Nov. 21, 2025 — The University of Houston Law Center is bringing together law school deans from across the country to present their research in progress at its Spring 2026 Colloquium Series. The scholarly papers presented at the monthly workshop series, held January to April, will cover a wide range of disciplines and topics – from constitutional law and ethics to health and intellectual property laws.
UH Law’s Colloquium Series is unique in that UH law students, as part of a course, critique works-in-progress written by national scholars giving them constructive feedback under the guidance of UHLC faculty.
The schedule of topics and speakers:
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| January 26 Marc L. Roark Interim Dean University of Tulsa The City as Institution |
February 2 Angela Onwuachi-Willig Dean and Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law Boston University The Trauma of Resiliency |
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| February 9 Danielle M. Conway Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Penn State Dickinson Law and 2025 President-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) A Look Back on the Foundations of Government Procurement of Intellectual Property in the New Era of “America First IP Ideology, Policy, and Legislation” |
February 16 Stefanie Lindquist Nickerson Dean and Professor of Law and Political Science Washington University at St. Louis The Vanishing Appeal |
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| February 23 Sophia Z. Lee Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Fusion: The First and Fourth Amendments at the Dawn of the Modern Civil Liberties Movement |
March 9 Rachel Rebouche G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law and Professor of Law University of Texas Former Dean of Law at Temple University Fragile Networks: The Movement of Patients, Pills, and Physicians Post-Dobbs |
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| March 23 Leah Chan Grinvald Dean and Richard J. Morgan Professor of Law University of Nevada Las Vegas Topic area: Intellectual property-related |
March 30 Lolita Buckner Inniss Dean Provost’s Professor of Law University of Colorado Law Schools: Why Regulate, and How? |
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| April 6 Julie A. Hill Dean and Wyoming Excellence Chair University of Wyoming Governmental Debanking |
April 13 Neel U. Sukhatme Dean University of Michigan Judges for Sale: Campaign Contributions and Corruption in Criminal Courts |
