University of Texas School of Law
| The University of Texas School of Law | |
|---|---|
| Parent school | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Established | 1883 |
| School type | Public |
| Endowment | $172.1 million (Law School); $26 billion (University of Texas System) [1] |
| Dean | Ward Farnsworth |
| Location | Austin, TX, U.S. 30°17′19″N 97°43′51″W / 30.288666°N 97.730762°W / 30.288666; -97.730762Coordinates: 30°17′19″N 97°43′51″W / 30.288666°N 97.730762°W / 30.288666; -97.730762, |
| Enrollment | 1,031 [2] |
| Faculty | 182 [3] |
USNWR ranking | 15th[4] |
Bar pass rate | 93.85% (Texas) [5] |
| Website | law.utexas.edu |
The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2018 the law school was ranked No. 15 by the U.S. News & World Report,[6] and No. 12 by Above the Law[7] Texas Law is consistently ranked among the top five public law schools in the United States.[8] The school is also ranked No. 1 for the biggest return on investment among law schools in the United States.[9] Every year, Texas Law places a large part of its class into the nation's largest law firms, where base salaries start at over $190,000.[10]
Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and the world and admits roughly 20% of applicants.[11] According to Texas Law's 2016 disclosures, 80.66% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[12]
The school has 19,000 living alumni, over 4,000 of whom practice law outside of Texas.[8] Amongst its alumni is U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark; Sarah Weddington who represented Jane Roe in Roe v Wade; as well as numerous heads of state including U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker; U.S. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen; White House Senior Advisor Paul Begala; and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Sam Rayburn.
Contents
1 Admissions
2 History
2.1 Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
2.2 Hopwood v. Texas (1996)
3 Publications
4 Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
5 Center for Women in Law
6 Continuing Legal Education
7 Notable alumni
8 Notable professors
9 U.S. Supreme Court clerkships
10 Employment
11 Costs
12 References
13 External links
Admissions
Texas Law is among the most selective law schools in the nation. For the class of 2018, 4,303 students applied and 21.9% were accepted with a class median LSAT score of 167. The median GPA for the admitted class is 3.73. The average age of admitted students is 24, and women make up 47% of the class. Texas Law admits students from 30 US states.[13][14]
Emphasizing its role as a public institution, Texas Law reserves 65% of the seats in each first-year class for Texas residents.
On the last day of Attorney General Greg Abbott's tenure, his office released a year-long investigation into the improper use of unreported and unapproved 'forgivable loans' and other compensation to Texas Law faculty.[15][16][17][18]
History
The University of Texas School of Law was founded in 1883.[8] In 1914, the school created its first course on oil and gas law, and in 1941 a legal aid clinic was started.[8]
Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, the school was limited to white students, but the school's admissions policies were challenged from two different directions in high-profile 20th century federal court cases that were important to the long struggle over segregation, integration, and diversity in American education.
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Illustration of the Law Building on a postcard (1908–1924).
The school was sued in the civil rights case of Sweatt v. Painter (1950). The case involved Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man who was refused admission to the School of Law on the grounds that substantially equivalent facilities (meeting the requirements of Plessy v. Ferguson) were offered by the state's law school for blacks. When the plaintiff first applied to the University of Texas, there was no law school in Texas which admitted blacks. Instead of granting the plaintiff a writ of mandamus, the Texas trial court "continued" the case for six months to allow the state time to create a law school for blacks, which it developed in Houston.
The Supreme Court reversed the lower court decision, saying that the separate school failed to offer Sweatt an equal legal education. The Court noted that the University of Texas School of Law had 16 full-time and three part-time professors, 850 students and a law library of 65,000 volumes, while the separate school the state set up for blacks had five full-time professors, 23 students and a library of 16,500 volumes. But the Court held that even "more important" than these quantitative differences were differences such as "reputation of the faculty, experience of the administration, position and influence of the alumni, standing in the community, traditions and prestige." Because the separate school could not provide an "equal" education, the Court ordered that Hemann Sweatt be admitted to University of Texas School of Law.
