UT School of Law
Founded in 1883, the University of Texas School of Law is one of the oldest law schools in the nation. With an enrollment of one thousand Doctor of Jurisprudence degree candidates, it is also one of the largest. Home to a remarkable and prolific faculty, a large and varied clinical education program, numerous academic centers, and one of the best law libraries in the world, UT Law is devoted to excellence across the range of modern legal education.
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Annual Review 2015-2016
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Annual Review 2021-2022
(Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2022) -
Annual Review 2020-2021
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Annual Review 2019-2020
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Annual Review 2018-2019
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Annual Review 2017-2018
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Annual Review 2016-2017
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Annual Review 2015-2016
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Ordinary Subjects of Tyranny: Practical Constitutionalism and Public Judgement in the Political Thought of George Buchanan
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2023-06)The influence of democratic ideas on the political thought of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe is often considered in relationship to history, theology, and law, but less often in relationship to poetry. For this ... -
The Unhappy Marriage of ‘Queerness’ and ‘Culture’: The Present Implications of Fixating on the Past
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2022-10)In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar v. Union of India, decriminalised consensual same-sex sexual activities by reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. A significant aspect of the Court’s ... -
Critical Reflections on the Structural Legal Power in Human Rights Law
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2023-03)In Europe, a wide range of religion-based practices have been at the center of public debate over the last two decades. This paper focuses on one such practice: the wearing of Islamic veils in public spaces in Europe. ... -
The Legal Impact of COVID-19 on Women's International Human Rights: Analyzing the #NiUnaMenos Movement in Latin America
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2022-04)This paper details the history and successes of the #NiUnaMenos movement, and subsequently the Marea Verde (Green Wave) movement, throughout Latin America. After the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a massive increase in ... -
Plain Reading the Constitution: Frederick Douglass, Textualism, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2023-02)In the legal imagination, Frederick Douglass is often viewed as a “constitutional utopian” for his efforts to salvage the prewar Constitution with an antislavery construction. Rejecting the views of both the Taney Court ... -
A Clean State for No One: The Need for Automatic Expungement Policies
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2022-03)In the United States, the “collateral consequences” of a criminal record extend far beyond the period of physical detention. These disadvantages fall disproportionately on the shoulders of people of color, and on Black ... -
Precarity Capitalism and the Global Value Chain in Beef: The Plight of Meatpacking Workers at JBS Greeley
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2022-02)Of the many jobs categorized as “essential” during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the continued operation of American meatpacking plants stood out. This work was 1) unrelated to critical healthcare services, 2) ... -
Protecting African American Historic Places in Texas: A Community Toolkit
(2021)This guide provides community groups and individuals interested in the preservation of sites in Texas with ties to African American heritage with an overview of the legal tools available to help achieve their goals. By no ... -
Protecting And PreservingAfrican-American Cemeteries In Texas
(2020-01)African-American cemeteries are sacred sites that provide important inks to African-American history, cultural ties, and family connections. Many African-American cemeteries, however, are endangered due to abandonment, ... -
Texas Tenant Relocation Assistance Toolkit
(2019)The purpose of this toolkit is to identify the resources available to tenants in Texas when they are displaced from their homes due to development funded in any part by federal dollars or caused by local or state government ...
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