The University of Texas School of Law | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Parent school | University of Texas at Austin |
Established | 1883 |
School type | Public law school |
Endowment | $215.5 million (2018)[1][2] |
Dean | Bobby Chesney[3] |
Location | Austin, Texas, United States 30°17′19″N 97°43′51″W / 30.288666°N 97.730762°W |
Enrollment | 1,005 (2018)[4] |
Faculty | 281 (2017–18)[4] |
USNWR ranking | 16th (tied) (2024)[5] |
Bar pass rate | 94.01% (2023)[6] |
Website | law |
The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin, a public research university in Austin, Texas. According to Texas Law’s ABA disclosures, 87.20% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term bar passage required employment (i.e. as attorneys) nine months after graduation.[7]
In 2017, the school had 19,000 living alumni.[8] Amongst its alumni are former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark; former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker; former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen; former White House Senior Advisor Paul Begala; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; former litigator Sarah Weddington who represented Jane Roe in the landmark case Roe v Wade; and Wallace B. Jefferson, the first African American Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search