Welcome to our website. It is difficult to capture a great school, a great city, and a great education within the confines of a virtual domain. But we've done our best to give you a glimpse of what makes the UT School of Law a great place to study law.
Legal study at the UT School of Law is as diverse as the challenges that face law and the legal order in the 21st Century. Courses in which history, philosophy, and economics offer perspectives on law and legal institutions sit alongside courses in which the complexities of mainstream legal doctrine occupy center stage. Colloquia where students engage firsthand with cutting-edge scholarship sit alongside clinical programs, lecture courses, and classes where active give-and-take is the norm. International human rights are an important theme, and so too are local environmental concerns, state and national health policy, bedrock questions of political justice, and a myriad of issues associated with the flourishing of business and innovation. This academic diversity is mirrored in the ethnic diversity of the student body. UT has more Latino and African American alumni than any other top-tier law school in the nation.
Only a large law school devoted to excellence across the range of modern legal education can offer this diversity. UT manages to do so while at the same time offering students intimate settings for study and recreation. The entering class is divided into eight extracurricular Societies, which become hubs of fun and friendship. The first year curriculum includes small classes offering individual attention, and the upper class curriculum is studded with seminars, colloquia, and clinics. Large class or small, good teaching is the norm. Student satisfaction surveys place Texas at or near the top year after year; our teaching track record is seldom matched by any other law school.
Students love Austin. It is a city bursting with charm, enterprise, and music; a city with green rolling hills ringed with lakes. Suitable housing is everywhere. Austin is the state capital, a capital of the contemporary arts, and an increasingly important center of high technology. While UT is a large law school that offers a rich education in small educational settings, Austin is a comparatively small city that offers the excitement normally found only in large urban settings. Students from all over the world converge on Austin and on UT Law.
Students at UT Law enjoy the best of many worlds, and they emerge with a spectacular education that equips them to flourish as lawyers, citizens, and human beings. We invite you to join us in the adventure of a great education.
Sincerely,
Lawrence G. Sager
Dean