Texas A&M Legal Clinics Announce New Legal Grant To Aid Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Jan 24, 2024 1:02:37 PM

The Texas A&M Legal Clinics were awarded a grant by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation (TAJF) to provide legal information and services to both youth and young adults who are aging out or have aged out of foster care.

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Topics: Clinics, Advocacy

Two Texas A&M Clinics File Lawsuits Against ICE for Unlawful Treatment of Detainees

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Jan 11, 2024 12:21:41 PM

Texas A&M School of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic and Immigrant Rights Clinic recently filed three federal lawsuits, featured in a Washington Post article, seeking to hold the government accountable for abuses conducted in immigration detention and removal. This abuse included unlawful and excessive use of force and restraints, punitive solitary confinement, forced fingerprinting, inappropriate use of pepper spray, and medical neglect.

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Topics: Clinics, Advocacy

$1.5 million grant could be a game-changer in reducing health disparities nationwide

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Jan 11, 2024 9:29:17 AM

An innovative, multidisciplinary approach by Texas A&M University researchers to better support and empower vulnerable communities along the Gulf of Mexico has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Academy of Sciences.

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Topics: Advocacy, health law

Texas A&M Law Members to Present at Houston-Area Family Violence Event

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Dec 21, 2023 10:02:34 AM

Texas A&M Law will support the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) and Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) for their upcoming2024Family Violence Fundraiser. The event directly supports bothnonprofits and their missions to create safer communities and freedom from family violence.  

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Topics: Clinics, Advocacy

Texas A&M establishes multidisciplinary Institute for Healthcare Access

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Dec 20, 2023 9:43:24 AM

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has approved the establishment of the Texas A&M University Institute for Healthcare Access, a collaboration between Texas A&M Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health)Texas A&M University School of Medicine and Texas A&M University School of Law. 

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Topics: Advocacy, health law

TAMU Law students earn ABA national championship

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Apr 13, 2021 5:44:19 PM

Texas A&M School of Law second-year students Taylor Garner and Isabelle Chapman bring home the American Bar Association (ABA) national championship in representation in mediation this month.

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Topics: Advocacy, students, texas a&m school of law, advocacy program

TAMU Law advocacy teams overcome obstacles this fall

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Jan 22, 2021 2:13:26 PM

Despite challenges brought on by the pandemic, Texas A&M Law advocacy teams, under the guidance of Director of Advocacy Programs Jennifer Ellis, persevered. Kudos to the following teams:

Hofstra National Medical-Legal Trial Competition: Our team of 3Ls Jessica Gillespie, Alexia Nicoloulias and Cole Stenholm and 2L Victoria LeFleur were semi-finalists; and Jessica Gillespie received the award for Best Use of an Expert Witness in the Preliminary Rounds. The team was coach by Judge Elizabeth Berry.

National Mediator Competition: 2L Samantha Elliott placed 2nd and 2L Bryan Berens placed 4th.  Both students won cash prizes. They were coached by Kay Elliott. 

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Topics: jennifer ellis, Advocacy, Texas A&M Law

TAMU Law places in top 10

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on May 29, 2019 6:10:45 PM

Texas A&M University School of Law has placed in the top 10 in the American Bar Association's 2018-19 “ABA Competitions Championship.”

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Topics: Texas A&M University School of Law, tamu law, dispute resolution, Advocacy, ADR

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About Texas A&M School of Law

Texas A&M School of Law is an American Bar Association-accredited institution located in downtown Fort Worth. Since integrating with Texas A&M University in 2013, the law school has sustained a remarkable upward trajectory — dramatically increasing entering class credentials; improving U.S. News and World Report rankings; hiring more than 30 new faculty members; and adding more than 10 clinics and six global field study destinations. In the past several years the law school has greatly expanded its academic programs to serve the needs of non-lawyer professionals in a variety of complex and highly regulated industries such as cybersecurity, energy and natural resources, finance, and healthcare.

For more information, visit law.tamu.edu.

About Texas A&M University

Texas A&M, established in 1876 as the first public university in Texas, is one of the nation’s largest universities with more than 66,000 students and more than 440,000 living alumni residing in over 150 countries around the world. A tier-one university, Texas A&M holds the rare triple land-, sea- and space-grant designation. Research conducted at Texas A&M represented annual expenditures of more than $905.4 million in fiscal year 2017. Texas A&M’s research creates new knowledge that provides basic, fundamental and applied contributions resulting, in many cases, in economic benefits to the state, nation and world.

About Research at Texas A&M University

As one of the world's leading research institutions, Texas A&M is at the forefront in making significant contributions to scholarship and discovery, including that of science and technology. Research conducted at Texas A&M represented annual expenditures of more than $905.4 million in fiscal year 2017. Texas A&M ranked in the top 20 of the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development survey (2016), based on expenditures of more than $892.7 million in fiscal year 2016. Texas A&M’s research creates new knowledge that provides basic, fundamental and applied contributions resulting, in many cases, in economic benefits to the state, nation and world.

To learn more, visit http://research.tamu.edu.