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

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UH Law Center Remembers Professor Emeritus Richard Dole

April 2, 2025 – The University of Houston Law Center mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Richard F. Dole Jr., who died March 29, 2026, at the age of 89. He served as a UHLC faculty member for nearly five decades, from 1978 until his retirement in 2025.

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Texas Governor Reappoints UH Law Alumna Nelda Luce Blair to Public Safety Commission

March 30, 2026—Gov. Greg Abbott recently reappointed University of Houston Law Center alumna Nelda Luce Blair (J.D. ’82) to the Public Safety Commission for a term ending January 1, 2032. Blair was originally appointed in January 2020.

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Penn Law Dean Sophia Lee Says Political Realities, Not Legal Reasoning, Often Drive Constitutional Change at UH Law Center Event

March 27, 2026 — The conventional story of the origins of modern Fourth Amendment protections has the timeline wrong, shared Dean Sophia Z. Lee of the University of Pennsylvania Law School at a recent virtual lecture hosted by the University of Houston Law. Correcting that history matters, she stressed, as courts revisit the limits of government power today.