University of Texas School of Law
| The University of Texas School of Law | |
|---|---|
| Parent school | University of Texas at Austin |
| Established | 1883 |
| School type | Public law school |
| Endowment | $215.5 million (2018) |
| Dean | Bobby Chesney |
| Location | Austin, Texas, United States 30°17′19″N 97°43′51″W / 30.288666°N 97.730762°W |
| Enrollment | 985 (2023) |
| Faculty | 311 (2023) |
| USNWR ranking | 14th (tied) (2025) |
| Bar pass rate | 94.01% (2023) |
| Website | law |
The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin, a public research university in Austin, Texas. According to Texas Law’s ABA disclosures, 87.20% of the Class of 2022 obtained full-time, long-term bar passage required employment (i.e. as attorneys) nine months after graduation.
In 2017, the school had 19,000 living alumni. Amongst its alumni are former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark; former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker; former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen; former White House senior advisor Paul Begala; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; former litigator Sarah Weddington who represented Jane Roe in the landmark case Roe v Wade; and Wallace B. Jefferson, the first African American Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.