UHLC students Niki Roberts and Brandon Schrecengost won the International Negotiation Competition in Pohang, South Korea this week as representatives of the United States. more...
The State Bar of Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution Section awarded UHLC professor emeritus Steve Huber and adjunct UHLC professor Wendy Trachte-Huber the Hon. Frank G. Evans Award during the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting at the Austin Convention Center today. more...
Professor Geoffrey Hoffman has been awarded the 2014 Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Award for outstanding professor in the area of immigration law by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Hoffman received the award on Saturday during AILA's Annual Conference in Boston. more...
UHLC Foundation Professor Seth J. Chandler testified on the Affordable Care Act today before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. more...
St. John's University School of Law has recognized Leonard M. Baynes, incoming dean of the University of Houston Law Center, as a "renowned champion" during "An Evening in Harlem" event. more...
The National Jurist magazine and preLaw magazine has named The University of Houston Law Center a Best Value in its annual survey. The magazines recognized 53 institutions as Best Value schools. more...
Ethics and compliance experts addressed a broad range of challenges facing Fortune 500 companies and other businesses from navigating regulatory frameworks and third party risk management to data security at the Third Annual Ethics and Compliance Symposium held today at the University of Houston Law Center. more...
With the ease and obvious enjoyment of an artist riffing on his Stratocaster, Professor Michael A. Olivas blends the history of rock and roll with the rule of law in his three-minute radio program, “The Law of Rock and Roll,” now in production for its second season this fall on an NPR station. more...
University of Houston Law CenterProfessor Jessica Lind Mantel has been named a health law scholar by members of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, the third UHLC faculty member selected for the honor in recent years. more...
University of Houston Law Center Professor Meredith Duncan will participate next month in a conference follow-up to a book detailing the traits and techniques of the nation’s best law teachers in which she is prominently featured. more...
The incoming dean of the University of Houston Law Center, Leonard M. Baynes, will be honored in June as a “renowned champion” by St. John’s University School of Law. more...
Unregulated withdrawal from paychecks causes financial disaster for many workers more...
Professionals from broad range of industries will share expertise at June 13 conference more...
Ninety-five juvenile justice advocates are taking part in a two-day training conference at the University of Houston Law Center designed to strengthen and expand legal representation for troubled youths in a variety of settings, not just delinquency court. more...
Annual ‘Zealous Advocacy Conference’ teaches defenders a holistic approach to helping youths caught in the system. more...
Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown Saturday called upon members of the University of Houston Law Center Class of 2014 to serve as ambassadors and statesmen of the law in their careers and communities, and as zealous stewards of the law itself. more...
Jonathan Chatham has taken his belief of a healthy mind in a healthy body from a middle school classroom to the halls of the University of Houston Law Center and soon to the streets of Houston where he will help the homeless for the next year as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow. more...
Incoming University of Houston Law Center Dean Leonard M. Baynes mingled with faculty and staff at a welcoming reception Thursday afternoon and told them his first order of business is to establish a strong working partnership with them and the community. more...
As part of Houston’s annual “Cinco de Mayo” festivities, the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law at the University of Houston Law Center is co-hosting a photographic ode to tequila, the land from which it comes, and the people who harvest the blue agave plant to make Mexico’s most renowned beverage. more...
Interim Dean Richard M. Alderman received a standing ovation and was presented with a fly fishing rod and reel by Associate Dean Lonny Hoffman after presiding over his final faculty/staff meeting Friday. more...
Two University of Houston Law Center teams qualified as regional winners to compete in a national intellectual property moot court tournament in Washington, D.C., with one advancing to the semi-final round before bowing to the University of Iowa. more...
Regents will consider final approval for Leonard M. Baynes of St. Johns law school on May 7. more...
University of Houston Law Center students were in a spending mood this spring, raising more than $5,000 during the Public Interest Law Organization’s Sixth Annual Silent Auction. more...
Krost Hall at the University of Houston Law Center was filled Wednesday with proud parents, friends, and faculty as the school’s most outstanding students were recognized with Dean’s Awards for their academic and community efforts. more...
