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December 5, 2024
Texas Law alum Reid Coleman clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas during the most recently completed Supreme Court term. -
October 7, 2024
Supreme Court Clinic students, alumni, and faculty make their mark in D.C. -
November 9, 2023
Alejandra Ávila ’14 reflects on the experiences that took her from law school to clerking for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. -
June 1, 2023
The Texas Law alumnus, who will be the school’s 40th Supreme Court clerk, is grateful to his professors and clinical experiences. -
February 15, 2022
Alumna Alejandra Ávila ’14 Lands Clerkship with Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Ávila is one of just 39 Texas Law graduates* (since 1938) to clerk on the Supreme Court. -
December 10, 2015
Nothing (Still) Matters: ERISA Preemption Returns To The Supreme Court
Professor William Sage was recently featured on the Health Affairs Blog for a gripping article he wrote on the first major health care dispute involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) that reached the Supreme Court in over a decade. This is the second article by Professor Sage to be featured by […] -
January 23, 2015
Students from The University of Texas School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic can boast an unbeaten record in cases before the United States Supreme Court. The students worked on behalf of two clients, Cheryle and Larry Jesinoski, who argued their mortgage lender, Countrywide Home Loans, hadn’t properly interpreted the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). The […] -
July 16, 2014
Statesman Op-Ed: Professor Larry Sager Claims Hobby Lobby Ruling is Worrisome
Contributors: Why everyone should worry about the Hobby Lobby ruling By Larry Sager and Frederick Mark Gedicks The country rounded a new and dangerous corner with the recent Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. By holding that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, excuses for-profit employers from providing contraceptive coverage under the […] -
July 10, 2014
New York Times Op-Ed: Professor Willy Forbath Comments on Supreme Court Harris v. Quinn ruling
The War on Workers: The Supreme Court Ruling on Harris v. Quinn Is a Blow for Unions By William E. Forbath and Cynthia Estlund Unions have never been uncontroversial in American society, but the battles over labor have grown fiercer in recent years: Witness the fight over public-employee unions in Wisconsin, or the 2012 decision […] -
December 3, 2013
Judson Littleton, '08, is one of four law clerks to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. for the October 2013 Term. -
December 3, 2013
Victory at U.S. Supreme Court: UT Law Alumnae Argue and Win Case
All eyes in the Austin firm of Scott, Douglass & McConnico LLP were focused on computers Feb. 20, as they closely watched the United States Supreme Court’s live blog. Jane Webre, ’89, and Cindy Connolly, ’96, both partners in the firm, argued a case at the U.S. Supreme Court in January and were waiting for […] -
February 26, 2013
Professor Jordan Steiker previews and recaps federal habeas case McQuiggin v. Perkins in SCOTUSblog
Jordan Steiker, Judge Robert M. Parker Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Capital Punishment Center, has written a preview of McQuiggin v. Perkins, a federal habeas case scheduled to be argued the week of February 25, 2013, at the Supreme Court, at SCOTUSblog.
