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.

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.