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It’s been an incredible year at Texas Law, culminating in the graduation this month of the Class of 2023. Check out the highlights as we continue on the road to becoming the very best public law school in the nation!

University of Texas at Austin President William Powers Jr. has, along with coauthor Mike Green, been awarded the John G. Fleming Memorial Prize for Torts Scholarship. The Fleming Prize is awarded every other year to an outstanding tort law scholar. Powers, a former dean of the Law School, and Green received the prize for, among other things, their “outstanding work as American Law Institute co-reporters for two core portions of the Restatement (Third) of Torts.” Powers and Green will jointly deliver the second Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law at the University of California, Berkeley, on November 5, 2012.

Ward Farnsworth, associate dean for academic affairs at Boston University School of Law, has been named dean of the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Farnsworth’s appointment, effective June 1, fills the position currently held by Interim Dean Stefanie Lindquist.

University of Texas School of Law Dean Larry Sager and the Student Bar Association will sponsor a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 11:30 a.m.