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Asian Law Students Association at the University of Houston Law Center
Asian Law Students Association at the University of Houston Law Center has a great new Wordpress-fueled website. This clearly lays down the gauntlet for student org websites. Great job guys.
Good Luck to Those About to Start Law Review Write On Competitions
The Write-On Competition, an annual rite of passage for students seeking membership to academic journals at the University of Houston Law Center, begins this Saturday, July 5th. I wrote on to law review last year and consider the past year worth every agonizing minute of the competition. I’ve already given what scant advice I have […]
Judge Russell Austin, RIP
I just learned that another friend of the UHLC has passed away. Judge Russell Austin suffered a stroke over the weekend and passed away yesterday. Judge Austin received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Houston and taught courses at both the University of Houston Law Center and South Texas College of Law. […]
Joe Vail, Recently Departed UHLC Law Professor, Remembered
Joe Vail, who ran the immigration clinic at the University of Houston Law Center for the past decade passed away on tuesday. The Houston Chronicle paid tribute in yesterday’s article, Joseph Vail, immigration lawyer (archived link). The funeral will be held Saturday, June 21 at the Sacred Heart Church in Havertown, Pa. The Law Center […]
Looking for the Key to Unlock the Floodgates in Climate Change Litigation
Stephan Faris’ Conspiracy Theory in the new issue of the Atlantic posits climate change as this era’s Tobacco settlement, profiling the efforts of Steve Susman and Steve Berman.
As scientific evidence accumulates on the destructive impact of carbon-dioxide emissions, a handful of lawyers are beginning to bring suits against the major contributors to climate change. Their […]
Congratulations to Dean Nimmer
who was officially appointed Dean of the University of Houston Law Center today after a year as acting Dean. Read the News Release announcing Nimmer as Dean from the Law Center.
New Profs at University of Houston Law
The Legal Theory Blog has posted its 2008 Entry Level Hiring Report: Version 4.0. Worth noting in the U. Houston community are three new hires
Brigham Daniels, JD 2003 Stanford University, PhD expected 2009 Environmental Policy Duke, MPA 2000 Public Administration University of Utah, Lecturing Fellow Duke
Gavin Clarkson, JD 2002 Harvard University, DBA 2004 Business Harvard […]
Confronting my Inner Law Nerd
Law Nerds occupy a peculiar place in nerd taxonomy. We generally retain the capacity for normal conversation and our fixations on particular theories of judicial interpretation are easily mistaken for the same types of political positions that the normals have.
We can thus avoid detection for long periods of time until our condition is at some […]
USNWR Rankings Leaked? Houston up 5 to 55 (unconfirmed)
From First Movers: Anthony Ciolli, U.S. News Rankings Leaked Early?, see this PDF.
‘Tis the Season: Law School Rankings Looming
For better or worse, my very own University of Houston Law Center, apparently still the poster child for rankings schadenfreude, features prominently in the ABA Journal’s article The Rankings Czar. Read the backstory here, here and here. The cover story begins and ends with Houston.
Tropical Storm Allison blasted through Houston killing 22 people, flattening homes […]