October 20, 2025 - Houston Chronicle
The use of collected data in computer models used in generative AI is a thorny legal topic, one that “getting litigated right now,” said Peter Salib, an assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center who also focuses on AI.
October 13, 2025 - KEYE (CBS-Austin)
Constitutional law expert Chris Mirasola, assistant professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said the president's use of the National Guard is testing the law in new ways. "We're increasing the likelihood that judges at the initial stages of this litigation are going to disagree," Mirasola said of the lack of court precedent.
October 06, 2025 - WalletHub
Professor Emeritus Richard Alderman was interviewed by WalletHub answering questions regarding starter credit cards.
October 01, 2025 - Texas Standard
Seth Chandler, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said he feels the most important case that is coming this term is Trump v. Slaughter. “It’s about the ability of the president to control what were previously called ‘independent agencies.’
September 30, 2025 - Houston Public Media-Briefcase
Who Actually has the Power? The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they relate to society today.
September 29, 2025 - Westlaw (Reuters)
The Supreme Court of Texas said in an order on Friday that it "is of the tentative opinion that the ABA should no longer have the final say" on whether a law school's alumni can sit for the Texas Bar or be licensed....University of Houston law dean Leonard Baynes told Reuters on Monday that he was pleased the court showed commitment to law degree portability and avoiding onerous requirements on law schools. But Baynes said the "order creates uncertainty for legal education in the backdrop of an already chaotic world of higher education."
September 29, 2025 - The Volokh Conspiracy (Reason.com)
On September 26, 2025, the Supreme Court of Texas issued a momentous order. The Justices likely signaled that the ABA will no longer have the "final say" on accreditation.....More pressingly, accreditation will be premised on neutral output measures, such as bar passage and employment statistics. Seth Chandler offered a metrics-based approach in his Civitas essay.
September 24, 2025 - Westlaw (Computerworld)
Peter Salib, an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, said that the real world deployments of genAI systems today make the threat of AI harm much more concrete than was the threat of autonomous killer robots back in 2014.
September 22, 2025 - Houston Public Media (KUT)
This is how “the Voting Rights Act long operated as an indirect constraint on gerrymandering,” University of Houston Law Professor David Froomkin told KUT in an email. “By requiring states to provide a minimal level of representation to minority communities.”
September 13, 2025 - Legacy.com
The Honorable Gladys Toney Bransford, Municipal Court Judge, was born and raised in Madison County, Alabama to Jeanette Toney and Walter Lehman....In 1971, the family moved to Houston and Gladys went back to school, earning her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Houston followed by a law degree from the University of Houston Law School in 1979.
September 13, 2025 - Houston Chronicle
Seth Chandler, a professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, said he’s never heard of a faculty member being fired for failure to conform to a course description. He said descriptions are typically short and written broadly, so that regardless of exactly what a professor covers in the class, the material would fall within the scope of the description.
September 05, 2025 - Spectrum News
Representatives engaged in a fiery debate over limiting the daily amount of political contributions to $221 per day if a member is absent to break quorum. State Rep. John Bucy, D-Austin, suggested it was a possible First Amendment violation, which legal scholars say is a credible argument......“The restriction on expenditures constitutes a restriction on their ability to speak because you need money to speak and that the restriction on contributions is unjustified because there’s no evidence that it’s related to corruption,” explained Seth Chandler, a law professor at the University of Houston.
September 02, 2025 - Houston Public Media
The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they relate to society today.“The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution was first proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul, a leader of the Suffrage Movement. It prohibited sex discrimination.”
August 27, 2025 - Houston Chronicle
Community benefits agreements are a relatively new tool communities use to hold developers accountable. According to Kellen Zale, a law professor at the University of Houston, CBAs are legally binding contracts if signed — usually between a developer and a nonprofit representing local residents.
August 25, 2025 - Houston Public Media
On Thursday's show: A federal judge has temporarily blocked 11 public school districts in Texas’ largest metropolitan areas from displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms as required by a new state law set to take effect Sept. 1. Professor Seth Chandler discusses this on Houston Matters
August 15, 2025 - WBUR
Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with University of Houston law professor Sandra Guerra Thompson about what cashless bail is and what impact it has had on crime and pre-trial detention rates.
August 15, 2025 - Law360
"We are deeply honored by Gray Reed & McGraw's generous gift in memory of their founding partner and our distinguished alumnus, James 'Jim' McGraw," University of Houston Law Center Dean Leonard M. Baynes said. "This scholarship will not only empower his legacy but also empower future generations of UH Law Center students to follow in his footsteps."
