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{{Short description|Graduate school in Austin, Texas, US}}
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{{Infobox law school
|image = [[File:University of Texas at Austin School of Law logo.svg|300px]]
|name = University of Texas<br>School of Law
|parent = [[University of Texas at Austin]]
|established = {{Start date and age|1883}}
|type = [[Public university|Public]] [[law school]]
|endowment = $314.8 million (2024)<ref name="UTLSF">{{cite web|title=Financial Information|url=http://www.utlsf.org/about/|website=University of Texas Law School Foundation|access-date=July 1, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url = https://utlsf.org/about/financial | title = 2024 Audited Financials by UT Law School Fdn | author = Blazek & Vetterling, LLC | date = February 13, 2025 | publisher = University of Texas Law School Foundation | access-date = July 1, 2025}}</ref>
|dean = [[Bobby Chesney]]<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://law.utexas.edu/about/area/dean-and-leadership/ | title = Dean and Leadership | website = Texas Law | publisher = University of Texas School of Law | via = law.utexas.edu | access-date = August 13, 2019}}</ref>
|city = [[Austin, Texas|Austin]]
|state = [[Texas]]
|country = United States
|coordinates = {{coord|30.288666|-97.730762|region:US_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
|students = 985 (2024)<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title=ABA 509 2024|url=https://law.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/TexasLaw_2024_Std509InfoReport.pdf/|website=University of Texas Standard 509 Information Report|publisher=UT Law|access-date=July 1, 2025}}</ref>
|faculty = 311 (2023)<ref name="auto"/>
|ranking = 14th (tied) (2025)<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Texas–Austin|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-texas-austin-03155|website=[[U.S. News & World Report]]|access-date=8 Apr 2025}}</ref>
|bar pass rate = 94.01% (2023)<ref name="2023ABA">{{cite web |url=https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_education_and_admissions_to_the_bar/statistics/2024/2024-2023-first-time-bar-passage-stats.xlsx |title=First Time Bar Passage Calendar Year 2023 |date=April 11, 2024 |website=[[American Bar Association]] |format=XLSX |access-date=August 22, 2024 }}</ref>
|website = {{URL|https://law.utexas.edu}}}}
The '''University of Texas School of Law''' ('''Texas Law''') is the [[Law school in the United States|law school]] of the [[University of Texas at Austin]], a [[public university|public]] [[research university]] in [[Austin, Texas]]—often referred to as Texas Law or UT Law. According to Texas Law’s [[American Bar Association|ABA]] disclosures, 93.0% of the Class of 2024 obtained full-time, long-term bar passage required employment (i.e. as attorneys) nine months after graduation.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Texas at Austin, University of Employment Summary 2024 Graduates |url=https://law.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/04/EQSummaryReport2025.pdf |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=[[American Bar Association]]}}</ref>
==History==
The University of Texas School of Law was founded in 1883.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=History of the Law School |url=http://law.utexas.edu/about/history/ |access-date=August 3, 2017 |work=The University of Texas School of Law}}</ref> Prior to the [[Civil Rights Movement]], the school was limited to white students, but the school's admissions policies were challenged from two different directions in high-profile 20th century federal court cases that were important to the long struggle over segregation, integration, and diversity in American education.
===''Sweatt v. Painter'' (1950)===
{{Main|Sweatt v. Painter}}
[[File:University of Texas Law Building postcard (1908–1924).jpg|thumb|Illustration of the Law Building on a postcard (1908–1924).]]
The school was sued in the civil rights case of ''[[Sweatt v. Painter]]'' (1950). The case involved [[Heman Marion Sweatt]], a black man who was refused admission to the school on the grounds that substantially equivalent facilities (meeting the requirements of ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'') were offered by the state's law school for blacks. When the plaintiff first applied to the University of Texas, there was no law school in Texas which admitted blacks. Instead of granting the plaintiff a [[writ]] of [[mandamus]], the Texas trial court "[[Continuance|continued]]" the case for six months to allow the state time to create a law school for blacks, which it developed in Houston.
