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May 3, 2017
Six of Texas Law’s most accomplished and illustrious alumni are being honored this October by the Texas Law Alumni Association and Dean Ward Farnsworth. Legendary Austin lawyer and civic leader Frank Denius ’49 will receive the Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Houston-based JoAnn Lee ’83, an Assistant General Counsel for Exxon Mobil, will be honored as Outstanding […] -
April 28, 2017
The Hon. Debra Lehrmann ’82 will give the commencement address at the 2017 Sunflower Ceremony on Saturday, May 20. Justice Lehrmann has served on the Supreme Court of Texas since 2010; before that, she served as a family law trial judge for 23 years. Prior to her judicial service, Justice Lehrmann practiced law in Fort […] -
April 27, 2017
The following article was published by The LBJ School of Public Affairs, with whom the law school shares several faculty members and research projects, a dual-degree program, and the interdisciplinary Robert Strauss Center. It covers the remarkable research conducted by Prof. Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer at the law school and a Soros Senior Justice […] -
April 25, 2017
Prof. Richard Albert to Join Texas Law Faculty From Boston College
Professor Richard Albert of Boston College has accepted an offer to join Texas Law in January 2018. Prof. Albert will be teaching a 1L Constitutional Law section, among other courses. His scholarship focuses on constitutional amendment in comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives. He is currently completing a book on constitutional amendment, to be published by Oxford University Press. […] -
April 24, 2017
A major article by Prof. Bob Peroni in last November’s Tulane Law Review was awarded the John Minor Wisdom Award for Academic Excellence in Legal Scholarship. The award is given annually to the authors of the best lead article in the current volume of the Review. Prof. Peroni shares the honor with his two co-authors, J. Clifton […] -
April 10, 2017
Lyrissa Lidsky ’93 Named 17th dean of the University of Missouri School of Law
From Mizzou Law’s website: Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, currently the associate dean for graduate and non-J.D. programs at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law, has been appointed as the 17th dean of the University of Missouri School of Law. She will join the law school officially on July 1. “I am thrilled […] -
March 15, 2017
Abramson: “Did the Supreme Court open a Pandora’s Box on jury discrimination?”
Prof. Jeffrey Abramson, a nationally recognized expert on juries and the jury system, took to the opinion pages of the Dallas Morning News today to react to the recent Supreme Court ruling in Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado. In that case, the court considered whether a Colorado man should be given a new trial when it was revealed […] -
March 4, 2017
Silver: “Tackle drug monopolies to bring medication prices down.”
Prof. Charles Silver, the Roy W. and Eugenia C. McDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure and the Co-Director of the Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice and the Media, published a a new opinion piece in the March 3 Dallas News, the online platform of the Dallas Morning News. In it, he tackles the real reasons prescription drugs […] -
February 27, 2017
Jack Pope ’37, Former Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court, Dies at 103
Andrew Jackson “Jack” Pope, a member of the Texas Law Class of 1937, passed away on Saturday, February 25, 2017. He was 103 years old. After passing the bar in 1937, Pope practiced law in Corpus Christi at the firm started by his uncle Walter Pope, a former state representative. He eventually left private practice […] -
February 27, 2017
Littwin: “Texans need to tell Cruz and Hensarling to keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau”
Prof. Angela Littwin, reacting to a spate of news stories out of Washington confirming that two of Texas’ most powerful elected officials are sharpening their knives for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has penned a forceful new op-ed defending that agency and explaining all the good it does for Texans and, indeed, all Americans. The op-ed […] -
February 26, 2017
Texas Law Team Wins Regional Transactional Law Meet, Heading to National Finals
A team from Texas Law spent Friday in Dallas taking on regional competition at the 2017 Transactional LawMeet, where they won Best Draft and Best Seller, meaning they were the top team in representing the seller’s side of the mock transaction. They now advance to the National finals at the end of March. The four-member team […] -
February 25, 2017
Karen Engle’s “Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda”: From Conference to Book
Karen Engle, the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice—and, for the 2016-17 academic year, the Deborah Lunder and Alan Ezekiel Founders’ Circle member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton—is the primary editor of an important new book, “Anti-Impunity […]