The “surveillance state” created in the wake of 9/11 and expanded since has become a “behemoth” and a “monstrosity” that should be of great concern to all citizens, the executive director of the ACLU of Texas told Law Center students Monday. more...
For the third straight year, Hortense, the Law Center’s adopted mourning dove, has come home to roost, and raise her chicks. Named after Hortense Sparks Ward, the first woman to pass the Texas Bar Exam (in 1910), the bird recently took up residence in her familiar spot atop a second-story light fixture overlooking a walkway at the school, and promptly produced two eggs. more...
The University of Houston Law Center is launching a post-graduate placement program in public interest law funded by the Yale Leonard and Irene Merker Rosenberg Fellowship program. more...
Biomedical research is a multibillion-dollar sector that is set to play a crucial role in the 21st century economy, according to three recent University of Houston Law Center alums who are part of the new legal workforce that is coalescing around Houston’s growing life sciences industry. more...
University of Houston Law Center student Eglantine Pauvarel Moss 2L is the winner of the Houston Bar Auxiliary Charitable Fund scholarship, in part, for her work in the school’s immigration clinic. more...
Alumni, faculty, and friends of the University of Houston Law Center took a step back in time to the Roaring ’20s for an evening of fun and fundraising at the 38th annual Law Gala & Auction. more...
The two most important facts to know about the current U.S. Supreme Court are the numbers five and four, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said at the annual Ruby Kless Sondock Lecture in Legal Ethics held by the University of Houston Law Center on Tuesday. more...
An Indiana law professor believes he has the answer to governmental dysfunction and political partisanship – two presidents, one from each party. more...
The People’s Law School convened Saturday with a standing room only class of area residents interested in learning more about their legal rights on issues ranging from landlord disputes to bankruptcy. more...
The Admissions Office welcomed admitted students with a Dean’s Scholarship Reception Thursday at La Griglia, and a lunch to meet with current students, faculty, and staff at the Law Center today. more...
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is honoring University of Houston Law Center Clinical Associate Professor Geoffrey Hoffman, director of the Immigration Clinic, with its 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award. more...
Documentary tracks efforts of Prof. David Dow and students to spare life of death row inmate. more...
Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, University of Houston Law Center tax Professor Bret Wells Tuesday called for stricter controls on multinational companies to prevent them from allocating taxable profits to “tax haven entrepreneurs” overseas. more...
The Texas Medical Center’s new strategic vision is rapidly transforming Houston into a world leader in the life sciences industry, the senior vice president and general counsel of the world’s largest medical complex told Professor Barbara Evans’ evening Health Law students Monday. more...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has appointed Sarah T. Harris ’91 as its general counsel, overseeing an office of 100 lawyers and paralegals and three deputy general counsels. more...
University of Houston Law Center Professor Ellen Marrus testified in Austin this week before a House committee in favor of raising the age for juvenile court jurisdiction to include 17-year-olds. more...
University of Houston Law Center Professor Michael A. Olivas is the winner of the 2014 Social Justice in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association. more...
Practitioners in fast-growing legal field will discuss topical issues and best practice techniques. more...
The University of Houston Law Center ranked 17th in a comparison of median starting salaries for graduates of 25 of the nation’s top law schools, according to Forbes magazine. more...
Nelda Luce Blair, a former University of Houston System regent and 1982 graduate of the Law Center, has been appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to the Texas Economic Development Corp. more...
The Search Committee is pleased to announce the finalists for the position of Dean of the University of Houston Law Center. more...
The part-time program at the University of Houston Law Center is among the nation’s Top 10, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings released today. more...
Supporters of the University of Houston Law Center Immigration Clinic gathered Thursday evening to raise funds and honor four Houstonians for their outstanding achievements in their careers and communities since immigrating to the United States. more...
An alumna who has focused on child welfare issues since her time in a juvenile dependency clinic at the Law Center has been appointed to a new associate judgeship hearing Child Protective Services cases in Harris County. more...
University of Houston Law Center students traded jeans and sweatshirts for business suits recently as they interviewed with representatives of small and midsize law firms, hoping to land a clerkship or associate position after graduation. more...
