Stories are listed here by magazine sections: Discovery, Features, Opening Statements, and Closing Arguments. You can read all alumni Class Notes on the alumni website.
Discovery
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I care deeply that we innovate without losing sight of what has made this place amazing for generations. -
After a 10-year hiatus in publishing, we are bringing Texas Law Magazine back for one reason: connection.
Features
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The unlikely advocates for legalizing psychedelics to treat trauma. -
Prof. Sanford V. Levinson argues it’s time for a reboot. “To honor the hopes of the Founders, we should learn ‘the lessons of experience,’ as both Hamilton and Madison wrote.” -
Space is a dynamic, difficult, and dangerous realm.Once the province only of state actors, Earth’s orbit is now open for business. The stakes couldn’t be higher. -
In the changing world of college athletics, money has a front row seat and lawyers are the new playmakers. -
Legal issues increasingly shape election outcomes. Here’s a primer on the 2024 election. -
How Texas Law’s innovative Society Program has transformed the law school experience for the past two decades.
Opening Statements
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Generations of students have worn their Texas Law pride for all to see, through dozens of whimsical T-shirts designed to delight. -
Students take on the challenge of parole representation in a project that’s become the largest provider of pro bono parole services in the state of Texas. -
“If you want to study courtroom advocacy with some of the smartest students in the whole country, this is the place to do it,” says Mike Golden ’01. -
Meet Texas Law’s new scholars and award-winning instructors, all of whom are providing students the best that legal education has to offer. -
Fierce. Capable. Funny. Direct. These are just a few words that describe Lisa Blatt ’89. -
Professor Melissa Wasserman uncovers a surprising fix. -
Assault and Flattery turns 70. -
See Tarlton’s rarest book: the world’s oldest English-language dictionary. -
Dave Farnum has been traveling the country for Texas Law since 2015, as the school’s director of student recruitment.
Closing Arguments
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He rose from humble beginnings in Abilene to pioneering high-risk, high-reward investment with J.H. “Jock” Whitney. -
He has witnessed history — and made it — as a federal judge in Washington, D.C. Judge Royce Lamberth ’67 continues to make headlines as a senior judge. -
One sister prosecuted and one defended. The story of how Sisters Edna ’55 and Diana ’57 Cisneros pursued justice on opposite sides of the law. -
Alumni secure America’s most legendary blues archive. -
The 1954 landmark decision in Hernandez v. Texas was a triumph of Equal Protection. It was also the height of a legal career cut too short. -
The Texas-sized impact of Judge Harriet Murphy ’69