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November 23, 2021
New Report from The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic
A new report from The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic reveals that San Antonio vacates and demolishes occupied homes at an exponentially higher rate than the other major Texas cities combined. Professor Heather Way, the co-director of The Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic, is the study’s lead author. The report, titled “Ousted: The City of […] -
November 23, 2021
Jill Applegate ’21 has been awarded a 2022 Skadden Fellowship to work with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem in New York. Her fellowship project will focus on providing direct representation for immigrants who have received deportation orders because of criminal convictions but who have the right to remain in the United States due to changes in […] -
November 12, 2021
For this edition of Texas Law’s Student Spotlight series, meet 1L Natalia Arizmendi! -
November 11, 2021
IN MEMORIAM: Pike Powers ’65, “Godfather of Austin’s Tech Boom” passes away
Pike Powers ’65, trailblazer and unmatched champion of Austin’s high-tech economy, died Sunday, October 31 after a long battle with Parkinson’s. He was 80 years old. “Austin has not only lost a legendary leader in the law,” remarked Liz Hilton, Executive Director for Alumni Relations and Development, “but we had to say goodbye to a […] -
November 11, 2021
This Veterans Day, Texas Law is proud to spotlight two of our remarkable students who have served in America’s military. “Veterans bring a sense of duty, confidence, and extraordinary work ethic into a learning environment,” says Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid Mathiew Le. “Their experience solving problems creatively and working as a team—even […] -
November 9, 2021
Alumnus John Schwartz ’84 Returns to UT After a Storied Journalism Career
“One Degree. Many Paths.” These are the words inscribed on the entrance of the Texas Law Career Services Interview Suite. Though they were installed after John Schwartz ’84 graduated, he has lived their example. Armed with a Juris Doctor from Texas Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Plan II, Schwartz found his path as […] -
November 5, 2021
Texas Law Adjunct Professor Evan Young Appointed to Texas Supreme Court
Professor Evan Young has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas. He joined the Law School faculty in 2015, teaching courses on Federal Courts and Religious Liberty. After law school, Young served as clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and then as counsel to attorneys general under former President George W. Bush. Currently, […] -
November 1, 2021
Alcalde Documentary Highlights Rodriguez Family and the Annual Alumni Tailgate
After a one-year pandemic break, Texas Law’s 22nd Annual Alumni Tailgate Extravaganza brought our community together again on campus, and The Alcalde documentary crew was there to capture this special moment. Eduardo Rodriguez ’68 and his family, including his son Michael Rodriguez ’94, have been uniting the Texas Law community at this tailgate for over two […] -
October 27, 2021
For this edition of Texas Law’s Student Spotlight series, meet 1L Wes Dodson! -
October 25, 2021
Several Texas Law alumni—three of whom are also faculty—are being honored with the 2021 Most Influential and Up & Coming Lawyer awards by the Austin Black Business Journal. The annual awards recognize Black professionals in the legal field who have achieved professional excellence and have actively paved the way to success for others. “These individuals […] -
October 21, 2021
A professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded one of the most prestigious book awards in the social sciences. Ran Hirschl, a professor of government and the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair in Law, was recognized with the 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for his book, City, State: […] -
October 20, 2021
Texas Law is home to world-class faculty, and reports continue to prove that to be true. Many in the legal academy pay careful attention to University of Chicago Prof. Brian Leiter’s annual lists of “most-cited” law faculty on his website, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports. Leiter (a former Texas Law professor) has developed a methodology based […]
