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August 9, 2023
Kelly Haragan ’95 and Frances Leos Martinez, long-time clinical faculty members, will now lead Texas Law’s acclaimed program, the home of 17 clinics and 8 internship offerings. -
June 30, 2023
Texas Law Event: Expert Panel to Discuss Recent SCOTUS Ruling
The Zoom webinar, led by Prof. Tara Grove and moderated by Associate Dean Melissa Wasserman, will take place July 6 at 12 p.m. and is open to all. -
May 31, 2023
As an empirical scholar on corporate structure and governance, Jens Dammann takes an unbiased deep dive into how – and where – companies operate. -
May 15, 2023
On the faculty from 1972 to his retirement in 2018, Dix taught criminal law and criminal procedure and was a prolific author of many leading textbooks, articles, and treatises. -
May 2, 2023
Texas Law Hosts Eighth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable
The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to host the eighth annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 16-17, 2023. Texas Law’s Prof. Melissa Wasserman and Prof. Wendy Wagner are organizing the event. The Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable is an annual event, hosted by a rotating series of law schools, at […] -
May 1, 2023
Prof. Richard Albert Lends His Expertise to the Country of Jamaica
Albert will be helping Jamaica in its transition from a constitutional monarchy to a republic as a member of the country's Constitution Reform Committee. -
April 25, 2023
Law School Remembers Sir Basil Markesinis, Longtime Professor and Leading Scholar
Sir Basil Markesinis, former Jamail Regents Professor at the School of Law, has passed away at the age of 78. Basil Markesinis was born in Athens. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and taught there afterwards, as well as at Michigan, Cornell, and many other universities in addition to Texas. His scholarship was […] -
March 30, 2023
Multidistrict Litigation: Experts Analyze Mass Torts, Controversy
Multidistrict litigation, the increasingly common practice of transferring related civil actions that start out in diverse federal courts to a single judge for coordinated pre-trial development, has been making eye-popping headlines with billion-dollar settlements and proceedings involving hundreds of thousands of claims. Some of the best known of the recent proceedings, which are commonly referred […] -
March 28, 2023
Professor Mechele Dickerson Turns Current Events into Lessons
Law school classes aren’t often based on current events, and for good reason. Headline news can make for good hypotheticals, but the risks include being overly reactionary and just plain getting it wrong. Professor Mechele Dickerson hasn’t just pulled lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump presidency into the courses she teaches. She has […] -
March 27, 2023
Longtime Texas Law faculty member David Rabban has been selected to deliver the highly prestigious Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression at Wesleyan University this March 30. The lecture will be presented at Wesleyan’s Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and will be moderated by Demetrius Eudell, Wesleyan’s Dean of the […] -
March 9, 2023
Shaping the Conversation: Prof. Richard Albert Brings Many Voices to Summit on Constitutionalism
On the evening of October 30, 1995, a teenaged Richard Albert was sitting at his home in Ottawa with his mother. They were watching TV coverage of returns from the referendum on whether Quebec should secede from Canada. Albert vividly recalls the tension he felt as a Quebecer but “first and foremost a Canadian” who did […] -
March 8, 2023
Acclaimed law professor and author Justin Driver, who is in residence at Texas Law the week of March 20 as a Distinguished Scholar, will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday, March 21, titled “Schooling Free Speech.” The lecture takes place at 11:30 a.m. in the law school’s Eidman Courtroom, and light refreshments will be served […]
