The Alumni Board of Directors of Texas A&M Law has announced the seven recipients of the fourth annual Alumni Legacy Awards. This year’sawards reception will be held on Saturday, October 12, at the Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown Hotel at 6:00 p.m. 

For those struggling to remember the history of horse racing in Texas, it might be because until 1986, it had been illegal for decades. Even now, when compared to many other states, racing is minimal in Texas. However, Amy Fordham Cook ’23, executive director of the Texas Racing Commission (TXRC), is out to change that.

As a point of pride, Nate Mallory ’23 ’24 believes in maximizing opportunities. The recent Texas A&M Law graduate and founder of The Mallory Firm, PLLC is passionate about tax law. He completed law school in standout fashion, forging an unprecedented path all his own.

Professor Glynn Lunney, Jr., University Distinguished Professor and associate dean for faculty research and development, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in economics for the 2024-25 academic year. Lunney will teach a course at Hanken School of Economics in Finland on the management of intellectual property assets and researching how the copyright system distributes revenue and royalties to various actors in the ecosystem for creative authorship.  

Texas A&M Law welcomes Katherine Mims Crocker as a new Professor of Law. Her appointment includes teaching and research on federal courts, civil rights litigation, structural constitutional law, and state and local government law.

On May 30, Professor Susan Fortney received the Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award at the American Bar Association’s 49th National Conference on Professional Responsibility held in Denver. The national award, named in honor of Michael Frank, late director of the State Bar of Michigan, recognizes legal professionals with an outstanding commitment to legal ethics and professionalism.

Four Texas A&M Law professors have each received appointments as full professors, upon approval in May by the Texas A&M System Board of Regents. Professors Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Guillermo Garcia Sanchez, Brian Larson, and Christopher Odinet were presented to the Board at the recommendation of General (Ret.) Mark A. Welsh III, president of Texas A&M.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that Boeing breached its 2021 Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), which was used to resolve allegations of corporate misconduct surrounding the 2018 and 2019 Boeing 737 MAX airplane crashes that resulted in 346 deaths.

Even the most optimistic projections for the rapid build-out of solar, wind, and other low-carbon resources acknowledge that coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels will dominate the world’s energy mix for decades to come. If the vast greenhouse gas emissions from burning these fossil fuels continue to enter the planet’s atmosphere, global warming will not be limited to sustainable levels. The capture and geologic sequestration of carbon emissions (CCS) offer a promising solution to the world’s carbon conundrum.  

The Amon G. Carter Foundation has provided a $10.75 million commitment for the support of the Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus now under construction in downtown Fort Worth.