The UT Law Faculty is one of the top ten producers of scholarly books from leading publishers.
The University of Texas School of Law has long had one of the outstanding faculties in the nation, both in terms of the scholarly distinction of the faculty members and their success in the classroom. Giants of twentieth-century law like Leon Green, '15, W. Page Keeton, '31, Charles Tilford McCormick, and Charles Allan Wright spent decades on the Texas faculty, and in the process transformed the school from a regional powerhouse into one of the nation's elite law schools.
The tradition of academic excellence continues today. A recent study published in Science Watch (2003) ranked Texas Law faculty fifth in the nation for scholarly impact. A 1996 Chicago-Kent Law Review study found that articles by Texas faculty were sited more often by the courts than articles by any other law faculty in the nation. More than a third of the faculty have been elected to the American Law Institute (one of the highest proportions of faculty membership in the nation). Texas is one of only nine law schools to have at least four faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation's most prestigious learned society. Another faculty member was elected to the British Academy.
For eight years in a row now, national surveys of law student satisfaction with teaching conducted by The Princeton Review have named Texas one of the top ten teaching faculties in the United States, even ranking Texas first one year. Of the nation's top law schools, only Texas and the University of Chicago Law School have enjoyed such consistently high marks for teaching.
Texas enjoys a leadership position in many areas of legal study. The breadth and depth of offerings in several areas – constitutional law, environmental law, wills and estates, admiralty and maritime law, torts and product liability, labor law, jurisprudence, and philosophy, among others – is matched by few if any schools in the country.
