Jessica Foster

Texas A&M University and the Women Former Students' Network selects Texas A&M University Law Professor Huyen Pham for the Eminent Scholar Award.

Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Lisa Alexander presented her draft article, Tiny Homes: Bringing Home the Right to Housing, at the 7th Annual State and Local Government Law Works in Progress Conference at Fordham Law School in New York City. 

Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Meg Penrose visited the University of Iceland and served on a panel with a member of Parliament.  The panel discussed the excitement about Iceland’s pending constitution, which was drafted by a 25-person constitutional council composed of Icelandic citizens.

Texas A&M University School of Law Dean Robert B. Ahdieh addressed members of the Fort Worth Rotary Club today, sharing school achievements, illustrating a vision of the road ahead and praising the Fort Worth community for its unwavering support.

Ranked #80 by the U.S. News and World Report, Texas A&M University law school has experienced a meteoric rise in rankings in it's five-year existence, since acquiring Texas Wesleyan Law School. Ahdieh walked through performance statistics that will help launch the school upward in future rankings. Texas A&M University School of Law:

• Ranks #7 in intellectual property studies
• Ranks #12 in dispute resolution studies
• Garnered $1.1 million in external research grants since 2017
• Offers 11 clinics for students in need of real-world application
• Has 35 placements in the top 50 legal journals since 2017
• Has 11 American Law Institute members among its faculty
• Has a 27 percent, minority faculty

With the largest and most diverse first-year class in years, the law school, according to Ahdieh, has made employee placement in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex a priority. 

"There may be enough lawyers, but not enough Texas A&M lawyers," said Ahdieh.

He also expressed a desire to take the time to help Texas A&M students find their professional identity so that more diverse contributions to society can be made.

 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. In 2013, the law school acquired Texas Wesleyan University School of Law and has increased faculty and students exponentially in its five-year existence. The law school ranks highly nationwide in dispute resolution and intellectual property and offers 11 clinics that introduce students to real-world applications of the law. 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.

Texas A&M School of Law Professor William Magnusom offers his opinion, which was used to explain the effects of the financial crisis on the legal industry. In Law360's in-depth, feature issue about "How A 'Lost Generation' of Associates Bounced Back,"  

"My colleagues and people who have graduated around that time seem to have succeeded, and that may be because it was a difficult time, and they had to think through their priorities and what kind of jobs they have,” he said.