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February 7, 2020
Texas Law is proud to share that the class of 2020 Chris Marshall Endowed Presidential Scholarships were awarded to four outstanding students. These scholarships are given annually to third-year students who have distinguished themselves academically and plan to remain in Texas after graduation to practice public service law in non-profit, government or legislative positions. We […] -
January 31, 2020
For this edition of Texas Law's Student Spotlight series, meet 2L William Zakhary! -
December 3, 2019
For this edition of Texas Law’s Student Spotlight series, meet Dustin Farahnak ’20! -
August 28, 2019
A new academic year is underway at Texas Law and we’ve welcomed 288 1Ls and 35 LLMs to The Forty Acres. To mark the occasion, we had cameras rolling during Orientation and have produced this brief video to mark today’s milestone. The video was sent this morning to all 24,000+ Texas Law alumni and shared […] -
May 31, 2019
The Law School celebrated the Class of 2019, their family and friends, and the school’s leadership and faculty, on Saturday, May 25, 2019, at the Gregory Gym, in the heart of the UT campus. The student speaker was Permanent Class President for the Class of ’19, Gabriella Oxford, and the commencement address was delivered by […] -
February 22, 2019
Becky Walker ’19 Receives First Mike A. Myers Fellowship in Public Interest Law
Becky Walker ’19 has been named the inaugural recipient of the Mike A. Myers Fellowship in Public Interest Law. The one-year fellowship, announced earlier this month by Associate Dean Eden Harrington, who also serves as the Director of Texas Law’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, will allow Walker to provide legal services […] -
November 9, 2018
Texas Law’s nationally recognized Advocacy Program sent teams to a total of seven interscholastic mock trial and Alternative Dispute Resolution competitions this fall season. From California to New York City, students competed and achieved for the University of Texas at a level of excellence rarely matched. Read on to learn more about the competitions our […] -
June 8, 2018
Texas Law Graduates Receive Prestigious Public Service Fellowships in 2018
Twelve graduates of the Texas Law Class of 2018 have received prestigious postgraduate public service fellowships from Equal Justice Works, Gideon’s Promise, If/When/How, the Georgetown University Law Center, the Gallogly Family Foundation, as well as the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and Institute for Transnational Law at the law school. “The Law […] -
May 27, 2018
David Holmes Delivers Student Address for Class of 2018 at Sunflower Ceremony
Permanent Class President for the Class of 2018 David M. Holmes spoke on behalf of the class at the 2018 Sunflower Ceremony on May 19, 2018, at the Gregory Gym. Mr. Holmes’s speech was witty, touching, and even a bit musical, as he closed his time at the podium with a modified verse of the […] -
August 30, 2017
Daniel Hatoum ’16 Awarded Fried Frank Civil Rights Fellowship
Fried Frank, a New York-based law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Frankfurt, has awarded Texas Law graduate Daniel Hatoum, ’16, its 2017 Civil Rights Fellowship. Hatoum will work for two years in New York as a Fried Frank litigator and then two years as a staff attorney with the Mexican-American Legal […] -
February 26, 2017
Texas Law Team Wins Regional Transactional Law Meet, Heading to National Finals
A team from Texas Law spent Friday in Dallas taking on regional competition at the 2017 Transactional LawMeet, where they won Best Draft and Best Seller, meaning they were the top team in representing the seller’s side of the mock transaction. They now advance to the National finals at the end of March. The four-member team […] -
January 30, 2017
Thurgood Marshall Legal Society Recognized as Best in Southwest by the NBLSA
The Southwest Region of the National Black Law Students Association honored Texas Law’s chapter, the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society, as “Chapter of the Year” in its category for medium-sized chapters, those with 30 to 50 members. The award, which recognizes a chapter for “exemplary service to its members and local community,” was presented at the […]
