrepreneur, 82 Law & Contemp. Probs. (2023).
Selected Essays
Taxing Investment Crowdfunding, 21 Co. Tech. L.J. (2024).
Selected Presentations
Taxing Artificial Entrepreneurs, Sixth Annual International Tax Roundtable (2024).
Artificial Inventiveness, Tax Policy Colloquium, Hebrew University School of Law (2024).
Artificial Inventiveness, Vanderbilt University School of Law (2024).
Tax Incentives for Investment Crowdfunding, The Future of Startup Finance: A Symposium on Investment Crowdfunding, University of Colorado Law School (2023).
Taxing Artificial Inventiveness, Fifth Annual International Tax Roundtable (2023).
Current Issues with R&D Incentives, University of San Diego (2023).
The Hidden Partner, Law & Society Association Annual Conference (2023).
Current Issues with R&D Incentives, Southeastern Tax Conference, Georgia State University (2023).
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Advanced Due Process
Advanced Equal Protection
Constitutional Law
First Amendment Law
U.S. Races and the Law
Selected Publications
Crying Wolf: Neo-Patriots, Critical Race Theory, and Constitutional Protection for “Dangerous” Ideas, 27 U.C. Davis Social Justice L. Rev. 1 (2023).
Federalism by Deception: The Implied Limits on Congressional Power, 62 Santa Clara L. Rev. 3 (2023).
Preparing for a Career in the Law in the 21st Century (2023).
Selected Presentations
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast, The Links, Inc. Selma Chapter (2024).
Alabama Lawyers Association Hall of Fame, Montgomery, Alabama (2024).
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: Legal and Educational Perspectives, Washington College (2024).
Panelist, Elevating Equity & Inclusion and Defending Diversity in the Workplace, Maynard Nexsen (2023).
Free Speech on Campus, Jacksonville State University (2023).
Modern Restrictions on Voting Rights, Auburn University at Montgomery (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
Alabama Higher Education Official Says SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action Could Have Unexpected Impacts, CBS 42 (2023).
Rear View Look at Affirmative Action and Black College Enrollment, Valdosta Daily Times (2023).
STEFANIA FUSCO
Visiting Professor of Law
Comparative Intellectual Property Law
Corporate Finance
Copyright Law
Design Law
International Intellectual Property Law
Patent Law
Trademark Law
Selected Publications Does the EU Market Need an eBayLike Case? Evidence Against Granting Automatic Preliminary Injunctions in Europe (forthcoming) (with Valerio Sterzi).
The Enduring Value of Copyright Harmonization (forthcoming).
Selected Presentations
Venetian Patents and the 1474 Patent Statute, Patent Law Roundtable Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Statute of Monopolies, Oxford University, Loyola Marymount University Law School, and The George Washington University Law School (2024).
Moderator, Design Law Panel, Creativity and Innovation is Local Symposium, Texas A&M University School of Law (2023).
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing
Legal Writing Litigation Drafting
Books
Age Discrimination in Employment Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA 2019) (associate editor).
Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law
BRYAN K. FAIR
KARA DEAL GAMBLE
Frank Bainbridge-Walter L. Mims
Professor of Law
Civil Procedure Criminal Law & Procedure
Books
The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution (Oxford University Press 2021) (with Ronald F. Wright & Kay L. Levine) (edited volume).
Selected Publications
The Price of Criminal Law, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. (forthcoming 2024).
The Public Voice of the Defender, 75 Ala. L. Rev. 157 (2023) (with Kay L. Levine).
Selected Essays
Exoneration Finance, 99 N.Y.U. L.Rev. Online (2024) (with Kay L. Levine).
Trump’s Special Treatment in the Courts Highlights Failings in Our Legal System, The Hill (2023) (with Christopher Robertson).
Donald Trump’s Right − He is Getting Special Treatment, Far Better than Most Other Criminal Defendants, The Conversation (2023) (with Christopher Robertson).
How Public Defenders Can Use Social Media to Drive Change, Law360 (2023) (with Kay L. Levine).
Selected Presentations
Panelist, Becoming a Productive and Fulfilled Scholar, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2023).
Starving the Prosecutorial Beast, CrimFest, Brooklyn Law School (2023).
Prosecutor Scarcity and Experience, Criminal Justice Ethics Schmooze, Fordham University School of Law (2023).
The Public Voice of the Defender, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
Georgia Arrest Strips 'Special Status' From Trump, U.S. News & World Report (2023).
Year in Review: Bail Reform Petitioned to SCOTUS, The Cullman Times (2023).
Fostering the Public Voice of the Public Defender, Public Defenseless (2023).
