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2025
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

Dean Baynes

Why Houston Law

The University of Houston Law Center provides excellence and opportunity to students of all backgrounds. Its location in Houston, the fourth largest, and most diverse, city in the U.S., gives students and graduates access to one of the world's largest legal markets. The city is also home to the world’s largest health care and medical complex and recognized as the energy capital of the world with multiple Fortune 500 companies headquartered here.

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The Law Center also had four specialty programs ranked No.1 in Texas:

  • Part-time Program
  • Health Care law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Legal Writing

U.S. News & World Report, 2026

LATEST NEWS

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Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Hecht Addresses Judicial Independence at UH Law Sondock Lecture

April 24, 2026 - Complaints about the judiciary aren’t new. Nathan L. Hecht, 27th chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, cited examples dating back to the era of Thomas Jefferson as he delivered the 2026 Justice Ruby Kless Sondock Jurist-in-Residence Lectureship in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center.

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UH Law Recognizes Professors Craig Joyce and Sandra Guerra Thompson with Office Dedications

April 23, 2026 - The University of Houston Law Center recently celebrated the contributions of two longtime professors by naming faculty offices in recognition of their careers, scholarship and impact.

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UH Law 2026 Rosenberg Lecture Features Michael Roth, a National Voice on Academic Freedom and Higher Education Policy

APR. 21, 2026— The University of Houston Law Center will host Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth as the keynote speaker for the 2026 Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture.