Celebrate at the 8th Annual Blues and BBQ Supper

by Jason Collver on May 6, 2013

Join us to celebrate the graduating class of 2013 at the 8th Annual Blues and BBQ Supper on Thursday, May 9, from 5-7 p.m. on the law school patio.

This celebration is free for 3Ls and their families, and will feature live music and supper from Buddy’s BBQ. Join your classmates, family, friends, Dean Blaze, the faculty and staff as we kick off graduation with a party on the patio.

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2013 Hooding set for May 10

by Tanya G. Brown on May 6, 2013

The Class of 2013 will graduate on May 10 at 5 p.m. in Thompson Boling Arena. Senator Lamar Alexander will be the keynote speaker. Hooding will feature an honorary degree presentation to John L. Seigenthaler. Other graduation highlights include Nik Vaselopulos, who will provide the student address, and a vocal presentation by Valeria Gomez, accompanied by Zach Talbot. Some 157 students will receive their juris doctor at the event. No tickets are required to attend graduation.

Law graduates should meet in the Ray Mears Room no later than 4 p.m. Graduates are responsible for picking up and returning their robes to the UT Bookstore personnel.

Parking will be available in university student parking areas throughout the campus. Please avoid parking in staff parking areas. You can view a map of parking areas online.

If you are unable to attend hooding, the ceremony will be webcast. Please keep in mind that the link will not work until time for hooding, but you can bookmark it now so it will be ready for the day.

The hooding ceremony will also be available for download.

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3L students can begin picking up caps and gowns today

May 6, 2013

3L Students attending hooding can begin picking up caps and gowns starting Monday, May 6 in rooms 223 and 224 (it’s a double room) in the University Center, not at the Graduation Counter. They had too many items to fit into the bookstore at the counters, so they have moved everything upstairs.

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Submit your graduation photos to UT Law

May 6, 2013

The UT College of Law will once again be collecting graduation photos for an online slideshow to be published the week after hooding. We want pictures of your journey! From trying to get those gown collars on straight to group shots with the proud grandparents and (appropriate) photos of the after graduation celebrations, send us [...]

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Professor Bach hiring two summer research assistants

May 6, 2013

Professor Bach is hiring two research assistants to work this summer for 20 hours a week. In addition to miscellaneous projects, one  research assistant is needed to work on a legal history project focusing on welfare rights litigation in the mid 1970s and another is needed to work on issues concerning access to social services [...]

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Inns of Court 2013-14 student members announced

May 6, 2013

Ten third-year students have been selected to participate as student members in the Hamilton Burnett Chapter of the American Inns of Court. The Inns of Court is a national professional organization “designed to improve the skills, professionalism and ethics of the bench and bar.” The Inns of Court consist of judges, lawyers, law professors and [...]

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From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development: Dean Blaze and Associate Dean Stein to visit China

May 6, 2013

Dean Doug Blaze and Associate Dean Greg Stein will travel to China during the summer break to meet with administrators at three Chinese law schools. They will discuss establishing ongoing student and faculty exchange programs. Blaze and Stein will begin at Renmin University, in Beijing, where the College of Law currently participates in a summer [...]

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The Business Lawyer publishes Professor Professor Plank’s latest

May 6, 2013

Professor Tom Plank’s latest article, “Article 9 of the UCC: Reconciling Fundamental Property Principles and Plain Language,” has been published in The Business Lawyer. This journal is the publication of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association.

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Two of Professor Reynolds’ papers make SSRN’s top-10 most downloaded list

May 6, 2013

The Social Science Research Network recently posted a list of its 10 most downloaded papers of all time (since 1997) in the category of “U.S. Constitutional Law: Interpretation and Judicial Review.” Two of the 10 are authored by Professor Glenn Reynolds: “Second Amendment Penumbras: Some Preliminary Observations,” and “Divine Operating System.”  See the full top-ten list.

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Professor Reynolds’ article reviewed by The Champion

May 6, 2013

Professor Glenn Reynolds’ article, “A Due Process Right to Record the Police,” coauthored with John Steakley, received a favorable review in The Champion, the magazine of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The article will appear in the Washington University Law Review.

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Associate Dean Stein’s latest article published in Arizona Journal

May 6, 2013

Associate Dean Greg Stein’s latest article, “Is China’s Housing Market Heading Toward A U.S.–Style Crash?”, has just been published in the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law.

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From George Kuney, California Law of Contracts recently published by CEB

May 6, 2013

California’s Continuing Education of the Bar has recently published the most recent update to Professor George Kuney and Adjunct Professor Donna Looper’s single volume, comprehensive treatise California Law of Contracts, which covers all aspects of the subject, including contracting on the Internet, the subject of a soon to be published article by Professor Kuney on [...]

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Karen Britton to moderate panel at LSAC’s Education Conference

May 6, 2013

Karen Britton is developing and moderating a panel presentation for the Law School Admissions Council’s Annual Education Conference on May 30. Law career services professionals from UCLA, Penn State and the University of Tennessee are speaking  to law admissions professionals on the topic of Educating Applicants about Legal Careers. Panelists will discuss major trend shifts [...]

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Baker Lecture on Energy and Environment set for April 24 with Bill Richardson

May 2, 2013

Join us on Wednesday April 24, for the Baker Distinguished Lecture on Energy and the Environment, which serves to close the 2012-13 academic year’s Baker Center Forum on Energy and Environment. The lecture will take place at 6 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center and is free and open to the public. Former [...]

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From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development: Professor Aarons discusses death penalty in TLR article

May 1, 2013

Professor Dwight Aarons’s most recent article, “The Marshall Hypothesis and the Rise of Anti-Death Penalty Judges,” has been published in the Tennessee Law Review. The article discusses the question, first raised by Justice Thurgood Marshall, of whether citizens would continue to support the death penalty if they were fully knowledgeable of all the facts available [...]

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Professor Barton to speak in New York in the fall

May 1, 2013

Professor Ben Barton has been invited to give a presentation at the Fordham Law Review’s Ethics Symposium. In addition, Barton has been asked to speak at Fordham Law School’s Civil Gideon Symposium. Both events will be held in New York during the fall.

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Dean Blaze to present at June TBA convention

May 1, 2013

Dean Doug Blaze will give a presentation at the upcoming Tennessee Bar Association Convention. The meeting will be held in Nashville in June.

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Professor Goodwin to serve as ABA panel member

May 1, 2013

Professor Iris Goodwin will serve as a panel member at the spring meeting of the ABA’s Real Property, Trusts and Estates Section. The meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., in May.

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Professor Amy Hess will speak on expert witnesses at May CLE

May 1, 2013

Professor Amy Hess will speak at a CLE program on expert witnesses, to be held in Nashville. The program, which will take place in May, is sponsored by the Tennessee Bar Association.

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Professor Higdon to present at AALS legal writing workshop

May 1, 2013

Professor Michael Higdon will give a presentation at the upcoming AALS Workshop for Beginning Legal Writing Law School Teachers. He will speak on the subject, “Legal Writing Scholarship: Finding Your Voice in the Legal Academy.” The conference will take place in Washington, D.C., in June.

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