Criminal Justice Reform Advocates See Mixed Results in Alabama Legislature, Alabama Reflector (2023).
Carlee Russell 'Hoax' Fallout: Ala. Lawmaker Wants to Make Faking an Abduction a Felony, WSB-TV (2023).
New Fentanyl Penalties Are Among Criminal Justice Measures Passed in Alabama, Chattanooga Times Free Press (2023).
Cullman County Lawsuit Could Have National Impact, The Cullman Times (2023).
Selected Honors
Outstanding Faculty Member, Student Bar Association, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).
Faculty Fellow, The University of Alabama Teaching Academy (2024).
Member, Commencement Hooding Team (2024).
Professor of Law Honors Professor
Alabama's Constitution, Tax Policy Analyzed Ethically, Ethics Laws, and History & Culture Business Organizations & Limited Liability Companies Federal Tax Laws & Policy Analyzed Ethically State & Local Tax Laws & Policy Analyzed Ethically
Selected Book Chapters
Evangelicals and Other Contemporary Protestant Denominations in the United States, in Christian Perspectives on the Role of the State, Justice, and Taxation (Springer, forthcoming).
The Political Elusiveness of JudeoChristian Inspired Tax Policy, in Render Unto Caesar: Christian Theological Perspectives on Tax Law (McDonald Agape Foundation, forthcoming).
The Political Elusiveness of Tax and Constitution Reform, in Never Gonna Change? An Examination of the 1901 Constitution (North Alabama Digital Press, forthcoming).
Selected Media Appearances
Alabama Passes Law to Protect I.V.F. Treatments, The New York Times (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).
A Tech Billionaire has Quietly Bought Hundreds of Acres in Hawaii. Locals Wonder Why., NPR's All Things Considered (2024).
Alabama's 1901 Constitution, The New Yorker (2024).
Alabama's IVF Ruling is Having Ripple Effects. What it Does – and Doesn't – Do, The Christian Science Monitor (2024).
Best Car Insurance in Alabama, WalletHub (2024).
States with the Best & Worst Taxpayer ROI, WalletHub (2024).
Tax Burden by State, WalletHub (2023).
Kulturkampf ums Kind, German Newspaper Group (2024).
California Fast Food Restaurants Take Advantage of Wage Loophole, Capital & Main (2023).
The Fee Trap: Why Alabama's Local Governments Can't Shake Fines and Charges, Alabama Reflector (2023).
Homes in the Shadows: Out-of-State LLCs Often Conceal Ownership of Allegheny County's Dangerous and Decaying Homes, Pittsburgh-Post Gazette(2023).
Inside the Birmingham Kickback Scheme That Took Down a Legislator, AL.com (2023).
RUSSELL M. GOLD
SUSAN PACE HAMILL
Assistant Dean for Students
Associate Professor of Legal Writing
Bar Exam Preparation
Faculty Coach, Andrews ABA National Moot Court Team
Introduction to the Study of Law Legal Writing
Selected Presentations
Panelist, Dangerous Curve Ahead: Using Legal Writing and Academic Support Programs to Sustain Students and Ourselves on the Road to Law School Success, LWI Biennial Conference, Indiana University McKinney School of Law (2024).
Selected Honors
Fellow, SEC Academic Leadership Development Program (2024).
Member, Commencement Hooding Team (2024, 2023).
Outstanding Faculty Member, Student Bar Association, The University of Alabama School of Law (2023).
Assistant Professor of Law
Administrative Law
Antitrust
Consumer Law
Consumer Finance
Financial Regulation
Law & Political Economy
Student Loan Law
Selected Publications
Unfairness, Reconstructed, Yale J. on Reg. (forthcoming).
What is Consumer Protection For?, 34 Loy. Consumer L. Rev. (2023).
At the Nexus of Antitrust & Consumer Protection, 2023 Utah L. Rev. 240 (2023).
Selected Essays
Who Cares About Efficiency?, Law and Political Economy Blog (2023).
Some Short Circuits in the Rewiring of Regulatory Review, Law and Political Economy Blog (2023).
Paradigms, Politics, and Policy Statement at the CFPB, Yale J. on Reg. Notice and Comment Blog (2023).
Selected Presentations
Channeling Competition, Oxford's Antitrust Enforcement Symposium, Centre on Competition Law and Policy, Oxford University Faculty of Law (2024).
The Promise and Limits of Consumer Protection for AI and Commercial Surveillance, Reidenberg Lecture, Fordham University School of Law (2024).
Higher Education Access and the Future of Student Debt Relief, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024).
Are Antitrust and Consumer Law the New Work Law?, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2024).
