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July 27, 2011
Law School’s Class of 2014 Equal Justice Scholarship awarded to Cassandra McCrae
The University of Texas School of Law has awarded the seventh Equal Justice Scholarship to Cassandra McCrae, an incoming first-year law student. The scholarship covers tuition and fees for three years of legal study. McCrae has committed to working after law school on a full-time basis for three years providing direct legal services to low-income individuals or groups at a nonprofit organization in the United States. -
July 26, 2011
Professor Robert Chesney testified before the House Armed Services Committee on July 26, 2011, in Washington, D.C. as legislators continued their debate over policies surrounding the detention and prosecution of accused terrorists. -
July 7, 2011
Howard Wolf, ’59, wants to transform TxDOT to meet the needs of a changing Texas, and world. -
July 7, 2011
Dan Mangis’s career as a Foreign Service officer has taken him far from Austin to Baghdad’s Green Zone. -
June 27, 2011
A Badge(r) of Respect: University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni honor Professor George Dix
Apparently, there is a little more Badger in one of our long-tenured Longhorns than many folks might have realized. Professor George Dix, the George R. Killam Jr. Chair of Criminal Law, was recently named “Badger of the Year” by the Austin-area alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. -
June 27, 2011
Video is available of Professor William Forbath's recent lecture at the University of Oregon on “Human Rights: the Socialism of the 21st Century?” -
June 22, 2011
An Interview with Inga Markovits on her book, Justice in Lüritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany, winner of the Law and Society Association’s prestigious J. Willard Hurst Prize -
June 16, 2011
Mary Murphy, ’11, has been awarded a Public Defender Corps fellowship. Her Fellowship project will be with the Orleans Public Defenders in New Orleans, Louisiana, a relatively new office that defends the poor and indigent in Orleans Parish. -
June 15, 2011
Students at Austin’s Webb Middle School set up their own dispute resolution forum with the help of Law School students and professors. -
June 15, 2011
Adriana Rodriguez, ’11, and Michelle Smith, ’11, awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowships
Adriana Rodriguez, ’11, and Michelle Smith, ’11, have been awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowships to work for nonprofit legal organizations after their graduation. -
June 15, 2011
Professor Justin Driver writes New Republic cover story on “Obama’s Law”
UT Law Professor Justin Driver has written the cover story for the June 30, 2011, edition of The New Republic. His article, “Obama’s Law,” explores President Obama’s legal philosophy and its troubling consequences. -
June 14, 2011
Professor Calvin Johnson’s Shelf Project seeks to provide Congress with efficient revenue options
Calvin Johnson has fifty ways to raise $1 trillion in taxes without raising rates, and he wants to convince Congress to adopt them. Now, he may get his chance. Johnson, the Andrews & Kurth Centennial Professor at the Law School, was recently awarded a fellowship at the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution based in Washington, D.C. The Tax Policy Center provides analysis for both policymakers and the public, and has a team of world-class budget and tax economists.
