Experiential Learning: Clinics

Recent Graduates Receive Texas Law’s 2022 CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student Award

Source: Texas Law News | Date Posted: June 13, 2022
Prof. Lori Duke Presented the Rutland Award for Excellence in Child Advocacy

Source: Texas Law News | Date Posted: April 4, 2022
Alumna Alejandra Ávila ’14 Lands Clerkship with Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Source: Texas Law News | Date Posted: February 15, 2022
Students, Faculty, and Alumni Work Together on Supreme Court Capital-Punishment and Religious-Liberty Case

Source: Texas Law News | Date Posted: December 10, 2021
Report: San Antonio vacates and demolishes homes at exponentially higher rate than other major Texas cities combined

Source: Texas Public Radio | Date Posted: November 18, 2021
Public Comment on Proposed Rules on Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers
Join Your Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic If You Want An Elite Job After Graduation: It's the ultimate résumé line.

Source: Above the Law | Date Posted: August 20, 2019
Supreme Court Clinic Teams Up with Public-Interest Alumni to Advocate for Healthcare Access

Source: Texas Law News | Date Posted: April 7, 2021
Texas advocates hope Biden closes immigration center marred by sex abuse allegations

Source: Austin American-Statesman | Date Posted: March 26, 2021
Clinic and Advocates Release Report on Strengthening Harm Reduction Services in Texas
Report: A Texas Code Violates The Human Rights Of Transgender People With Felonies

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: November 30, 2020
Research Summary to the Texas Legislature on Elderly Prisoners and Medical Costs
New Texas Affordable Housing Out of Reach For Most Low-Income Renters

Source: The Texas Standard | Date Posted: September 14, 2020
How a big Texas tax break created not-so-affordable housing

Source: Houston Chronicle | Date Posted: September 14, 2020
Texas Law Launches First Amendment Center

Source: Texas Law | Date Posted: September 3, 2020
Supreme Court Undercuts Access to Birth Control under Obamacare

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: July 8, 2020
Supreme Court Clinic Co-Director Lisa Eskow Discusses Faithless-Electors Case on NPR’s Texas Standard

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: July 6, 2020
A DACA Recipient And A Legal Scholar Say SCOTUS Decision A Victory For Dreamers, But Also Temporary

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: June 18, 2020
If you can buy it, by all means do that

Source: Texas Observer | Date Posted: June 3, 2020
Will more renters be evicted now that bans are lifting?

Source: Marketplace | Date Posted: May 21, 2020
Texas halted evictions, giving renters some relief. But what happens when the moratorium ends?

Source: Texas Tribune | Date Posted: May 1, 2020
Opinion: Rent is due. Texas must do more to protect tenants during the COVID-19 crisis

Source: The Houston Chronicle | Date Posted: May 1, 2020
Erin Busby discusses the First Amendment’s special protection of political speech, highlighted in the Clinic’s amicus brief in United States v. Sineneng-Smith

Source: Mashable | Date Posted: February 28, 2020
San Antonio's Disappearing Mobile Home Parks Put Vulnerable Residents At Risk Of Displacement

Source: Texas Public Radio | Date Posted: February 23, 2020
Clinic and Advocates Release Report on Reducing Harmful Drug Arrests in Travis County
Law Criminalizing Speech That ‘Encourages’ Immigrants to Remain in the Country Is So Broad That It Could Be Used to Punish Anti-Government Speech

Source: Rutherford Institute: On the Front Lines | Date Posted: January 30, 2020
Request for Action to End “Remain in Mexico” Program
Murder case dismissed against woman accused of killing friend’s ex-boyfriend

Source: Austin American Statesman | Date Posted: November 6, 2019
No More Nurdles? Formosa’s Agreement to Stop Pumping Plastics into Lavaca Bay Is Historic

Source: Texas Monthly | Date Posted: October 16, 2019
Report shows Austin leads in police shootings during mental health calls

Source: Daily Texan | Date Posted: October 3, 2020
New report alleges that “Austin Police shootings during mental health calls violate human rights.”