August 09, 2025 - ABC News
David Froomkin, assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, argued that Wu has not legally abandoned his legislative position and created a vacancy....The legal precedent—which Abbott's petition cited—determines "abandonment" based on "the intent of the official to abandon their position," and Wu has shown no such intent, according to Froomkin.
August 09, 2025 - Houston Chronicle
David Froomkin, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center and an expert in constitutional law, said he doubts that either office has the authority to do what Abbott and Paxton are seeking to do. Froomkin said the separation of powers clause in the Texas Constitutional goes farther than that of the U.S. Constitution.
August 09, 2025 - New York Times
David Froomkin, a law professor at the University of Houston, said that it would be “highly inappropriate” for federal law enforcement, such as the F.B.I., to get involved when no federal law has been broken.“As far as I’m aware, there’s no allegation of a violation of a federal crime,” he said. “They should not be involved in resolving what is a dispute about state law and the state constitution."
August 08, 2025 - Westlaw
The memo, which Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor issued to all federal agencies, is "very much in line" with Trump's earlier actions on religious liberty, according to University of Houston law professor James Nelson.
August 08, 2025 - Spectrum News 1
GOP leaders continue to put pressure on the group to come back. Gov. Greg Abbott sued to remove Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu from office for abandonment of duty.....“I think the governor has an uphill battle in his efforts to use the Texas Supreme Court to punish these fleeing Democrats,” said Seth Chandler, a University of Houston professor of law.
July 31, 2025 - Westlaw
Darren Bush, the Leonard B. Rosenberg professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, previously characterized the deal as a "pound-of-flesh" settlement similar to deals the government has reached with companies in other sectors.
August 01, 2025 - Houston Public Media Today
In the first hour of the show, Hello Houston dives into one of the most powerful — and often most misunderstood — institutions in American government: the Supreme Court, with Seth Chandler, Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, who helps them break it all down.
July 14, 2025 - By DomesticShelters.org
Nour Acosta, senior legal clinic supervisor for the Civil Justice Clinic at the University of Houston Law Center talks with domesticshelters.org's "Ask Amanda?"
July 09, 2025 - Tax Bar Journal
Professor Meredith Duncan has authored, "Safeguarding Generosity" for the Texas Bar Journal. She discusses the legal protections for food donors and the realities of hunger relief.
July 08, 2025 - WalletHub
Professor Kellen Zale was interviewed by WalletHub, answering questions regarding how to find a suitable rental unit.
July 08, 2025 - Houston Business Journal
”You see this in airline deals, where (the government) says, ‘Sell some slots,’ and then nothing happens - there’s no competition,” Darren Bush, the Leonard B. Rosenberg professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center, said in an interview with the Houston Business Journal. “This is a settlement, so it’s what both parties will tolerate.
July 05, 2025 - Houston Chronicle
Starbase....after becoming an official city in South Texas, has approved dividing its land into three zoning areas...The Texas Local Government Code states that a newly incorporated city cannot prohibit a person from continuing to use their land as long as they were previously complying with county regulations, said Kellen Zale, an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
July 05, 2025 - The Colorado Sun
Yet conservative momentum remains for one subset of the federal land disposal ideas: Creating unfettered development zones The Texas Local Government Code states that a newly incorporated city cannot prohibit a person from continuing to use their land as long as they were previously complying with county regulations, said Kellen Zale, an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
July 01, 2025 - Houston Public Media
The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they relate to society today.....“The authors of the U.S. Constitution feared that unchecked government power was threat to freedom. “Due Process” is a clause in the Fifth Amendment, reaffirmed in the Fourteenth Amendment.”
June 27, 2025 - WCPO
The Supreme Court issued multiple rulings on Friday......In one of the most watched decisions of the term, the bench limited the scope of nationwide injunctions by lower courts in a case involving President Donald Trump's executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship....online pornography....The ruling “not only has effect on birthright citizenship, it has effect basically on any policy of the executive branch that people think is unconstitutional,” said Seth Chandler, a law professor at the University of Houston.
June 20, 2025 - Inside Higher Ed
The Justice Department sued Kentucky politicians over in-state tuition benefits for undocumented students, just as Texas students and advocates are pushing back against a lawsuit that killed a similar state policy...Daniel I. Morales, an associate professor of law and Dwight Olds Chair at University of Houston Law Center, said what happened in Texas is the latest example of a national trend: the “absolute erasure” of state and local issues in favor of the administration’s priorities.
