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2025
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Law.com annual ranking of graduates hired as associates
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by the largest 100 law firms in the country
2026
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2026
U.S. News and World Report Rankings
42nd
in Contracts/Commercial Law
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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
AALS Leader Says National Law Accreditation is Vital as States Consider Alternatives
July 21, 2026 – As states reconsider the American Bar Association’s role in accrediting law schools, Kellye Y. Testy, CEO and executive director of the Association of American Law Schools, maintained that a national system remains essential to legal education.
New UH Law Center Report Offers Safe Permitting Model as States Weigh Counterproductive Legislation on Solar Radiation Management Research
July 20, 2026 – As lawmakers across the country consider legislation to prohibit solar radiation management (SRM) research and weather modification, a report released today from the University of Houston Law Center argues that a permitting system, rather than a criminal ban, gives states the stronger hand in protecting the public and promoting scientific research
UH Vaccine Law Expert Brian Abramson Discusses Evolving U.S. Immunization Policy
July 7, 2026 - University of Houston Law Center students heard firsthand from one of the nation's leading vaccine law scholars recently during the Health Law & Policy Institute's spring presentation, Changing Federal Approaches to Vaccines.
