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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW | September 9, 2026 | | |
Greetings,
We are just over a month away from Homecoming and beginning to gear up. Read below for details about the events happening at the College of Law.
Read on,
Jason
| | Save the Date: Homecoming Weekend Oct. 22–24 | |
Join us during Arizona Law Homecoming 2026 as we celebrate milestone reunions with classmates, friends and fellow alumni. Whether you’re marking 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years since graduation, we hope you'll return to Tucson to reconnect and celebrate!
Homecoming events at the College of Law will include:
Red & Blue BBQ
Enjoy the traditional Red & Blue BBQ Saturday, October 24, before the Wildcats take on the Iowa State Cyclones. Details and registration link coming soon.
Class of 1976: 50-Year Reunion
Thursday, October 22, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Arizona Sands Club, 565 N. Cherry Ave., 5th Floor, Tucson, AZ 85719
Celebrate this remarkable milestone with classmates while enjoying an evening of memories, conversation and community overlooking the University of Arizona campus and Tucson skyline.
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Class of 1986: 40-Year Reunion
Thursday, October 22, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Casino Del Sol Stadium Skyboxes 545, N. National Championship Drive, Tucson, AZ 85719
Reconnect with classmates and celebrate 40 years since graduation while enjoying great food, drinks and panoramic views of the University of Arizona campus.
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Classes of 1996, 2006 and 2016 Reunions
Friday, October 23, 6-9 p.m., Culinary Dropout, 2543 E Grant Rd, Tucson, AZ 85716
Members of the Classes of 1996, 2006 and 2016 are invited to reconnect with classmates, celebrate shared memories and enjoy an evening together during Homecoming Weekend.
| | Arizona Law-Led Report on Legal Deserts Forms Basis of Recommendations to U.S. Senate | | |
Earlier this year, Director of Innovation for Justice Stacy Rupprecht Jane and Professor of Practice Cayley Balser began collaborating with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the State Justice Institute (SJI) on the Legal Deserts Problem-Solving Project, which aggregates promising practices for greening legal deserts nationwide and brings together a cohort of courts in Michigan, Nevada and Washington to explore strategies for localizing legal desert solutions. This project was recently highlighted and cited in a report written by the State Justice Institute and submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
“The NCSC and Innovation for Justice (i4J) at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law are developing and implementing strategies to address legal deserts in rural communities, with the goal of producing a replicable framework that empowers state courts to design interventions tailored to local legal contexts,” the SJI report noted. “The project’s June 2026 interim report … offers some of the most direct evidence available to the Committee on how legal deserts are actually experienced by the communities living in them.”
The SJI’s first recommendation to the Senate committee proposed adopting the framework set out by i4J for a community-centered design process to create legal-service hubs in underserved locations.
| | Swisher Named Recipient of The American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize | | |
Professor Keith Swisher, faculty director of the BA in Law and Master of Legal Studies Programs, has been named the recipient of this year’s American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize for his article titled “The Moral Gaps in Legal Machines.” The Warren E. Burger Prize is a writing competition designed to promote scholarship in the areas of professionalism, ethics, civility and excellence.
American Inns of Court Executive Director Joseph Berger wrote: “As our profession wrestles through the experienced and potential impacts of artificial intelligence, [Swisher’s] addressing the moral gaps in the various platforms is critical to ensuring the continued moral and ethical practice of law.”
The award will be presented this fall during the American Inns of Court Celebration of Excellence, held at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Journal of Appellate Practice and Process Explores the Power of Words in New Issue | | |
Arizona Law and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy have released the Summer 2026 issue of The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process (Volume 26, Issue 2). The common theme throughout the issue is the power of words.
“Which is more powerful—the spoken word or the written word? Does a well-delivered speech inspire more than an inspirational writing? In law, and in life, the answer is the same. ‘It depends,’” writes Journal Editor-in-Chief Tessa L. Dysart, assistant director of legal writing at Arizona Law. “As I pondered over this issue of the Journal, I realized that each of our articles, essays and book reviews deal directly with the written or spoken word—often advocating for one over the other. Since I love to find a theme that pulls the issue together, I was thrilled to find this unexpected thread flowing through each piece.”
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Your success is the college’s success, and we want to celebrate with you! If you have landed a new job, received an award or recognition, stepped into a leadership role or have good news in general, let us know. | | | | | | |
Our college’s robust intellectual life is on display in this week’s newsletter. Appellate practice, legal ethics and access to justice are just a few of the areas of expertise of our faculty. I’m proud to see my colleagues recognized for their contributions to policy and legal scholarship.
Onward,
Jason
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