Law School News

Texas A&M graduate Joshua Fojtik from Needville will be recognized December 9 as South Texas College of Law Houston’s fall 2023 valedictorian during the Commencement ceremony in Joe Green Auditorium. Fifty-six students will be awarded their juris doctorate (J.D.) at...

The students’ research, along with work by Dean Burnett and Prof. Dru Brenner-Beck, was the backbone of petitions submitted in October 2020 and December 2021 by South Texas College of Law Houston to the U.S. Army, urging the Army to...

The Texas Bar Foundation recently awarded South Texas College of Law Houston $26,400 for post-graduate fellowships in the Low-Income Tax Clinic (LITC).

In October 2020 and December 2021, South Texas College of Law Houston — with the help of several professors and numerous law-student researchers — petitioned the U.S. Army requesting a review of the courts-martial convicting the soldiers of the 3rd...

Veterans Day, an annual holiday to celebrate the military service of living former soldiers, may evoke mixed emotions for veterans discharged from service with an incorrect or inappropriate status. The Veterans Clinic at South Texas College of Law Houston is...

In an early celebration of Veterans Day, South Texas College of Law Houston hosted Supreme Court of Texas Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht for a discussion about his service as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Navy Reserve and about...

South Texas College of Law Houston will host the 2023 ABA Arbitration Competition Nov. 10-11. At least 16 schools are competing in this prestigious event to be hosted in person at the law school. Forty additional lawyers are needed to...