Mar 29, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Special Programs


 

Blakely Advocacy Institute

The Blakely Advocacy Institute (BAI) is a national leader in improving the efficacy of the legal profession and justice system and teaching the art of advocacy. Through research and study for the advancement of our nation’s dispute resolution systems, through continuing legal education programs in advocacy and lawyering technique, through the education of law students to become accomplished members of the legal profession, and through the representation of Houston’s underserved, the Blakely Advocacy Institute merges substantive law and lawyering skills to enhance the local, national and international legal communities.

For more information:
The Blakely Advocacy Institute
Email: Blakely@uh.edu

Center for Consumer Law

The Center for Consumer Law has been a mainstay of the UH Law Center for over 20 years, offering the community easy-to-understand explanations of consumer law issues through “The People’s Law School,” television programs, and newspaper columns. The Center educates lawyers, professors, and laypeople about consumer law; seeks legal, practical, and legislative solutions to common consumer problems; and encourages the development of consumer rights.

For more information:
The People’s Lawyer Website

Criminal Justice Institute

The Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) brings together nationally-recognized scholars, top criminal law practitioners, judges and students through a variety of programs designed to enhance the study and practice of criminal law. The Institute includes such established programs as the Texas Innocence Network, the Criminal Prosecution and Criminal Defense Clinics, the Southwest Juvenile Defender Center, and the Criminal Trial Advocacy training program. The Institute also offers opportunities for educational and practice programs, a dual degree in law and criminology, and conferences and symposia. All of the activities of the Institute aim to enhance the practice of criminal law at the local, national, and international levels.

For more information:
The Criminal Justice Institute
Email: sgthompson@Central.uh.edu

Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Curriculum

The Law Center has special strengths in the areas of energy, the environment and natural resources. About a dozen courses in these areas are offered each year to both J.D. and LL. M. students. The Law Center’s reputation in these areas has been enhanced by research projects such as the Environmental Liability Law Program and the Russian Petroleum Legislation Project. These projects received major funding from outside sources which enabled Law Center professors to engage in research related to liability for complex environmental injuries and to draft model oil and gas legislation under a protocol with the Russian Federation. Students have opportunities to take specialized courses and write seminar papers with the professors who conduct this type of research.

For more information:
The Environment, Energy & Natural Resource Center

Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Curriculum (PDF)

Health Law and Policy Institute

The Health Law and Policy Institute is one of the top health law programs in the country, with one of the broadest course curricula. It was established in 1978. The Institute is an interdisciplinary center designed to stimulate teaching, research, and service in all areas of health law policy. It is actively involved in helping shape health law at the local, state, national, and international levels.

For more information:
The Health Law and Policy Institute
Email: healthlaw@uh.edu

Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance

The Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance provides research, instruction, and service in the field of higher education law, and encourages interdisciplinary work in the applied studies of administration and law. The institute offers interdisciplinary course work in education law to doctoral and law students as well as to other qualified graduate and professional students. Ongoing institute interests include the study of litigation, legislation, governance, statewide coordination, finance, and equity issues in post-secondary education. International and comparative education are also a focus within the institute and foreign scholars are regular participants in research activities. It is the only such research institute in the U.S.

For more information:
Internet: The Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance
E-mail: ihelg@uh.edu

Intellectual Property and Information Law

The University of Houston Law Center’s program in Intellectual Property and Information Law affords students the opportunity for study, research, and writing on patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret subjects, as well as on interdisciplinary legal protection for computer hardware, software, and other aspects of protecting information in the global networked environment. The Law Center’s offerings in these areas are the most extensive of any law school in the western United States, and are designed to provide students with a broad exposure to the central concepts of domestic and international protection of proprietary technology, information, and expression in the modern industrial world.

For more information:
Intellectual Property and Information Law
Email: ipil@uh.edu

North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE)

The UH Law Center leads the North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE), a consortium of law schools in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. NACLE arranges semester-long exchanges for UH law students and law faculty, which facilitate greater understanding of neighboring legal systems and foster greater international and multicultural cooperation.

For more information:
North American Consortium on Legal Education

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