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Law School Composite Photographs Collections, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Law School Composite Photographs Collection consists of copies of class composite photographs from the University of Alabama School of Law.

Thomas W. Christopher Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection includes administrative items regarding UA's School of Law and various personal items and notes from Dean Thomas W. Christopher.

Southern Courier Newspaper Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

Produced by Peter Cummings and Ellen Lake, two Harvard journalism undergraduates and veterans of the 1964 Freedom Summer, Montgomery's Southern Courier serves as an important primary source of the civil rights movement.

National Bankruptcy Review Commission Papers, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The National Bankruptcy Review Commission Papers consists of fourteen cubic feet of manuscripts, typescripts, photocopies, and printed materials accumulated by Mobile attorney Jeffery J. Hartley during his service as a member of the Commission.

Miscellaneous And Oversized Materials Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

Various oversized materials including newspapers, photographs, legal documents, a drawing, a map, and a diploma.

Pelham J. Merrill Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Pelham J. Merrill Collection includes personal docket books, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, and publications pertaining to Justice Pelham J. Merrill, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The docket books span the years 1953-1976, and the scrapbooks span the years 1919-1985.

Mirza Anwer Beg Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of a large number of books, files, photographs, and notebooks on topics ranging from Islam and Islamic/Arabic themes to poetry and art as well as topics on law, diplomacy, history, and philosophy.

Turner Reavis Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection includes documents, photographs, and materials pertaining to the life, career, and extended family history of Turner Reavis (June 18, 1812 - June 13, 1872). Reavis was a businessman, attorney, judge, state senator, and a published author.

Jay Wesley Murphy Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Jay Wesley Murphy Collection is comprised of personal and professional papers, including arbitration case files, audiotapes, notes, transcripts of classroom presentations and discussions, and books.

Thorington/Mccall Book Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Thorington/McCall Book Collection is comprised of 283 volumes of various late-nineteenth, and early-twentieth century digests, pamphlets, reporters, treatises, and government documents which belonged to University of Alabama School of Law Dean William Sewell Thorington and members of his family.

Bedeviled Advocate Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Bedeviled Advocate collection consists of several volumes of the Bedeviled Advocate newspaper, which published stories concerning Alabama and national politics. The collection contains the following issues: January 12-26, 1987; September 15-December 22, 1987; January 5, 1988; February 2, 1988; March 8-May 19, 1988; May 26-September 22, 1988.  Numbering was re-started at Volume 1 on September 15, 1987 and the newspaper was re-named "The Advocate" in early 1988.

B. L. Roycroft Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The B.L. Roycroft Collection consists of a 1916 leather-bound ledger from Roycroft's grocery and general merchandise store at West Blockton, Alabama. The volume contains information of accounts and purchases from an early-twentieth century small Alabama general merchandise business.

September 11, 2001 Memorial Newspaper Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

Contains newspaper reports on 9/11 from Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama, as well as a New York Times pictorial report on the year 2001 as a whole. Also contains several national newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Law Journal, and the Wall Street Journal, printed directly following the attacks of that day.

William Thomas Lewis Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection includes a number of awards, personal papers and photographs, and workplace materials owned by William Thomas Lewis.

"A Southerner's Plan For Desegregation" Journal Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

“A Southerner’s Plan for Desegregation” is a 13-page memoir and manifesto concerning aspects of civil rights. It was anonymously written in the 1950s. The work is composed in a Queen Elizabeth II coronation journal.

Gary L. Aldridge Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of a desk and chair set from the old Alabama Senate Chamber, original artwork, and a number of personal items from Senator Aldridge.

Harold See Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Harold See Collection consists of memorabilia from Alabama Supreme Court Justice and University of Alabama School of Law professor Harold See.

Hannis Taylor Correspondence, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Hannis Taylor Correspondence consists of two handwritten letters by Hannis Taylor to Professor J. B. Bury at Cambridge University. The letters are glued into a copy of Taylor's "The Science of Jurisprudence." The letters are dated October 14, and November 25, 1908, and concern the above work by Taylor.