Sweatt v. Painter was the first major test case in the long-term litigation strategy of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund that led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.[19] Marshall and the NAACP correctly calculated that they could dismantle segregation by building up a series of precedents, beginning at Texas Law, before moving on to the more explosive question of racial integration in elementary schools.
Hopwood v. Texas (1996)
In 1992, plaintiff Cheryl Hopwood, a White American woman, sued the School of Law on the grounds that she had not been admitted even though her grades and test scores were better than those of some minority candidates who were admitted pursuant to an affirmative action program. Texas Monthly editor Paul Burka later described Hopwood as "the perfect plaintiff to question the fairness of reverse discrimination" because of her academic credentials and personal hardships which she had endured (including a young daughter suffering from a muscular disease).[20]
With her attorney Steven Wayne Smith, later a two-year member of the Texas Supreme Court, Hopwood won her case, Hopwood v. Texas, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which ruled that the school "may not use race as a factor in deciding which applicants to admit in order to achieve a diverse student body, to combat the perceived effects of a hostile environment at the law school, to alleviate the law school's poor reputation in the minority community, or to eliminate any present effects of past discrimination by actors other than the law school."[21] The case did not reach the Supreme Court.
However, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), a case involving the University of Michigan, that the United States Constitution "does not prohibit the law school's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body." This effectively reversed the decision of Hopwood v. Texas.[22]
Publications
Students at the University of Texas School of Law publish twelve law journals:[23]
- American Journal of Criminal Law
- Texas Environmental Law Journal
- Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy
- Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
- Texas International Law Journal
- Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law
- Texas Journal of Women and the Law
- Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
- Texas Law Review
- Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law
- Texas Review of Law and Politics
- The Review of Litigation
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, located at the University of Texas School of Law, serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice."[24][25] The Rapoport Center was founded in 2004 by Professor Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law, thanks to a generous gift from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation to the University of Texas School of Law.[26][27] The Rapoport Foundation was founded in 1986 by Bernard Rapoport and his wife Audre. In 2010, Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, became co-director of the Center.[28] The Center has over one hundred affiliated faculty members from various schools and departments within the University of Texas at Austin.
In February 2013, the Rapoport Center received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation to highlight the life and career of Sissy Farenthold, an American Democratic politician, activist, lawyer and educator, perhaps best known for her run for Texas Governor and for her nomination for Vice President in the 1972 Democratic National Convention.[29] The project documents Farenthold's contributions to Texas and U.S. politics, the women's peace movement, and international human rights and justice. The Rapoport Center will work with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History (where Farenthold's papers are housed) in order to process and preserve Farenthold's papers, digitize archival documents and images, produce videotaped interviews, and expand the content of the Rapoport Center's website.[30]
Center for Women in Law
In 2008 the law school announced the creation of the Center for Women in Law,[31] "To eliminate the barriers that have thwarted the advancement of women in the legal profession for the past several decades, and thereby enhance the legal profession and its ability to serve an increasingly diverse and globally connected society."[32]
Continuing Legal Education
The University of Texas School of Law Continuing Legal Education is one of the oldest and most distinguished providers of professional education in the country, offering over 50 advanced conferences annually that provide CLE and CPE credit to national legal and accounting professionals.