Section 202(a) of the PSA, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Complex Investigations Training (2023).
Consumer Protection After Consumer Sovereignty, Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale Law School (2023).
Moderator, Institutional Design and Democratic Governance, Labor, Social Control, and Counter-Power, Law and Political Economy Conference, Harvard Law School (2023).
Unfair Acts and Practices: An Essay in Reconstruction, Consumer Law Scholars Conference, U.C. Berkeley School of Law (2023).
Consumer Protection After Consumer Sovereignty, Southeastern Junior/Senior Scholars Conference (2023).
Consumer Protection After Consumer Sovereignty, Northeastern University School of Law Faculty Colloquium, Northeastern University School of Law (2023).
Consumer Protection After Consumer Sovereignty, Ohio State University Junior Scholars Lightning Round, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (2023).
Unfair Acts and Practices: An Essay in Reconstruction, Berkeley Consumer Law Scholars Conference, U.C. Berkeley School of Law (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
How an Unrelated Supreme Court Decision Could Jeopardize Biden's New Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Before it Even Goes Into Effect, Business Insider (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).
Biden Administration Moves Ahead with New Plan to Cancel Student Debt, CNBC (2023).
The White House Should Admit that Student Debt Forgiveness Isn't Happening, Vox (2023).
Borrowers Should Avoid Getting Hopes Up for Biden's Next Round of Student Loan Forgiveness, Expert Says, CNBC (2023).
Biden's Backup for Student Loan Relief Likely to Take a Year, Inside Higher Ed (2023).
Joe Biden's New Student Debt Relief Plan Might Actually Work this Time, Slate (2023).
How Biden Might Try to Cancel Student Debt Again, The New York Times (2023).
Biden's Plan B on Student Loan Forgiveness Relies on Higher Education Act: What to Know, ABC News (2023).
The Supreme Court Just Struck Down Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan. Here's Plan B., Vox (2023).
Here's What We Know so Far About Biden's 'Plan B' for Student Loan Forgiveness, CNBC (2023).
Student Debtors Deserve More from Their Government, New York Magazine (2023).
Biden's Latest Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Probably Won't Work, Experts Say, Time (2023).
Unmasking the Student Loan Crisis, Matter of Life and Debt (2023).
Supreme Court Greenlights Student Loan Forgiveness for Defrauded Borrowers. What's Next?, USA Today (2023).
LUKE HERRINE
ANITA KAY HEAD
Luke Herrine Cont'd. Potential Plan B for Biden Student Loan Relief Messy, Untested, Bloomberg Law (2023).
Lawyers and Justices Spar Over Student Loan Forgiveness in Supreme Court, Investopedia (2023).
Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Goes Before Supreme Court Tuesday. Here's what Borrowers Need to Know, CNN (2023).
How the Government Canceled Betty Ann's Debts, The New Yorker (2023).
Biden's Student Loan Relief Plan in Chaos: Experts Suggest Untested Plan B, JD Journal (2023).
U.S. Uses 'Compromise and Settlement' to Erase Law Grad's $329K Debt; Would it Work on a Grander Scale?, ABA Journal (2023).
Biden Administration's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Goes Before the Supreme Court this Week, CBS News (2023).
Why Biden Ending the COVID-19 Emergency Could Doom Student Loan Forgiveness, Time Magazine (2023).
Student Loan Activists Who Helped Get Billions in Debt Canceled are Trying Again, MarketWatch (2023).
If SCOTUS Blocks Student Debt Relief, 1965 Law Could be 'Plan B', Nerd Wallet (2023).
What the Supreme Court's Decision to Let $6 Billion in Student Loan Relief Move Forward Means for Borrowers, MarketWatch (2023).
'This Fight is Not Over:' Advocates Push Biden to Use Other Tools to Cancel Student Debt, MarketWatch (2023).
The Biden Administration has a New Strategy for Student Loan Forgiveness – But There are Risks it Could Meet the Same Fate, MarketWatch (2023).
A Backup Plan Offers Hope for Borrowers if Supreme Court , MarketWatch (2023).
If SCOTUS Blocks Student Debt Relief, 1965 Law Could be 'Plan B', Nerd Wallet (2023).
What the Supreme Court's Decision to Let $6 Billion in Student Loan Relief Move Forward Means for Borrowers, MarketWatch (2023).
Supreme Court Majority Questions Biden's Student Debt Relief Plan, MarketWatch (2023).
Gordon Rosen Professor of Law
Constitutional Law Law & Religion Legal Profession Legislation & Regulation Separation of Powers
Supreme Court Seminar
Books
The First Amendment (Aspen Publishing, forthcoming) (with Michael Dimino).
