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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 […] -
May 23, 2018
The Texas Law Class of 2018, their families and friends, and the law school leadership and faculty, were regaled with an exceptional address from Linda Addison ’76 at the annual commencement ceremony, held on May 19, 2018. Ms. Addison, who serves on the Law School Foundation and is a founder of the Center for Women […] -
May 7, 2018
Darren Walker ’86 Honored by the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life
Darren Walker ’86 added yet another award to his distinguished résumé, when the Moody College of Communication’s Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life presented him with the inaugural Shirley Perry Bird Longhorn Citizenship Award on April 24, in Austin. UT Austin President Greg Fenves made the presentation. Reprinted below, with permission, is the story written by Annette […] -
April 3, 2018
Texas Law Senior Lecturer Ronen Avraham has just completed the first large-scale empirical study of consumer third-party litigation funding in the United States, along with colleague Anthony J. Sebok of Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. The striking results of their new study will be analyzed in full in the forthcoming Cornell Law Review. Until […] -
February 3, 2018
Double-Longhorn Belinda Johnson — BA ’88 and JD ’91 — was announced today as the first-ever Chief Operating Officer of Airbnb, the global start-up superstar currently valued at $31B. The news was made public this morning by Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky, on the Airbnb website. “The COO is one of the most critical positions […] -
January 30, 2018
Charles Silver: Let retailers take a shot at fixing health care delivery
Charles Silver, holder of the Roy W. and Eugenia C. McDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure and the co-director of Texas Law’s Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice and the Media, has co-authored a new op-ed for The New York Post applauding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent decision allowing pharmacists to give flu shots to children. […] -
January 22, 2018
Texas Law Emeritus Professor Robert W. Hamilton passed away on January 12. Retired since 2004, Prof. Hamilton had taught at the law school for forty years and held the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law. Prof. Hamilton graduated from Swarthmore Collection in 1952 and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in […] -
January 19, 2018
Prof. Stephen I. Vladeck delivered the first oral argument of his career on Tuesday, January 16, in the United States Supreme Court. The cases, Dalmazzi, Cox, and Ortiz et al. v. United States, pose questions about the legality of military officers serving simultaneously as military and civilian judges. Audio of the oral arguments, including a linked transcript, has been posted by Oyez, […] -
January 17, 2018
Newly arrived Prof. Richard Albert received some welcome news during the American Association of Law Schools’ annual meetings in San Diego during the first week of January: Prof. Albert was elected to serve as Chair-Elect of the Section on Comparative Law, effective immediately. He becomes Chair in January 2019. The Section on Comparative Law provides a […] -
January 13, 2018
Most appellate advocates work their way up the courts. They start with small appeals in nearby tribunals and gradually build toward the argument of major cases in courts of last resort. Prof. Stephen I. Vladeck is doing it differently. He will deliver the first oral argument of his career on January 16—in the United States […] -
November 28, 2017
Members of the law school community, along with family, friends, and former colleagues, gathered in the Eidman Courtroom on the afternoon of Friday, November 17, to remember Prof. John A. Robertson, who passed away last summer after a brief illness. Robertson was a beloved member of our faculty for over thirty-five years. “John was an […] -
November 8, 2017
Thanks to a gift from a former prosecutor and her husband, The University of Texas School of Law is opening the Budd Innocence Center to educate law students and improve the criminal justice system by enabling students and faculty to help Texas prisoners seek exoneration for crimes they did not commit. The Budd Innocence Center […]