The [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] reversed the lower court decision, saying that the separate school failed to offer Sweatt an equal legal education. The court noted that the University of Texas School of Law had 16 full-time and three part-time professors, 850 students and a [[law library]] of 65,000 [[Volume (bibliography)|volumes]], while the separate school the state set up for blacks had five full-time professors, 23 students and a library of 16,500 volumes. But the court held that even "more important" than these quantitative differences were differences such as "reputation of the faculty, experience of the administration, position and influence of the alumni, standing in the community, traditions and prestige". Because the separate school could not provide an "equal" education, the court ordered that Hemann Sweatt be admitted to University of Texas School of Law.
''Sweatt v. Painter'' was the first major [[Test case (law)|test case]] in the long-term litigation strategy of [[Thurgood Marshall]] and the [[NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund|NAACP Legal Defense Fund]] that led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in the case of ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' in 1954.<ref>Julius L. Chambers, "A Tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall," Stanford Law Review, Vol. 44, Summer, 1992, p. 1249</ref> Marshall and the NAACP correctly calculated that they could dismantle segregation by building up a series of precedents, beginning at Texas Law, before moving on to the more explosive question of racial integration in elementary schools.
===''Hopwood v. Texas'' (1996)===
{{Main|Hopwood v. Texas}}
In 1992, [[plaintiff]] Cheryl Hopwood, a [[White American]] woman, sued the school on the grounds that she had not been admitted even though her grades and test scores were better than those of some minority candidates who were admitted pursuant to an [[affirmative action]] program. ''[[Texas Monthly]]'' editor Paul Burka later described Hopwood as "the perfect plaintiff to question the fairness of reverse discrimination" because of her academic credentials and personal hardships which she had endured (including a young daughter suffering from a muscular disease).<ref>Burka, Paul. "Law – Cheryl Hopwood." ''[[Texas Monthly]]'' (Sept. 1996)</ref>
With her attorney [[Steven Wayne Smith]], later a two-year member of the [[Texas Supreme Court]], Hopwood won her case, ''[[Hopwood v. Texas]]'', in the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]], which ruled that the school "may not use race as a factor in deciding which applicants to admit in order to achieve a diverse student body, to combat the perceived effects of a hostile environment at the law school, to alleviate the law school's poor reputation in the minority community, or to eliminate any present effects of past discrimination by actors other than the law school".<ref>Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996)</ref> The case did not reach the Supreme Court.
However, the Supreme Court ruled in ''[[Grutter v. Bollinger]]'' (2003), a case involving the [[University of Michigan]], that the [[United States Constitution]] "does not prohibit the law school's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body". This effectively reversed the decision of ''Hopwood v. Texas''.<ref>See Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003) (stating that the Supreme Court's purpose in deciding Grutter's case was "to resolve the disagreement among the Courts of Appeals on a question of national importance: Whether diversity is a compelling interest that can justify the narrowly tailored use of race in selecting applicants for admission to public universities. Compare Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (CA5 1996) (holding that diversity is not a compelling state interest) with [another case] holding that it is.")</ref>
==Admissions==
Texas Law is among the more selective law schools in the nation. For the 2024-2025 admissions cycle, 5,475 students applied and 854 (15.60%) were accepted. Of accepted students, 269 (31.50%) enrolled. The enrolled class has a class median [[Law School Admission Test|LSAT]] score of 171. The median [[Academic grading in the United States#Grade conversion|GPA]] for the enrolled class is 3.89.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://law.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/TexasLaw_2024_Std509InfoReport_2024.pdf|title=University of Texas, 2024 Standard 509 Disclosure}}</ref> Women make up 46% of the class, and 41% of the class identify as minority students. The average age of the class was 24. Texas Law enrolled students from 30 US states—including D.C.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://law.utexas.edu/admissions/|title=J.D. Admissions|website=Texas Law | J.D. Admissions}}</ref>