First Amendment Institutions (Harvard University Press 2013).
The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution (Oxford University Press 2011).
Selected Publications
A Tribute to R. Kent Greenwalt: ScholarTeacher, Teacher-Scholar, 123 Colum. L. Rev. 939 (2023)
Selected Honors
Co-Editor, Constitutional Law Section, Jotwell.
Co-Blogger, Prawfsblawg.
Co-Organizer, Annual Law and Religion Roundtable, The University of Alabama School of Law.
Elton B. Stephens Professor of Law Director, International Programs
International Law
International Trade Law
Law of Armed Conflict
Nuclear Law
Public International Law
Books
Iran’s Nuclear Program and International Law: From Confrontation to Accord (Oxford University Press 2016).
Selected Book Chapters
Strategic Trade Controls, in Research Handbook on Arms Control Law (Thilo Marauhn and Eric Myjer eds., Edward Elgar 2023).
Selected Publications
Disarmament is Good, but What We Need Now is Arms Control, 10 Indonesian J. of Int’l and Comp. L. 1 (2023).
Selected Presentations
The Current Crisis in International Arms Control Law, University of Kyoto School of Law (2023).
John S. Stone Chairholder of Law Director, Program in Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement
Administrative Law Comparative Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law First Amendment Law Telecommunications Law
Books
Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press 2024).
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press 2024) (with Charlotte Garden and András Koltay) (edited volume).
First Amendment: Cases and Theory (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2022) (with Lyrissa Lidsky, Caroline Mala Corbin and Timothy Zick).
Administrative Law (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. 2021) (with John M. Rogers, Michael Healy & Kent Barnett).
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 (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed. 2017) (with John M. Rogers & Michael Healy).
PAUL HORWITZ
DANIEL H. JOYNER
RONALD J. KROTOSZYNSKI, JR.
First Amendment: Cases and Theory (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd ed. 2017) (with Caroline Mala Corbin, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky & Christina E. Wells).
Selected Book Chapters
Consensus, Conflict, and Complementarity: A Global Perspective on Freedom of Expression, in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2nd ed., forthcoming).
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 a Comparative Context (Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., Charlotte Garden, and András Koltay eds., Cambridge University Press 2024).
Whalen v. Roe (1977), in Landmark Cases in Privacy Law (Paul Wragg and Peter Coe eds., Hart Publishing 2023).
Giving the Invisible Hand a Relatively Free Hand: Data Privacy in the U.S. and the Unfortunate, but Lawful, Commodification of the Person, in The Law of Global Digitality (Matthias C. Kettemann, Alexander Peukert, and Indra Spiecker eds., Routledge 2022).
Selected Publications Do Elections Really Have Consequences?: Presidential Indifference, Attenuated Accountability, and Policy Paralysis Within the Administrative State, 58 Ga. L. Rev. 1015 (2024).
Reimagining First Amendment Remedies, 109 Iowa L. Rev. 243 (2024) (with Caprice L. Roberts).
Common Law Constitutionalism and the Protean First Amendment, 25 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1 (2023).
On the Importance of Being Earnest: Contrasting the Dangers of Makeweights with the Virtues of Judicial Candor in Constitutional Adjudication, 74 Ala. L. Rev. 243 (2022).
Selected Essays
Proposed Parading Rules Run Afoul of First Amendment, The Advocate (2023).
Selected Presentations
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).
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).
Free Speech as Civic Structure: A Comparative Legal Analysis of How Courts and Culture Shape the Freedom of Speech, Distinguished Lecture Series, Constitutional Law Center, Drake University School of Law (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 Foundation, Columbia University (2024).
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Defining the Problem, Identifying Effective Solutions, and the Potential Merits of Using a Comparative Legal Approach, Global Freedom of Expression Project, Columbia University Law School (2023).
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Defining the Problem, Identifying Effective Solutions, and the Potential Merits of Using a Comparative Legal Approach, Free Speech/Media Law Discussion Forum, University of Luxembourg Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance (2023).
The Role of Diversity and Remediation in Race-Conscious Government Action in a Post-Grutter World, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2023).
Reimagining First Amendment Remedies, Remedies Discussion Forum, Aix Marseille Université: Faculté de Droit et de Science Politique (2023).
Privacy and Tradition, Forum on Privacy and Governmental Transparency, National Public Service University, Budapest, Hungary (2023).
Constitutional Privacy and the Pernicious Problem of State Action, Data Privacy and Individual Rights Panel, Annual Technology, Privacy, Media, and Law Conference, University of Florida Levin College of Law (2023).
