Day Three – Water, Wisdom, and Wandering: Exploring the Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant, Givat Haviva, and Jaffa 
By: Anna Eckhoff '25

This article is part of a series of reflections prepared by students enrolled in the Texas A&M School of Law 2023 Global Field Studies Program: Israel. Click here to visit the entire series.

Today, our second day in Israel, we visited one of the world's leading wastewater treatment plants, the Shafdan Wastewater Treatment Plant—owned and operated by Mekerot (Israel's national water company). Israel has long faced significant water scarcity challenges due to its geographical location and climate. However, instead of wilting under these adversities, the country has emerged as a global frontrunner in water reuse technologies, leading the world in water reuse at 87%. (The U.S. reuses about 10% of our water.) Shafdan is a shining example of this innovative approach to water management.

Day Two – Tours, Wastewater Treatment Facilities, and Bike Lanes, Oh My!
By: MacKenzie Watson '24

This article is part of a series of reflections prepared by students enrolled in the Texas A&M School of Law 2023 Global Field Studies Program: Israel. Click here to visit the entire series.

After arriving at the hostel in Tel Aviv sometime after 2 a.m., I had opted to skip the breakfast offerings and instead, I woke up around 10:00. It was our first day in Israel and I took advantage of our free morning by exploring the hostel, taking in the environment we would be in for the next few days. The weather was absolutely beautiful, it was about 70 degrees with a nice breeze. I was surprised to hear children’s squeals and I initially thought they were coming from fellow hostel goers. When I looked out the window and saw around two dozen children having what I would assume was recess, it really felt like I was in a foreign country and excitement began to well up.

Day One – The Innocence of Memory
By: Simon Lee '25

This article is part of a series of reflections prepared by students enrolled in the Texas A&M School of Law 2023 Global Field Studies Program: Israel. Click here to visit the entire series.

We sit among our carry-on strewn around and on the airport seats. Some of us reeled off just how much of a grind the end of the semester was. Others try to read a book assigned to us in the few hours we have left on the ground. Still, others munch on the last Chick-Fil-A they’d be eating for several weeks. DFW International buzzes around us with the usual Saturday traffic.

We have never been to Israel. Well, not us students, at least. Professors Eckstein and Professor Welsh are old hat, though. Professor Eckstein was born and raised there, and he went back regularly before COVID shut down international travel.

With an ever-growing list of milestones under its belt, Texas A&M UniversitySchool of Law iscommemoratingthe 10thanniversary of joining the Aggie family. Since theuniversity’s 2013 acquisition of the law school,Texas A&M Law has produced hundreds ofAggie legal professionals, brought together a world-class faculty,and taken its place as one of the nation’s leading law schools.

Texas A&M School of Law will honor seven alumni at its 3rd Annual Alumni Legacy Awards Reception. The reception will be held on Saturday, October 21, at the Worthington Renaissance Downtown Fort Worth at 6:00 p.m. 

Hosted by the Texas A&M Law Alumni Board of Directors, the awards recognize outstanding law school alumni and their individual achievements, contributions to their professions, service to their communities, and loyalty to the law school. 

The Texas A&M School of Law Alumni Board has established a new scholarship honoring Lynne Rambo, who retired from the faculty in 2020. The Professor Emerita Lynne Rambo Endowed Scholarship will be awarded to qualified students who embody excellence and dedication to legal education.

Fort Worth Inc. Magazine named Dean Robert B. Ahdieh among its 2023Fort Worth 400 list. The annual listobserves 400local standouts in sectors ranging fromart, business, education, government, health, real estate, and more.This is the second time Dean Ahdieh has made the 400 list. 

Professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba will be a guest presenter at this year’s Harvard/Stanford/Yale/ Junior Faculty Forum.The event will be held June 29-30, at Yale Universityand featuresresearchpresentations by multiplejunior scholars. 

Texas A&M University System Communications

Texas A&M-Fort Worth broke ground Wednesday on its first building for an urban research campus — a first-of-its-kind public-private collaboration intended to boost the regional economy while anchoring an innovation district in southeast downtown.

Two Texas A&M School of Law graduates recently secured clerkships with Justice Evan Young of the Supreme Court of Texas. C. Cole Stenholm '18, '21 and Spencer Lockwood '18, '22 will each serve a one-year term.