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March 19, 2012
Law School team wins national championship at Conrad B. Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition
Students from the University of Texas School of Law’s interscholastic team won first place in the twentieth annual Conrad B. Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, held at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, March 9–12, 2012. Third-year students Brian Cumings and Eric Werlinger won first place at the competition, surviving a field of fifty-four teams. Two other members of the team representing UT Law, third-year students Gabriel Markoff and Zachary Popovich, advanced to the final day of the competition and ultimately placed as finalists. -
March 1, 2012
The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association is hosting the annual Mexican-American Bar Association of Texas's Law Student Conference on March 2 and 3, 2012, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. During this event, law students and attorneys from across Texas will attend programming and discussions on professional development and issues affecting Hispanic communities in Texas. -
February 28, 2012
Law Students meet with State Senator Rodney Ellis, ’79, at the State Capitol
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, students from the Law School’s Hargrave Society met with Senator Rodney Ellis, ’79, in the Betty King Committee Room at the State Capitol. Ellis serves as the Community Fellow for the Hargrave Society, which is one of the eight societies in the Law School’s Society Program. -
January 13, 2012
The Society Program has been building community as the Law School and beyond since 2004. -
December 15, 2011
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. speaks with law students
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, joined by the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, appeared in the Eidmann Courtroom at the University of Texas School of Law on December 13, 2011, to talk to students and faculty. -
December 14, 2011
David Armendariz, ’12, awarded the 2011 Louis T. Pirkey Prize in Intellectual Property Law
The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to announce that David Armendariz, ’12, was awarded the 2011 Louis T. Pirkey Prize in Intellectual Property Law on December 12, 2011, for his paper “Picking on the Little Guy? Asserting Trademark Rights against Fans, Emulators, and Enthusiasts.” -
November 14, 2011
The Law School and Robert Brothers, ’11, honored by awards from Texas Access to Justice Commission
The University of Texas School of Law and one of its recent graduates were honored by awards from the Texas Access to Justice Commission on November 14, 2011. Robert Brothers, ’11, received the Law Student Pro Bono Award along with Sarah Loeffler, a recent graduate of the University of Houston School of Law. The Law School received the Commitment to Service Award. -
November 11, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to announce members of the centennial class of Chancellors, the Law School’s most prestigious honor society. Since 1912, Chancellors has recognized the law students who have achieved the sixteen highest grade point averages in their class through their second year of school. The most recent Chancellors will be installed as part of a one hundredth anniversary celebration in March 2012, to which all of the nine hundred living Chancellors will be invited. -
October 27, 2011
National Pro Bono Week at UT Law: Spotlight on the 2011–2012 Pro Bono Scholars
In celebration of National Pro Bono Week (October 23–29), the UT Law Pro Bono Program is pleased to announce that second-year students Meredith Kincaid and Gwen Vindell have been selected to serve as Pro Bono Scholars for the 2011–2012 academic year. -
October 19, 2011
In anticipation of National Pro Bono Week (October 23–29), the Pro Bono Program is pleased to announce that the application for the 2012 Pro Bono in January trip will be available on Monday, October 24. Pro Bono in January is an annual winter break trip that gives law students the opportunity to engage in meaningful pro bono work in low-income communities. This year, the Pro Bono Program will take forty to fifty students as well as several faculty members to the Texas Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and El Paso during the second week of January. -
October 18, 2011
Three Students receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
Three students at the University of Texas School of Law have been selected to receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships for the 2011–2012 academic year. Students who receive the $4,500 scholarships commit to working three hundred pro bono hours during the school year with a nonprofit organization providing legal services to underserved individuals or communities. -
September 23, 2011
Bianca Garcia, ’12, has started her term as president of the Law School Division of the Hispanic National Bar Association, a national organization of law students that “encourages the participation of Latino students in developing and remaining responsive to the social, political, and academic promotion of the Latino/a community and to encourage and promote the recruitment, academic achievement, and retention of Latino/a law students.”
