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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. -
May 13, 2010
Stephen Susman, ’65, gives $5 million to University of Texas School of Law
In honor of this gift and his past generosity, on May 13, 2010 the University of Texas System Board of Regents named a newly renovated space in the Law School’s Jesse Jones Building the Stephen D. Susman Academic Center. -
April 30, 2010
Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
Five students at the University of Texas School of Law have been awarded University Co-op Public Interest Awards in honor of their extraordinary commitment to public service. -
April 30, 2010
Paul Begala, ’90, to deliver keynote address at Sunflower Ceremony, May 22, 2010
Paul Begala, ’90, a CNN political analyst and former top aide to President William Clinton, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Texas School of Law’s Sunflower Ceremony graduation program May 22, 2010. -
April 29, 2010
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an opinion on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, vacating the death sentence of Roy G. Smith. Smith was represented in his appeal by University of Texas School of Law Professors Rob Owen and Jordan Steiker, assisted by the students of the Law School’s Capital Punishment Clinic. -
April 29, 2010
An international group of scholars, jurists, and practitioners will gather in Houston for the fourth annual International Arbitration Symposium, “Arbitration and National Courts: Conflict and Cooperation,” May 13–14, 2010. -
April 29, 2010
Harrington Fellows Program Presents “Just Ethics” Workshop at UT Law, May 1–2, 2010
A workshop called “Just Ethics: Topics in Normative Ethics” will be presented on May 1–2, 2010, at the University of Texas School of Law”s Eidman Jury Room (CCJ 2.310). -
April 27, 2010
UT Tower Lit for Bankruptcy Moot Court team’s National Championship April 27, 2010
The University of Texas lit the Tower on April 27, 2010, to honor the Law School team that won the 2010 National Championship at the Judge Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court competition. -
April 26, 2010
Opinion: The case against partisan judicial elections, by Professor Dan Rodriguez
Daniel B. Rodriguez, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the Law School, has written an article for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s blog suggesting that Texas should consider abandoning partisan judicial elections. -
April 26, 2010
Opinion: Assistant Professor Justin Driver on “The Stevens Myth,” in the New Republic
Justin Driver, an assistant professor at the Law School, has written an article in the New Republic wondering why everyone has fallen for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s "self-serving narrative." -
April 22, 2010
Daniel B. Rodriguez, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the Law School, has written an article in the Houston Chronicle discussing the possibility that Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood, ’75, could be the next Supreme Court justice.
