Texas A&M School of Law Professor Peter Reilly, Chair-Elect of the AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) section, was presented the Section of the Year Award at the 2019 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting.

Professor Gabriel Eckstein shares his expertise on U.S.-Mexico transboundary water rights at two conferences. Professor Thomas W. Mitchell's interview about partition action abuses leads to a bill proposed in the New York legislature limiting these tactics forcing people from their homes.

Professor Elizabeth Trujillo contributed the chapter "Trade Considerations for Decarbonization Strategies" in "Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States" published by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).

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

In commencement ceremonies this May, Texas A&M University will surpass 500,000 former students and record more than 500,000 degrees granted since its opening in the fall of 1876.

The Texas A&M University School of Law Advocacy Program ​moot court team of Heather Nichols, John Robinson and Grant Schauer and the mediation team of Kaitlyn Pound and Derek McKee won ABA national semifinalist honors.

Newly-appointed judicial law clerks and class of 2019 students Lynda Charleson, Jordan Curry, Isabelle Hutchinson, and Luis Suarez credit the strong, supportive clerkship program resources at Texas A&M Law, led by the faculty and Office of Career Services, as vital to their success.

In an ABA Legal Rebel podcast, "legal pioneer" Professor Luz Herrera, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, discusses different models to address the access to justice gap, such as subsidizing low bono legal representation and nonprofit law firms, and how this work impacts communities and the individual lawyers.

Texas A&M University School of Law Instructional Associate Professor John Murphy has been selected to receive a Texas A&M University Distinguished Achievement Award in the category of teaching.

Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Neil Sobol testified in support of Texas House Bill 996 before the Texas House Committee on ​Pensions, ​Investments and ​Financial ​Services. The bill aims to prevent "zombie debt" and require debt buyers to provide notice when collecting on time-barred debts.

Texas A&M University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic students won protection under the Convention Against Torture for a client from Somalia. Students and advisers obtained an emergency stay of removal, reopened his case and won it.

Texas A&M University School of Law first-year law student Lora Naismith, great-great-granddaughter of basketball's inventor, Dr. James Naismith, shares her thoughts on her famous family, basketball and international intellectual property.

Kevin Hernandez, Texas A&M Journal of Property Law editor-in-chief, has accepted an offer from the Harvard Latinx Law Review to publish his article "The Implications of Environmental Law and Latino Property Rights on Modern-Age Border Security: Rejecting a Physical Border and Embracing a Virtual Wall."

Texas A&M University School of Law students, faculty and staff, along with history and engineering undergraduate and graduate students from College Station, traveled to the Rio Grande Valley to gain a better understanding of the border region.

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.