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2025
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Law.com annual ranking of graduates hired as associates
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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
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.
UH Law Professor Gina S. Warren Elected to American Law Institute
July, 02, 2026 — University of Houston Law Center Professor Gina S. Warren has been selected to be a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), an organization that produces scholarship to clarify, modernize and improve the law.
Michigan Law Dean Neel Sukhatme Examines Relationship Between Judicial Campaign Contributions and Court-Appointed Criminal Cases
June 30, 2026 — What looks like routine campaign fundraising in Harris County's criminal courts may be something far more troubling, warned Neel Sukhatme, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, during his talk as part of the University of Houston Law Center’s 2026 Colloquium/External Speaker Series.
