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‘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 […]
Houston Law Review, Spring 2008, Vol. 45 No. 1
The Twelfth Annual Frankel Lecture
Foreward
Michael A. Olivas - IMMIGRANTS IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AND THE POLITY FOLLOWING HURRICANE KATRINA
Article
Kevin R. Johnson - HURRICANE KATRINA: LESSONS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
Commentary
Raquel E. Aldana - SILENT VICTIMS NO MORE?: MORAL INDIGNATION AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LATINO POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS
Anna Williams Shavers - THE […]
Some thoughts on Selecting Electives in Law School
Professor Volokh had an intriguing post today, Law School Classes One Should Definitely Take If One Wants To Practice in the Area. It’s an open comment post and the commentary is intriguing. It made me think of my own particular view of how to choose classes.
Now a year and a half into this venture, I’m […]
Dean Ray Nimmer interviewed in Houston Chronicle
Ray Nimmer, our acting Dean at the University of Houston Law Center, was interviewed by Mary Flood for an article in the Houston Chronicle today. He outlines a few of the reasons for high expectations at the law center currently and why so many students, like myself, hope that the search committee and UH Board […]
Houston Law Review Latest Issue (Fall 2007)
I would be remiss if I didn’t point out the latest publication of the Houston Law Review. I found Patel’s MySpace or Yours: The Abridgment of the Blogosphere at the Hands of At-Will Employment fascinating for more than intellectual curiosities sake. I’ll be unpacking some of these in future posts.
Bradley W. Joondeph - THE DEREGULATORY […]
Alderman on the Effects of the Vanishing Jury in Consumer Disputes
Richard Alderman, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center has recently published The Future of Consumer Law in the United States - Hello Arbitration, Bye-Bye Courts, So-Long Consumer Protection
Arbitration of consumer disputes has become the norm rather than the exception. Although attempts to dispute the enforceability of arbitration are occasionally successful, it is […]
Houston tops U.S. News Rankings Law v. Undergrad Comparison
Paul Caron at TaxProf, compiled a list of law schools whose rankings outperform that of their parent institutions in U.S. News Rankings: Law v. Undergrad (see the graphic there for the full list). The University of Houston topped the list with a wopping differential of 136 places. This isn’t really news to me since I […]
Gault @ 40 Symposium at the University of Houston Law Center
We’re hosting an upcoming symposium at the Center for Children, Law & Policy on In re Gault a landmark 1967 Supreme Court Case finding a right to counsel for juveniles accused of crimes.
The case involved a 15-year-old boy, Gerald Francis Gault. After a trial in juvenile court, Gerald was placed in a “training school” for […]
Houston Chronicle features Local Legal Icons Racehorse Haynes, Joe Jamail
The Houston Chronicle’s Mary Flood did a great story about local lawyers Richard “Racehorse” Haynes and Joe Jamail in Legendary lawyers show no signs of slowing downThe conversation is worthy of her subjects:
Haynes, the witty and gentlemanly criminal defense lawyer, recalls the prior generation’s legal master Percy Foreman warning him that the law is a […]
Coming Up, Constitution Day
Indeed, it has a day. The website breathlessly refers to it as “Celebrating the Birthday of your Government!” but I think the more appropriate analogy might be as our nation’s bar mitzvah, a coming of age a dozen or so years after independence.
In late 2004, Senator Byrd passed a legislation requiring that all schools, colleges […]