{"id":4779,"date":"2015-08-05T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:02:10","slug":"bennett-walter-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4779","title":{"rendered":"BENNETT, WALTER, 1943-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney; judge, law professor, writer.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Tuscaloosa, 1943.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Betsy M. Bennett. Education&#8211; Washington and Lee, B.A., 1965; University of North Carolina, M.A.,; University of Virginia Law School, J.D.\u00a0 Worked at the Tuscaloosa News in the 1970&#8217;s; practiced law and served as a district court judge in Charlotte, N.C.; joined the UNC Law School faculty in 1986; headed the Intergenerational Legal Ethics Program at UNC. \u00a0Author of short stories and essays.\u00a0\u00a0Awarded the Pushcart Prize in 2015. Finalist for Bellwether Prize. Awarded the LLM by the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walter Bennett Website; Washington and Lee Website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lawyer&#8217;s Myth:\u00a0 Reviving Ideals in the Legal Profession.\u00a0 University of Chicago Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Tuscaloosa. Fuze Publishing, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Attorney; judge, law professor, writer.\u00a0 Born&#8211;Tuscaloosa, 1943.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Betsy M. Bennett. Education&#8211; Washington and Lee, B.A., 1965; University of North Carolina, M.A.,; University of Virginia Law School, J.D.\u00a0 Worked at the Tuscaloosa News in the 1970&#8217;s; practiced law and served as a district court judge in Charlotte, N.C.; joined the UNC Law School faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}