Stories

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

  • TLM2025 Spring_Dean's Message Helping Hands
    Leaning in: to building relationships and serving others.
  • an abstract, blurred image with shades of blue, gray, and teal, creating a professional yet dynamic appearance that emphasizes movement and exploration.
    I care deeply that we innovate without losing sight of what has made this place amazing for generations.
  • Eagle with colors
    After a 10-year hiatus in publishing, we are bringing Texas Law Magazine back for one reason: connection.

Features

  • Teaching-- Expert Speech, The First Amendment right of academic freedom Written by Professor David M. Rabban Art by Balbusso Twins
    Judges recognize it. Professors rely on it. But what does academic freedom really mean under the First Amendment?
  • Home Court Advantage - Cover Story | Illustration by Nash Weerasekera
    Texas’ newest courts have businesses beating a path to the Lone Star State and changing the legal landscape.
  • Ties that Bind: World War II News Sheet forges community | Photography by Davian-Lynn Hopkins
    Remembering Helen Hargrave and the World War II News Sheets that kept our community strong in its darkest hours.
  • Psychedelic colorful Illustration of human silouhette: Unusual Suspects
    The unlikely advocates for legalizing psychedelics to treat trauma.
  • TLM_Fall2024_We The People - Illustration of hands writing the We the People.
    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.”
  • Mirror view of rocket
    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.

Opening Statements

  • Lori Duke '95 takes up a State Department challenge to make international child hosting programs safer and better. | Art by Sunnu Rebecca Choi
    Lori Duke ’95 takes up a State Department challenge to make international child hosting programs safer and better.
  • As CEO of AshBritt, the country's leading emergency management company, Brittany Perkins Castillo '13 brings order to chaos and helps hope triumph over despair. | Art by Chantal Jahchan
    As CEO of AshBritt, the country’s leading emergency management company, Brittany Perkins Castillo ’13 brings order to chaos and helps hope triumph over despair.
  • The Verdict is In - Texas Law's clerkship program is tops in the nation, with record numbers of graduates landing in the most exclusive chambers, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. | ART BY BETH GOODY/THE ISPOT
    A revolution is coming to the firearms industry, in the form of new state public nuisance laws, and Professor Linda Mullenix sees a new wave of mass tort litigation on the horizon.
  • Trigger Warnings - A revolution is coming to the firearms industry, in the form of new state public nuisance laws, and Professor Linda Mullenix sees a new wave of mass tort litigation on the horizon. | Art by Doug Chayka
    A revolution is coming to the firearms industry, in the form of new state public nuisance laws, and Professor Linda Mullenix sees a new wave of mass tort litigation on the horizon.
  • Alumnus mentor talking with student mentee at an event.
    Texas Law’s unique and innovative approach to law school mentoring continues to make meaningful connections with alumni and students.
  • T-shirt design on orange background
    Generations of students have worn their Texas Law pride for all to see, through dozens of whimsical T-shirts designed to delight.

Closing Arguments

  • "Juntos es mejor." Talking with Miguel Garza '12
    Siete Foods co-founder and CEO Miguel Garza ’12 sat down with us to reflect on taking chances, solving big problems, and fielding a $1.2B partnership offer from PepsiCo.
  • Grammy-nominated jazz musician Colin Hancock '25 just might be the hippest lawyer you'll ever meet.
    Grammy-nominated jazz musician Colin Hancock ’25 just might be the hippest lawyer you’ll ever meet.
  • Black and white yearbook portrait of William "Bill" Mahomes Jr. ’72
    Q&A with the man who helped integrate Texas A&M.
  • Admired and beloved, the late pioneer Mary Lou Robinson '50 is the namesake of the U. S. Courthouse in Amarillo.
    Admired and beloved, the late pioneer Mary Lou Robinson ’50 is the namesake of the U. S. Courthouse in Amarillo.
  • TLM_Fall2024_Benno Schmidt
    He rose from humble beginnings in Abilene to pioneering high-risk, high-reward investment with J.H. “Jock” Whitney.
  • Formal photo of Judge Lamberth in black robe standing in front of case filled with books
    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.