UT's law school ranking drops two positions
The UT law school dropped back out of the prestigious top 14 law schools compiled by the U.S. News & World Rankings, but officials say the drop is not a result of controversial administrative...
View ArticleThe truth trumps top 14
Last December, when my fellow law students and I were cramming for finals, we received news that our fearless leader, Dean Lawrence Sager, had been fired. This past month, once again cramming for...
View ArticleNew kids on the block: Ward Farnsworth
Editor’s note: Ward Farnsworth began June 1 as dean of the University of Texas School of Law. Before he started, Farnsworth served as an associate dean at Boston University School of Law. Farnsworth...
View ArticleTexas bills could help establish new medical, law school
Editor’s note: We will feature higher education bills filed for Texas’ 83rd legislative session, which begins Jan. 8, every day until the end of the semester. A series of bills for the upcoming...
View ArticleNo easy, short answers to death penalty questions
Kimberly McCarthy, the first woman scheduled to be executed in the United States since 2010, won a reprieve when a state district court halted a lethal injection on Jan. 29, only hours before it was...
View ArticleConsolidated school in Rio Grande Valley may include law school
A law school may join the proposed consolidated UT System institution in the Rio Grande Valley despite claims by the state’s higher education agency that Texas does not immediately need another law...
View ArticleFormer UT law school dean and professor John Sutton dies
John Sutton, a former dean and professor in the School of Law, died Friday from complications due to old age at the San Angelo Community Hospital. Sutton was 95 years old. Sutton graduated from UT’s...
View ArticleAfter six years, UT law professor gains access to previously withheld border...
Six years after her initial request for public records regarding federally built fences along the Texas-Mexico border, UT law professor Denise Gilman has passed a significant barrier in receiving the...
View ArticleUT administrator compensation deserves scrutiny
On Sunday, the Austin American-Statesman reported that, while UT President William Powers Jr. served as dean of the Law School, he received $325,000 under a deferred compensation agreement that was...
View ArticleDean of law school discusses cost of legal education, alumni support
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of Q-and-A’s with the deans of the University’s 18 schools and colleges. Ward Farnsworth was appointed dean of the law school in 2012. The Daily Texan: What...
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