News Archives

Faculty Forum, September 2015
September 21, 2015 8:00 am
Faculty Forum is a monthly feature highlighting the achievements of faculty at UT Law including publications in academia and the media, speaking engagements, interviews, awards, and other accomplishments.

UT Law symposium to tackle agricultural law and policy issues
September 17, 2015 9:30 am
The College of Law invites lawyers, agriculture industry experts, students, faculty, and members of the community to gather on Friday, October 9, for a one-day symposium on changing trends in agricultural production and how law and policy are adapting.

Hart publishes book with UT Law professor’s chapter on leniency policies
September 8, 2015 2:02 pm
Anti-cartel law enforcement has been greatly aided by the sharp rise in leniency policies over the past decade. However, University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Maurice Stucke deviates from this sentiment arguing that corporate and individual leniency policies have not optimally deterred cartels.

UT Law partners with Tennessee Human Rights Commission
September 8, 2015 8:00 am
Beverly L. Watts, executive director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission (THRC), will deliver a public lecture and visit with students at the University of Tennessee College of Law on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Her visit is part of a semester-long partnership between the college and the THRC in which students are making complex legal documents easier to understand for the general public.

In the news: Wolitz discusses Kim Davis case with WATE
September 8, 2015 5:56 am
Associate Professor David Wolitz recently spoke to WATE about Kentucky clerk Kim Davis' rights under the First Amendment to deny same-sex marriage licenses out of her Rowan County office.

In the news: Alum Tricia Dennis featured in “I Am the Law” podcast
August 27, 2015 1:34 pm
Personal injury attorney Tricia Dennis (’87) was recently featured in the weekly U.S. News and World Report podcast, “I Am the Law.” Throughout the interview, Dennis discusses her thirty-year career, as well as the challenges she has encountered in maintaining her solo practice firm, which is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee.