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Alumna receives New Advocate of the Year award
September 1, 2017 10:17 am
University of Tennessee College of Law 2013 graduate Christina Magráns-Tillery has received the 2017 New Advocate of the Year Award. Magráns-Tillery is a staff attorney at Legal Aid of East Tennessee.

UT Law welcomes larger, more diverse class of students
August 31, 2017 10:20 am
The University of Tennessee College of Law this month welcomed its largest class of incoming students in four years. The class of 2020 includes 122 students who are residents of 17 different states: 85 are in-state, while 37 are out-of-state students.

UT Law teams with Alliance for Better Nonprofits
August 28, 2017 5:46 pm
The University of Tennessee College of Law Legal Clinic is partnering with the Alliance for Better Nonprofits of Knoxville to expand its offering of free transactional legal services to nonprofit organizations, small businesses, entrepreneurs and artists. Throughout its 70 years of service, the UT Legal Clinic has served thousands of clients.

All-community response underway with Houston flooding
August 28, 2017 5:09 pm
UT Law Professor Glenn Reynolds is sourced in this story from The Christian Science Monitor. The story suggests that the all-hands-on-deck response to historic floods in Houston, Texas, exemplifies something new. It’s a template for what the nation’s top emergency managers call “whole-community” response.

Zuckerberg for president? That could be a problem.
August 25, 2017 8:04 am
UT Law Professor Maurice Stucke is sourced in story from The Nation. The story suggests if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg became president, we would be handing over the leadership of an already privacy-violating government to the creator of one of the world’s most invasive surveillance platforms.

Those donating to white supremacist groups get IRS tax breaks
August 18, 2017 4:05 pm
UT Law Professor Eric Amarante is sourced in with this Business Insider story: “People who donate to white supremacist groups can get a tax break because the IRS considers many of them ‘educational.'” Amarante suggests the problem lies in an “unnecessarily broad definition of ‘educational.

We have reason to celebrate
August 9, 2017 8:53 am
For 70 years, the University of Tennessee College of Law Legal Clinic has helped law students develop lawyering skills while advancing the cause of justice by serving thousands of indigent clients unable to afford legal representation. Join us as we celebrate our 70th Anniversary with a series of events taking place throughout the fall semester.

New York Times offers praise for UT Law Professor’s book
August 1, 2017 8:39 am
UT Law Professor Benjamin Barton’s book “Rebooting Justice: More Technology, Fewer Lawyers and The Future of Law” has earned high praise in a New York Times book review. In the book Barton co-authored with Stephanos Bibas, the two argue that the legal system is too complex and legal advice is too expensive.