Alabama Code Of 1975 Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Alabama Code of 1975 Collection consists of materials from the 1975 revision of the Alabama Code. The papers contain 2 cubic feet of code revision proofs, 1 cubic foot of various memoranda from the Michie Company concerning the 1975 code revision, and 2 cubic feet of preliminary manuscripts.

George Alexander Lemaistre Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The George Alexander LeMaistre Collection consists of papers, books, pamphlets, student papers, and notes from professor George Alexander LeMaistre.

C. Ange And John Jackson Papers, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

An incomplete group of correspondence between John Jackson, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and his lawyer, C. Ange, Esq., of Philadelphia, dated 5 Jan. 1857 through 27 March 1857. The topics of these letters include transactions between the two men.

Pharmaceutical Mergers: Do We Have The Right Cure?, Robin Feldman, Gideon Schor, Yaniv Konchitchki, Tanziuzzaman Sakib

Faculty Scholarship

Few federal agencies wield tools more powerful than the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to review—and deny—proposed mergers between companies. This authority is powerful for a reason: Large mergers can be uniquely harmful to the United States economy, potentially reducing competition, undercutting consumer choice, and inflating prices.

The pharmaceutical industry is particularly sensitive to merger harms, given the limited number of competitors and the inelasticity of demand for prescription drugs. As a result, when pharmaceutical companies seek to merge, the FTC often requires that one of the companies divest ownership of certain drugs not yet on the market—so-called “pipeline” drugs––to a …

Retrenchment, Segregation, And Public Education: A Five-Year Analysis Of State Exclusionary School Discipline Legislation, Thalia Gonzalez, Will Martel

Faculty Scholarship

Notwithstanding the decision in Brown v. Board of Education formally ending educational segregation and more than two decades of state reform, the legislative landscape protecting minoritized children from the structural violence of exclusionary school discipline has dramatically shifted in less than five years. From the passage of state “Teacher’s Bills of Rights” to mandatory expulsions, rescissions of prior protections, and new categories of removal, a retrenchment of anti-inclusion legislation—and its corollary, educational carcerality— has occurred. While studies of other forms of legislative retrenchment in K–12 public schools, such as anti-Critical Race Theory and Don’t Say Gay laws, literacy bans, and …

The Ideological Work Of Penal Reform: How Reformers Justify Penal-Welfare Hybridization, John Halushka, Brandon Miller

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This article uses the Santa Clara County Reentry Resource Center (RRC) as a case study to explore the cultural content of penal reform. Specifically, we explore the discourses that officials use to publicly justify projects of penal-welfare hybridization, or the linking of state systems of punishment and welfare to manage criminalized populations. Our qualitative analysis draws on a dataset consisting of county planning documents, budgets, videos, press releases, and newsletters published online between 2011 and 2023. By examining these materials over time, we are able to chart patterns of consistency and variation in how officials justify hybridization. We find that …

Comparing Rotational Thromboelastometry And Standard Coagulation Assays For Predicting Intraoperative Bleeding In Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Kirby Deshotels, Trung Nguyen, Jun Teruya, Muhammed Umair M Mian, Kelby Fuller, Sanjiv Harpavat, Anna Banc-Husu, Amir Navaei, John Goss, Moreshwar Desai, Arun Saini

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Utility of preoperative rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) over standard coagulation assays (SCAs) in predicting intraoperative bleeding during orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in children with liver failure (LF) remains unclear.

Methods: In this single-center retrospective cohort of pediatric OLT recipients, we compared the predictive values of preoperative ROTEM parameters (intrinsic pathway (INTEM) maximum clot firmness (MCF), extrinsic pathway (EXTEM) clotting time (CT), INTEM CT, and fibrinogen-based (FIBTEM) MCF) and the corresponding SCAs (platelet count, international normalized ratio (INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), and fibrinogen level, respectively) for significant intraoperative bleeding (blood loss of > 22 mL/kg; i.e., ≥ 85th percentile for …

Steroid Hormone Metabolites And Mammographic Breast Density In Premenopausal Women, Ghazaleh Pourali, Kayode A Matthew, Myung Sik Jeon, Chongliang Luo, Gary J Patti, Jingqin Luo, Adetunji T Toriola

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Steroid hormones influence breast morphology and cellular proliferation and are associated with breast carcinogenesis. However, their associations with mammographic breast density (MBD) are less studied, particularly in premenopausal women. We, therefore, investigated the associations of steroid hormone metabolites with MBD in premenopausal women.

