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As one of the 50 states in the United States of America, Texas hosts
9 law schools that have national reputation. Check
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Texas.
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.P.P.A.; J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.Tax
Student activities: Students find a stimulating variety of
enjoyable Student activities: and organizations at Baylor Law School.
Baylor hosts two intrascholastic Moot Court and two Mock Trial
competitions and one intrascholastic Client Counseling competition
each year. Students can join a variety of student organizations.
Please see http://law.baylor.edu/CurrentStudents/CS_studentOrgs.html
Address: 1114 S University Parks Dr, Waco, TX 76706
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.
Student activities: In addition to the South Texas Law Review,
students have the opportunity to participate in the Currents
International Trade Law Journal, Texas Business Law Journal,
Corporate Counsel Review, and Construction Law Journal. Students may
also become members of a wide range of active student organizations,
and the Board of Advocates sponsors our award winning moot court and
mock trial program.
Address: 1303 San Jacinto St, Houston, TX 77002
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.
Student activities: Law Review; Journal of Air Law and Commerce;
The International Lawyer (published by the ABA Section of
International Law); Law and Business Review of the Americas; and SMU
Science and Technology Law Review (published by the State Bar of
Texas). Students may participate in the SBA, approximately 20
student organizations, and a wide variety of regional and national
skills competition.
Address: 3315 Daniel Ave, Dallas, TX 75205
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.A International
Relations ; J.D./M.P.A.; J.D./M.A. Theology; J.D./M.A. Communication
Studies; J.D./M.A. Economics; J.D./M.S. Computer Information Systems
Student activities: See the School of Law's website at
www.stmarytx.edu/law
Address: One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
Joint degrees awarded: M.P.A.; M.B.A.
Student activities: The law school provides students the
opportunity to participate in several extracurricular activities
that provide for a well-balanced and exciting educational
experience. The Thurgood Marshall Law Review, The James M. Douglas
Board of Advocates (moot court and mock trial organization), and
over 20 active student organizations are registered on campus.
Address: 3100 Cleburne St, Houston, TX 77004
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.A.; J.D./M.S.
Taxation; J.D./M.S. Agr. & Applied Economics; J.D./M.S.
Environmental Toxicology; J.D./M.S. Personal Financial Planning;
J.D./M.S. Biotechnology; J.D./M.S. C.S./H./S.S./E.
Student activities: Texas Tech Law Review publishes articles re:
various state, national, and international legal issues. Texas Tech
Administrative Law Journal;The Texas Bank Lawyer is published as a
cooperative effort of The Texas Association of Bank Counsel and the
Law School; and The Estate Planning and Community Property Law
Journal. Please see: http://www.law.ttu.edu
Address: 1802 Hartford Avenue, Lubbock, TX 79409
Joint degrees awarded: N/A
Student activities: Law Review, Moot Court, Mock Trial, ACLU,
Energy, Health, Federalist Society, Gay-Straight Alliance, Innocence
Project, IP-E Commerce, Order of Barristers, Sports & Entertainment
Law, Wesleyan Law Fellowship, numerous law fraternities, Black,
Hispanic, Women's, Christian, Jewish, APILSA, Law Professional
Associations with local, state, and national bars, and many others.
Address: 1515 Commerce Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.H.; J.D./Ph.D.
Criminal Justice; J.D./M.A. History; J.D./M.S.W.; J.D./Ph.D. Medical
Humanities
Student activities: Student-run journals: Environmental & Energy
Law & Policy Journal; Houston Business and Tax Law Journal; Houston
Journal of Health Law & Policy; Houston Journal of International
Law; Houston Law Review; and Journal of Consumer & Commercial Law.
Students learn first-hand in clinical settings, and we administer a
robust judicial clerkship and externship program. 30+ student groups
on campus.
Address: 100 Law Center, Houston, TX 77204
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.A.; J.D./M.A.; J.D./M.S.C.R.P.;
J.D./M.G.P.S.
Student activities: UT Law has twelve student edited law journals
and over forty student organizations. The Society Program provides
social and public service activities for students. Mentor groups,
headed by upper-class students, advise first-year students. The
Board of Advocates sponsors intramural advocacy competitions. Recent
teams have won national and regional competitions.
Address: 727 East Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX
78705 Before you can study in any of the above 9
law programs in Texas, you will need to take the Law School
Admissions Test. The exam dates throughout the year are
also provided on the site.
Texas Overview
Texas, a state of the southern United
States with border with Mexico; 692,248 km2,
27.86 mln. input (2016). Capital: Austin. Enlisted in the
Union in 1845 as the 28th State. Nickname: The Lone Star
State.
Texas is the area and population of America's second largest
state by respectively. Alaska and California. Where the economy of
the 1800-h. mostly based on cattle and cotton, there is now a large
and varied industrial and service sector. In addition to the
traditional cowboy image of the Texans, the state is also
known for strict case law; Since the death penalty was reintroduced
from 1978, more than 450 executions have been carried out.
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Population. During the 1900-t. the number of inhabitants
is more than sixfold. as a result of a large immigration that peaked
with a migration surplus of approx. 1 million 1980-83. At the same
time, the population is increasingly seeking cities and suburbs,
most of them to the Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington metropolitan
areas (4.4 million homes) and Houston - Galveston (4.1 million
houses). Other fast-growing major cities are San Antonio, El
Paso and Austin. Outside the urban zones, and especially in the West
Texas, there are still large, almost man-made stretches of land.
Most residents are descendants of Europeans mixed with a
Spanish-speaking minority of predominantly Mexican origin (about
30%). Other minorities include blacks (11%) and a small but growing
Asian population. The standard of living is relatively high, but 19%
of the population has an income below the poverty line. The majority
of these many poor people are black and Hispanic Texans.
