Texas A&M University will host the 6th Annual Water Lecture Speaker Series "Transboundary Water Governance," March 25-26 in Fort Worth and College Station, featuring Ambassador (ret.) Ram Aviram and Dr. Francesco Sindico.

Professor Irene Calboli co-organized the First IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference is a forum for intellectual property scholars and researchers to discuss their work with other academics, policy-makers and practitioners.

Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández, will serve as ​a keynote speaker at "NAFTA 2.0: The Puzzle of North America as a Region," hosted by Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth.

Leading scholars presented works-in-progress at the Texas A&M Law third annual Real Property Law Schmooze, "Where do we go from here? Fair Housing and Community Development at a Crossroads," hosted by the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law.

Ethics expert Professor Susan Fortney is the principal investigator of a team of faculty from the colleges of engineering and liberal arts at Texas A&M University for the NSF-funded project, which will examine culture and climate related to sexual harassment in STEM fields.

Luz Herrera, professor of law and associate dean for experiential education, was named a Bellow Scholar during the annual meeting of the American Association of Law School (AALS) for her Law Firm Incubator Study.

The Texas A&M University School of Law Black Law Students Association's mock trial team advanced to the national finals. 3Ls Enrica Martey, Sara Vargas, Regina Palmer-Coleman and Shawn Pullum placed second at the regional competition, earning a berth to nationals.

Farm Bill provisions draw upon the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act authored by Texas A&M Law School Professor Thomas W. Mitchell. These reforms help heirs’ property owners maintain ownership of their property and, for the first time, access government assistance programs.

Professor Peter K. Yu of Texas A&M University School of Law delivered a plenary address, "The Complex Trajectory of Chinese Intellectual Property Law," at the 9th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference at the Delhi School of Economics in New Delhi, India.

The Texas A&M Immigrant Rights Clinic won an appeal to reopen the case of a client from Somalia who fears being tortured in his home country. Clinic students prepared the motion to reopen, a habeas petition, and complaint to be filed in federal district court in addition to obtaining an emergency stay of removal to stop his deportation.