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Dean Melanie D. Wilson

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. Hear from Dean Wilson as she shares her plans and outlook for the law school and the UT Law family.

 
Ben Barton

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 argues that these struggles may transform the practice of law and benefit American consumers.

 
Katrice W. Jones Morgan

Morgan named college's first director of diversity and inclusion

UT Law recently named Katrice W. Jones Morgan as its first director of diversity and inclusion. The new position is part of Dean Melanie D. Wilson’s initiative to promote greater diversity at UT Law and further enrich the college’s community.

 
 

FACULTY FORUM

Cornett discusses Atticus Finch portrayal with National Law Journal

Distinguished Professor of Law and UT Law alumna Judy Cornett recently joined other law professors in a literary analysis of novelist Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the highly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, for The National Law Journal.

Heminway discusses Good Samaritan animal law with VICE

Joan Heminway, the W.P. Toms Distinguished Professor of Law, spoke to VICE Media for their story 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

Maurice Stucke, 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.