Year: 2010

  • Justin Driver, an assistant professor at the Law School, has written an article in the New Republic wondering why everyone has fallen for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s "self-serving narrative."
  • Daniel B. Rodriguez, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the Law School, has written an article in the Houston Chronicle discussing the possibility that Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood, ’75, could be the next Supreme Court justice.
  • Barbara Bintliff, law library director at the University of Colorado at Boulder, accepts position as library director and Joseph C. Hutcheson Professor in Law.
  • In this video from UT's Know online magazine, she explains the necessary balancing act that occurs in the United States legal system, as citizens challenge the use of new and more invasive defense technologies such as whole-body scanners in airports. From Guantanamo Bay to police searches, Natarajan clarifies the significance of the rule of law and the writ of habeas corpus in maintaining national security.
  • This January 11–15, 2010, forty students from the University of Texas School of Law spent part of their Winter Break in Houston and the Rio Grande Valley carrying out pro bono legal work for underserved communities.
  • More than fifty Texas counties have adopted a juvenile justice–policy plan designed by Hannah Miller, ’09
  • The Capital Punishment Clinic enters its third decade of providing representation to indigent men and women facing the death penalty in Texas.
  • A Law School grant helps second-year law student Andrés Durá carry out original research on an 1813 execution for fraudulent bankruptcy in the United Kingdom
  • Law students organize legal clinics for Central Texas Veterans
  • In fall 2009, the Law School will launch the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law to help create a new generation of lawyers and scholars to navigate the legal terrain between these three vital fields in a changing world.
  • Regina Rogoff, ’73, Chief Executive Officer of the People’s Community Clinic in Austin, Texas
  • Mike A. Myers, ’63, Chairman and CEO, Myers Bancshares Inc., Dallas, Texas