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January 20, 2017
Larry Kramer, the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and former Dean of Stanford Law School, will give two talks on Wednesday, February 1. He will deliver the University of Texas School of Law Endowed Lecture for 2016-17 on the topic of “The Problem of Fixing U.S. Democracy” at 10:15 a.m., and a bonus […] -
December 28, 2016
Prof. Julius G. Getman, the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Emeritus, is back on bookshelves this winter with a new title published by Cornell University Press: The Supreme Court on Unions: Why Labor Law is Failing American Workers. In his book, Prof. Getman argues that the Supreme Court has become more and more central to shaping […] -
December 6, 2016
Professor Steve Goode of the UT Law School has been named the winner of the University’s Civitatis Award for 2016. The announcement was made this week by President Greg Fenves. The Civitatis Award is the highest distinction made by the University of Texas to recognize outstanding citizenship. It is conferred on a member of the […] -
November 1, 2016
Steve Vladeck on C-SPAN: Clinton’s Emails, Comey’s Letter, and the Hatch Act
Texas Law Professor Stephen Vladeck appeared Monday on Washington Journal, C-SPAN’s morning interview program, to discuss the letter submitted to Congress on Friday, October 28, by F.B.I. Director James Comey, alerting the world to the possibility of new emails in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Prof. Vladeck has emerged as a go-to […] -
October 26, 2016
Jordan Steiker: Changing how America thinks about capital punishment
The cover story of Harvard Magazine‘s November-December issue is an in-depth look at the research and influence of Texas Law Professor Jordan Steiker and his sister, Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker. The Steikers have a new book, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, which, according to the authors, “traces the unusual and distinctive […] -
October 7, 2016
Texas Law Prof. Susan Morse penned a new opinion piece about safe harbors for DallasNews, the online presence of The Dallas Morning News, in response to a widely-read and much-discussed article by Brian M. Rosenthal for the Houston Chronicle. That story, “Denied: How Texas keeps thousands of children out of special education,” examined the role of the […] -
September 29, 2016
Several members of the Texas Law faculty have recently been prominently featured in the national press. In the current issue of The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin’s “The Supreme Court After Scalia” considers the upcoming term and the possibilities of an emerging “liberal Court.” Among matters that could come before a newly configured Court in coming […] -
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 […] -
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 […]
