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.

Professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba was selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study’s (IAS) School of Social Science in Princeton for the 2024–2025 academic year. IAS is a leading center for basic research. Each year, IAS awards residential fellowships — known as “memberships” — through a highly competitive process to junior and senior scholars across disciplines. Bloch-Wehba is one of only 20 scholars selected as members of the School of Social Science from a pool of more than 600 applicants.

Texas A&M Law recently hosted its 13th Annual Energy Law Symposium on March 7-8, organized by the Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Systems (EENRS). The symposium brought together an array of speakers and panelists from the energy law and academic sectors.

Scholars and field practitioners convened at Texas A&M Law at the annual Aggie Dispute Resolution Symposium on Friday, March 1. Known for its constructive dialogue on key issues facing dispute resolution, the symposium featured three panels led by national experts.

Texas A&M University has awarded Professor Huyen Pham the title of University Distinguished Professor. The title, awarded this year to a total of eight faculty members, is the highest faculty award bestowed by Texas A&M. 

The Texas Bar Foundation awarded the Texas A&M University School of Law a $15,000 grant to support the law school’s Legal Wellness Justice Project. The project will work with law students in low-income areas of Texas hurt hardest by the pandemic to proactively screen individuals for legal needs and then provide referrals to a range of free legal resources designed to fill those needs.  

Peter K. Yu, Regents Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, recently joined leading trade experts from around the world at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to officially launch the book Trade in Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Trade and Development in a Transformed Global Economy. Published jointly by the WTO and Cambridge University Press, this new book was edited by Antony Taubman, the director of the WTO Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division, and Jayashree Watal, a former counsellor at the Division and Honorary Professor at the National Law University, Delhi in India.