Economy. Texas is the United States' largest producer of
oil and gas, and its revenue has been a driving force in economic
development since the famous find at Spindletop in 1901. Other
significant raw materials industries include coal, sulfur, salt and
helium processing and processing. From 1983, however, the importance
of the oil sector in particular has greatly diminished. Drilling
activities have more than halved, while the economy has, after some
difficult years of transition, become more broad-spectrum with the
addition of new industries and a growing trade and services
sector. While the center of extraction in the past was in the Gulf
field with, among other things, a large offshore activity,
extracted 2/3 of the oil from the areas around
now Midland and Odessa in the mid-continent field. The refineries
and petrochemicals remain concentrated in Houston, Galveston and
other Gulf of Mexico ports.
Another key factor in the Texas economy has been the very large
federal funds that have been transferred to military bases and the
civil and military aerospace industry, especially since the Second
World War, including the establishment and operation of the Johnson
Space Center (1963). Through contracts with research centers,
aircraft factories and other subcontractors, the Federal Government
has thereby created growth conditions for the electronics and
computer industries, which together with the pharmaceutical industry
have been the fastest growing industries since the 1960s. During the
same period, the tourism and entertainment industry, incl. a
thriving music business with downtown Austin, multiplied by
turnover, while the shipyards, steel industry and textile and
apparel industries have declined sharply.
Among the picture is that many clothing companies and other
consumer goods companies in particular have moved manufacturing to
Mexican border towns. This co-production and trade of low-wage
companies in Mexico is of great and growing importance, not least
since the adoption of the NAFTA Free Trade Agreement in 1992.
Approx. 1/3 of Texas' foreign trade is with
Mexico.
The value of forestry to the east and fishing in the Gulf of
Mexico (shrimp, crabs, etc.) is relatively modest. By contrast,
revenue from agriculture and the food industry is so large that it
is surpassed in California by California alone. Cattle farming and
other animal husbandry (especially sheep and poultry) are most
important, while cotton, rice, wheat, maize, peanuts and fodder
crops characterize the vegetable use with citrus fruits, vegetables
and to a lesser extent wine.
Although irrigation use is found almost everywhere, the
concentration is greatest in the precipitous low-lying West Texas,
where the supply of water from rivers and groundwater has been a
condition for agricultural expansion in the 1900s. Included grazing
areas cover the farmlands 4/5 of the area, and
more particularly cattle farms can be very large. Where the average
of Texas' approx. 200,000 farms are on 259 ha, eg King Ranch has
approx. 500,000 ha and 90,000 pieces. cattle distributed on two
holdings SV for Corpus Christi. Like other agrobusiness companies,
the ranch has foreign offices and its own laboratories and
slaughterhouses.
Nature and environment. West Texas is dominated by the
Great Plains' semi-arid prairie plains, which continue towards the
SV in a mountain landscape (part of the Rocky Mountains with
Guadalupe Peak (2667 m)). To the east lies a low-lying and
precipitous coastal plain, whose southern extension is made up of
barrier islands with intermediate lagoons in the Gulf of Mexico
(Matagorda, Padre Island, etc.).
The climate is temperate and subtropical with large differences
in annual rainfall: from 1300 mm in the SE (Port Arthur) to 200 mm
in the SV (El Paso). July temperatures are high and fairly uniform
(26-29 ° C), while in January the mean value varies between 2 ° C
(Amarillo) in the temperate zone and 13 ° C (Galveston) in the
subtropical zone.
Most soils are nutritious, but vulnerable to periods of drought,
most often affecting already low rainfall areas. Drought and dust
storm situations are thus a recurring problem, which has been
attempted since the 1930s by, among other things, dry farming. Another
environmental problem is related to the dwindling groundwater
reservoirs, which have significantly reduced the irrigation area,
especially in the Texas Panhandle (see Ogallala Aquifer).
The rivers are intensively exploited for irrigation and
electricity production in connection with numerous dam lakes. Due to
the lack of natural lakes, many of these man-made lakes are also
popular excursion destinations. The largest are Amistad Reservoir in
the Rio Grande and Toledo Bend Reservoir in the Sabine River. Other
tourist destinations are the Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains
National Parks as well as the national forests to the east and the
vast sandy beaches of Padre Island.
History
The first Spanish exploration of the sparsely populated area took
place in the 1530s, but an actual settlement was not initiated until
the 1680s. The area belonged administratively to Coahuila and was
part of Mexico in 1821-36. The first major immigration from the
United States was initiated by pioneer Stephen Austin with the
Mexican government's approval. In 1835, the American newcomers
revolted when the government of Mexico refused to guarantee a number
of privileges, including the right to slavery, which was prohibited
by Mexico's constitution. After suffering a defeat at the Alamo,
the rebel army defeated Sam Houston in the Battle of San Jacinto,
and in 1836 Texas became an independent republic with Houston as
president. However, relations with the United States were so strong
that in 1845 the United States welcomed an annexation of the area
extending all the way up to present-day Wyoming; this triggered the
Mexican-American War 1846-48, after which Mexico had to relinquish
all land north of the Rio Grande. During the American Civil
War 1861-65, Texas was the westernmost outpost of the southern
states, but only a few major fighting operations took place in the
state. After Texas resumed in the United States, the so-called Red
River War of 1874-75 led to a cessation of cheyenne, comanche and kiowa
attack by the Indians. In western and northern Texas, a colonization
took off, which, with cattle breeding driven north to
the Kansas railways by cowboys, has remained the most
well-traveled notion of Texas.
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