News
The University of Houston Law Center’s Intellectual Property, Health Law, and part-time programs rank in the Top 10 according to the latest U.S. News & World Report survey.
A cross section of immigration experts, including University of Houston Law Center faculty, provided a crash course in the law to an auditorium full of lawyers and urged them to volunteer their services to ease the ongoing crisis of migrant children crossing the border.
Documentary tracks efforts of University of Houston Law Center Professor David Dow and students to spare life of death row inmate.
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.
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 at the University of Houston Law Center.
Faculty Features
UHLC's Olivas wins national award for book Suing Alma Mater
University of Houston Law Center Professor Michael A. Olivas is the winner of the 2014 Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law for his book Suing Alma Mater: Higher Education and the Courts.
University of Houston Law Center Professor Ronald Turner is lending his expertise in the areas of civil rights and discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere to a project analyzing proposed anti-discrimination legislation in Jamaica, West Indies.
University of Houston Law Center Professor Jacqueline L. Weaver was honored last week by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation for excellence in teaching natural resources law.
University of Houston Law Center Professor Ellen Marrus recently shared her expertise on the juvenile justice system during a week-long “boot camp” for youth advocates at Georgetown University Law Center.
University of Houston Law Center 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).
University of Houston Law Center Professor 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.
University of Houston Law Center Professor Meredith Duncan participated 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.

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Events
Sept. 9, 2014 - Baynes Welcome Reception - Houston, TX
Sept. 12, 2014 - 40 Hour Basic Mediation Training
Sept. 17, 2014 - Baynes Welcome Reception - Austin, TX
Sept. 18, 2014 - Baynes Welcome Reception - San Antonio, TX
Oct. 1, 2014 - Baynes Welcome Reception - Dallas, TX
Oct. 3, 2014 - Immigration CLE
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Alumni News
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.
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.
A Special “Thank You” to inaugural "Law Scholar Patrons"
Stepping up almost before the effort is launched, the donors below have pledged to fund a $30,000 scholarship over 3 years ($10,000 per year) to help attract the most qualified applicants to UHLC.
Susan L. Bickley
Billie J. Ellis, Jr.
Robert C. Sohns, Jr.
John T. Unger
Stephen Wallace
Alvin & Susie Zimmerman
Anonymous Donor
For more on the Law Scholars program, click here.
Bequests to UHLC provides many benefits to alumni
Simply informing the Law Center that you have a bequest in your will or a provision in your estate plan earns you membership in the Albertus Magnus Society. Join Larry Pirtle ’66, John Brentin ’78 and other successful UHLC alumni and enjoy the privileges of the Albertus Magnus Society.

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