Emphasizing its role as a public institution, Texas Law is required by the state legislature to reserve 65% of the seats in each first-year class for Texas residents.<ref>{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions {{!}} What is the deal with the 65% Texas residency requirement? |url=https://law.utexas.edu/admissions/apply/faqs/#:~:text=We%20welcome%20resident%2C%20nonresident%2C%20international,to%20apply%20to%20Texas%20Law. |website=utexas.edu |publisher=University of Texas |access-date=8 April 2024}}</ref>
== Rankings ==
In 2025, The ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' rankings ranked Texas Law as tied for the 14th best law school in the nation.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/the-university-of-texas-at-austin-03155 | title=University of Texas--Austin | website=www.usnews.com}}</ref>
In 2019, Texas Law was ranked the 15th best school in the nation by the legal news website ''[[Above the Law (website)|Above the Law]]''.<ref name="Rubino">{{Cite web|url=https://abovethelaw.com/2019/04/what-are-the-best-law-schools-historically-speaking/|title=What Are The Best Law Schools, Historically Speaking?|last=Rubino|first=Kathryn|website=Above the Law|date=April 30, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref> Additionally, ''Above the Law'', which uses an outcome-focused ranking system, ranked Texas the 12th best law school in the U.S. in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abovethelaw.com/law-school-rankings/top-law-schools-2019/|title=The ATL 2019 Top Law School Rankings|website=Above the Law|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref>
==Publications==
Students at the University of Texas School of Law publish thirteen law journals:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://utdirect.utexas.edu/lomain/sorg.WBX#journals |title=Student Organizations and Journals |work=The University of Texas School of Law |access-date=February 26, 2015 |archive-date=October 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004014610/http://utdirect.utexas.edu/lomain/sorg.WBX#journals |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''American Journal of Criminal Law''
* ''[[Texas Environmental Law Journal]]''
* ''Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy''
* ''[https://tiplj.org/ Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal]''
* ''[[Texas International Law Journal]]''
* ''[[Texas Journal of Oil, Gas & Energy Law]]''
* ''Texas Journal of Women and the Law''
* ''[[Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights]]''
* ''[[Texas Law Review]]''
* ''[[Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law|Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law]]''
* ''[[Texas Review of Law and Politics]]''
* ''The Journal of Law and Technology at Texas''
* ''[[The Review of Litigation]]''
==Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice==
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice serves as a focal point for critical, interdisciplinary analysis and practice of human rights and social justice.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/about/ |title=Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice - What We Do |publisher=Utexas.edu |access-date=2017-08-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rapoportfdn.org/|title=The Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation|website=The Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation|access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref> The Rapoport Center was founded in 2004 by Professor Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law, thanks to a donation from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation to the University of Texas School of Law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://endowments.giving.utexas.edu/page/drysdale-minerva-reg-chair/696/ |title=Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair |publisher=Endowments.giving.utexas.edu |date=1983-06-17 |access-date=2016-01-20 |archive-date=June 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609232105/http://endowments.giving.utexas.edu/page/drysdale-minerva-reg-chair/696/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rapoportfdn.org/grants04.php | title = Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation | access-date = September 26, 2013 | url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120305125651/http://www.rapoportfdn.org/grants04.php | archive-date = March 5, 2012 }}</ref> The Rapoport Foundation was founded in 1986 by [[Bernard Rapoport]] and his wife Audre. In 2010, Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor of Government at the [[University of Texas at Austin]], became co-director of the Center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory-roles/staff/ |title=Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice - Staff |publisher=Utexas.edu |access-date=2017-08-03}}</ref> The Center has over one hundred affiliated faculty members from various schools and departments within the University of Texas at Austin.
