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February 24, 2011
Third-year law student awarded Julius Glickman Fellowship to pursue worker rights project
The University of Texas School of Law’s Justice Corps program recently awarded the Julius Glickman Fellowship in Public Interest Law to third-year student Claire Rodriguez. The two-year fellowship provides $45,000 per year for full-time legal work on a project sponsored by an existing public-interest legal organization and supervised by a licensed attorney. -
February 17, 2011
The Law School’s interscholastic team won a national championship at the John L. Costello National Criminal Law Trial Advocacy Competition, held in Fairfax, Virginia, February 10–13, 2011. -
January 31, 2011
UT Law Pro Bono Program Sends Thirty-Three Law Students to the Rio Grande Valley
On January 9–14, 2011, thirty-three students and four faculty members from the University of Texas School of Law spent the last week of their winter break in the Texas Rio Grande Valley helping to provide pro bono legal assistance in underserved communities. -
January 27, 2011
On Wednesday, January 26, 2011, seventeen students were inducted into Chancellors, the University of Texas School of Law’s most prestigious honor society. -
January 21, 2011
Fielding B. “Tres” Cochran III, ’75, receives Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award
The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law has awarded the 2010 Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award to Fielding B. “Tres” Cochran III, ’75. Cochran received the award on January 20, 2011 at the sixth annual Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law Banquet. -
January 4, 2011
Meredith Shytles, a third-year student at the Law School, has won a prestigious post-graduate Skadden Fellowship. Shytles will use the fellowship at Austin-based Advocacy Inc., working with teenage girls with disabilities in the foster care or juvenile justice system. -
November 10, 2010
The Law School is pleased to announce members of the Class of 2011 who have been admitted to Chancellors, the Law School’s most prestigious honor society. -
October 26, 2010
Human Rights Clinic Releases Report on Impact of Dam Construction on Indigenous Group
A report researched and written by faculty and students in the Law School’s Human Rights Clinic details the struggles of Costa Rica’s indigenous Teribe tribe in the face of a proposed dam on the Terraba River, which threatens to flood their lands. -
October 13, 2010
Capital Punishment Clinic Director Rob Owen appears before U.S. Supreme Court for Skinner v. Switzer
Clinical Professor Rob Owen, director of the the University of Texas School of Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic, will argue before the the Supreme Court of the United States today, Oct. 13, 2010. -
September 23, 2010
Three UT Law 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 2010–2011 academic year. -
September 20, 2010
Five students have been selected to serve as Public Service Scholars for 2010–2011 with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at the University of Texas School of Law. -
September 16, 2010
Robert Brothers, a third-year student at the University of Texas School of Law, has been selected to receive the first Scott Ozmun Fellowship to work on pro bono cases through Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas (VLS).
