Texas A&M University School of Law's Gabriel Eckstein is spending his week in Seoul, South Korea after being invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea to participate as a keynote speaker in a forum titled, "Smart Water Management of Smart Cities."

Governor Greg Abbott has reappointed James D. “Jim” Bradbury and Abby Frank to the Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Council.

Texas A&M University School of Law's Timothy Mulvaney, professor of law and associate dean for faculty research and development, has been appointed an inaugural fellow of the Centre for Property Law (CCPL) at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez expands Aggie Law's global reach in international oil and gas research, dispute resolution, and arbitration, opening new opportunities for Texas A&M Law students and faculty to collaborate with leading academic institutions in Europe.

Professor Gabriel Eckstein shares his expertise on U.S.-Mexico transboundary water rights at two conferences. Professor Thomas W. Mitchell's interview about partition action abuses leads to a bill proposed in the New York legislature limiting these tactics forcing people from their homes.

Professor Elizabeth Trujillo contributed the chapter "Trade Considerations for Decarbonization Strategies" in "Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States" published by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).

Professor Elizabeth Trujillo addresses cutting-edge issues surrounding international trade, regionalism, decarbonization and sustainable development in recent publications.

Texas A&M Law professor Gabriel Eckstein, director of the Program in Natural Resources Systems, was elected president of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), which improves and expands the understanding of water issues through education, research and information exchange among countries and across disciplines.

Professor Felix Mormann discussed the successes and challenges in utilizing renewable energy resources and the low-carbon future in Costa Rica and beyond on the Knowledge@Wharton radio show.

Professor Felix Mormann explores the equity impacts of key policies driving renewable energy deployment in North America and the world at the North American Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Symposium.

In late August, a select group of environmental scholars from across the country was invited to a workshop at Texas A&M University School of Law to present current environmental law-related research.

TAMU Law Professor Guillermo Garcia-Sanchez presented his research on international energy dispute resolution at the Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission in late May.

Texas A&M University will host the 6th Annual Water Lecture Speaker Series "Transboundary Water Governance," March 25-26 in Fort Worth and College Station, featuring Ambassador (ret.) Ram Aviram and Dr. Francesco Sindico.

Texas A&M's Agriculture Law Society students' pro bono research project will be utilized in discussions with local, state and federal government authorities.

Texas A&M School of Law students traveled to Scotland for intensive hands-on opportunities to experience global lawyering firsthand in Europe, exploring comparative law, oil and gas law, and international arbitration in a recent Global Programs Field Study course focusing on dispute resolution and natural resources management.

Texas A&M School of Law students traveled to Israel for intensive hands-on opportunities to experience global lawyering firsthand and examine the Middle East's water-energy nexus in a recent Global Programs Field Study course focusing on dispute resolution and natural resources management.

The "Natural Disasters, Stakeholder Engagement and Dispute Resolution" conference brought together public officials, policy makers, legal experts and members of the community to share ideas about utilizing dispute resolution to recover from natural disasters.

Marshall, Texas native 3L Jordan Simmons Hayes co-hosted an eminent domain workshop for the landowners of her hometown. The event, "Water Rights and Eminent Domain Issues for the Landowner in East Texas," was sponsored by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

2L Lauren Thomas, whose research focuses on the concept of food deserts and the emerging field of food law, will soon attend the Food Law Student Leadership Summit, co-hosted by UCLA and Harvard.

1L Patrick Dean has been awarded the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Scholarship for 2017-2018.