Reimagining First Amendment Remedies, Faculty Workshop Series, University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns RaceConscious Admissions, University World News (2023).
Selected Honors Fellow, American Bar Association.
Associate Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction Director, Clinical Programs Director, Civil Law Clinic
Civil Procedure
Clinical Legal Education Criminal Procedure Policing & Police Training
Trial Practice & Procedure
Selected Presentations What You Need to Know About Landlords and Apartment Leases, The University of Alabama Global Café (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, 2023).
Professor of Law
Descendants’ Estates Legal History
Wills
YURI R. LINETSKY
ALBERT LOPEZ
BENJAMIN MCMICHAEL
Associate Professor of Law Health Law Law & Economics Torts
Selected Publications
Reproductive Objectification, 108 Minn. L. Rev. (2024) (with Meghan Boone).
A Constitutional False Claims Act, 102 Wash. U. L. Rev. (2024) (with Mackenzi Barrett and W. Kip Viscusi).
Inequitable Organ Allocation, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2024).
Supply-Side Health Policy: The Impact of Scope-of-Practice Laws on Mortality, 222 J. Pub. Econ. (2023).
Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws, 80 Med. Care Res. & Rev. (2023) (with Sara Markowitz).
Selected Presentations
Scope-of-Practice Laws in a Wider Context, Central Alabama Nurse Practitioner Association Annual Conference (2024).
Sharing is Caring: Does Organ Allocation Policy Work?, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
Alabama's IVF Protection Law Will Reopen Clinics but Curb Patient Rights, The New York Times (2024).
The Nation's Organ Donation Process is Failing Because of This Crucial Link, Hacker Noon (2024).
Immunity Law May Not be the End of IVF Legal Issues, Fox 13 Birmingham (2024).
Frozen Embryos, Fox 10 Mobile (2024).
IVF Decision, Fox 5 DC (2024).
More Help Needed With Healthcare Shortages, Las Vegas Sun (2023).
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head-On, Tradeoffs (2023).
A Crucial Link in the Nation’s Organ Donation Process is Failing, The Markup (2023).
Selected Honors
Member, Commencement Hooding Team (2021-2024).
Assistant Dean for Leadership and Professional Identity
Assistant Professor of Law in Residence
Anti-Human Trafficking
Civil Rights Litigation
Poverty Law
Prison Conditions
Professional Responsibility
Summer Scholars Program
White Collar Practice
Books
Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure (LexisNexis 2024, 2023).
LexisNexis Practice Guide: Alabama Civil Procedure (2024 ed. LexisNexis 2023, 2022, 2021) (with Othni J. Lathram).
Selected Presentations
Moderator, Making the Legal Profession Accessible to the Entire Population, Ala. L. Rev. Symposium, The University of Alabama School of Law (2023).
Legal Services of Alabama Statewide Litigation Conference, Montgomery, Alabama (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
Hamdani 'Thankful' for His New Role as U.S. Attorney for Southern Texas, Houston Chronicle (2023).
Vice Dean Professor of Law
Family Law
First Amendment Law Human Rights Law & Religion
Books
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (5th ed., Oxford University Press 2022) (with John Witte Jr. and Richard W. Garnett).
Selected Book Chapters
Religious Liberty in the Thirteenth Colony, in Faith in Law, Law in Faith: Reflecting and Building on the Work of John Witte, Jr. (Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy P. Jackson eds., Brill Publishers 2024).
Selected Publications
Vocation as Self, Others and a Third Thing, 38 Touro Law Review (2023).
Selected Honors
Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
Senior Fellow, Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion.
Assistant Professor of Law
Environmental Law Property Law
Selected Book Chapters
In Defense of (Some) Plant Rights in The Vegetal Turn (Marcello di Paola ed., Springer 2024).
Selected Publications
Toxic Battery: Pollution as a Dignitary Tort, 65(8) B.C. L. Rev. (2024).
Selected Essays
What Do Rights Have to Do with It?, commentary on Ra, K. & Cooper, J. The Bioethics of Environmental Injustice: Ethical, Legal, and Clinical Implications of Unhealthy Environments, 24 American Journal of Bioethics (2024) (with Eric Scharffe).
Selected Presentations
Panelist, Conference on Climate Constitutionalism, Widener University Delaware Law School and Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University (2024).
Canary in the Coal Mine: Environmental(ist) Constitutionalism as Environmental Governance, 2024 Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law Conference (2024).
ANIL MUJUMDAR
JOEL A. NICHOLS
AMBER POLK
Panelist, Toxic Battery: Pollution as a Dignitary Tort, 14th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship, Vermont Law School (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
The Tragedy of Living in the Athropocene, Environmental Law Prof Blog (2023).