Mediators from Houston and around the world will gather at the University of Houston Law Center March 21 and 22 to share their experiences and expertise in the growing field of mediation. more...
Professor Jacqueline Weaver – opera buff and legal scholar – brought her two passions together recently in a lively panel discussion of the legal subtext dramatized in Richard Wagner’s world of gods and dragons in his four-opera “Ring” cycle. more...
In a current article, Professor Stephen Zamora,director of the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law at the University of Houston Law Center, finds successes and shortcomings in the year since an international panel met to discuss ways to improve relations between the two countries. more...
The American Educational Research Association will honor University of Houston Law Center Professor Michael A. Olivas with its Social Justice in Education award at its annual meeting in Philadelphia April 3. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and director of the Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance at the Law Center, also will present his lecture, “Drafting Justice: Statutory Language, Public Policy, and Legislative Reform.” more...
The University of Houston Law Center ranked 30th among the nation’s top 50 law schools in the number of graduates hired by the 250 largest firms in the country, according to the National Law Journal’s annual “Go To” index. more...
Former U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis says that implementing a revenue neutral carbon tax is key to addressing climate change. more...
Tax lawyers educated at the University of Houston Law Center filled a lecture hall Friday afternoon for an update on developments in tax law presented by several of the professors they may have had years ago. more...
Energy development has long occurred near populated areas, and that will not only continue, but increase, as populations spread and energy demand grows. more...
The University of Houston Law Center is partnering with the city’s two other law schools and the Houston Bar Association to sponsor the fourth annual symposium dealing with various issues related to immigration. more...
Armed with resumes and dressed in their most professional business attire, University of Houston Law Center students mingled with representatives of government and public interest agencies in Krost Hall to learn about summer internships and other job opportunities in public service. more...
A Houston state representative and the parliamentarian of the Texas House presented a fast-paced and lighthearted overview of the legislative process Friday to students of the University of Houston Law Center. more...
Teams from the University of Houston Law Center showcased their advocacy skills on Feb. 8, taking top honors in a regional moot court tournament and qualifying for the national competition in Washington, D.C. more...
Center for U.S. and Mexican Law Affiliate Scholar Dr. Miriam Grunstein will receive an award from Petroleo & Energia Magazine during the 100 Energy Sector Leaders of 2014 luncheon March 4 at the St. Regis Hotel in Mexico City. more...
The EENR Speaker Series for Spring 2014 kicks off Feb. 20 at the University of Houston Law Center with an examination of the heightened conflicts that arise between state and local governments over land use and nuisance-based issues as the nation produces more of its own energy resources. more...
Former U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis will bring his effort to push a carbon tax and other free-market approaches to addressing climate change to the University of Houston. more...
University of Houston Law Center Interim Dean Richard M. Alderman updated students on “what’s going on” at the school and answered questions Wednesday during a “Discussion with the Dean” session. more...
The University of Houston Law Center is honoring four Houstonians, including an alumna, as 2014 Arrival Award winners for their outstanding achievements after immigrating to the United States. more...
The University of Houston Law Center's LL.M. brochures earned gold honors in the 2013 Collegiate Advertising Awards. The Law Center competed among graduate schools across the country. more...
A team from the University of Georgia took home the title of National Champion in the 6th annual Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship. more...
Gov. Rick Perry has appointed Jacob M. Monty, a 1993 graduate of the Law Center and former UH System regent, to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for a term to expire Aug. 31, 2015. more...
The whispered ambiance of one National Public Radio radio station is about to be shattered by the Who, Rolling Stones, and Wu-Tang Clan as the Law Center’s own Professor Michael A. Olivas takes to the airwaves next week with a series of three-minute segments titled “The Law of Rock and Roll.” more...
Family law judges and practitioners will conduct a CLE workshop Feb. 1 for recent University of Houston Law Center graduates and upper level students who are interesting in developing a family law practice. more...
University of Houston Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute and Andrews Kurth sponsor 6th annual tournament more...
University of Houston Law Center professor David Dow will discuss and sign his latest book, “Things I’ve Learned from Dying,” at 7 p.m. on Jan. 8 at Brazos Bookstore in Houston. more...
