The new Environmental & Natural Resources Systems Clinic at Texas A&M Law places it among the relatively few law schools across the country with such a program. The clinic will build on the work of the school’s Energy, Environmental, And Natural Resource Systems Law Program (currently ranked 34 nationally). 

There are two primary and interrelated objectives for the clinic: addressing critical environmental and natural resource issues, while helping to equip Aggie law students with hands-on, practical experience to lead change in these areas.

On November 10, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp announced plans to build a new Texas A&M research campus and collaborative innovation hub in downtown Fort Worth.

“The A&M System is making a Texas-sized commitment to Fort Worth,” Sharp said. “Welcome to Aggieland North.”

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, along with government and business leaders from Fort Worth and across Texas, announced plans today to build a new research campus and collaborative innovation hub in downtown Fort Worth.

The recently published article The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited from the University of Chicago Law Review lists Texas A&M Law Professor Peter K. Yu sixth among the most-cited legal scholars born after 1970 across all fields.

The study was conducted by Fred Shapiro, Associate Library Director at Yale Law School and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations.

Several teams of Texas A&M Law students performed well recent advocacy competitions.

• FINRA Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon: 2Ls Baldemar Garcia, Bill Larimer and Madison Young won. The team also won the Negotiation round. The team was coached by Kay Elliott and the team alternate was Christyn Cavazos.
  
• MLK Civil Rights Mock Trial Competition: 2L Adam Veary won the Best Overall Closing Argument award. His teammates were 3L Kailey Muir and 2Ls Sydney McCaulley and Alexis Symcheck. The team was coached by Matthew Jackson (’13).
  
• National Mediation Competition: 2L Abrielle Perry placed 2^nd and 3L Crystal Hernandez placed 4^th. The team alternate was Jacob Schuler. They were coached by Kay Elliott.

Texas A&M University School of Law has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Law School Commitment to Service Award by the Texas Access to Justice Commission.

Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP is pleased to announce the addition of three Texas A&M Law graduates to its roster of new, Fort Worth office attorneys.

Texas A&M School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic student Madeleine "Maddie" Hamparian helped a client obtain humanitarian parole, a temporary permission allowing non-U.S. citizens to enter the country to attend to urgent issues. In this case, the client's son was having a critical surgery that her husband's donated tissue could make possible. His presence was needed. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made the decision in early September. The law school's medical/legal partnership with Cook Children's Medical Center facilitated the meeting and eventually successful result.