University of Houston Law Center

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

TOP PROGRAMS

Blakely Advocacy Institute (moot court, mock trial, trial advocacy, and mediation)

Clinics

Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center

Health Law

Intellectual Property & Information Law

International Law

Legal Writing

Part-Time Evening Program

Tax Law

LATEST NEWS

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Former Texas Chief Justice Hecht to Address Judicial Independence at 2026 Sondock Lecture at UH Law Center

April 13, 2026 – Nathan L. Hecht, 27th chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, will deliver the 2026 Justice Ruby Kless Sondock Jurist-in-Residence Lectureship in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center.

Law school deans, professors, and Big 12 university general counsels at the UH Law Center online sports law webinar.

Big 12 Legal Leaders Explore Changes in College Sports and Warn About Unsettled Issues

April 10, 2026 — College athletics has changed dramatically over the last five years, capped by a 2025 court settlement that allows universities to directly pay student athletes. Panelists at a conference hosted by deans of law schools across the Big 12 athletic conference agreed that it was just the start of a broader transformation.

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