June 13, 2025 - The Economist (available on Westlaw)
What is different about Mr Trump’s deployment is that it seems to have inflamed the protesters in the name of keeping the peace. The state of California has filed suit, claiming that the president’s actions were illegal. Courts are generally reluctant to restrict presidential actions premised on national security, says Chris Mirasola, a law professor at the University of Houston.
May 27, 2025 - Houston Public Media
The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center explains legal representation.
May 27, 2025 - The Volokh Conspiracy (Reason)
The Volokh Conspiracy featured a guest post from Professor Seth Chandler, titled, "What Does AI Think Will Happen In The Birthright Citizenship Cases?"
May 14, 2025 - Yahoo! Finance
"To evaluate the plaintiffs' claims, a three-judge panel for the US trade court is expected to examine Trump’s use of the IEEPA under the “major questions doctrine”......"It's now going to be all that stands between the Trump administration's ability to impose very high tariffs," said constitutional law professor Seth Chandler of the University of Houston Law Center.
May 13, 2025 - Houston Public Media
On today's "Hello Houston"....in the second hour, University of Houston Law Center Professor Seth Chandler joins in to discuss immigration policies and the constitution, and FDA compliance and regulation expert David Lennarz discusses recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changes and how they'll affect businesses.
May 07, 2025 - WalletHub
Professor Emeritus Richard Alderman was interviewed by WalletHub answering questions regarding guaranteed approval credit cards.
May 07, 2025 - TribLive
Harvard University could lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually if the federal government is able to revoke its tax-exempt status...And because donations to Harvard would no longer be considered tax deductible, private donors would be hard to come by, said Johnny Rex Buckles, a law professor at University of Houston.
May 05, 2025 - Live at Five - May 2, 2025 - ABC13 Houston
Professor Seth Chandler appeared on ABC-13, Houston (KTRK)'s Live at 5 for a discussion of the recent Alien Enemies Act Ruling.
April 30, 2025 - News from the States
And while it’s a good idea for Americans to manufacture more of their semiconductors to diversify the global supply chain of chips, the country is nowhere near prepared to make as many as we need, said Nikolas Guggenberger, an assistant professor of law with a focus on antitrust, law and technology, privacy, and regulation at The University of Houston Law Center.
April 29, 2025 - Houston Public Media
In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they relate to society today. “The rule of law is on the most important principles in American democracy. It stands for the idea that “No one is above the law,” and everyone is protected by it.”
April 22, 2025 - Houston Public Media
Professor Seth Chandler joined Houston Matters to break down a high-profile case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a Texas challenge to HIV prevention coverage on religious grounds.
April 22, 2025 - Reuters
The most serious implication of the ruling might be how the company manages the ripple effects of court-ordered remedies across other parts of its ad tech suite, Nikolas Guggenberger, a law professor at the University of Houston, has said. In theory, a DOJ win would make it easier for advertisers and publishers to switch ad tech platforms.
April 16, 2025 - Click 2 Houston
Having fun turning yourself into an action figure with AI? UH professor Peter Salib says, "It basically seems like good, clean fun to me!" But remember, "If you put something on the internet, it can be used in various ways." Be mindful of the terms of service and how your image might be used. Salib also notes potential concerns for parents and the possibility of misuse.
April 11, 2025 - Fodors Travel
Our very own Rehan Alimohammad, professor of practice at the UHLC Immigration Clinic, is quoted in an article on Fodors regarding the importance of having the right visa.
April 02, 2025 - Yahoo Finance
President Trump is reportedly pulling together a TikTok rescue that may not fully cut ties between the social media app and its Chinese parent company......"If you asked me to sort of predict or bet on the success of a legal challenge, my money would be on all of those challenges failing for lack of standing," said University of Houston Law Center’s law professor Nikolas Guggenberger.
March 27, 2025 - Westlaw (Missouri Independent, Arizona Mirror)
Chris Mirasola, a professor and national security expert at the University of Houston Law Center, said for roughly 20 years, there has been a military presence at the southern border assisting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with immigration enforcement.
March 27, 2025 - Houston Chronicle (Westlaw)
"In previous administrations, Customs and Border Protection finding someone had disagreed with executive policies wouldn't have been a reason for denying them entry, but it clearly seems to be now," said Anna Cabot, director of the University of Houston Law Center's immigration clinic.
