Mullenix: A Look at Class Action and Civil Procedure Cases Coming Before SCOTUS
The new Supreme Court Term opened yesterday, and seasoned Court watchers have their sights set on a number of high-profile cases coming before the Court in the next nine months. Texas Law Prof. Linda Mullenix is one such close student of the Court. Her analyses and previews of civil procedure and class action cases before […]
H.W. Perry Wins American Political Science Association Teaching and Mentoring Award
Texas Law Prof. H.W. Perry has been named the recipient of the 2017 Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Teaching Association. The award was announced at APSA’s annual meetings in San Francisco on September 4. The Teaching and Mentoring Award recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and […]
Vladeck: What does the Constitution really say about post-conviction habeas?
Last week saw the publication of Texas Law Prof. Stephen I. Vladeck’s latest article, The Constitutional Right to Collateral Post-Conviction Review, in the Virginia Law Review. In it, he and co-author Carlos M. Vasquez, a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, take a closer look at one of less-discussed—but, in Vladeck and Vasquez’s […]
Forbath: A New Type of Labor Law for a New Type of Lawyer
Texas Law Prof. William Forbath, who has been writing about law and the American labor movement for over 25 years, has been a close and engaged observer of the monumental change to the nature of work in America and the resulting plight of American workers. This Labor Day, Prof. Forbath and Temple Law School Prof. […]
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 […]
Nicole Cásarez ’79 on “The Joy of Lawyering”
The Class of 2020 spent their first morning of law school with an all-star collection of Texas Law luminaries, including Dean Ward Farnsworth and Associate Dean Robert Chesney, and they took the Oath of Professionalism, administered by the Hon. Debra Lehrmann ’82, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. But the emotional highlight of the […]
Texas Law Makes New U.S. News Short List
U.S. News and World Report continues to issue so-called “Short List” reports, in which they analyze often overlooked aspects of excellence in quality and value in legal education, and Texas Law continues to show up on those lists. Just yesterday, U.S. News released their list of “10 Law Schools With Small Classes” and Texas Law […]
Aspiring Lawyers Kick Off First Week of Discover Law
The Law School is currently hosting the 2017 edition of Discover Law, a program to introduce undergraduate students from Huston Tillotson University and UT to the world of law school. This year’s events are the subject of a profile on the website of The University of Texas at Austin’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. we […]
Texas Law Hosting American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting
Texas Law tends to be as quiet as a library during the summer, while students and faculty alike travel the country for work, research and relaxation. This Thursday, though, that library quiet will be broken—by a group of librarians, no less! The American Association of Law Libraries is descending upon Austin, and the Tarlton Law […]
In Memoriam: Professor John A. Robertson
The Law School community is saddened by the sudden passing of Professor John A. Robertson, holder of the Vinson & Elkins Chair and a beloved member of our faculty for over thirty-five years. Professor Robertson, a renowned bioethics scholar, was honored in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award from the American Society for Law, Medicine […]