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University of Texas School of Law: University of Texas at Austin: Austin: 1883 16 Texas A&M University School of Law: Texas A&M University: Fort Worth: 1989 60 [Note 3] [Note 4] [Note 5] Texas Tech University School of Law: Texas Tech University: Lubbock: 1967 111 Thurgood Marshall School of Law: Texas Southern University: Houston: 1946 148-194
The University of Texas School of Law was founded in 1883. [8] Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, the school was limited to white students, but the school's admissions policies were challenged from two different directions in high-profile 20th century federal court cases that were important to the long struggle over segregation, integration, and diversity in American education.
By the 1860s, academic law schools tied to universities were increasingly popular, as typified by the University of Pennsylvania, which opened its law department in 1850. [18] By the middle of the 19th century, there were over a hundred law schools in the country, most of them very small institutions run as a sideline operation. [19]
There are 226 colleges and universities in the State of Texas that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.These institutions include thirty-four research universities, twenty-nine master's universities, ninety-two undergraduate schools, and seventy-one special-focus institutions.
Texas A&M University School of Law is the law school of Texas A&M University located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.Established in 1989 as the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, it was formerly the law school of Texas Wesleyan University until it was acquired by Texas A&M University on August 12, 2013.
Law schools in this list are categorized by whether they are currently active or closed; within each section they are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Most of these law schools grant the Juris Doctor degree, commonly abbreviated JD, which is the typical first professional degree in law in the United States.
There are approximately 200 ABA approved law schools in the United States. There is no universally accepted ranking system, but many have attempted to divide law schools into "tiers" consisting of quartiles (50 law schools each) or perhaps eighths (25 law schools each), or have separated out the top 10 or top 20 law schools by U.S. News rank or ...
Pages in category "Law schools in Texas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...