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September 17, 2016
The School of Law reports with sadness the passing of Hans Wolfgang Baade, an emeritus member of the faculty and holder of the Hugh Lamar Stone Chair in Civil Law. Professor Baade was born in Berlin in 1929, and was raised in Germany and in Turkey. He received his A.B. from Syracuse University, a doctorate […] -
August 26, 2016
Texas Law faculty members Heather Way and Lucy Wood are writing a book that shows how the concepts in first-year Property courses work in practice. Real Property for the Real World: Building Skills Through Case Study, is forthcoming from West Publishing Company. Tanya Marsh at Wake Forest University is a co-author as well. The book […] -
August 22, 2016
Most lawyers would say the Constitution forbids the government to discriminate on the basis of race, but Professor Ronen Avraham believes it still happens routinely in the courtroom. Prof. Avraham, the Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor at the School of Law, studies the damages that courts award in personal-injury cases and in other settings, and he believes […] -
August 4, 2016
The Law School community is greatly saddened by the passing of The Ronald D. Krist Professor in Law, Loftus C. Carson II (1946-2016). Prof. Carson served on the Texas Law faculty for more than 20 years, teaching corporations, securities regulation, nonprofit organizations, higher education and the law, and employment law. In 2002, he received the Student Bar Association […] -
May 23, 2016
Darren Walker ’86 Delivers Sunflower Ceremony Convocation Speech
Below are the prepared remarks Darren Walker ’86 delivered to the Texas Law Class of 2016 at the Sunflower Ceremony on May 21. For more of Mr. Walker’s inspiring words and deeds, visit the online library of the Ford Foundation. Congratulations, class of 2016! Thank you, Dean Farnsworth. It is wonderful to be back on […] -
May 23, 2016
Sunflower Ceremony Remarks of Permanent Class President David Springer
Below are the prepared remarks of David Springer, the Permanent Class President for the Class of ’16. Mr. Springer was a member of the editorial board of the Texas Law Review, and spent two years as a student mentor. Before law school, he spent five years in federal service, including as a counterterrorism operations planner in […] -
May 17, 2016
Six of Texas Law’s most accomplished, illustrious alumni are being honored this September by the Texas Law Alumni Association and Dean Ward Farnsworth. Former United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ’67 will receive the Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Austin attorney Patton G. Lochridge ’76 will be honored as Outstanding Alumnus. Senior U.S. District Court Judge […] -
May 10, 2016
Rapoport Center Receives Award for Sissy Farenthold Online Exhibition
Texas Law’s Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice has won an Exceptional Merit in Media Award (EMMA) from the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) for its online exhibition Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold: A Noble Citizen. The interactive, multimedia website chronicles the life and work of Sissy Farenthold (Texas Law ’49), a trailblazing reformer, […] -
February 25, 2016
William Sage: Generational Change Will Transform Health Care For The Better
The cover story of this month’s Managed Care Magazine is “Young Docs: The New Blood That Health Care Needs,” and it builds its profile of a new rising generation of doctors and medical students on a lecture given at Yale Law School last fall by Texas Law Prof. William Sage. Prof. Sage—also an MD with […] -
February 1, 2016
Sunday’s Austin American-Statesman profiles the work of Texas Law’s Immigration Clinic and its leaders: clinic founder Barbara Hines, who retired as clinic director last year but still maintains a role; and, Professor Denise Gilman, who served with Hines for seven years before following in her footsteps in the director’s role. The ongoing plight of women and […] -
January 22, 2016
A three-day conference hosted by Texas Law Professor Sanford Levinson began last night in the Eidman Courtroom. “The Federalist in the 21st Century” gathers more than twenty of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars in Austin for a series of talks and panels inspired by—though not necessarily about—Levinson’s forthcoming book, “An Argument Open to All: Reading […] -
January 20, 2016
It is with great sorrow that we report the passing of Mark Kincaid. Mark was not only an alumnus (class of 1983) but also an adjunct faculty member here, and known to many members of the law school community personally and professionally. Among his many honors and achievements, Mark was recently elected to be President of the […]