Some of the School's signature programs include Stanley M. Johanson Estate Planning Workshop, Taxation Conference, Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Law, Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, Immigration and Nationality Law and Page Keeton Civil Litigation, which have been offered continuously for over 35 years. Other highly regarded programs in the portfolio include Mergers and Acquisitions Institute, International Upstream Energy Transactions, Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax (presented with the IRS) and Patent Law Institutes presented in Austin and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Notable alumni
Linda L. Addison – Managing Partner, New York, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.[33]
Steve Adler – Mayor of Austin
Micaela Alvarez – Federal Judge Southern District of Texas
Robert B. Anderson – former United States Secretary of Treasury; Deputy Secretary of Defense[34]
Harriet Mitchell Murphy – first African-American woman appointed to regular judgeship in Texas.[35]
William R. Archer – United States Representative from Texas (1971–2001); Chairman of United States House Committee on Ways and Means[36]
James Addison Baker, III – former United States Secretary of State; former United States Secretary of Treasury; former White House Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush[37]
Ben Barnes – former Lieutenant Governor of Texas; Prominent National Democratic Lobbyist[38]
Pat M. Baskin (Class of 1950) – state court judge and city council member in Midland[39]
Paul Begala – political consultant, commentator and former advisor to President Bill Clinton[40]
Lloyd Bentsen – former Secretary of the Treasury and United States Senator; former Chair of United States Senate Committee on Finance; former candidate for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.[41]
Samuel T. Bledsoe – President of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1933–1939[42]
Robert Lee Bobbitt – Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927–1929), Attorney General of Texas (1929–1930), state court judge (1935–1937), chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937–1943)[43]
Charles Robert Borchers (Class of 1966) – district attorney of the 49th Judicial District Court, 1973-1980[44]
Kimberly S. Bowers – Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of CST Brands; Listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in business.
David Briones – Federal Judge Western District of Texas
Jack Brooks – U.S. Member of Congress; Chair of United States House Committee on the Judiciary[45]
J. E. "Buster" Brown (Class of 1972) – Texas Senator, District 17 from 1981 to 2002[citation needed]
William Brownfield – Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Former United States Ambassador to Colombia; Former United States Ambassador to Venezuela; Former United States Ambassador to Chile
William C. Bryson – United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[46]
James P. Buchanan – U.S. Member of Congress; Chair of the United States House Committee on Appropriations; After his death in office was succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson.
William Frank Buckley Sr. – Powerful Lawyer and Oil Speculator in Mexico and Venezuela. Father of William F. Buckley Jr., Senator James L. Buckley, Grandfather of Christopher Buckley
George P. Bush – son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, nephew of President George W. Bush; Texas Land Commissioner, elected 2014.
Orville Bullington (1882–1956, Class of 1906) – Wichita Falls lawyer; Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1932[citation needed]
Kent Caperton – lawyer, lobbyist in Austin and former state senator from Bryan[citation needed]
Waggoner Carr – Attorney General of Texas[47]
James W. Cicconi – White House Staff Secretary; General Counsel and Worldwide Head of Government Relations for AT&T
Tom C. Clark – former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and United States Attorney General[48]
Greg Coleman (jurist) – First Solicitor General of Texas; Founder of prominent appellate firm Yetter Coleman LLP.
Susan Combs – Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; Agriculture Commissioner of Texas
John B. Connally, Jr. – former Governor of Texas; former Secretary of the Navy, former Secretary of the Treasury; Key Aide to Lyndon Johnson; Lead Democrats for Nixon; Former Candidate for President of the United States; Was seriously wounded when riding in President Kennedy's car at Dealey Plaza when the president was assassinated. Presided over the removal of the U.S. dollar from the gold standard; Lead a major expansion of higher education in Texas. Opened previously all-male Texas A&M University to women,[49]
Tom Connally – former United States Senator; Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee during World War II and the beginning of the Cold War; Vice-Chairman of United Nations Conference on International Organization that chartered the United Nations; Instrumental in ratification of treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Strong supporter of free trade and foreign policy of President Franklin D Roosevelt and President Harry S Truman[50]
William C. Conner (1920–2009) – federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[51]
Gregg Costa – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Former Assistant US Attorney who lead prosecution of famous Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford
Christi Craddick – member of the Texas Railroad Commission[citation needed]
Henry Cuellar – United States Representative from Texas; member of House Democratic leadership[52]
James DeAnda – Chief Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; Co-Founded Texas RioGrande Legal Aid; Plaintiff's attorney in key US Supreme Court case of Hernandez v Texas
Dick DeGuerin – prominent criminal defense attorney based in Houston; Clients include David Koresh and Tom DeLay[53]
Adam Dell – prominent Venture Capitalist; Partner in leading Venture Capital firm Austin Ventures; brother of Michael Dell; dated Padma Lakshmi[citation needed]
Lloyd Doggett – member, U.S. Congress[54]
Robert C. Eckhardt – Member of Congress; Member of Texas House; Author of Texas Open Beaches Act
James A. Elkins – Founder of major international energy law firm Vinson & Elkins.
Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold – Texas House of Representatives, First female officeholder nominated for Vice President at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
Joseph Jefferson Fisher – United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas [55]
David Frederick – successful appellate attorney; has argued 37 cases before the United States Supreme Court;[56] Name partner in elite Washington DC litigation boutique Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick
Kathryn S. Fuller – Chair of the Ford Foundation and former President of the World Wildlife Fund[57]
Gustavo C. Garcia, Carlos Cadena, James DeAnda[58] – Attorneys for landmark 1950's civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas which determined that Hispanics have Equal Protection under the 14th Amendment
Orlando Luis Garcia – United States District Judge, Western District of Texas[59]
Bryan Garner – editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of numerous books and articles on language and writing, including "A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage"[citation needed]
Reynaldo Guerra Garza – Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; First Hispanic American appointed to a judgeship on any United States Court of Appeals
Pete Geren – Former Member of Congress; Former Secretary of the Army; Former Secretary of the Air Force[60]
Mike Godwin – first attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and current general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation[61]
John W. Goode (Class of 1948) – San Antonio lawyer and Republican political figure[62]
Leon A. Green – long-time dean at Northwestern University School of Law and professor at UT and at Yale Law School; authored pioneering works in tort law[citation needed]
Joe R. Greenhill – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
Tom Greenwell – first Republican judge of the 319th District Court in Corpus Christi; committed suicide in 2013[63]
Thomas Watt Gregory – Former Attorney General of the United States; namesake of UT Austin Gregory Gym[64]
Frank Shelby Groner (1877-1943) – President of the College of Marshall.
Kent Hance – Chancellor Emeritus of Texas Tech University System; Former Member of Congress who defeated George W Bush in his first Congressional race.[65]
Doug Harlan – Texas political consultant, lawyer, educator, public official from San Antonio[66]
Grady Hazlewood – district attorney from Potter County and state senator from District 31 in Amarillo (1941–1971)[67]
Hayden W. Head, Jr. – Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas[68]
Jeb Hensarling – Member of US Congress; Chair of the United States House Committee on Financial Services; Chairman of House Republican Conference; chairman of US Debt "Supercommittee"[69]
John Hill – former Attorney General of Texas; former Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court; Democratic Nominee for Governor of Texas in 1978
Oveta Culp Hobby – First United States Secretary of Health and Human Services; Second woman to serve as a Cabinet Secretary
Robert Scott Horton – prominent Human Rights attorney, columnist for Harper's, and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School[citation needed]
Herbert Hovenkamp – Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law; prolific author and expert in Antitrust law; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[citation needed]
Thad Hutcheson – former chairman of the Texas Republican Party, U.S. Senate candidate in 1957, Houston lawyer[70]
Kay Bailey Hutchison – United States Permanent Representative to NATO;former U.S. senator; Ranking Republican United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation;[71]
Joe Jamail – Billionaire Trial Lawyer Known as the "King of Torts"; Won $11 billion verdict representing Pennzoil against Texaco in a famous oral contract case.
Belinda Johnson – Chief Operating Officer of Airbnb
Edith Jones – Chief Justice of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
John Marvin Jones – Member of Congress; Chair of United States House Committee on Agriculture; Chief Judge of United States Court of Claims; Author of many major New Deal agriculture laws.
William Wayne Justice – Senior United States District Judge, Western District of Texas, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Texas, storied civil rights judge
George P. Kazen – Senior United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas;
Michael Keasler – Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1999[72]
W. Page Keeton – 1931 graduate and Dean from 1949 to 1974; expert in Torts; Grandfather of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan
Bill Keffer – 1984 graduate; Dallas lawyer, Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 107 (2003-2007)[73]
Joe M. Kilgore – 1946 graduate; U.S. representative from Texas's 15th congressional district from 1955 to 1965.
