Professor David Dow nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award

UHLC Cullen Professor David Dow, has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for his acclaimed autobiography, The Autobiography of an Execution, released earlier this year.  The NBCC awards were created to honor the best literature published in English each year.  The awards are selected by critics and are chosen in six categories. 

Professor Dow is the Director of the Texas Innocence Network and Litigation Director for the Texas Defender Service.  He also teaches Contracts and Constitutional Law to first-year students and an upper-level course on the U.S. Supreme Court.

For more information on Professor Dow, please visit our webpage, http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/main.asp?PID=12.

For more information on the Texas Innocence Network, please visit http://www.law.uh.edu/cji/homepage.html. 

For more information on the National Book Critics Circle, please visit http://bookcritics.org/.

Congratulations!

The Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute and its mock trial program have earned yet another accolade–a win at Regionals of the ABA Arbitration Competition.  The team of law students Sean Monks, Luis Batarse, Whitney Wester and Nadia Barrow was coached by Dennis Clifford ’05.  The student were undefeated, beating teams from Memphis, Seton Hall, Duquesne and Fordham on their way to the title. They will now compete at the national competition in Los Angeles in January.

Congratulations to our students, to coach Dennis Clifford, and to mock trial teams coach Jackie Houlette and good luck at Nationals!

Visit by University of Oslo law students

Today our office had the privilege of hosting a group of 18 law students from the University of Oslo in Norway.  Unlike most of the visits planned by the Office of Admissions, these students weren’t coming to campus as prospective applicants but rather were here as part of a longer visit to Houston to learn more about the American legal system and how it compares to what they’re familiar with at home.  While at the Law Center, the students attended a first-year class followed by a discussion with Professor Gidi and Professor Zamora about American law and the structure and teaching styles in American legal education.  Then the group took at tour of the Law Center with our current SBA President Tamecia Harris and enjoyed lunch with a group of J.D. students.  (We served TexMex, of course.)  The group was wonderful, and I hope they enjoyed their visit as much as we did.

On the road again…

It’s the time of year when we all pack our bags and take the show on the road, talking to prospective students from across the country and hopefully shedding light on the great mysteries of the application process.  Last weekend it was Miami for the season’s first LSAC Forum and Philly for a training session; this weekend we are at home offering an information session at the Law Center.   Our events calendar is available on our webpage.  If we’re near your town, or if you’re near ours, stop in for a chat.  We love meeting prospective applicants, and we strive to make the application process as transparent as possible.  So attend an event, visit campus, and ask us any question you like.  We’re here (there and everywhere) to help.

http://www.law.uh.edu/admissions/visiting-uhlc-calendar.html