Rights-Based Environmentalism as a Legal, Political, and Moral Movement and Montana Youth Climate Victory, Background Briefing (2023).
Held v. State, KBCS Radio SF (2023).
Montana Kids Win Historic Climate Lawsuit – Here's Why it Could Set a Powerful Precedent, The Conversation (2023).
Associate Dean for Graduate Law Programs Director, CLE Alabama
Distance Education
TRAVIS RAMEY
Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction 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. (forthcoming 2025).
Selected Presentations
Interlocutory Appeals in Complex Litigation, Southeastern Association of Law Schools New Scholars Workshop (2024).
Selected Honors
Member, Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure.
Associate Professor of Law Director of Faculty Research
Administrative Law
Citizenship
Immigration Law
Legal Ethics
Legislation & Regulation
Statutory Interpretation
Selected Publications
Individualized Guidance in the Federal Bureaucracy, Final Report to the Admin. Conf. of the United States (2024).
Citizenship and Racial Subordination, 3 Am. J. L. & Eq. (2023).
Noncitizen Harboring and the Freedom of Association, 101 N.C. L. Rev. 677 (2023).
Selected Essays
Eroding Immigrants' Rights Through the 'New' New Textualism, American Constitution Society Supreme Court Review (2023).
United States v. Texas, Explained, Lawfare (2023).
Open Questions, Legal Hurdles for Biden's New Border Rule, Lawfare (2023).
Selected Presentations
Moderator, The Promise, Perils, and Future of Policymaking Through Enforcement, ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section Spring Conference (2024).
Immigration Law Overview for Health Equity Scholars, Health Equity Scholars Retreat, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine (2024).
Individualized Guidance in the Federal Bureaucracy, Dean Scholars Luncheon, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).
Cardozo Immigration Enforcement Workshop, Cardozo School of Law (2023).
Statutory Interpretation and the NonCitizen, Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (2023).
Panelist, Agency Adjudication, ABA
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section Annual Spring Conference (2023).
New Voices in Administrative Law and Legislation, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (2023).
Panelist, Biden v. Texas, and The Federal/ State Battle Over Immigration Law, American Association of Law Schools Hot Topics (2023).
Selected Honors
The University of Alabama President's Faculty Research Award (2024).
Professor of Law
Civil Rights
Gender & Sexuality and the Law Legislation & Regulation Property Law
Selected Publications
Waste, Property, and Useless Things, Harv. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Selected Presentations
Waste, Property, and Useless Things, Grey Fellows Forum, Stanford Law School (2024).
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).
DANIEL POWELL
SHALINI BHARGAVA RAY
MEREDITH RENDER
Professor of Law
Business Organizations
Corporate Governance
Finance & Securities Law
Financial Derivatives
International Business
Legislation
State Government
Selected Publications
ESG, the SEC Climate Rule, and the Limits of Securities Regulation, 85 Alabama Lawyer (2024).
A Scholarly Judge, 75 Ala. L. Rev. (2024).
Selected Presentations
Lectures on International Business Transactions, Academy of American and International Law (2024).
Rogue Prosecutors, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting (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, American Association of Law Schools/Federalist Society Faculty Conference (2024).
Moderator, Panel of State and Federal Court Judges, The University of Alabama School of Law (2024).
Selected Honors
Elected Member, American Law Institute.
Members Consultative Group, American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law and Corporate Governance.
Members Consultative Group, American Law Institute's Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Commissioner, Uniform Law Commission.
Member, Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on the United Nations Convention on the Adoption of International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation.
Member, Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on Hague Judgments Convention.
Member, Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by State Government.
Member, Alabama Law Institute Council.
CLARE RYAN
Associate Professor of Law
Family Law I & II
International Human Rights Law
Books
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 Public/Private Home, 110 Cornell L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025).
Are Children’s Rights Enough?, 72 Am. U. L. Rev. 2077 (2023).
Selected Essays
Children's Autonomy Rights Online, Chicago L. Rev. Online (2024).
Selected Presentations
The Public/Private Home, West Coast Gender, Sexuality, and the Law Conference, Loyola Los Angeles School of Law (2024).
Are Children’s Rights Enough?, International Society of Family Law World Conference, University of Antwerp (2023).
Anti-Democratic Advocacy: The Role of Third-Party Interventions in LGBT and Reproductive Rights Litigation, Legal Infrastructures of Democracy Symposium, Max Plank Institute (2023).
The Public/Private Home, Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Boston College School of Law (2023).
Are Children's Rights Enough?, Faculty Colloquium, University of Mississippi Law Center (2023).