Ron Kirk – former mayor of Dallas, Texas; Former United States Trade Representative
Cyndi Taylor Krier (Class of 1975) – Texas State Senator and Bexar County Judge. First woman and first Republican to represent San Antonio in the Texas State Senate.
Royce C. Lamberth – Chief Judge United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Bob Lanier – former Mayor of Houston
Debra Lehrmann – former 360th District Court Judge in Fort Worth; Texas Supreme Court Justice (2011– )
Michael R. Levy – Founder and Publisher of Texas Monthly magazine
J. Hugh Liedtke and Bill Liedtke – brothers who cofounded Zapata Petroleum Corporation with President George HW Bush; acquired South Penn Oil Company which they renamed Pennzoil[74]
Honoré Ligarde – state representative for Webb County from 1963 to 1973, businessman, lawyer, banker, civic figure[75]
Michael Lind – Prolific political writer; Has written and edited for Politico, Salon, New Republic, The New Yorker; Co Founder of major centrist think tank -the New America Foundation
Eddie Lucio, III – State Representative from Texas' 38th District (Cameron County)
Oliver Luck – former NFL player; former executive with NFL Europa and the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer; current CEO and Commissioner of the XFL (2020)
George H. Mahon – Member US Congress; Chair of U.S. House Appropriations Committee; Dean of the United States House of Representatives
- Father T.J. Martinez – Founder of Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory of Houston a Jesuit High School exclusively dedicated to low income students in Houston. Inducted into Papal Knighthood Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
Garry Mauro – Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office; Democratic Nominee for Governor of Texas in 1998
Earle Bradford Mayfield – former United States Senator from Texas
Myra McDaniel – first African American Texas Secretary of State; General Counsel to Governor Mark White
Hugh "Skip" McGee III – Former Global Head of Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers and Barclays
Mike McKool – Prominent trial lawyer; Founder of prominent litigation firm McKool Smith; Has won over $1 billion in judgments and verdicts; Represented Quincy Jones in his lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson over royalties for Off the Wall & Thriller
Harry McPherson – White House Counsel; Key Advisor to President Lyndon Johnson; Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Thomas M. Melsheimer – Dallas Managing Principal for Fish & Richardson; 1986 magna cum laude graduate
Walter Mengden – 1954 graduate; former member of both houses of the Texas Legislature from Harris County
Thomas Mengler – President of Saint Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas; previously, dean of the law school at University of St. Thomas (Minnesota); former dean at the University of Illinois College of Law
John T. Montford (Class of 1968) – former Chancellor of Texas Tech University System, 1996-2001; member of the Texas State Senate, 1983-1996; businessman in San Antonio, since 2001
Dan Moody – former Governor of Texas; former Texas Attorney General
William T. "Bill" Moore – 1949 graduate; state senator from Bryan known as the "Bull of the Brazos" and the "father of the modern Texas A&M University"
Steve Munisteri – retired Houston attorney and chairman since June 12, 2010, of the Republican Party of Texas;White House Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump
Gene Nichol – law professor at the University of North Carolina; former professor and President of the College of William and Mary; former dean of the law schools at North Carolina and Colorado
Covey T. Oliver – Former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Former United States Ambassador to Colombia; Former Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Pete Olson – United States Congressman from Texas
Jose Rolando Olvera Jr. – Federal Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
James Aubrey Parker – Federal Judge United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
George Peddy – Texas lawyer and politician[76]
David Peeples, Texas state court judge since 1981; based in San Antonio[77]
Federico Peña – former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy; former Mayor of Denver
Colonel Alfred P.C. Petsch (1887–1981) – Lawyer, legislator, civic leader, philanthropist, member of Texas House of Representatives 1925–1941
Robert L. Pitman – United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Former United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas; First openly LBGT US Attorney and Federal Judge in Texas
