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November 1, 2016
Steve Vladeck on C-SPAN: Clinton’s Emails, Comey’s Letter, and the Hatch Act
Texas Law Professor Stephen Vladeck appeared Monday on Washington Journal, C-SPAN’s morning interview program, to discuss the letter submitted to Congress on Friday, October 28, by F.B.I. Director James Comey, alerting the world to the possibility of new emails in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Prof. Vladeck has emerged as a go-to […] -
October 26, 2016
Jordan Steiker: Changing how America thinks about capital punishment
The cover story of Harvard Magazine‘s November-December issue is an in-depth look at the research and influence of Texas Law Professor Jordan Steiker and his sister, Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker. The Steikers have a new book, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, which, according to the authors, “traces the unusual and distinctive […] -
October 7, 2016
Texas Law Prof. Susan Morse penned a new opinion piece about safe harbors for DallasNews, the online presence of The Dallas Morning News, in response to a widely-read and much-discussed article by Brian M. Rosenthal for the Houston Chronicle. That story, “Denied: How Texas keeps thousands of children out of special education,” examined the role of the […] -
September 29, 2016
Several members of the Texas Law faculty have recently been prominently featured in the national press. In the current issue of The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin’s “The Supreme Court After Scalia” considers the upcoming term and the possibilities of an emerging “liberal Court.” Among matters that could come before a newly configured Court in coming […] -
September 20, 2016
In a powerful opinion piece published on the National Law Journal website, Professor Jordan Steiker calls on the Supreme Court to “declare the obvious” and acknowledge the prejudicial role of race in the sentencing of Duane Buck, and for federal courts “to correct blatant errors in Texas capital cases.” Steiker’s new book, Courting Death: The Supreme […] -
September 17, 2016
The School of Law reports with sadness the passing of Hans Wolfgang Baade, an emeritus member of the faculty and holder of the Hugh Lamar Stone Chair in Civil Law. Professor Baade was born in Berlin in 1929, and was raised in Germany and in Turkey. He received his A.B. from Syracuse University, a doctorate […] -
August 26, 2016
Texas Law faculty members Heather Way and Lucy Wood are writing a book that shows how the concepts in first-year Property courses work in practice. Real Property for the Real World: Building Skills Through Case Study, is forthcoming from West Publishing Company. Tanya Marsh at Wake Forest University is a co-author as well. The book […] -
August 22, 2016
Most lawyers would say the Constitution forbids the government to discriminate on the basis of race, but Professor Ronen Avraham believes it still happens routinely in the courtroom. Prof. Avraham, the Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor at the School of Law, studies the damages that courts award in personal-injury cases and in other settings, and he believes […] -
August 4, 2016
The Law School community is greatly saddened by the passing of The Ronald D. Krist Professor in Law, Loftus C. Carson II (1946-2016). Prof. Carson served on the Texas Law faculty for more than 20 years, teaching corporations, securities regulation, nonprofit organizations, higher education and the law, and employment law. In 2002, he received the Student Bar Association […] -
May 23, 2016
Darren Walker ’86 Delivers Sunflower Ceremony Convocation Speech
Below are the prepared remarks Darren Walker ’86 delivered to the Texas Law Class of 2016 at the Sunflower Ceremony on May 21. For more of Mr. Walker’s inspiring words and deeds, visit the online library of the Ford Foundation. Congratulations, class of 2016! Thank you, Dean Farnsworth. It is wonderful to be back on […] -
May 23, 2016
Sunflower Ceremony Remarks of Permanent Class President David Springer
Below are the prepared remarks of David Springer, the Permanent Class President for the Class of ’16. Mr. Springer was a member of the editorial board of the Texas Law Review, and spent two years as a student mentor. Before law school, he spent five years in federal service, including as a counterterrorism operations planner in […] -
May 17, 2016
Six of Texas Law’s most accomplished, illustrious alumni are being honored this September by the Texas Law Alumni Association and Dean Ward Farnsworth. Former United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ’67 will receive the Association’s Award for Lifetime Achievement. Austin attorney Patton G. Lochridge ’76 will be honored as Outstanding Alumnus. Senior U.S. District Court Judge […]
