Elaine A. Carlson
Professor of Law, Stanley J. Krist Distinguished Professor of Texas Law
Education
B.S., Southern Illinois University
M.A., McMaster University
J.D., South Texas College of Law Houston
Areas of Expertise
Developments in Litigation
Pre-Trial, Trial & Appellate Civil Procedure
Professional Responsibility
Elaine Allison Grafton Carlson is the Stanley J. Krist Distinguished Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston, where she teaches Texas Pretrial Procedure, Texas Trial and Appellate Procedure, and litigation related seminars. She is the co-author of the six volume treatise McDonald & Carlson, Texas Civil Practice, published by West. She is also a co-author of two Texas Civil Procedure law textbooks and she has authored numerous law review and CLE articles on a wide variety of procedural issues. Professor Carlson is an appointed member of the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure, Evidence and Professionalism and has also served on the Texas Supreme Court Task Forces on Ancillary Proceedings, Code of Judicial Conduct, Judicial Speech, and Civil Justice Reform. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Professor Carlson is a frequent lecturer at conferences on cutting edge civil procedure matters and has made presentations to the Texas Legislature, the bench and the bar. She has served as an appointee on the Civil Appellate Law Exam Commission as well as on the Civil Trial Law Exam & Personal Injury Trial Law Exam Commission.
In 2008, Professor Carlson received the Texas Lawyer Extraordinary Women In Texas Law Award and was also honored as Alumni of the Year of South Texas College of Law Houston. She has been the recipient of the Texas Bar Foundation Outstanding Law Review Award as well as the Vinson & Elkins Faculty Excellence Award. Professor Carlson graduated summa cum laude from South Texas and served on the editorial board of the law review. Before becoming a professor, she served as a briefing attorney for Justice James Wallace at the First Court of Appeals in Houston and as a member of the litigation section of Gulf Oil.
