Excellent law school with amazing professors and faculty.

I absolutely loved the academic environment of this place. Professors and staff are dedicated to developing students into young lawyers that will go on to change the world for the better. Professor Emens, Professor Lyons, and Judge Colquitt are definitely some of the best teachers and role models that a young lawyer can have. There is no question that a student who applies himself can leave a well-rounded graduate who is ready to practice law right after passing the bar examination. The Trial Advocacy Program, the Moot Court Program, and the Alabama Law Review are all organizations that students should strive to take part in. This is especially true of Trial Advocacy, since this skill is often lost on junior and senior lawyers alike (and which can change the outcome of a case far more than a well-written brief in some instances).

The school can do more to encourage its student body to look into the morality behind various laws. Often, students are so concerned with passing their examinations that they do not take the time to appreciate the moral or immoral implications of laws, amendments, and court rulings. This is a significant problem, since the legal framework of our country necessarily comes from our moral understanding of the world. More must be done to motivate students to ask the question: "But is this law Good?", and that may have to start with the student body itself.

This law school has given me so much that I cannot help but praise it in the beginning as well as in the end. As Professor Prince says: "Primacy and Recency." The school revamped my excitement about academic work after a college experience that was less than outstanding. My love for exploration and questioning and challenging conventional wisdom was born again here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and for that I must always thank the University of Alabama School of Law.