Texas A&M University School of Law Advocacy Program ADR and moot court competition teams won their regional championships and advanced to the national finals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Professor Irene Calboli shared her intellectual property expertise to teach a Ph.D. workshop co-organized by the USPTO in Berlin, Germany, and chaired a panel on protection of non-traditional trademarks at the 2018 European Policy for Intellectual Property annual conference.

The Texas A&M University School of Law Center for Law and Intellectual Property hosted 30 intellectual property scholars for the 4th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, an international forum for sharing research and networking.

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.

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 Michael Z. Green’s Journal of American Arbitration essay, "Challenging the Racially Biased Selection of Arbitrators for Employment Discrimination Suits," was cited in an article regarding Jay-Z's challenge to arbitration over the lack of African-American arbitrators.

Professor Peter Reilly discusses dispute resolution in higher education in an interview as Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools' "Section of the Year" ADR Section. Our Aggie Dispute Resolution faculty are actively involved in the AALS ADR Section, boasting two past Chairs and hosting the 2015 Works-in-Progress Conference.

Texas A&M Law's Low Income Tax Clinic director Bob Probasco is the principal drafter for comments submitted to the U.S. Tax Court by the State Bar of Texas Tax Section advocating for change which would allow clinics to provide even more help to taxpayers.

Texas A&M's Agriculture Law Society students' pro bono research project will be utilized in discussions with local, state and federal government authorities.

Professor Elizabeth Trujillo addresses cutting-edge issues surrounding international trade, regionalism, decarbonization and sustainable development in recent publications.

Texas A&M Law professor Gabriel Eckstein, director of the Program in Natural Resources Systems, was elected president of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), which improves and expands the understanding of water issues through education, research and information exchange among countries and across disciplines.

Sharing a dedication to service, Texas A&M University School of Law’s Dean Robert "Bobby" Ahdieh was named a “Point of Light” by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 for his volunteerism and service to others.