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August 22, 2011
UT Law’s Class of 2014 arrived August 22, 2011, for 1L Orientation and the beginning of classes. As usual, the incoming students are a diverse and accomplished group. -
August 19, 2011
David Hall, ’69, executive director of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, turned his youthful passion for helping the poor into a distinguished and influential public-interest legal career. -
August 8, 2011
Ryan Newman ’07, to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
Ryan Newman, ’07, will begin a clerkship for Justice Samuel Alito at the U.S. Supreme Court at the beginning of the 2011–2012 term. -
August 5, 2011
Karen Engle earns 2010 Best Book Award from American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. -
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.
