Texas A&M Law Review will host its spring symposium, “American Immigration Law: The New Colossus,” on Friday, April 21 for interactions with members of the community, academics and practitioners and the opportunity to bring together people with differing opinions to have respectful discussions and gain perspective on what immigration law changes mean locally and in the greater community.

Professor Gabriel Eckstein served as a legal commentator at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Seminar on the Human Right to Water at the Vatican on Feb. 23-24, 2017, to focus on how to persuade nations around the world to pursue and implement the human right to water.

Texas A&M Law students, faculty and staff and their families volunteered around Fort Worth as part of the Big Event to promote campus and community unity through service projects.

Professor Neil Sobol testified at a briefing, “Targeted Fines and Fees against Low-Income Minorities: Civil Rights and Constitutional Implications,” before the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. on March 17, 2017.

Prof. Elizabeth Trujillo’s book, “Reframing the Trade and Environment Linkage for Sustainable Development in a Fragmented World,” revisits the trade and environment linkage, one that historically has been in tension, but which, due to increased energy demand and concerns for climate change, is shifting and finding common ground.

Prof. Aziz will serve on the “Equal Justice and Equal Protection in Criminal Justice and Technology” panel at the Harvard Law 5th Annual Human Rights Symposium "Justice for Whom? Equal Justice and Equal Protection" in April.

Students studied the water-energy-food nexus in Guanajuato, Mexico, over Spring Break 2017 for a field trip course led by Professor Gabriel Eckstein.

Texas A&M Law's Lynne Nash has been named a Law Student of the Year by "The National Jurist" for her success in the face of adversity and unrelenting passion for helping others as a mother, wife, entrepreneur and law student.

3L Laura Falco accepted an offer to have her article, “The Bad, The Ugly, and The Uglier: How Fear and Misconceptions are Flushing Away Equal Rights and Treatment for Transgender People,” published in The Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender and Social Justice.

Texas A&M University School of Law Professional and Academic Workshop Series, a combination of Professional and Leadership Program, Career Services and Academic Support, provides students with out of classroom skills to prepare them for landing a job in the legal field.