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October 5, 2011
The William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law is joining the LBJ School of Public Affairs to undertake a major study for the Texas Legislature on the use of contracts for deed in Texas colonias. The study will focus on title issues, variations of contracts for deed, and abuses during the sale of property in these communities. It will also examine wider issues of title irregularity as these emerge through informal land sales, subdivision, and intestate inheritance. -
October 4, 2011
European Securities and Markets Authority issues call to study Henry Hu’s “empty voting” phenomenon
On September 14, 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a call for evidence on “empty voting” within the European Union (EU) and the effects of this and related “decoupling” phenomena. Henry T. C. Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the University of Texas School of Law is the lead or sole author on pioneering articles that coined the term “empty voting,” as well as associated terms such as “empty crediting” and “hidden (morphable) ownership.” -
October 1, 2011
On Monday, October 3, 2011, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice will host the second Human Rights Happy Hour of the Fall semester. Professor Catalina Smulovitz of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina will present a talk entitled, “Legal Inequality and Domestic Violence. Who gets what and when at the Subnational Level?” The […] -
September 27, 2011
Professor Jordan Steiker, Judge Robert M Parker Endowed Chair in Law and codirector of the Capital Punishment Center, and his sister, Carol Steiker, of Harvard Law School, have written an article in The New Republic arguing that opponents of the death penalty might be closer to reaching their goal of abolition than many think. -
September 27, 2011
Four Law School faculty members elected as fellows of the American Bar Foundation
The Law School’s Alex Albright, Barbara Bintliff, Linda Mullenix, and Michael Sturley have been elected as fellows of the American Bar Foundation. -
September 23, 2011
Bianca Garcia, ’12, has started her term as president of the Law School Division of the Hispanic National Bar Association, a national organization of law students that “encourages the participation of Latino students in developing and remaining responsive to the social, political, and academic promotion of the Latino/a community and to encourage and promote the recruitment, academic achievement, and retention of Latino/a law students.” -
September 22, 2011
Kamela Bridges and Wayne Schiess write book on litigation writing for students and new lawyers
To help prepare students and new lawyers for these forms of writing, Law School writing lecturers Kamela Bridges and Wayne Schiess have written a book, Writing for Litigation, organized around the types of documents a trial lawyer writes, from an engagement letter at the beginning of a case to jury instructions at the end. -
September 20, 2011
Six students have been selected to serve as Public Service Scholars for the 2011–2012 year with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law at the University of Texas School of Law. -
September 20, 2011
Law School students and alumni provide pro bono legal advice to wildfire victims
Law School students and alumni provided pro bono legal advice to victims of the recent wildfires in Central Texas. Hundreds of people in and near Bastrop, about thirty miles east of Austin, have lost their homes or experienced significant damages. -
September 15, 2011
The University Of Texas School of Law will sponsor a “Passport Day” for anyone needing to procure a United States passport. Passport Day will take place on Tuesday, September 20, 2011, from 10:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. in the Susman-Godfrey Atrium. -
September 14, 2011
Stefanie Lindquist, associate dean for academic affairs and A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, has been awarded the 2011 Best Conference Paper Award by the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association. -
September 14, 2011
Professor William Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, recently published “The Distributive Constitution” in Democracy: a Journal of Ideas as part of a debate with Geoffrey Stone and others about how progressives should interpret the Constitution. He will also conduct a webinar for the American Constitutional Society on October 12, 2011.