Moderator, Children in Society, U. of Chi. L. Rev. Annual Symposium (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
Alabama Passes Law to Protect I.V.F. Treatments, The New York Times (2024).
Selected Honors
Honorary Order of the Samaritan Award, The University of Alabama School of Law Public Interest Institute (2024).
Co-Chair, Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law.
Inaugural Emerging Scholar, Children and the Law, U. of Chi. L. Rev. Symposium (2023).
Visiting Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction
Interim Director, Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Clinic
Civil Rights
Clinical Legal Instruction
Criminal Justice Reform Nonprofit & Entrepreneurship Clinics Transactional Law
Selected Essays
Reflections on Dr. King’s Beloved Community: Onward Toward a Brighter Future, Alabama Appleseed (2023).
Selected Presentations
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).
Panelist, Policy Issues and Recommendations Regarding Youth Incarceration in Alabama, Youth Incarceration & Juvenile Justice in Alabama, The University of Alabama School of Law (2023).
Selected Media Appearances Alabama Bill Would Enable Review of Some Habitual Offender Sentences, The Associated Press (2023).
Ivey Signs Bill Giving More Leniency Before Driver’s License Suspension, Alabama Political Reporter (2023).
FREDERICK SPIGHT
KENNETH ROSEN
Frederick Spight Cont'd.
Ivey Signs Law Limiting Courts’ Ability to Suspend Drivers’ Licenses Over Missed Court Dates, Fines, Alabama Reflector (2023).
Suspended Licenses Driving Workforce Shortage and Loss of Millions in Consumer Spending, ABC 33/40 Birmingham (2023).
Montgomery Residents Speak on Citizen Police Review Board, WSFA NBC Montgomery (2023).
Alabama Prosecutors Want Mandatory Prison for Felons Who Violate Gun Prohibitions, AL.com (2023).
DAIQUIRI STEELE
Associate Professor of Law Civil Rights Education Law Employment Discrimination Labor & Employment Legislation & Regulation Retaliation & Whistleblower Law Torts
Selected Publications
Integrating Interference Theory, 104 B.U. L. Rev. (2024).
Enforcing Equity, 118 Nw. U. L. Rev. (2023).
Rationing Retaliation Claims, 18 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. (2023).
Selected Essays
Child Labor Laws: Balancing Education, Work, and Rights, ABA Labor & Employment Law News (2024).
Institutionalizing Fear in the Workplace, Capstone Lawyer, The University of Alabama School of Law (2023).
Selected Presentations
Surveillance as Retaliation, Culp Colloquium, Harvard Law School (2024).
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, Practicing Law Institute Wage and Hour Litigation and Compliance Conference (2024).
The Future of Agency Deference and Its Implications for Employment and Labor Law, ABA Labor & Employment Law Section Annual Meeting (2023).
Integrating Interference Theory, 15th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law, University of Minnesota School of Law (2023).
Beyond Timing: Defeating Summary Judgment in Retaliation Cases, National Employment Law Association Annual Conference (2023).
Integrating Interference Theory, American Association of Law Schools Employment Discrimination Section Works in Progress Workshop (2023).
Integrating Interference, Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson College of Law (2023).
Pass Interference: The Interference Theory of Retaliation, Culp Colloquium, Duke University School of Law (2023).
Pass Interference: The Interference Theory of Retaliation, Richmond Junior Faculty Forum, Richmond University School of Law (2023).
The Frontlines of Civil Rights: An Academic Overview, Clifford & Virginia Durr Lecture Series Weekend, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (2023).
What Young Lawyers Want and What Pre-Law Students Need, Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee Meeting (2023).
Hot Topics: Whistleblower Law Updates, ABA State & Local Government Law Section Mid-Year Meeting (2023).
Towards an Omnibus Athletics Whistleblower Statute, Sports and Recreation Law Association Conference (2023).
Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion for Sports and Recreation Law Faculty and Professionals, Sports and Recreation Law Association Conference (2023).
Diversity in Legal Education, ABA Young Lawyers Division Mid-Year Meeting (2023).
Enforcing Equity, Faculty Colloquium, St. Louis University School of Law (2023).
Moderator, New and Emerging Voices in Workplace Law, American Association of Law Schools Section of Employment Discrimination and Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law (2023).
Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop: Designing Your Teaching Package, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference (2023).
Selected Media Appearances 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).
What I Wish I’d Learned in Law School, ABA Journal (2023).
Selected Honors
Volunteer of the Year, Birmingham Business Journal (2024).
