The University of Houston Law Center provides excellence and opportunity to students of all backgrounds. Its location in Houston, the fourth largest, and most diverse, city in the U.S., gives students and graduates access to one of the world's largest legal markets. The city is also home to the world’s largest health care and medical complex and recognized as the energy capital of the world with multiple Fortune 500 companies headquartered here.
Feb. 23, 2026—University of Houston Law Center Professor Lauren Simpson (J.D. ’94) has been named the 2025 SBA Professor of the Year for faculty teaching in the part-time program, marking the seventh time she has earned this honor. Her repeated recognition highlights both her exceptional dedication to student learning and the strength of UHLC’s part-time program, which supports students balancing career, financial, and family commitments.
Feb. 20, 2026 - Professor Bret Wells, the John Mixon Chair at the University of Houston Law Center, filed an amicus brief on Tuesday, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to reconsider a major tax ruling involving 3M and the Internal Revenue Service.
Feb. 17, 2026 — Mount Holyoke College President Danielle Holley told a University of Houston Law Center audience that effective civil rights lawyering will depend on five interconnected themes: moral clarity, historical understanding, legal imagination, solidarity, and stamina.
