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The Texas Law faculty is a diverse collection of thinkers and scholars with one thing in common—they all love to teach.

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World-class minds

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Our professors are on the leading edge of the most important debates in American law. They write scholarship that everyone talks about. They write the books you’ll be learning from. They will be your teachers, your mentors, and your guides through the law school curriculum.

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Making Constitutional Law: On the Front Lines

All of our faculty members possess an unwavering dedication to their students and their scholarship. These three are shaping the future of law and the courts in substantive ways and their love for teaching transforms the ordinary classroom into an inspired place where ideas flourish.

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Tara Grove

A renowned expert on constitutional law and an authority on textualism as an interpretive philosophy, Prof. Grove has published scholarship on those subjects in some of the leading law journals in the country. In 2021, she was among a select group named to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan committee charged with examining proposals to reform the Court.

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Lawrence Sager

Lawrence Sager is one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. He has written and co-written dozens of articles, many of them now classics in the canon of legal scholarship and our understanding of the founding document. His expertise also encompasses philosophy, and he helps lead our Law & Philosophy Program. 

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Richard Albert

With a focus on constitution-making and constitutional design, Richard Albert is one of the premier scholars of comparative constitutional law. He is a prolific author, editor, speaker, and an advisor to governments and parliaments on constitutional reform. He recently served on the 15-person Constitutional Reform Committee advising the Government of Jamaica on writing and enacting its new constitution. 

Featured Faculty Profiles and Stories

Faculty in the Media

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    History News Network

    Unions Could Turn Wisconsin into a Big Victory

    Professor Julius G. Getman authored an article about the union movement in Wisconsin, which has gained momentum from protests despite facing continued legislative obstacles.
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    The Daily Texan

    Democracy is on the ballot

    Professor Sanford Levinson authored an opinion piece that explores the potential threats to democracy that could accompany a second Trump term.
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    New York Post

    Election banter in the workplace? Here’s how to handle it

    Professor Steven Collis encourages people to learn from those with different opinions, noting that deepening mutual understanding is often more productive than attempting to change the political viewpoints of others.

Faculty Experts for the Media

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