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[Dean Melanie D. Wilson]<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-j/>
Welcome from Dean Wilson

"I’ve just arrived, but UT, the College of Law, and Knoxville—it already feels like home," says UT Law's new dean, Melanie D. Wilson<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-t/>. Hear from Dean Wilson as she shares her plans and outlook for the law school and the UT Law family.


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[Ben Barton]<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-d/>
Oxford publishes Barton's book on benefits of legal profession’s challenges

Today’s legal profession faces a number of challenges, including a smaller job market and fewer law school applicants. But UT Law Professor Benjamin Barton<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-h/> argues that these struggles may transform the practice of law and benefit American consumers.


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[Katrice W. Jones Morgan]<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-x/>
Morgan named college's first director of diversity and inclusion

UT Law recently named Katrice W. Jones Morgan<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-m/> as its first director of diversity and inclusion. The new position is part of Dean Melanie D. Wilson’s<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-c/> initiative to promote greater diversity at UT Law and further enrich the college’s community.


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[Class of 2018]<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-a/>




Welcome to the Class of 2018<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-f/>

The College of Law welcomed 116 first-year students this month. Our new 1Ls hail from four countries and seventeen states.




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FACULTY FORUM
Cornett discusses Atticus Finch portrayal with National Law Journal<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-z/>

Distinguished Professor of Law and UT Law alumna Judy Cornett<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-v/> recently joined other law professors in a literary analysis of novelist Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-e/>, the highly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-s/>, for The National Law Journal<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-g/>.

Heminway discusses Good Samaritan animal law with VICE<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-w/>

Joan Heminway<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-yd/>, the W.P. Toms Distinguished Professor of Law, spoke to VICE Media for their story<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-yh/> on Tennessee’s law allowing a “Good Samaritan” citizen to enter a locked car if an animal is inside and facing danger.

Stucke comments on potential Google-Twitter merger in Fortune<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-yk/>

Maurice Stucke<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-yu/>, a UT Law professor and former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, recently echoed sentiments that a merger between technology companies Google and Twitter is unlikely.


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COLLEGE HEADLINES
Student one of only two recipients of prestigious nationwide scholarship<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-jr/>
Former state Supreme Court justice White to lead clinics<http://tennesseelawnow.cmail19.com/t/t-l-iyhrtlk-dkhyiizi-jy/>




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