The College of Law was recently featured in The Princeton Review’s 2010 edition of its book “The Best 172 Law Schools.”

An unseated Tennessee Supreme Court justice turns her attention to legal scholarship.

The College of Law continues to rate highly among law schools that post papers to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). UT was recently ranked number one in a tie with Harvard in the number of new downloads per paper. SSRN statistics show that the College of Law has ranked either first or second in this measure since February 2007. Gregory Stein, College of Law associate dean for faculty development, said nearly 14,000 people have downloaded papers prepared by UT law faculty in the last year. On average, UT articles published to the SSRN database are downloaded 86 times, an average that ties the Harvard Law School as the highest.

Jerry Black, associate professor in the College of Law, has been elected to a one-year term as President of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Jim Bemiller, assistant professor in the Exercise, Sports and Leisure Studies Department, was selected by City View magazine as one of the top entertainment and sports lawyers in the region.