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November 20, 2013
Professor Justin Driver has been awarded the 2013 Cromwell Article Prize which is given by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation for “the best article in American legal history published by an early career scholar,” according to its website. The award was announced during the American Society for Legal History annual meeting Nov. 9 in South […] -
September 25, 2013
UT Law School’s Robert Chesney Appointed New Director of Robert S. Strauss Center
A research center working at the crossroads of security and policy solutions, the Robert S. Strauss Center announced it has appointed as its new director UT Law Professor Robert Chesney. A renowned national security law scholar, Chesney previously served as a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholars. He will assume his new role in January 2014, succeeding […] -
September 19, 2013
Enforced Disappearances: Clinical Professor Among U.N. Experts in Official Visit to Spain
Two members from the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances* will visit Spain Sept. 23-30 to examine the measures taken by Spain on issues related to the prevention and eradication of enforced or involuntary disappearances. The experts will analyze issues related to truth, justice, reparation and memory for victims of enforced disappearances. […] -
September 18, 2013
Texas Assessment Team Releases Report on State’s Death Penalty System, Cites Urgent Need for Reform
The Texas Capital Punishment Assessment Team, organized by the American Bar Association (ABA), today issued a comprehensive report with recommendations to help ensure fairness and accuracy in the state’s death penalty system. “Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Texas Capital Punishment Assessment Report” is the culmination of a two-year review of […] -
June 25, 2013
John Robertson analyzes the fetal pain ban debate for the Austin American Statesman
Professor John Robertson, Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law, discusses the scientific and constitutional issues at play in the laws passed by ten states and now being considered in Texas to ban abortions after 20 weeks because of the scientifically controversial claim that fetuses are then capable of feeing pain. -
May 29, 2013
Jordan Steiker analyzes Supreme Court’s decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins for SCOTUSBlog
Jordan Steiker, Judge Robert M. Parker Chair in Law and codirector of the Law School's Capital Punishment Center, has written an analysis of the Supreme Court's opinion in McQuiggin v. Perkins, which was published May 28, 2013. -
February 26, 2013
Professor Jordan Steiker previews and recaps federal habeas case McQuiggin v. Perkins in SCOTUSblog
Jordan Steiker, Judge Robert M. Parker Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Capital Punishment Center, has written a preview of McQuiggin v. Perkins, a federal habeas case scheduled to be argued the week of February 25, 2013, at the Supreme Court, at SCOTUSblog. -
February 15, 2013
Professor Linda Mullenix, Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy, has written an article in the American Bar Association's Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases previewing the issues and arguments in American Express Corp. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, et al. (PDF link), for which the Supreme Court will hear arguments on February 27, 2013. -
January 7, 2013
Professor Linda Mullenix reviews class action fairness case before Supreme Court
Professor Linda Mullenix has written a commentary on Standard Fire Ins. Co. v. Knowles—argued before the Supreme Court on January 7, 2013—in Preview of Supreme Court Cases. The case concerns the removal of a state class action into federal court and addresses the issue of whether state court plaintiffs may stipulate to damages below the federal jurisdictional threshold to evade removal under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA). -
December 14, 2012
The Law School community is saddened to learn that Russell J. Weintraub, Ben H. & Kitty King Powell Chair Emeritus in Business & Commercial Law, passed away December 13, 2012. -
December 12, 2012
Professor Henry Hu discusses how complexity and innovation mandate radical changes in disclosure. -
November 28, 2012
Professor David Rabban, who holds the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, has just published a new book, Law’s History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History. The book is now available from Cambridge University Press.