METHODS: Our study included 700 premenopausal women scheduled for screening mammograms. We analyzed 54 steroid hormone metabolites (Metabolon®) and assessed volumetric measures of MBD including volumetric percent density (VPD), dense volume (DV), and non-dense volume (NDV) using Volpara. We investigated associations using linear regression modeling to estimate the covariate-adjusted means of VPD, NDV, and DV, corresponding …

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition And Stress Adaptations Underlie Yttrium-90 Resistance In Liver Cancer Cell Lines, Alexander Zheleznyak, Dhanusha Duraiyan, Prasanth Thunuguntla, Jessica Camacho, Shuang Wu, Jingxia Liu, Jason D Weber, Daniel L J Thorek, Benjamin S Strnad, Ryan C Fields, Matthew A Ciorba, Christine Yoon, Valerie Blanc, Nicholas Davidson, Jessica Silva-Fisher, Christopher D Malone

2020-Current year OA Pubs

UNLABELLED: Molecular signatures predict prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma, but their relevance to transarterial radioembolization (TARE) with yttrium-90 (90Y) is unknown. We aimed to identify baseline and treatment-induced pathways associated with response and nominate biomarkers. Ten transcriptomically diverse human liver cancer cell lines were exposed to escalating activities of glass 90Y microspheres for 10 days. Normalized AUC values quantified sensitivity. Whole-transcriptome RNA sequencing at baseline and after treatment was analyzed with elastic net regression and gene set enrichment. Findings were corroborated by qRT-qPCR and exploratory analysis of pretreatment tumor samples from patients undergoing TARE. Liver cancer cell line responses to 90Y …

Frontline Aspiration Versus Stent Retriever Thrombectomy For M2 Occlusions: Insights From The Star Registry, Michael Gaub, Joshua Osbun, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Recent trials have furthered uncertainty regarding the endovascular benefit for medium vessel occlusions (MeVO). Stent retrievers (SR) were employed in the first attempt in most interventional arm participants. We sought to compare outcomes in acute MCA M2 occlusions between frontline aspiration and SR, and to delineate procedural and anatomical covariates associated with differential treatment effect.

METHODS: Retrospective analysis of a multicenter stroke thrombectomy cohort identified cases of MT for M2 occlusions. Unmatched and propensity score-matched (PSM) cohorts were generated comparing frontline aspiration to standalone and combined SR. The primary outcome was functional independence (mRS 0-2) at 90 days. Recanalization, …

Focused Ultrasound-Enhanced Nose-To-Brain Delivery Of A Therapeutic Antibody In A Large-Animal Model, Siaka Fadera, Cristian Antonio Wieczorek Villas Boas, Yimei Yue, Zhaoning Gu, Jinyun Yuan, Debolina De, Buck E Rogers, Arash Nazeri, Hong Chen

2020-Current year OA Pubs

No abstract provided.

Diverse Misfolding Mutant Digestive Enzymes Cause Chronic Pancreatitis Through Common Pathways, Steven J Wilhelm, Grace E Curry, Neel Matiwala, Jianguo Lin, Tran Quach, Mark E Lowe, Miklós Sahin-Tóth, Xunjun K Xiao

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Increasing evidence suggests that protein misfolding and proteotoxicity is an important mechanism of chronic pancreatitis (CP) in patients with genetic variants. Two mouse models carrying misfolding digestive enzyme variants, CPA1 N256K and PNLIP T221M, recapitulate the human CP phenotype. We hypothesized that both models develop CP through similar disease mechanisms.

METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive analysis of mice aged 1 to 6 months using histology, immunohistochemistry, protein immunoblotting, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis to characterize pancreatic pathological changes.

RESULTS: Both homozygous models exhibited CP hallmarks, including progressive acinar …