elcome to South Texas College of Law. After you've taken a virtual tour of our law school on this informative and accessible Website, I hope you will be encouraged to visit us in person. I think you will find, as I have, that South Texas College of Law is a very impressive institution.

Of particular interest is our new Advocacy Center and Treece Courtroom, which was completed in September of 2003. Our Advocacy program, which has earned 87 national mock trial and moot court competition awards, places us in the top rank among American law schools.

Our Library facilities are also state-of-the-art, with in excess of 400,000 volume and volume equivalents. Additionally, the Library is linked electronically to the Library at Texas A&M University, creating a super library with vast holdings. The law school complex occupies an entire city block in the midst of Houston's vibrant downtown legal community.

Excellent physical facilities, coupled with a superb teaching faculty and an open and accessible learning environment, make for a first rate legal education at South Texas College of Law. If you are in the process of deciding which law school to attend, we hope you will consider us.

Best wishes.

James J. Alfini
President and Dean