In February 2013, the Rapoport Center received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation to highlight the life and career of [[Sissy Farenthold]], an American Democratic politician, activist, lawyer and educator, perhaps best known for her run for Texas Governor and for her nomination for Vice President in the 1972 Democratic National Convention.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00291/cah-00291.html |title=A Guide to the Frances Tarlton Farenthold Papers, 1913-2014 |publisher=Lib.utexas.edu |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> The project documents Farenthold's contributions to Texas and U.S. politics, the women's peace movement, and international human rights and justice. The Rapoport Center will work with the [[Dolph Briscoe Center for American History]] (where Farenthold's papers are housed) in order to process and preserve Farenthold's papers, digitize archival documents and images, produce videotaped interviews, and expand the content of the Rapoport Center's website.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.nowtexas.org/nowblog/archives/2006/09/meet_sissy_farenthold.html | title = Texas NOW Blog: Meet Sissy Farenthold | website = Texas NOW Blog | via = www.nowtexas.org | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190110183351/http://www.nowtexas.org/nowblog/archives/2006/09/meet_sissy_farenthold.html | archive-date = January 10, 2019 | url-status = dead}}</ref>
==Center for Women in Law==
In 2008 the law school announced the creation of the Center for Women in Law,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Diana |date=Winter 2008 |title=The Center for Women in Law |url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/magazine/wp/wp-content/uploads/magazine/archive/utlaw_2008_winter.pdf |journal=UT Law |pages=8–9 |access-date=26 February 2015}}</ref> "To eliminate the barriers that have thwarted the advancement of women in the legal profession for the past several decades, and thereby enhance the legal profession and its ability to serve an increasingly diverse and globally connected society."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/cwil/the-austin-manifesto/ |title=Center for Women in Law – The Austin Manifesto |publisher=Utexas.edu |date=2009-05-01 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref>
==Continuing Legal Education==
The University of Texas School of Law Continuing Legal Education is one of the oldest and most distinguished providers of professional education in the country, offering over 50 advanced conferences annually that provide CLE and CPE credit to national legal and accounting professionals.
Some of the School's signature programs include Stanley M. Johanson Estate Planning Workshop, Taxation Conference, Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Law, Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, Immigration and Nationality Law and Page Keeton Civil Litigation, which have been offered continuously for over 35 years. Other highly regarded programs in the portfolio include Mergers and Acquisitions Institute, International Upstream Energy Transactions, Parker C. Fielder Oil and Gas Tax (presented with the IRS) and Patent Law Institutes presented in Austin and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
== U.S. Supreme Court clerkships ==
As of 2025, Texas has had a total of 43 alumni serve as judicial clerks at the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]]. Since 2005, Texas has had seven alumni serve as [[Law clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States|judicial clerks]] at the [[United States Supreme Court]]. The alumni includes [[Diane Wood]] (class of 1975) who clerked for Justice [[Harry Blackmun]] during the 1976 Term, and is now the Chief Judge of the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]]. Additionally, the two most recent SCOTUS clerks are Alejandra Ávila (2022-2023) and Reid Coleman (2023-2024) who clerked for [[Sonia Sotomayor|Justice Sonia Sotomayor]] and [[Clarence Thomas|Justice Clarence Thomas]], respectively.
== Tarlton Law Library ==
The Tarlton Law Library is one of the largest academic law libraries in the country, with a physical collection of more than a million volumes and extensive electronic resources. In addition to a comprehensive collection of United States primary and secondary legal materials in print and digital formats, Tarlton has a broad interdisciplinary collection from the social sciences and humanities. Special collections at Tarlton include significant foreign and international law resources; the papers of former United States Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark; feature films and fiction related to law and popular culture; and the Gavel Archive, a collection of feature films, TV shows, and fiction related to law and popular culture, all candidates for and winners of the American Bar Association’s prestigious Silver Gavel Award. Tarlton is a depository for United States, European Union, and Canadian government documents. Its extensive collection of rare and antiquarian law books includes noted collections of early legal dictionaries, Texas law, and the works of John Selden.