Source: Fox 7 Austin | Date Posted: September 27, 2019
Nurdles All the Way Down: How Texans are taking on plastic pollution – one piece at a time

Source: Texas Monthly | Date Posted: September 18, 2019
Law School Supreme Court Clinics Catapult Students to Top Jobs

Source: Bloomberg Law | Date Posted: August 20, 2019
Signed Letter to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Report Released: "Forging Ahead: Designing Travis County Public Defense to Meet Standards and Best Practices"
Promoting Best Practices in Public Defense
Report says gentrification threatens to displace Austin's low-income residents, communities of color

Source: Texas Tribune | Date Posted: September 18, 2018
UT researchers to present map charting Austin’s changing neighborhoods

Source: Austin American Statesman | Date Posted: September 17, 2018
Environmental Justice and the Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey

Source: Texas Law News | Date Posted: September 4, 2018
Tempest Tossed: Conversations on Migration and Mobility

Source: Zolberg Center on Migration and Mobility | Date Posted: July 25, 2018
The Unending Floods: Disaster Recovery and Immigration Policy

Source: Texas Law Review Online Edition | Date Posted: June 25, 2018
‘I Don’t Think We Were Prepared for This Level of Cruelty’

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education | Date Posted: June 21, 2018
Parents Are Facing a Nightmare at the U.S. Border

Source: Time Magazine | Date Posted: June 14, 2018
Growing Community

Source: Amarillo Globe-News | Date Posted: June 1, 2018
SCOTUSBlog selects Villegas-Sarabia v. United States as its petition of the day

Source: SCOTUSblog | Date Posted: June 7, 2018
In-Depth: Is Houston Doing Enough To End The ‘Dangerous Apartment Epidemic’?

Source: Houston Public Media | Date Posted: April 13, 2018
UT Report Criticizes How City Of Houston Conducts Apartment Inspections

Source: Houston Public Media | Date Posted: February 6, 2018
New report reveals extensive deficiencies in Houston's apartment safety standards

Source: Click 2 Houston | Date Posted: February 6, 2018
New report calls out Houston's 'apartment epidemic'

Source: Fox 26 News | Date Posted: February 6, 2018
Houston's apartment safety measures 'severely inadequate,' UT study finds

Source: Houston Chronicle | Date Posted: February 6, 2018
Op-Ed: We Can Do More for Poor Families

Source: Austin American Statesman | Date Posted: January 7, 2018
Without The Contract That Created It, Office Collecting Complaints Against Police Still Intact

Source: KUT News | Date Posted: January 8, 2018
UT Professor Searches for Clues to Cartel Kidnappings

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: November 22, 2017
Mexico drug cartel's grip on politicians and police revealed in Texas court files

Source: The Guardian | Date Posted: November 10, 2017
Report: Zetas controlled all levels of power in Mexican state, expanded to Houston

Source: The Houston Chronicle | Date Posted: November 6, 2017
SCOTUSBlog selects Muccio v. Minnesota as its petition of the day

Source: SCOTUSblog | Date Posted: September 15, 2017
The US deportation system is verging on lawlessness

Source: The Guardian | Date Posted: August 23, 2017
Help is on the way for vulnerable Texas prison inmates suffering through summer heat

Source: The Houston Chronicle | Date Posted: August 2, 2017
Report Compares Texas’ Solitary Confinement Policies to Torture

Source: New York Times | Date Posted: April 26, 2017
Texas death row inmates subjected to inhumane conditions, study says

Source: Austin American Statesman | Date Posted: April 24, 2017
Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge

Source: The New York Times | Date Posted: February 10, 2017
Immigration Detention Advocates File Supreme Court Brief to Preserve Federal Court Damages Remedy for Constitutional Violations in Immigration Detention
What The Rise of Immigrant Detention Means For Some of the Most Vulnerable People Seeking Refuge On Our Border

Source: San Antonio Current | Date Posted: November 1, 2016
2016 Texas Houser Awards honors Professor Kelly Haragan, Erin Gaines ’13, and the Citizens Alliance for Fairness and Progress
Texas border residents bristle at Donald Trump's talk of new wall

