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November 19, 2010
Opinion: Professor Robert Chesney on the mixed verdict in the Ghailani case
Robert M. Chesney, the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, took part in two online debates over the mixed verdict in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. -
November 19, 2010
The University of Cambridge has bestowed a remarkable honor on two UT Law professors, Jane Stapleton and Peter Cane, by electing them to the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professorship of Legal Science, one of the most prestigious visiting chairs in the common law world. -
November 18, 2010
Transnational Worker Rights Clinic Files Lawsuits on Behalf of Austin Low-wage Workers
The Law School’s Transnational Worker Rights Clinic, in cooperation with Austin’s Equal Justice Center, is providing legal representation to twenty Austin-area workers who are filing two separate wage-theft law suits challenging their employers’ failure to pay them the wages they were owed. -
November 17, 2010
Lulu Flores, ’80, was recently named National Latina Lawyer of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association, a new height in a career defined by public service. -
November 17, 2010
Two UT Law graduates earn highest scores on the Texas Bar Exam
Two UT Law graduates, Kathleen Ryan McCabe and Eric Christopher Greig, recently learned from the Texas Board of Law Examiners that they tied for the top score on the July 2010 Texas bar exam. Both earned 863 on the exam, and were recently interviewed about their reactions to their scores in the November 15, 2010, edition of Texas Lawyer. -
November 12, 2010
Professor Henry Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the University of Texas School of Law, delivered the keynote address at an experts’ roundtable held at the Peace Palace, The Hague, on October 25, 2010. -
November 10, 2010
The Law School is pleased to announce members of the Class of 2011 who have been admitted to Chancellors, the Law School’s most prestigious honor society. -
November 8, 2010
Professor Linda Mullenix of the University of Texas School of Law will speak at an international conference on consumer law sponsored by Centro de Estudos de Direito Economico e Social, (CEDES) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 16–17, 2010. -
October 26, 2010
Human Rights Clinic Releases Report on Impact of Dam Construction on Indigenous Group
A report researched and written by faculty and students in the Law School’s Human Rights Clinic details the struggles of Costa Rica’s indigenous Teribe tribe in the face of a proposed dam on the Terraba River, which threatens to flood their lands. -
October 14, 2010
Constitutional law scholar Justin Driver, an assistant professor at the Law School, recently spoke at a symposium dedicated to recently retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. "'The Finest Legal Mind': A Symposium in Celebration of Justice John Paul Stevens" was held October 8, 2010, at Georgetown University Law Center. -
October 13, 2010
Capital Punishment Clinic Director Rob Owen appears before U.S. Supreme Court for Skinner v. Switzer
Clinical Professor Rob Owen, director of the the University of Texas School of Law’s Capital Punishment Clinic, will argue before the the Supreme Court of the United States today, Oct. 13, 2010. -
October 12, 2010
Read an interview with Karen L. Engle, Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, about her new book, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy. The book was published in fall 2010 by Duke University Press.
