University of Houston Law Center

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.

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The Law Center also had four specialty programs ranked No.1 in Texas:

Part-time Program
Health Care law
Intellectual Property
Legal Writing

U.S. News & World Report, 2026

TOP PROGRAMS

Blakely Advocacy Institute (moot court, mock trial, trial advocacy, and mediation)

Clinics

Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center

Health Law

Intellectual Property & Information Law

International Law

Legal Writing

Part-Time Evening Program

Tax Law

LATEST NEWS

UH Law Professor Seth Chandler Earns Spot Among Nation’s Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia

Aug. 26, 2026 — University of Houston Law Center professor Seth J. Chandler has been selected as one of the Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia for 2026 by The National Law Review and Wickard.

Houston Law Review Rises in National Rankings, Maintains No. 2 Position in Texas

Aug. 18, 2026 — The University of Houston Law Center’s Houston Law Review continued to climb among the nation’s leading legal publications, showing substantial gains in the most recent Washington and Lee University School of Law Journal rankings.

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National Jurist Highlights UH Law Center Moot Court Rankings

Aug. 14, 2026 — A moot court rankings list developed and curated by the University of Houston Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute was featured in a recent National Jurist article on the nation’s top moot court programs.