The Texas Law faculty is a varied and amazing array of scholars engaged in the most important areas of the law, with one thing in common—they all love to teach.
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Our professors are on the leading edge of the most important debates in American law. They write scholarship that everyone talks about. They write the books you’ll be learning from. They will be your teachers, your mentors, and your guides through the law school curriculum.
Making Constitutional Law: On the Front Lines
All of our faculty members possess an unwavering dedication to their students and their scholarship. These three are shaping the future of law and the courts in substantive ways and their love for teaching transforms the ordinary classroom into an inspired place where ideas flourish.
Tara Grove
A renowned expert on constitutional law and an authority on textualism as an interpretive philosophy, Prof. Grove has published scholarship on those subjects in some of the leading law journals in the country. In 2021, she was among a select group named to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan committee charged with examining proposals to reform the Court.
Lawrence Sager
Lawrence Sager is one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. He has written and co-written dozens of articles, many of them now classics in the canon of legal scholarship and our understanding of the founding document. His expertise also encompasses philosophy, and he helps lead our Law & Philosophy Program.
Richard Albert
With a focus on constitution-making and constitutional design, Richard Albert is one of the premier scholars of comparative constitutional law. He is a prolific author, editor, speaker, and an advisor to governments and parliaments on constitutional reform. He recently served on the 15-person Constitutional Reform Committee advising the Government of Jamaica on writing and enacting its new constitution.
Featured Faculty Profiles and Stories
Faculty in the Media
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
The latest front in the Texas trans wars? The American Revolution
Professor Elizabeth Sepper explains that private organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution generally may restrict membership, leaving the organization to determine how it defines women and men. -
Idaho Statesman
Idaho is building a thoughtful approach to AI in education
Lecturer Kevin Frazier argues that Idaho’s proposed K–12 AI standards should be more adaptable, emphasize real-world problem-solving, and prepare students to use emerging technology rather than simply understand it. -
NPR
As many are priced out of buying, the renter-owner wealth gap is wider than ever
Professor Mechele Dickerson explains how rising housing costs are widening the wealth gap between renters and homeowners, leaving many middle-class young adults unable to build wealth through homeownership, thus becoming increasingly dependent on family financial support.
Faculty Experts for the Media
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