GARY SULLIVAN
Associate Professor of Law in Residence Director, Trial Advocacy Program Bankruptcy Law Commercial Litigation Creditor Rights Trial Advocacy
Selected Publications
Subchapter V: A New Reorganization Model for Small Business, 84 Alabama Lawyer (2023).
Selected Honors Edition Editor, The Bankruptcy Issue, The Alabama Lawyer
JOYCE WHITE VANCE
Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law
Civil & Criminal Justice Reform Criminal Law & Procedure
Democratic Institutions Election Law
Selected Publications
Trump Classified Documents – Model Prosecution Memo, Just Security (2nd ed., 2023) (with Andrew Weissmann, Ryan Goodman, Norman L. Eisen, Fred Wertheimer, Siven Watt, E. Danya Perry, Joshua Stanton, and Joshua Kolb).
Selected Essays
The Fulton County Disqualification Allegations: Myths, Facts, and Unknowns, Just Security (2024) (with Norman L. Eisen and Barbara McQuade).
Why Fani Willis is Not Disqualified Under Georgia Law, Just Security (2024) (with Norman L. Eisen and Richard Painter).
Are Women Second Class Citizens Now?, Café (2023).
What the Legal System Owes America in the Era of Donald Trump, MSNBC Daily (2023).
The World's Feminists Need to Show Up for Israeli Victims, Slate (2023) (with Dahlia Lithwick, Mimi Rocah, Tamara Sepper, Jennifer Taub, and Julie Zebrak).
How to Convict Trump, The New York Times (2023) (with Norman L. Eisen and Andrew Weissmann).
Believing E. Jean Carroll, MSNBC Daily (2023).
What About Standing? Student Debt Cancellation at the Supreme Court, Café (2023).
Why the DOJ's Response to Tyre Nichols' Brutal Killing Matters, MSNBC Daily (2023).
Trump in Civil Trouble, Café (2023).
Selected Presentations
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).
Keeping the Republic, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft Civil Rights Series (2023).
Media Involvement
NBC News & MSNBC Legal Analyst.
Co-Host, #SistersInLaw Podcast (with Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Barbara McQuade, and Jill Wine-Banks).
Co-Host, Café Insider Podcast (with Preet Bharara).
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, Substack.
Selected Media Appearances 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.
Robert W. Hodgkins Chair of Law
Disability Law Firearms Law Law & Economics Mental Health Law Property Trust & Estates
Books Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness are Empowering One Another (Prometheus Press, forthcoming).
Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights (Harvard University Press 2020) (with Ian Ayres).
Selected Publications
The Dog That Didn't Bark is Rewriting the Second Amendment, N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online (2024).
Time to Heal: Trauma’s Impact on Rape & Sexual Assault Statutes of Limitations, Tex. A&M L. Rev. (2023) (with Jillian Miller Purdue).
The Slayer Rule: An Empirical Examination, Actec L.J. (2023).
Murder and Money: The Dark Side of Taylor Swift, Duke L.J. Online (2023).
Selected Essays
A Simple Way to Protect Domestic Violence Orders Against the Next Constitutional Challenge, Harv. L. Rev. Online (2024) (with Ian Ayres).
The Supreme Court is Not Necessary, The Hill (2023).
The Supreme Court Should Protect Domestic Violence Victims from Guns, Even if the Founders Didn't, The LA Times (2023).
Patrons Packing Heat: Businesses Should be Required to Tell Customers Whether Guns are Allowed, The Hill (2023).
What ‘The Sneetches’ Can Teach Us About the Battle Against Wokeness, The Hill (2023).
Selected Presentations
U.S. vs. Rahimi: Oral Arguments and Possible Outcomes, Second Amendment Symposium (2023).
Selected Media Appearances
Why Does Alabama Have More Gun Deaths Than New York?, Alabama Reflector (2023).
What if You Couldn't Keep Her Safe?, This is Actually Happening Podcast (2023).
People Fixing the World: Stopping Suicide, BBC (2023).
Charlotte Talks, NPR (2023).
To Prevent Gun Suicide, States Consider Allowing People to Deny Themselves a Gun, Stateline (2023).
FREDRICK E. VARS
Fredrick Vars Cont'd.
SC Lawmaker Pitches Novel Idea to Curb Gun Suicides: A Voluntary No-Sell Weapons List, Post & Courier (2023).
To Prevent Gun Suicides, States Consider Allowing People to Deny Themselves a Gun, Wyoming Tribute Eagle (2023).
Red Flag Law Proposed in Alabama, ABC 33/40 Birmingham (2023).
Donna's Law: A Tool for Preventing Suicide, CBS Sunday Morning (2023).
Murder and Money: The Dark Side of Taylor Swift, Excited Utterance Podcast (2023).
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