HOUSTON (July 19, 2017) – South Texas College of Law Houston is a great college to work for, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a top trade publication for colleges and universities. The results, released this week in The Chronicle’s tenth annual report on The Academic Workplace, are based on […]
In the arena of law school advocacy championships, South Texas College of Law Houston stands alone in the United States, as evidenced by its 126th national advocacy title recently earned at the 41st Annual Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Competition in New York. No other law school in the country […]
South Texas College of Law Houston board members, faculty, administrators, and staff – and an auditorium full of friends and family – proudly supported more than 200 graduates as they collected their diplomas at the school’s May 2017 commencement ceremony held at the George R. Brown Convention Center this week. The graduates were inspired by […]
Maria Castillo Valle – an immigrant from Guatemala, award-winning community service advocate, and daughter of a prominent immigration attorney – will follow in her mother’s footsteps this Monday, May 15, earning her legal degree from South Texas College of Law Houston. Her mother, South Texas alumna Silvia Mintz ’08, will place the honorary graduation hood […]
Despite exhaustive study for the February 2017 Texas bar exam, treating test preparation like a full-time job, new alumna Michelle Haws experienced the significant anxiety of any first-time bar exam applicant. All this angst ended for the recent graduate with one phone call from Justice Don Willett. “I was just hoping I had passed the […]
South Texas College of Law Houston recently received a $1.27 million multi-year gift to launch a Criminal Defense Certification Program to develop a pipeline of well-trained defense attorneys to effectively represent indigent criminal defendants in Houston’s courts. Funded by an anonymous donor, this unique pilot program is the first of its kind in the state […]
Simon Tam – founder of the rock band “The Slants” – and his three bandmates traveled to Washington, D.C. in January using crowdsourced funds to hear oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on their trademark case that strikes at the very heart of free speech and minority rights. On Tuesday, April 11, the nationally […]
STCL Houston students Jackson Gayle, Jennifer Pammit, and Lionel Sims were Region 6 semifinalists at the spring 2017 Regional Transactional LawMeet, an interscholastic competition that offers future business lawyers firsthand experience with negotiation and deal-making. This year’s competition was based on a case involving the sale of the brewing, bottling, and wholesale distribution operations of […]
South Texas College of Law Houston Professor Geoffrey S. Corn – a retired lieutenant colonel and senior law of war expert for the U.S. Army – this week moderated a key international security law conference hosted by the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. The conference, entitled, “A […]