UA Law School Names Dean’s Scholars

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ken Randall, dean of The University of Alabama School of Law, recently named five UA law professors as 2002-2003 Dean’s Scholars.

Established by Dean Randall in 1997, this is a program involving recognition of, assistance to and incentives for UA Law School faculty whose scholarly accomplishments exceed the usual expectations.

The program focuses on the faculty’s most recent accomplishments, but considers a multi-year perspective of the faculty’s efforts, leading up to current publications. The one-year incentives include an enhanced summer grant (upon application), an increased professional development fund and, in many cases, a one-course reduction to increase research time. Alumni and philanthropic support has enabled the Law School to provide this program.

The 2002-2003 UA Law School Dean’s Scholars are William Andreen, Alfred Brophy, Pamela Bucy, James Leonard and Norman Stein.

Professor William Andreen has been a productive scholar in the field of environmental law. His work has focused on international regulation of the environment and water pollution law. In 2000, Andreen published a cutting-edge article in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law on strengthening environmental law in the developing world. He also recently delivered papers on comparative and international aspects of environmental law, including work on Australian law.

Andreen directs the Alabama-Australian National University faculty and student exchange. Through this position he has taught, presented and written extensively about the two systems’ environmental regulation and initiated important co-teaching opportunities involving scholars from the two law schools. He spoke on environmental issues in Canberra, Australia, in August of 2000 and on the international dimension of environmental law at the Pace University Law School in 2001.

Andreen provides annual supplements to his work on Alabama Water Law and is currently completing a massive study on the evolution of water pollution control in the United States.

Professor Alfred Brophy was very productive in his first year as a tenured member of the law faculty. His book, “Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921- Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation,” was published by Oxford University Press this year. It has received much praise from academic and popular critics.

Brophy completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in June 2001, entitled “The Intersection of Property and Slavery in Southern Legal Thought: from Missouri Compromise Through Civil War.” He has also published several other articles and essays in well-respected journals such as Texas Law Review; he has a forthcoming article in the Journal of Law in Society.

Brophy has made several important speaking presentations during the past year including at NYU and Washington and Lee. He has provided mentoring in the UA academic community and is currently planning research for new book opportunities.

Professor Pamela Bucy is a repeat winner of the Dean’s Scholar Award. During her sabbatical this past year, she has produced three full-length manuscripts, all of which have been accepted by significant law journals for publication in 2002-2003. These manuscripts are entitled “Private Justice,” “Information as a Commodity in the Regulatory World,” and “Private Justice in the Constitution.” She is currently working on a fourth article, “Moral Messengers,” which will be completed this summer. All of Bucy’s articles become much cited and quoted in literature. Bucy continues to maintain two course books in white-collar crime and in federal criminal law and continues to write supplements for her book on health care fraud.

Despite being on sabbatical, Bucy helped supervise the Externship Program and the Public Interest Law Institute. She worked as a founding member of the Alabama Women’s Initiative, was chair of the scholarship task force of the Women’s Section of the Birmingham Bar, and she is as extensively involved at the local and state level as she is on the national scene of scholarship and legal education.

Professor James Leonard has co-authored a comprehensive study of the injury-in-fact rule in the area of standing under article III of the U.S. Constitution that was published as the lead article in the Rutgers Law Review. His related research agenda includes new work on the application of the Ex Parte Young doctrine, continuing his most recent efforts on structuralism and constitutionalism under federal law. He also published an article analyzing the Americans with Disabilities Act, concerning available remedies under the U.S. Constitution in the Arizona Law Review in 1999 and a structural analysis of the ADA in the Alabama Law Review in 2000.

Leonard serves as co-director of the Disability Law Institute and has been the driving force behind the Law School’s two recent and successful national symposia in disability law. Leonard is the director of the Bounds Law Library and has supported the work of librarians, particularly in the Special Collections area.

Professor Norman Stein has earned a national reputation as one of the leading authorities in the area of ERISA and pensions through his recent publications and numerous presentations. He recently co-authored an article in the Washington and Lee Law Review concerning challenges to the private pension system and the debate over reforming the social security system. This summer, Stein will prepare an article he was solicited to write for the Southern Methodist University Law Review Annual Tax Symposium. Based on his research and writing, Stein has been repeatedly quoted as an authority in publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Stein has testified before Congress on ERISA, social security and other employee benefits. He has been an invited panelist at numerous academic conferences and is a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Council. He teaches in the traditional curriculum as well as in the Pension Counseling Clinic, which he created with a grant from the Administration on Aging. This summer, Stein will join a six-person group teaching about retirement security to select members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee.