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2025
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2026
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U.S. News and World Report Rankings
42nd
in Contracts/Commercial Law
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Why Houston Law
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
LATEST NEWS
UH Law Alumni Association Honors Six UHLC Faculty Members for Their Contributions
June 12, 2026 – The University of Houston Law Alumni Association celebrated retired and retiring faculty members at its annual meeting in May for their dedication to teaching, scholarship and service.
University of Wyoming Law Dean Julie Hill Discusses Debanking and Financial Regulation at UH Law
June 11, 2026—Are federal regulators using their supervisory powers to pressure banks into closing customer accounts for reasons unrelated to financial risk? The answer is unclear. That's the central theme explored by the University of Wyoming College of Law Dean Julie A. Hill. Speaking as part of UH Law Center's Colloquium/External Speaker Series, Hill presented her forthcoming paper, "Governmental Debanking."
UHLC Alumnus Kirk Dobbins Establishes Scholarship to Support Future Health Law Leaders
June 9, 2026—When Kirk Dobbins (J.D.’93), vice president and regional counsel for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, became a University of Houston Law Center student in the early 1990s, he didn’t yet know how significant health law would become to his career. What he soon learned at the Law Center, he said, was how important early exposure and professional connections could be.