March 21, 2025 - Texas Tribune
The Texas Senate’s K-16 Education Committee heard testimony Thursday on Senate Bill 37...that would task universities’ governing boards with screening curricula for ideological bias...Seth Chandler, a professor of law at the University of Houston, said the bill could be interpreted as prohibiting a broad range of subjects-from the teaching or even the 13th Amendment, which which abolished slavery.
March 20, 2025 - Houston Chronicle
“I actually think this is a significant change in Texas law,” said Seth Chandler, professor at the University of Houston Law Center. “It doesn’t create a sort of ironclad certainty that I think some physicians would prefer, but it does come up with a principle that I think does get rid of the most problematic features of the existing law.”
March 19, 2025 - ABC13 Houston
"Most doctors got the message that you better have a very good reason before you perform an abortion in Texas, and that caused a lot of issues, and there are many doctors and people who feel that statute is inappropriate," University of Houston law professor Seth Chandler explained.
March 17, 2025 - Westlaw (Axios)
Emily Berman, a constitutional scholar and assistant dean at the University of Houston Law Center, told Axios that secretaries of state haven't tried to remove legal residents based on their speech "because it's unconstitutional"......"If the only thing this person did is engage in protests that happen to be pro-Palestinian, which is speech that the government doesn't like ... they can't punish him for that," Berman said.
March 16, 2025 - Westlaw
Tenant advocates, judges and lawyers have raised the alarm about House Bill 32, calling it a Trojan horse that would strip tenants of their due process rights and erode judicial authority......"You're talking about someone's home here," said Ryan Marquez, who directs the civil justice clinic at the University of Houston Law Center. "You want extra protection, not less protection. And I feel like this ends up with a lot less protections for tenants to even get to see a judge."
March 12, 2025 - The Leader
For more than a decade, St. Julian’s Crossing Wildlife Habitat has been an urban sanctuary for pollinators and wildlife in Houston’s Oak Forest neighborhood. The brainchild of Lauren Jansen Simpson, a dedicated naturalist and educator, St. Julian’s Crossing is more than just a home garden—it’s a thriving ecosystem designed to support bees, insects, beetles, butterflies, birds, and other wildlife.
March 05, 2025 - Westlaw (Computerworld)
Apple has publicly been pushing back against a UK order that demands it create encryption backdoors, and it has now formally appealed that order to the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal.....Nikolas Guggenberger, an assistant law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said the risk of a domino effect is particularly strong in Europe right now.
February 22, 2025 - Bangor Daily News
University of Houston law professor Seth Chandler, noted Congress, rather than the president, generally has the authority to distribute and attach conditions to federal money. While Trump can issue executive orders directing how agencies dole out funds, they said he may continue to see judges block them if they create new conditions.
February 14, 2025 - Texas Lawbook
Judge Christine Weems of the 281st Civil District Court in Harris County is ruling on cases by day and acting and directing by night. Weems’ new show, The Five Minute Mile, put on by a 13-person ensemble cast, is slated to open Feb. 15. Weems, who also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center, sometimes recruits law students who have an interest in theater to audition.
February 14, 2025 - WalletHub
Professor Emeritus Richard Alderman was interviewed by WalletHub discussing second chance credit cards.....Second chance credit cards are for people with bad or no credit. They are designed to offer you a credit card even if you have a low credit score and made financial mistakes in the past.
February 13, 2025 - ktrh.iheart.com
Cyber-attacks have become more prevalent in the last decade, as the rise of the internet has been met with hackers, bad actors, and attacks that can cripple entire businesses.....Nikolas Guggenberger of the University of Houston Law Center says the exposure and potential for attack stems from the world wide web being such a vital piece of infrastructure.
February 07, 2025 - USA Today
Seth Chandler, a foundation professor at University of Houston Law Center, said hospitals are having to navigate the “new gloves-off immigration enforcement” and traditional hospital regard for patient privacy and having an orderly hospital.
February 06, 2025 - Texas Standard
“This from a time perspective, limits criminal prosecutors’ power,” said David Kwok, an associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center. “But if these really are serious issues, we might imagine that the TEC might be prompt about their process.”
