The Source- Reporters' Guide to Legal Experts - 2008-2009 - (Page 16) Gene Marsh James M. Kidd, Sr. Professor of Law Email: gmarsh@law.ua.edu Phone: 205-348-1129 Expertise: Consumer Finance, Business Organizations, College Athletics, Commercial Transactions, Consumer Protection, Contracts Professor Marsh received his B.S. and M.S., Summa Cum Laude, from Ohio State University, and his J.D. from Washington and Lee University. Previously, he served in the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (The Old Guard) from 1971-1974. He has been quoted extensively on college athletics, consumer protection, tort reform, and business organizations in such places as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and several other national and regional media outlets. Professor Marsh was the faculty athletic representative at Alabama from 19962003, has served on numerous NCAA and SEC committees, and is a past chair of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. He was director of the University Honors Program from 1989-1993. He received the Student Bar Association’s “Outstanding Faculty Member Award” in 1997 and 2001. Professor Marsh has written many articles and a book on consumer protection, financial institutions, dealer liability, payment systems, commercial law, and NCAA-related topics. He has testified in numerous cases in state and federal court, and has worked for state and federal regulatory agencies in enforcement actions. Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Harper Lee, attended UA Law from 1946-1949. Martha Morgan Robert S. Vance Professor Emerita of Law E-mail: mmorgan@law.ua.edu Phone: 205-348-1131 Expertise: Civil Rights, Gender & the Legal System, Constitutional Law Professor Morgan received her B.S. in 1972 from The University of Alabama, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. in 1977 from George Washington University, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She clerked for Judge James R. Miller, Jr. of the United States District Court for Maryland from 1977 - 1979. She joined the faculty of the Law School in 1979 as assistant professor, becoming associate professor in 1982, professor in 1985, and professor emerita in 2005. Professor Morgan’s international experience includes field work, writing, and consultation on comparative constitutional law, international human rights law, and the gender jurisprudence of Latin American countries. She served as visiting professor at the Mekelle University Law Faculty in Mekelle, Ethiopia during the spring of 2003 and as visiting lecturer at the Mekelle Law School in the summers of 2002 and 2004. As a cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Alabama, Professor Morgan helped represent a statewide class of schoolchildren in the Alabama school reform litigation which led to a March 1993 ruling that the state’s public school system was constitutionally inadequate and inequitable. She has served on the boards of the national ACLU, the ACLU of Alabama, and the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama. 16
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