Jack Pope (1913-) – Lawyer, judge, and Supreme Court of Texas Chief Justice 1982-1985
Edward C. Prado – United States Ambassador to Argentina; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Paul Pressler (1930-) – Lawyer, judge, and leader of the Southern Baptist Convention Conservative resurgence[78]
Nelva Ramos – Federal Judge Southern District of Texas
Sam Rayburn – longest-serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; Mentor to President Lyndon Johnson; Chair of United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Before Congress served as Speaker of Texas House of Representatives
Eddie Rodriguez – member of the Texas House of Representatives
Xavier Rodriguez – Federal Judge United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Former Member of Texas Supreme Court
Diana Saldana – Federal Judge Southern District of Texas
Barefoot Sanders – Chief Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas; U.S.Assistant Attorney General;United States Attorney; Democratic Nominee for United States Senate in 1972
Tom Schieffer – former United States Ambassador to Japan; former United States Ambassador to Australia; President of the Texas Rangers (baseball) Team; Co-lead effort to purchase Texas Rangers with President George W. Bush. Brother of CBS Anchor Bob Schieffer
A.R. "Babe" Schwartz – former Texas State Senator, helped author the landmark Texas Open Beaches Act
Clay Sell – Former United States Deputy Secretary of Energy
John Sheppard – former Attorney General of Texas
Morris Sheppard – U.S. Senator, author of the Eighteenth Amendment; Chair of Senate Armed Services Committee; Senate Minority Whip
Max Sherman (Class of 1960) – former state senator and former president of West Texas A&M University and former Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Robert Allan Shivers – former Governor of Texas; former Lieutenant Governor of Texas
Kristen Silverberg – U.S. Ambassador to the European Union; former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Barry Smitherman – former member of the Texas Railroad Commission
Jorge Antonio Solis – Chief Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Sam Sparks – Federal Judge Western District of Texas
Joseph Tyree Sneed III – U.S. Deputy Attorney General; Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Dean of Duke University School of Law; Father of Carly Fiorina
John Thomas Steen, Jr. – San Antonio lawyer and the 108th Secretary of State of Texas[79]
Robert Schwarz Strauss – former United States Ambassador to Russia; former United States Trade Representative; United States Special Envoy for the Middle East; Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee; Founder of major international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Namesake of Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Tom Strickland – Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks; Former United States Attorney for the District of Colorado; 2002 Democratic nominee for US Senator from Colorado
Stephen Susman – Prominent plaintiffs lawyer; Called "Dean of Plaintiff's Bar"; Founder of nation's top litigation boutique firm Susman Godfrey
Bryan Taylor (lawyer) – Member of Alabama State Senate; General Counsel to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey
Larry E. Temple – White House Counsel Key advisor to President Lyndon Johnson; Chair of the LBJ Foundation
Albert Richard Thomas – Member of Congress Chair of US House Democratic Caucus
Mac Thornberry – U.S. representative from Texas' 13th congressional district; Chair of United States House Committee on Armed Services
Ray Thornton – former United States Representative from Arkansas and Arkansas Supreme Court justice
R. Ewing Thomason – Former Federal Judge United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Member of Congress; Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives;Mayor of El Paso
Jim Turner (politician) – Former United States Representative; Ranking Democrat on House Homeland Security Committee
Corbin Van Arsdale – former state representative from District 130 in northwestern Harris County, 2003-2008; lawyer and lobbyist in Austin[80]
Jason Villalba – state representative from District 114 in north Dallas County; member of Haynes and Boone law firm in Dallas[81]
Darren Walker – President of the Ford Foundation
Gary Watkins – state representative from Ector County, county administrative judge, and state district court judge[82]
Mikal Watts – Texas trial lawyer who has won over $3 billion in settlements for his clients.
