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                                                                   2000. He is a past chair and current executive committee member of the
                                                                   AALS section on agency and unincorporated business associations. In
                                                                   April 2015, he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.


                                                                   AIR FORCE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS HOLDS
                                                                   HEARING AT UH LAW CENTER
                                                                   The University of Houston Law Center was the site of a U.S. Air Force
                                                                   Court of Criminal Appeals hearing in Krost Hall. The hearing was led by
                                                                   Chief Judge Col. Rodger Drew, a 1987 Law Center Alumnus.
                                                                   “It was an honor to have this esteemed court come to the University
                                                                   of Houston Law Center,” said Jim Lawrence, director of the Blakely
                                                                   Advocacy Institute.
                                                                   The Court heard the case of U.S. vs. Blatney, where the issue on appeal is
                                                                   whether a military judge erred by suppressing the appellee senior airman
                                                                   Chad Blatney’s act of unlocking his cellular phone for investigators, as
                                                                   well as the contents of his phone pursuant to the Fifth Amendment.



                                       Douglas Moll with Provost Paula M. Short

        UH HONORS LAW CENTER PROF. DOUGLAS MOLL
        WITH TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD
        The University of Houston presented Law Center Professor Douglas
        Moll with a faculty excellence award in April for his outstanding
        achievement in teaching.
        Moll received the Teaching Excellence Award at the 2017 Moores
        Professors, Teaching Excellence Global, and Undergraduate Research
        Mentoring Awards Dinner at the University of Houston Hilton.
        “I am delighted Professor Moll received this award,” added Dean
        Leonard M. Baynes. “He is an outstanding teacher. His dedication to
        students epitomized the qualities and character of all the Law Center’s
        faculty.”
        “I am truly honored to be one of the recipients of this year’s award,”
        Moll said. “Thanks to my students, who make teaching enjoyable, and
        to my colleagues, who are always willing to lend an ear on days when
        my teaching is far from excellent. Thanks also to Dean Baynes and the
        administration for nominating and supporting me during this process.”
        Moll came to the University of Houston Law Center in the fall of 1997
        as an associate professor. He was elevated to professor of law in 2008.
        He was the George Butler Research Professor of Law from 2002-2005.
        He is currently the Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. Professor of Law,
        a title he has held since 2005.
        He teaches business organizations, doing deals, securities regulation,
        secured financing, sales and leasing, and business torts.
        In 1998, 1999, 2003, 2011, and 2014, Moll was honored with the
        “Professor of the Year” award by the Order of the Barons. He previously
        received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston in            Judges with the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals

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