== Employment ==
Texas has maintained strong employment outcomes for its graduates relative to other law schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lstreports.com/state/TX/|title=Texas Report|website=www.lstreports.com|access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref> According to Texas Law official 2024 ABA-required disclosures, 93.0% of the Class of 2024 obtained full-time, long-term bar passage required employment (i.e. as attorneys) nine months after graduation.<ref name="ABA Required Disclosures">{{Cite web|title=ABA Required Disclosures|url=http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/EmploymentOutcomes.aspx|access-date=May 25, 2020|archive-date=November 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125104241/http://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/EmploymentOutcomes.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Texas Law had an overall employment rate of 98.80%.<ref name=":0" /> UT's [[Law School Transparency]] under-employment score is 3.6%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2024 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://app.lawhub.org/schools/texas/snapshot|title=LawHub — Law School Transparency | University of Texas|website=app.lawhub.org}}</ref>
== Bar Passage Rate ==
In 2025, UT Law reported first time bar passage rates as 96.52% for the class of 2024, 94.01% for the class of 2023, and 90.39 for the class of 2022. For the class of 2024, students had a bar passage rate of 95.57% for Texas, 100% for the District of Columbia, 96.43% for New York, 83.33% for California, and 100% for the remaining jurisdictions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Texas School of Law 2025 Bar Passage |url=https://law.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/2025-University-of-Texas-Bar-Passage.pdf |access-date=July 1, 2025 |website=www.abarequireddisclosures.org/barPassageOutcomes}}</ref>
==Costs==
The total cost of attendance for incoming students (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Texas Law for the 2024-2025 academic year is $63,410 for residents and $81,996 for non-residents.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tuition and Expenses |url=https://law.utexas.edu/financial-aid/cost-of-attendance/ |work=Admissions and Financial Aid}}</ref> In 2024, 93.3% of all students were receiving grants and scholarships. The scholarship quartiles were $10,000, $21,984, and $35,667 for the 25th, 50th (median), and 75th percentiles respectively. 8.1% of all students were receiving full tuition or more than full tuition.<ref name=":2" /> Additionally, the University of Texas School of Law does not award conditional scholarships.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Law School Conditional Scholarships |url=https://www.lawhub.org/trends/scholarships |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=LawHub |language=en}}</ref> Conditional scholarship are any scholarships that may be reduced or eliminated based on law school academic performance other than failure to maintain good academic standing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Analyzing and Understanding Conditional Scholarships {{!}} Spivey Consulting |url=https://www.spiveyconsulting.com/blog-post/analyzing-and-understanding-conditional-scholarships/ |access-date=2025-07-15 |website=www.spiveyconsulting.com}}</ref>
==Notable people==
===Alumni===
{{Main|List of University of Texas School of Law alumni}}In 2017, the school had 19,000 living alumni.<ref name="about" /> 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]].
===Faculty===
====Current faculty====
* [[Philip Bobbitt]] – Previously the A.W. Walker Centennial Chair at the University of Texas
* [[Robert M. Chesney]] – Dean & Honorable James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs, co-founder of [[Lawfare blog]]
* [[Dick DeGuerin]] – Adjunct professor teaching criminal law
* [[Karen Engle]] - Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and the Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
* [[Ward Farnsworth]] – W. Page Keeton Chair in Tort Law
* [[Bryan A. Garner]] – Visiting associate professor and director of the short-lived Texas/Oxford Center for Legal Lexicography
* [[Douglas Laycock]] – Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor
* [[Sanford Levinson]] – W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair
* [[Basil Markesinis]] – Jamail Regents Professor in Law
* [[Lawrence G. Sager]] – Former dean of University of Texas School of Law and the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
* [[Stephen Vladeck]] – Charles Alan Wright Chair In Federal Courts
* [[Abraham Wickelgren]] - Fred and Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law
====Former faculty====
* [[Jack Balkin]] – Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at [[Yale Law School]]
* [[Mitchell Berman]] – Professor of Law at the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]]
* [[Ted Cruz]] – U.S. Senator and former Presidential Candidate; adjunct professor of Constitutional Law
* [[Julius Getman]] – Professor and activist in Labor and Employment law
* [[Lino Graglia]] – Dalton Cross Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law
* [[Leon A. Green]] – American legal realist and dean of [[Northwestern University School of Law]] (1929–1947)
* [[W. Page Keeton]] – Attorney and dean of the University of Texas School of Law for a quarter century
* [[Brian Leiter]] – Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the [[University of Chicago Law School]]
* [[William Powers, Jr.]] – Former dean of University of Texas School of Law and former President of [[the University of Texas at Austin]]
* [[Elizabeth Warren]] – U.S. Senator and presidential candidate
* [[Charles Alan Wright]] – American constitutional lawyer and coauthor of the 54-volume treatise, ''[[Federal Practice and Procedure]]''
* [[Mark Yudof]] – Long-serving faculty member who later became president of the [[University of California System]], chancellor of the [[University of Texas System]], and president of the [[University of Minnesota]]
==References==
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==External links==
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