Member School Highlight

AALS has launched a series that will highlight a different member school and focus on a recent program or accomplishment in order to showcase the rich variety of approaches to legal education that makes up the American legal academy. A list of past highlights is available below.

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Member School Highlight – The University of Alabama School of Law

 

Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Founded: 1872
Joined AALS:1928
Dean: William S. Brewbaker III

The University of Alabama School of Law is located in Tuscaloosa along the Black Warrior River, the only public law school in Alabama. The Law School is a short distance from major Southern business and cultural centers such as Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Mobile, Montgomery, Jackson, Chattanooga, and New Orleans. Alabama Law is an institution that provides its attendees with a low student-to-faculty ratio, high bar passage and employment rates, and stellar placement in federal clerkships—opening doors and preparing its students to make meaningful contributions to their profession immediately after graduation and throughout their careers. The University of Alabama School of Law clinicstrial advocacymoot court teams, and law journals give their students more practical experiences while still earning course credit.  Certificate programs in areas such as public interestgovernmental affairscomparative and international law, and dual degree programs allow their students to pursue the classes they need to prepare for their desired careers.

At Alabama Law, the approximately 120 first-year JD students are taught the fundamentals necessary to practice law by experts in established and emerging legal fields who have published their research with leading law reviews and university presses such as Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge.

The University of Alabama School of Law’s Comprehensive Advising Program mentors meeting with incoming students.

The University of Alabama School of Law’s Comprehensive Advising Program (or “CAP”) aims to bring alumni, faculty, and administrators together to ensure their students are connected and supported throughout their time in law school. Through the CAP, the law school pairs each incoming student with a faculty advisor and a career services advisor. Students are also given the opportunity to receive a student mentor through the Student Bar Association (SBA) and an alumni mentor from the Alabama Law Alumni Society. These mentors are paired based on the students’ fields of interest and backgrounds.

CAP advisors provide students with expertise to help them successfully navigate the many challenges they may face in law school. While an SBA mentor can offer advice about student organizations and study tips, an alum mentor can answer a student’s questions about navigating the transition to practice or a clerkship. Faculty advisors are particularly suited to assist students with advice about course selection, exam preparation, and wellness resources during law school, and assigned career service advisors work with each student to help them achieve their employment goals.

“Our goal is to provide Alabama Law students with the resources they need to help them succeed,” said William S. Brewbaker III, Dean and Professor of Law. “We have outstanding faculty and staff who put a lot of work into making this happen – building a community around our students so they know we are behind them and that they are always part of our family at Alabama Law. I’m especially grateful for the many alumni who help the Law School and our students by serving as mentors and investing in our students.”

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Past Member Highlights

The University of Alabama School of Law – Featured March 4, 2023

Saint Louis University School of Law – Featured February 12, 2023

The University of Richmond School of Law – Featured January 29, 2023

University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law – Featured January 16, 2023

St. John’s University School of Law – Featured December 11, 2023

Washington and Lee University School of Law – Featured November 13, 2023

Wake Forest University School of Law – Featured October 30, 2023

University of San Diego School of Law – Featured October 16, 2023

University of North Dakota School of Law – Featured October 2, 2023

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law – Featured September 18, 2023

Oklahoma City University School of Law – Featured September 5, 2023

University of Virginia School of Law – Featured August 7, 2023

Seattle University School of Law – Featured July 10, 2023

Fordham University School of Law – Featured June 5, 2023

Mitchell Hamline School of Law – Featured May 22, 2023

University of Connecticut School of Law – Featured May 8, 2023

University of Washington School of Law – Featured April 24, 2023

University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law – Featured April 10, 2023

DePaul University College of Law – Featured March 27, 2023

Loyola University Chicago School of Law – Featured March 13, 2023

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law – Featured February 27, 2023

Emory University School of Law – Featured February 13, 2023

Albany Law School – Featured January 30, 2023

Northeastern University School of Law – Featured January 17, 2023

University of Toledo College of Law – Featured December 5, 2022

Loyola Law School, Los Angeles – Featured November 21, 2022

University of Miami School of Law – Featured November 7, 2022

University of Nebraska College of Law –  Featured October 24, 2022

University of Iowa College of Law – Featured October 10, 2022

The George Washington University Law School – Featured September 19, 2022

Boston University School of Law – Featured September 5, 2022

University of Colorado Law School – Featured August 1, 2022

Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law – Featured July 6, 2022

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law – Featured June 6, 2022

St. Mary’s University School of Law – Featured May 23, 2022

University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Featured May 9, 2022

Quinnipiac University School of Law – Featured April 25, 2022

Penn State Law – Featured March 28, 2022

University of Houston Law Center –  Featured March 14, 2022

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law – Featured March 1, 2022