There is a robust sector of “Generative AI for law and lawyers” products and services out there, some of which have made significant inroads into legal education (Harvey.ai, Clio, and Josef, for example), and some of which are just now starting to find their ways into the hands of the more adventurous early tech adopters among the professoriate (Midpage.ai, which I learned about via Seth Chandler).
Karen Jones, head of global and graduate programs at the University of Houston Law Center, says student-led initiatives often outlast school-run platforms when it comes to LL.M. student alumni networks. “They usually create a WhatsApp group and keep that group even after they graduate,” she says. These groups rarely disappear, she adds.
Karen Jones, executive director of global and graduate programs at UH Law Center, stresses that an LL.M. should be approached as a strategic investment, rather than a pause from professional life. Students who arrive with clarity about what they want the degree to do for them tend to navigate the workload and the broader experience more effectively.
In his his “AI for Legal Education” newsletter, Seth Chandler (Houston) reports on using AI to help him and his seminar students produce not only seminar papers but also a published book that contains the students’ final products. The book is titled “Issues in Contemporary Constitutional Law,” edited by Professor Chandler, and it is now available at Amazon.com.
"It was an extraordinary weather event," Sanders said. "The question is whether you should expect serious weather events along this river, and at least there’s some evidence you should." When it comes to the action or inaction of local officials — which Camp Mystic's defense has pointed to as relevant to the tragedy — Kerr County is well-shielded from these types of lawsuits, Sanders said. "I think that they’re pretty responsible," he said. "Unfortunately, (state law) makes it very difficult for any individual to sue the county for their negligence under that circumstance, which leaves of course all of these different entities along the river, including Camp Mystic."
Since this law has been used so rarely in our history, we had very little sense of what any of these terms meant, because none of them are defined by the statute," says Chris Mirasola, a national security law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
Venezuela must maintain direct control over its oil assets, especially since it is not a U.S.-occupied territory, said Ted Borrego, a longtime attorney who teaches oil and gas contracts law at the University of Houston.
Seth J. Chandler | Foundation Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center 2026 Prediction: Google enters the legal research market in a big way, harnessing its immense dataset. Midpage AI permits API access to its research capabilities; a model beats established human authors in a brief writing competition (a Deep Blue moment). Biggest Surprise 2026: There will be the equivalent of AIStudio or Claude Code, but for legal research and writing.
Kellen Zale, a University of Houston professor who teaches property law, land use and real estate, told Public Health Watch the new affidavit could be especially helpful for communities on Harris County’s industrialized east side. Areas with lower incomes and large populations of color are typically the places most burdened by industrial development, Zale said.
“The OLC opinion completely failed to address numerous recognitions of the founders, framers, and Supreme Court justices that the president and members of the executive branch are bound by international law,” Jordan Paust, professor emeritus at the University of Houston Law Center and former captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps, told Truthout. “Further, the express constitutional duty is to faithfully execute the law — not to disobey law.”
Jack spoke with Chris Mirasola of the University of Houston Law Center about the President’s “protective power” to use the regular armed forces or the National Guard (if properly federalized) in the domestic sphere for the protection of federal property and functions. They discussed the origins and scope of the protective power, its relationship to the Posse Comitatus Act, why it was relevant in Trump v. Illinois, and the president’s prominent options for domestic deployment of the military (including using regular armed forces for a protective function) after Trump v. Illinois.
UH Law Professor Renee Knake Jefferson was recently quoted in the New York Times, explaining how amicus briefs are increasingly being used as a strategic litigation tool for a story about Greenpeace's legal battle with the pipeline company Energy Transfer.
UH Law Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson provided expert commentary and legal context to the AP, ABC News, and other news outlets for stories about the first criminal trial focusing on the delayed law-enforcement response in the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde.