Sarah Weddington – represented Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade
Bill White – former Mayor of the City of Houston; former United States Deputy Secretary of Energy; Democratic Nominee for Governor of Texas in 2010
Harry Whittington – Texas attorney famous for getting shot by Dick Cheney in a hunting incident; professionally known for eminent domain cases
Paul Womack (J.D., 1975) – Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1997-2015; resides in Georgetown in Williamson County
Diane Pamela Wood – Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, considered potential candidate for a seat on the Supreme Court during the Obama administration
John Wood – Respected Federal District Judge who was assassinated by mob hitman Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson
Ralph Yarborough – former United States Senator from Texas; Former Chair United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
John Andrew Young – former United States Representative from Texas
Percy Eugene Foreman Regarded as one of the greatest trial lawyers in the United States
Notable professors
Ward Farnsworth – current dean of University of Texas School of Law and the John Jeffers Research Chair in Law
Charles Alan Wright – was an American constitutional lawyer widely considered to be the foremost authority in the United States on constitutional law and federal procedure, and was the coauthor of the 54-volume treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure with Arthur Miller and Kenneth W. Graham, Jr., among others. He taught at the University of Texas School of Law from 1955 until his death in 2000.
Sanford Levinson – an American legal scholar, best known for his writings on constitutional law and is the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law
William Powers, Jr. – former dean of University of Texas School of Law and former President of the University of Texas at Austin
Lawrence G. Sager – former dean of University of Texas School of Law and the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
Lino Graglia – the Dalton Cross Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law specializing in antitrust litigation
Robert M. Chesney – the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, where he serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and teaches courses relating to U.S. national security and constitutional law
Leon A. Green – was an American legal realist and long-tenured dean of Northwestern University School of Law (1929–1947). He also served as professor at Yale Law School * (1926–1929) and the University of Texas School of Law (1915–1918, 1920–1926, and 1947–1977)
Ted Cruz – US Senator and Presidential Candidate; adjunct professor of Constitutional Law
Elizabeth Warren – She taught at the University of Texas School of Law as visiting associate professor in 1981, and later joined as a full professor (1983–87)
Bryan A. Garner – returned to the University of Texas School of Law as a visiting associate professor and was named director of the short-lived Texas/Oxford Center for Legal Lexicography, while teaching writing and editing seminars at the law school. In 1990, he left the university to found LawProse, Inc., a Dallas company that provides seminars on clear writing for lawyers and judges
Philip Bobbitt – Until 2007, Bobbitt held the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair at the University of Texas, where he taught constitutional law. He remains Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas Law School and Senior Fellow in the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.
W. Page Keeton – was an attorney and dean of the University of Texas School of Law for a quarter century. Keeton served as president of the Association of American Law Schools; national chair of the Council of Legal Education Opportunity; and was presented the Torch of Liberty Award of the Anti-Defamation League. The City of Austin renamed 26th Street so that The University of Texas School of Law is now located at 727 Dean Keeton Street. Keeton was a prolific writer and one of the foremost authorities on the law of torts. He was co-author of the most-cited work in Tort law, Prosser & Keeton on Torts
Daniel B. Rodriguez – noted expert of Administrative Law who later became Dean of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Mark Yudof – long serving faculty member who later became President of the University of California System; Chancellor of the University of Texas System; President of the University of Minnesota
U.S. Supreme Court clerkships
Since 2005, Texas has had four alumni serve as judicial clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court. This record gives Texas a ranking in the top 20 among all law schools for supplying such law clerks for the period 2005-2017. Texas has placed 35 clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court in its history, ranked 13th among law schools; this group includes Diane Wood (class of 1975) who clerked for Justice Harry Blackmun during the 1976 Term, and is now the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Employment
Texas has maintained strong employment outcomes for its graduates relative to other law schools.[83] According to UT official 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 77.8% of the Class of 2014 had obtained full-time, long-term, J.D.-required employment nine months after graduation.[12] 88.9% of the class obtained employment in careers that preferred or required a J.D.[12] UT's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 10.5%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2015 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.[84]
Costs
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Texas Law for the 2016–2017 academic year is $56,161 for residents and $73,831 for non-residents.[85] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $197,389 for residents and $254,278 for nonresidents.[86]
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