The faculty of the University of Houston Law Center is among the most distinguished in the country. The faculty include: 38 Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty; 11 Clinical Faculty who teach in our clinics, first-year legal writing program (called Lawyering Skills & Strategies - LSS), and in our academic initiatives / bar prep area; and include two other voting faculty. There is an additional group of non-tenure track (NTT) faculty members or full-time staff with some instructor responsibilities, and approximately 150 adjunct faculty. UH's reputation for scholarly and teaching excellence is widely recognized. The Law Center's highly prolific faculty publish in the leading law reviews in the country and their work has been very influential with commentators, lawyers and courts throughout the country, and the world. The Law Center's commitment to teaching excellence is equally notable. Many faculty members at the Law Center have won the UH Teaching Excellence Award, the highest university-wide teaching award. Beyond the university, our faculty have been widely recognized for their outstanding teaching.
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2022 Faculty Scholarship Flipbook
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2020 Faculty Scholarship Flipbook
Leonard M. Baynes
Dean and Professor of Law
Emily Berman
Associate Professor of Law
Royce R. Till Professorship
Jessica Bregant
Assistant Professor of Law
Johnny Rex Buckles
Professor of Law and the Mike and Teresa Baker College Professor
Darren Bush
Leonard B. Rosenberg College
Professor of Law
Seth J. Chandler
Law Foundation Professor of Law
David Crump
John B. Neibel Professor of Law
Richard F. Dole
Bobby Wayne Young Professor of Consumer Law
David R. Dow
Cullen Professor of Law
Meredith J. Duncan
Alumnae College Professor of Law
Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Metropolitan Programs
Dave Fagundes
Baker Botts LLP Professor of Law,
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development
Victor B. Flatt
Professor of Law
Dwight Olds Chair in Law
Aman Gebru
Assistant Professor of Law
Nikolas Guggenberger
Assistant Professor of Law
Jim Hawkins
Professor of Law
Alumnae College Professor in Law
Lonny Hoffman
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Paul M. Janicke
Professor of Law
Zachary D. Kaufman
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science
Co-Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Renee Knake Jefferson
Professor of Law and the Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics
Director, Law Center Outcomes and Assessments
Valerie Gutmann Koch
Assistant Professor of Law
Sapna Kumar
Professor of Law
John Mixon Chair in Law
Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
David Kwok
Associate Professor of Law
George A. Butler Research Professor
Co-Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Jessica Lind Mantel
Professor of Law
George A. Butler Legal Research Professor
Co-Director; Health Law & Policy Institute
Andrew C. Michaels
Assistant Professor of Law
Douglas K. Moll
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. Professor of Law
Daniel I. Morales
Associate Professor of Law
George A. Butler Research Professor
James D. Nelson
Associate Professor of Law and Business
Vinson & Elkins Professorship
Thomas Oldham
John H. Freeman Professor of Law
Robert Ragazzo
University of Houston Law Foundation Professor of Law
Jessica L. Roberts
Professor of Law, Leonard H. Childs Chair in Law
Professor of Medicine
Director, Health Law & Policy Institute
Peter N. Salib
Assistant Professor of Law
Joseph Sanders
A.A. White Professor of Law
Sandra Guerra Thompson
Professor of Law
Newell H. Blakely Chair
Elizabeth Trujillo
Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Founding Director, Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas
Greg Vetter
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
HIPLA College Professor of Law
Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
Gina S. Warren
Professor of Law
A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies
Co-director of EENR
Amanda Watson
Assistant Professor of Law
Director of the University of Houston Law Library
Bret Wells
Professor of Law
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Kellen Zale
Associate Professor of Law
George Butler Research Professorship
Katherine Brem
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Megan Davis
Clinical Associate Professor
Academic Initiatives / Bar Prep
Alissa Gomez
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies & Pro Bono Facilitator
Christopher Heard
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Programs and the Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic
Whitney Heard
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Ryan Marquez
Clinical Associate Professor
Director of the Civil Justice Clinic
Hilary Reed
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Laurel Simmons
Clinical Assistant Professor
Academic Initiatives / Bar Prep
Lauren Simpson
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Kenneth Swift
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Tasha Willis
Clinical Associate Professor
ADR Director and Mediation Clinic Professor
Leah Fowler
Research Assistant Professor
Health Law & Policy Institute
Tracy Hester
Instructional Associate Professor of Law
Nour Acosta
Senior Legal Clinic Supervisor
Civil Justice Clinic
Lucas Aisenberg
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Immigration Clinic
Maikieta Brantley
Lecturer
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Julian Cardenas Garcia
Research Assistant Professor
Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law
Michael Ewer
Professor of Practice
Amy Hawk
Associate Director, Blakely Advocacy Institute
Cassandra Jeu
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Director, Texas Innocence Network
Jim Lawrence
Executive Director, Blakely Advocacy Institute
Director, A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center
Leticia Leal
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Civil Justice Clinic
Teresa Messer
Professor of Practice
Director, Immigration Clinic
Jeffrey Newberry
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Director, Death Penalty & Criminal Appeals Clinic
Bill Powers
Director, Internship & Externship Programs
R. Parker Sheffy
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Immigration Clinic
Connor Thompson
Legal Scholar
Rosemary Vega
Lecturer
Immigration Clinic
Denney Wright
Professor of Practice
