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Students win regional moot court competition
November 30, 2020 11:05 am
The University of Tennessee College of Law’s National Moot Court team will advance to national finals after winning the regional event earlier this month. Third-year law student Kayla Rask, and second-year students Mark Kelly and Joseph Robinson outperformed teams from nine other schools to secure the regional championship.   During the virtual competition Nov.

Alumnus elected to Illinois Supreme Court
November 5, 2020 10:31 am
University of Tennessee College of Law alumnus David Overstreet won a spot on the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday defeating his opponent by 63 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results. Overstreet graduated from the College of Law in 1991. He has held the position of Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court Judge since 2017.

Faculty Forum: October 2020
November 2, 2020 12:17 pm
Faculty Forum is a monthly feature written by Professor Michael Higdon highlighting the achievements of faculty at UT Law including publications in academia and the media, speaking engagements, interviews, awards and other accomplishments.

Clinic event reaches more than 150 East Tennessee residents
October 29, 2020 12:21 pm
In the span of just eight hours, faculty, students and volunteers with the College of Law Legal Clinic helped more than 70 people change their lives. Some of those people faced suspended driver’s licenses. Some couldn’t secure employment. Some faced legal fees they had no ability to pay.

Latest in College of Law video series addresses jury selection
October 12, 2020 4:42 pm
The College of Law faculty have released the latest in the video series “How Did We Get Here?” with further examination of the U.S. jury system. In this most recent addition to the series, Professor Penny White discusses how juries rarely, if ever, reflect the racial diversity of the community – particularly in criminal cases.

College to host annual Advocate’s Prize competition
October 9, 2020 5:23 pm
The University of Tennessee College of Law will host virtually the annual Advocate’s Prize competition during the week of Oct. 19. The event offers second- and third-year law students the opportunity to present oral arguments in front of lawyers from across the state of Tennessee and beyond.

Professor’s research influences U.S. House report
October 8, 2020 9:03 am
The research of College of Law Professor Maurice Stucke has been extensively cited in a report titled “Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets” released this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.  Since June 2019, the U.S.

A return to the role
October 5, 2020 4:16 pm
If you would have asked Doug Blaze 40 years ago what he wanted to do with his life, he would have told you he wanted nothing to do with a desk job. “Everybody I knew wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor, and that’s not what I wanted to do,” he said.