The faculty of the University of Houston Law Center is among the most distinguished in the country. The faculty include: 38 Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty; 11 Clinical Faculty who teach in our clinics, first-year legal writing program (called Lawyering Skills & Strategies - LSS), and in our academic initiatives / bar prep area; and include two other voting faculty. There is an additional group of non-tenure track (NTT) faculty members or full-time staff with some instructor responsibilities, and approximately 150 adjunct faculty. UH's reputation for scholarly and teaching excellence is widely recognized. The Law Center's highly prolific faculty publish in the leading law reviews in the country and their work has been very influential with commentators, lawyers and courts throughout the country, and the world. The Law Center's commitment to teaching excellence is equally notable. Many faculty members at the Law Center have won the UH Teaching Excellence Award, the highest university-wide teaching award. Beyond the university, our faculty have been widely recognized for their outstanding teaching.
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Chinonso Anozie
Assistant Professor of Law
Leonard M. Baynes
Dean, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair, and Professor of Law
Emily Berman
Professor of Law
William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development
Jessica Bregant
Assistant Professor of Law
Johnny Rex Buckles
Professor of Law and the Mike and Teresa Baker College Professor
Darren Bush
Leonard B. Rosenberg
Professor of Law
Seth J. Chandler
Law Foundation Professor of Law
David Crump
John B. Neibel Professor of Law
Richard F. Dole
Bobby Wayne Young Professor of Consumer Law
David R. Dow
Cullen Professor of Law
Meredith J. Duncan
Alumnae College Professor of Law
Assistant Dean for Opportunities and Community Engagement
Leah Fowler
Assistant Professor of Law
David Froomkin
Assistant Professor of Law
Aman Gebru
Assistant Professor of Law
Nikolas Guggenberger
Assistant Professor of Law
Jim Hawkins
Professor of Law
Alumnae College Professor in Law
Lonny Hoffman
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Paul M. Janicke
Professor of Law
Renee Knake Jefferson
Professor of Law and the Joanne and Larry Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics
Assistant Dean Outcomes, Assessments, and Strategies
Valerie Gutmann Koch
Assistant Professor of Law
David Kwok
Associate Professor of Law
George A. Butler Research Professor
Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Andrew Lanham
Assistant Professor of Law
Jessica Lind Mantel
Hunton Andrews Kurth Professorship
Professor of Law
Co-Director; Health Law & Policy Institute
Andrew C. Michaels
Associate Professor of Law
Chris Mirasola
Assistant Professor of Law
Douglas K. Moll
A.A. White Professor of Law
Daniel I. Morales
Associate Professor of Law
Dwight Olds Chair
James D. Nelson
Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law
Thomas Oldham
John H. Freeman Professor of Law
Laura Portuondo
Assistant Professor of Law
Robert Ragazzo
Law Foundation Professor of Law
Peter N. Salib
Assistant Professor of Law
Joseph Sanders
A.A. White Professor of Law
Sandra Guerra Thompson
Professor of Law
Newell H. Blakely Chair
Elizabeth Trujillo
Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Founding Director, Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas
Greg Vetter
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
HIPLA College Professor of Law
Co-Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law
Gina S. Warren
Professor of Law
A.L. O'Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies
Co-director of EENR
Amanda Watson
Associate Professor of Law
Bret Wells
Professor of Law
John Mixon Chair
Director, Tax Program
Kellen Zale
Associate Professor of Law
Baker Botts LLP Professor in Law
Maikieta Brantley
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Maleaha Brown
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Katherine Brem
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
J. Anna Cabot
Clinical Associate Professor
Immigration Clinic Director
Christina Crozier
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Megan Davis
Clinical Associate Professor
Academic Initiatives / Bar Prep
Alissa Gomez
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies & Pro Bono Facilitator
Christopher Heard
Clinical Professor, Assistant Dean of Clinical Programs, and Director, Entrepreneurship & Community Development Clinic
Whitney Heard
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Ryan Marquez
Clinical Associate Professor
Director of the Civil Justice Clinic
Hilary Reed
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Laurel Simmons
Clinical Assistant Professor
Academic Initiatives / Bar Prep
Lauren Simpson
Clinical Associate Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Kenneth Swift
Clinical Professor
Lawyering Skills and Strategies
Tasha Willis
Clinical Professor
ADR Director and Mediation Clinic Professor
Tracy Hester
Instructional Professor of Law
Nour Acosta
Senior Legal Clinic Supervisor
Civil Justice Clinic
Rehan Alimohammad
Professor of Practice
Immigration Clinic
Rob Brownell
Librarian
Interim Associate Director, Law Library
Legal Research & Analysis
Julian Cardenas Garcia
Research Assistant Professor
Director, Center for U.S. and Mexican Law
Alyson Drake
Librarian
Interim Director, Law Library
Legal Research & Analysis
Chris Dykes
Librarian
Legal Research & Analysis
Michael Ewer
Professor of Practice
Dr. Qaraman Hasan
Research Scholar
Amy Hawk
Associate Director, Blakely Advocacy Institute
Cassandra Jeu
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Director, Texas Innocence Network
Jim Lawrence
Executive Director, Blakely Advocacy Institute
Director, A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center
Emily Lawson
Librarian
Legal Research & Analysis
Leticia Leal
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Immigration Clinic
Vanessa Lopez
Senior Legal Clinic Supervisor
Immigration Clinic
Catherine Meshkin
Lecturer
Academic Initiatives / Bar Prep
Jeffrey Newberry
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Director, Death Penalty & Criminal Appeals Clinic
Erica Patterson
Research Scholar
Bill Powers
Director, Internship & Externship Programs
R. Parker Sheffy
Legal Clinic Supervisor
Immigration Clinic
Katy Stein
Librarian
Legal Research & Analysis
Denney Wright
Professor of Practice