Source: USA Today | Date Posted: September 17, 2016
End mass incarceration of refugees in Texas

Source: TribTalk | Date Posted: September 12, 2016
“Deadly Heat” In U.S. Prisons Is Killing Inmates And Spawning Lawsuits

Source: The Intercept | Date Posted: August 24, 2016
Three Students File Lawsuit Alleging Excessive Use of Force by Abilene ISD School Resource Officer
Historic Decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Against Colombia

Source: Outright Action International
How Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons Can Kill

Source: The Texas Standard
Long Waits for a Program That Gives Visas to Undocumented Immigrant Crime Victims

Source: KUT | Date Posted: April 5, 2016
When Asylum-Seeking Women And Children Immigrants Are Welcomed Like Criminals

Source: NPR | Date Posted: March 20, 2016
Undocumented Student's Arrest a Cautionary Tale

Source: The Texas Tribune | Date Posted: February 14, 2016
UT law students represent immigrants at clinic

Source: The Daily Texan | Date Posted: February 9, 2016
Duo from UT immigration clinic plays key role at detention centers

Date Posted: January 31, 2016
Immigration Clinic Plays Key Role at Detention Centers

Source: Austin American-Statesman | Date Posted: January 31, 2016
Texas Inmates' Class Certified for Heat Claims

Source: Courthouse News Service
Texans welcome high court’s review of executive orders on immigration

Source: American-Statesman | Date Posted: January 19, 2016
O&A About Texas' Lawsuit over Syrian Refugee Resettlement

Source: Austin American Statesman | Date Posted: December 3, 2015
Proclamation on human rights and preventing domestic violence, adopted through the work of our Human Rights Clinic and Domestic Violence Clinic
Gilman: Asylum-seeking families need help, not detention

Source: The Houston Chronicle | Date Posted: December 1, 2015
Rescue Group Says It Won't Comply With Governor's Directive on Syrian Refugees

Source: KUT | Date Posted: December 1, 2015
Texas Threatens Resettlement Agency Over Syrian Refugees

Source: NY Times | Date Posted: November 30, 2015
What Happens to Refugees after they arrive in the US?

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: November 18, 2015
State of Texas: In-depth – Law enforcement ticketing minority drivers as ‘white’

Source: KXAN | Date Posted: November 15, 2015
Abbott: Texas Will Not Accept Syrian Refugees in Wake of Paris Attacks

Source: KUT | Date Posted: November 16, 2015
Can states say 'no' to Syrian refugees?

Source: Marketplace | Date Posted: November 16, 2015
Steps Forward, Not Far Enough: A Reaction to Wilson, Prokop, & Robins

Source: N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change | Date Posted: November 16, 2015
Texas GOP leaders: Halt Syrian refugees

Source: Corpus Christi Caller Times | Date Posted: November 16, 2015
Gov. Greg Abbott: Texas will not accept any Syrian refugees

Source: The Dallas Morning News | Date Posted: November 16, 2015
Experts question Abbott's authority to block Syrian refugees

Source: Houston Chronicle
Family detention incompatible with justice, say experts at ABA immigration meeting

Source: American Bar Association | Date Posted: November 5, 2015
What Obama’s Fight Over Deferred Action Means for Undocumented Immigrants

Source: Texas Standard | Date Posted: November 10, 2015
United Nations torture committee eyes Texas prison conditions

Source: The Detroit Free Press | Date Posted: November 3, 2015
Lawsuit Challenges Austin’s Debt-Collection Practices That Punish, Jail Low-Income Residents
Advocates protest Latina immigrant's arrest at Texas doctor's office

Source: LA Times | Date Posted: September 14, 2015
Advocates press for release of immigrant families
Feds lost track of immigrant families

Source: San Antonio Express News | Date Posted: August 1, 2015
Report Calls for Action on 'Repeat Offender' Properties

Source: KUT | Date Posted: July 27, 2015
Report: Austin program to track, improve unsafe housing isn’t enforced

Source: Austin American Statesman | Date Posted: July 27, 2015