February 04, 2025 - Bloomberg Law
In targeting tariffs on imports across-the-board, Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act but it’s not clear that the law grants him that authority....IEEPA is also a national security statute and courts tend to be quite deferential when the president is invoking his powers for national security reasons, said Emily Berman, a constitutional law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
February 04, 2025 - Westlaw
Texas higher education institutions are parsing through a flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump's first weeks in office, as changes to DEI, green energy and immigration policies, to name a few, could impact existing diversity offices and trillions of dollars in federal research and project funding......There's a lot of gray area," said Emily Berman, a University of Houston law professor who serves as an officer with the university's AAUP..."That may be the point, because ... you can create a real chilling effect on all kinds of things by issuing big, broad statements like that. And I definitely know specific instances of people saying, 'I'm just going to let that project sit for a while and see what happens.'"
February 03, 2025 - Westlaw
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Citizen and Immigration Services have spent $7.8 billion on immigration technologies from 263 different companies since 2020.....Peter Salib, an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center said he, too, believes AI can streamline a lot about the immigration process.
February 01, 2025 - MSN
Peter Salib, an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center said he, too, believes AI can streamline a lot about the immigration process. If your goal is to target immigrants who have committed serious crimes, as was policy under the Biden and Obama administrations, he said, AI can probably help you do that well.
January 30, 2025 - Latin Times
"It seems ICE is concerned with publishing quantity and not quality as they have been detaining people who already have a hearing scheduled in the near future without any criminal history and have not shown that they will not appear for their hearings," said immigration lawyer and professor of Practice at the University of Houston Law Center Rehan Alimohammad to The Latin Times.
January 28, 2025 - Houston Public Media
The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they relate to society today. “The 27th Amendment, ratified in 1992, prohibits Congress from increasing it’s salaries while currently serving in office; any increases would only take effect after the next election.”
January 24, 2025 - Fortune
“President Trump’s executive orders represent one of the most sweeping rollbacks of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in modern history,” says Seth J. Chandler, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. “By targeting not only federal operations but also private contractors and federally funded institutions, these orders reshape the legal and operational landscape ...
January 23, 2025 - KTRK-ABC13 Houston
"If you are physically born here, you are a citizen of the United States, and that decision has gone unchallenged for 130 years," said constitutional law expert Seth Chandler....."If President Trump wants to change immigration law, he needs to do it the right way, and the right way is to do a constitutional amendment; it's not something you can just change by executive order because you don't like birthright citizenship," Chandler said.
January 23, 2025 - Usbek & Rica (French Publication)
There is also a lack of clarity about the very nature of DOGE. “It is not a real federal department, since its creation was not subject to a mandatory vote by Congress,” Nikolas Guggenberger, assistant professor of law at the University of Houston, explains to us. “It is rather an informal working group within the executive branch, without clear authority or formal power.”
January 17, 2025 - Westlaw
Students competed at each school last week before qualifying to perform at the finals Friday. Students performed in the nearly-150 year old church in front of friends and family, judges including U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks, UH Dean of UH Law Center Dean Leonard Baynes, and NAACP Chapter executive director Yolanda Smith, as well as state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles and Jacqueline Bostic, the great-grandaughter of Antioch's first Rev. John Henry Yates.
January 17, 2025 - Westlaw
With Donald Trump returning to the White House the day after the ban is set to take effect, it remains to be seen if and how the new administration will enforce the law. University of Houston law professor Nikolas Guggenberger said it will be interesting to watch how Trump will act given that he did not sign the ban into law, enforcing it will be an unpopular decision among the app's 170 million users, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to attend his inauguration.
January 16, 2025 - American Prospect
Professor Nikolas Guggenberger co-authored an op-ed for American Prospect discussing how one monopoly company should not have the power to decree which speech is permissible and which isn’t.
January 15, 2025 - The19th News
This bill in Congress would have that effect. Through this legislation, Congress is trying to define what gender discrimination is based on traditional gender norms, said Seth Chandler, a constitutional law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
January 10, 2025 - ABC13 Houston
Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson was interviewed by KTRK (ABC-13, Houston). She discusses Judge Natalia Cornelio of the 351st District Court, who the state wants removed from presiding over the appeal of Ronald Haskell's death penalty case......"It's usually defendants who are challenging the impartiality of a judge," she said. "In general, it's usually not a good strategy to antagonize a judge, and it's also just not something that we would we see because we normally have pretty high standards of decorum."
January 04, 2025 - Westlaw
The Houston Chronicle published an interview with Professor Lauren Simpson on how our home gardens support pollinators and other wildlife......She meticulously identifies each species she finds, also posting the names of plants on which they are chewing, pupating, nectaring, laying eggs, being parasitic or predaceous, or just resting. “When I choose plants, I always look at what species use it,” she said. “Wildscaping is not a hard type of gardening. It’s just a different type.”
