Texas A&M School of Law welcomed the deans of law schools in the Southeastern Conference. The SEC Law School Deans "Roundup" was held February 15-17 and provided a forum for the deans to collaborate and discuss pressing topics surrounding law schools, legal education, and the legal profession.
Texas A&M Law Hosts SEC Law School Deans
Topics: Fort Worth, Texas A&M Law
Dean Ahdieh Ranked 5th on National Jurist’s ‘20 Most Influential People in Legal Education’ List
The National Jurist has released its list ofthe 20 Most Influential People in Legal Education, and Texas A&M School of Law Dean Robert B. Ahdieh took the fifth-place spot. The list features national figures in legal practice and education,whoare advancing positive changein the field. The list is cultivated and narrowed down through a nomination process and voting by law school deans nationwide.
Topics: Texas A&M University School of Law, Bobby Ahdieh, Texas A&M Law
Texas A&M Law Ranks No. 1 In Texas Bar Pass Rate
The 2023 Texas Bar Exam pass ratesare in, and Texas A&M Law ranked no. 1in the state. The law school’s94.63 percentfirst-time bar pass ratealso stands as the highest rate in the state for the last decade.
Topics: alumni news, Texas A&M Law, Graduates
Dean Robert Ahdieh Awarded Fort Worth Trailblazer Award
Texas A&M School of Law Dean Robert B. Ahdieh recently received Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.‘s Innovation Trailblazer Award for his role in helping to inspire and encourage the creation of Texas A&M - Fort Worth, a several hundred-million dollar research and innovation campus. Construction will begin in June and comes at a key moment in the trajectory of law school.
Topics: Fort Worth, Ahdieh, Texas A&M Law
Texas A&M Law In Top 20 of Multiple Areas of Princeton Review Rankings
TaxProf Blog recently posted a series that highlights the top 50 schools in five categories of the 2023 edition of Princeton Review's Best Law Schools.
Texas A&M Law ranks first or second in Texas and lands in the top tiers nationally across all categories.
Topics: Texas A&M Law, rankings
Dean Ahdieh Named Vice President for Professional Schools & Programs
Dean Robert B. Ahdieh has been named Vice President for Professional Schools and Programs by Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks. He will serve in this new position concurrently with his appointment as Dean of the School of Law and Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair.
Topics: Texas A&M University, Ahdieh, Texas A&M Law
TAMU Law Clinic students are awarded for excellence
Texas A&M Legal Clinics announce the recipients of their 2020 and 2021 awards. The legal clinics give students the opportunity to apply their skills to work on behalf of actual clients in a variety of practice areas, and the awards provide the opportunity to showcase student achievement.
Topics: Clinics, students, Texas A&M Law
New Privacy Law: Good for public health?
Texas A&M law professor Brian Larson and public-health professors Cason Schmit and Hye-Chung Kum advise legislators and public-health professionals in the U.S. to act on the proposed Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA), likely to be adopted July 10, 2021 by the Uniform Law Commissioners (ULC). The Act is designed to be adopted by states seeking a comprehensive data privacy statute, and it has important effects on public-health research and interventions.
Topics: Texas A&M, faculty and staff, Texas A&M Law, faculty
TAMU Law's Student Bar Association hosts Spring Break Stay-cation
The Texas A&M Law Student Bar Association (SBA) recently hosted a very successful “Spring Break Stay-Cation” for the law school’s week-long spring break. SBA is the law school’s student body government, comprised of five representatives per class year, an ABA representative, vice president and president. SBA serves the student body by encouraging academic excellence, supporting professional and personal growth and working with administration, faculty, and the community at large to advocate for student needs.
The Spring Break Stay-Cation was a week-long student challenge crafted by the 2020-2021 SBA Board. The Spring Break Stay-Cation encouraged students to skip the travel this year, and instead participate in socially distanced activities in the Fort Worth community. This event was created in order to address COVID-19 related concerns with Spring Break travel. In an attempt to limit student travel, SBA created a challenge with various activities in the Fort Worth community and at home. Students who completed the full week of activities were given a gift bag for their commitment.
Topics: students, Texas A&M Law, sba
TAMU Law Office of Career Services hosts the ABA and more
The Texas A&M Office of Career Services is hosting American Bar Association President Patricia Refo and representatives from the Dallas Bar Association, Tarrant Co. Bar Association and Texas Aggie Bar Association Thursday, April 8 starting at 12:15PM via Zoom. Texas A&M Law students are encouraged to attend and observe a discussion about the importance of the bar, bar associations and bar association membership. Zoom links will be shared in the Good Bull, the weekly student e-news.
Moderator Aric Short is a law professor and the director of the Texas A&M Law professionalism and leadership program. Under his leadership, Texas A&M Law requires that all of its first-year students take a professional identity class, a mandate uncharacteristic for law schools. Event organizer Arturo Errisuriz, TAMU Law assistant dean for career services and bar relations, is the past chairman of the Tarrant County Bar Foundation and with his team has increased Aggie Law gold standard student employment year over year.
Topics: students, Texas A&M Law, aba