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June 30, 2010
The United Nations Human Rights Council has endorsed the nomination of Ariel Dulitzky, a clinical law professor at the University of Texas School of Law, to a five-person Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. -
June 28, 2010
As president of Cristo Rey Jesuit, the Rev. TJ Martinez, '96, prepares underprivileged children for a better future -
June 24, 2010
National Security Clinic wins D.C. Circuit appeal, Guantánamo detainee’s habeas case goes forward
On June 18, 2010, the National Security Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law won an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which allows a Clinic client’s habeas case to go forward in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He can now challenge his detention at the Guantánamo Bay facility. -
June 23, 2010
Opinion: “It’s Alive: Can Elena Kagan save the legal left?,” by Justin Driver in the New Republic
Assistant Professor Justin Driver has written an article in the New Republic about the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. -
June 22, 2010
Opinion: A New Model for Mass Torts?, by Charles M. Silver at Huffington Post
Charles M. Silver, who holds the McDonald Chair in Civil Procedure at the Law School, has written an article at the Huffington Post on the Republican response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -
June 21, 2010
Bill Whitehurst, ’70, and his wife, Stephanie, recently announced that they will give the University of Texas School of Law $125,000 over the next five years to fund the Whitehurst Public Interest Summer Fellowships program. -
June 10, 2010
Online video of Denise Gilman, clinical professor from the Law School's Immigration Clinic, discussing the myths and truths behind the United States's immigration policy. -
June 8, 2010
Professor Julius Getman’s new book chosen as best on union organizing by AFL-CIO
University of Texas School of Law Professor Julius G. Getman’s new book, Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement, has been chosen as the best book on labor organizing in the private sector by Union Privilege, the member benefits arm of the AFL-CIO. The book, published by Yale University Press, will be released on June 27. -
June 2, 2010
The University of Texas School of Law will host the 33rd Annual Health Law Professors Conference on June 3–5, 2010. -
June 1, 2010
Recent Graduate William Peterson to become U.S. Supreme Court clerk
William Peterson, ’08, has accepted an appointment to serve as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during the Court’s 2010–2011 term. -
May 26, 2010
Capital Punishment Clinic heads back to U.S. Supreme Court for the fourth time in four years
The Supreme Court of the United States agreed on Monday, May 24, 2010, to resolve an important dispute among the lower federal courts over the reach of a federal civil rights statute in a DNA evidence case brought by Texas death row prisoner Hank Skinner. This marks the fourth time in as many years that the Supreme Court has granted plenary review in a case in which the Capital Punishment Clinic of the University of Texas School of Law is serving as counsel to a condemned prisoner. -
May 14, 2010
Graduating Law School student Andrés Durá awarded Equal Justice Works scholarship
Third-year Law School student Andrés Durá has been awarded a two-year Equal Justice Works fellowship. Durá’s fellowship, which is sponsored by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation, will be spent in San Antonio working for the Equal Justice Center providing legal services to low-income and immigrant construction workers who have not been paid for their labor.
