Professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba Awarded SSS Fellowship

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Mar 22, 2024 11:47:34 AM

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.

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Topics: CLIP, IP, scholarly impact, faculty

Energy Law Symposium Highlights A Changing Energy Landscape

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Mar 11, 2024 9:15:00 AM

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.

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Topics: EENRS, faculty, events

ADR Symposium Discusses Adaptations in Mediation, Dispute Resolution

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Mar 4, 2024 10:46:00 AM

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.

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Topics: Cynthia Alkon, Nancy Welsh, Aggie Dispute Resolution, Michael Z. Green, faculty, events

Professor Huyen Pham Awarded University Distinguished Professor

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Feb 17, 2023 2:33:41 PM

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. 

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Topics: Huyen Pham, Faculty Highlights, immigration, faculty

Texas Bar Foundation awards $15,000 grant for Legal Wellness Justice Project

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on May 19, 2022 8:13:56 AM

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.  

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Topics: Law Professor, Experiential Education, faculty

Professor Yu Joins Trade Officials and Leading Experts at WTO Book Launch

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Apr 12, 2022 2:28:11 PM

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.

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Topics: Peter Yu, international property, CLIP, global engagement, faculty

Professor Eckstein Represents Bolivia at the International Court of Justice

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Apr 4, 2022 8:00:00 AM

Professor Gabriel Eckstein, director of the Texas A&M Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resource Systems Law Program (EENRSLP) and an expert in international and transboundary water law, recently represented Bolivia at the International Court of Justice public hearings in The Hague, Netherlands.

Eckstein presented to the court in two separate sessions as well as assisting the Bolivian lead counsel during cross-examination.

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Topics: Law Professor, global engagement, EENRS, water law, faculty

Law School Prof. Co-Hosts IPIRA Conference With Global Attendance

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Feb 15, 2022 11:15:00 AM

The fourth annual IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference was held on February 9-12 and featured 300 scholars from across the world. The virtual conference was co-hosted by law professor Irene Calboli.

Founded by Texas A&M Law professor Calboli in 2018, the IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Network co-organized the Fourth IPIRA Conference with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the following academic institutions: International Islamic University Malaysia, Universitas Indonesia; Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Texas A&M University and the University of Geneva. As in previous years, the Conference was additionally supported by a group of distinguished academic institutions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Interested readers can find the full program of the Conference here and the abstracts here

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Topics: Law Professor, global engagement, faculty

Books by two Profs are Among the Best for 2021

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Feb 11, 2022 6:00:00 AM

Texas A&M Law Professors Irene Calboli and Srividya Ragavan were once again recognized as distinguished Intellectual Property (IP) scholars by colleagues across the world.

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Topics: Law Professor, intellectual property, IP, faculty

Texas A&M Law Launches Environmental & Natural Resources Systems Clinic

Posted by Texas A&M School of Law on Nov 24, 2021 10:44:50 AM

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.

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Topics: Law Professor, Clinics, Gabriel Eckstein, Natural Resources Systems, students, faculty

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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.

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