The faculty of the University of Houston Law Center is among the largest and most distinguished in the country. Comprised of 43 Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty, 12 Clinical Faculty who teach in our clinics and first-year legal writing program, an additional 20 full time non-tenure track faculty members, and more than 100 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. Since 2001 eight 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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Leonard M. Baynes
Dean and Professor of Law
Emily Berman
Associate Professor
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
Anthony R. Chase
Associate 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
Professor of Law
George Butler Research Professor of Law
Assistant Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Metropolitan Programs
Dave Fagundes
Baker Botts LLP Professor of Law,
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development
Victor B. Flatt
Dwight Olds Chair in Law
Jim Hawkins
Professor of Law
Alumnae College Professor in Law
Lonny Hoffman
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Paul M. Janicke
Professor of Law
Craig Joyce
Hunton Andrews Kurth Professor of Law, and
Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
Zachary D. Kaufman
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science in the Law Center
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
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Co-Director for the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law
David Kwok
Associate Professor
Jessica Lind Mantel
Professor of Law
George A. Butler Legal Research Professor
Co-Director; Health Law & Policy Institute
Ellen Marrus
Royce Till Professor of Law
Director, Center for Children, Law & Policy
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
Thomas Oldham
John H. Freeman Professor of Law
Robert Ragazzo
University of Houston Law Foundation Professor of Law
D. Theodore Rave
George A. Butler Research Professor,
Associate Professor of Law
Jessica L. Roberts
Professor of Law, Leonard H. Childs Chair in Law
Professor of Medicine
Director, Health Law & Policy Institute
Joseph Sanders
A.A. White Professor of Law
Sandra Guerra Thompson
Newell H. Blakely Chair;
Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Elizabeth Trujillo
Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Founding Director, Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas
Ronald Turner
A.A. White Professor of Law
Greg Vetter
Associate Dean, HIPLA College Professor of Law
Gina S. Warren
Professor of Law
George Butler Research Professor;
UH Energy Fellow;
Co-director of EENR
Amanda Watson
Director of the O'Quinn Law Library, Assistant Professor of Law
Bret Wells
Professor of Law,
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Kellen Zale
Associate Professor
Katherine Brem
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Megan Davis
Clinical Assistant Professor
Alissa Gomez
Assistant Clinical Professor
& Pro Bono Facilitator
Christopher Heard
Clinical Associate Professor
Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic Director
Whitney Heard
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Judge Janet Heppard
Professor of Practice,
Civil Practice Clinic
Geoffrey Hoffman
Clinical Professor
Director, Immigration Clinic
Hilary Reed
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Lauren Simpson
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Kenneth Swift
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Irene Ten Cate
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Tasha Willis
Clinical Associate Professor
ADR Director and Mediation Clinic Professor
Paul Asofsky
Tax LL.M. Director
Julian Cardenas Garcia
Research Assistant Professor
Katya Dow
Professor of Practice and Supervising Attorney, Juvenile and Children's Advocacy Project
Michael Ewer
Professor of Practice
Leah Fowler
Research Assistant Professor
Health Law & Policy Institute
Amy Hawk
Associate Director, Blakely Advocacy Institute
Tracy Hester
Instructional Associate Professor of Law
Cassandra Jeu
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Jim Lawrence
Executive Director, Blakely Advocacy Institute, and Interim Director, A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center
Alfonso Lopez de la Osa Escribano
Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law and Adjunct Professor
Ryan Marquez
Professor of Practice
Diane McManus
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Jeffrey Newberry
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Bill Powers
Director of Internship & Externship Programs
Laurel Simmons
Lecturer
Josephine Sorgwe
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Rosemary Vega
Lecturer
Denney Wright
Professor of Practice
