The Texas Bar Foundation has honored South Texas Law with the 2024 Outstanding Law Review Article Award for “Summary Judgments in Texas: State and Federal Practice,” published in the 2023 South Texas Law Review, vol. 62-2. p.99.
The article’s co-authors are U.S. District Judge David Hittner, STCL Houston alumna and Haynes and Boone Senior Counsel Lynne Liberato ’80, Haynes and Boone Partner Kent Rutter, and alumnus and White & Case Associate Jeremy W. Dunbar ’15.
Versions of the article, often called the “bible” of summary judgments, have appeared in nine law reviews since 1989. It has been recognized as one of the 10 most-cited articles by appellate courts nationwide.
Liberato and Hittner co-authored the version of the article that won the Outstanding Law Review Article Award in 2007.
The co-authors of the 2023 article will be recognized at the Texas Bar Foundation’s annual dinner on June 21 in Dallas. South Texas Law has won the Outstanding Law Review Article Award three times.
To access the South Texas Law Review issue that includes this article, go to: https://www.stcl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Law-Review-62.2-Full.pdf
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