Recognitions

AWARDS & HONORS

As a Professor:

Award:   Center for Public Policy Priorities Award for Public Service to Texas (with Brothers Bill and Shannon).

Award:  Outstanding Alumnus of U. T. Law School for 2007.

Professor Emeritus:   Ben Gardner Sewell Chair in Trial Advocacy.

Faculty:   Cambridge University, England—1993-1994 (inducted onto Cambridge University Faculty, Wolfson College, in 1994).

Faculty Colloquium Speaker–UT School of Law—1990 (“Cimino and Class Actions“).

Award:   Best Law Review Article for the Year 1998, Texas Bar Foundation (“Offensive Collateral Estoppel and the Option Effect”).

Award:   Most Cited Law Review Article for 1991 (“Another Look at No Evidence and Insufficient Evidence”) with William Powers.

Teaching Excellence Award:  Law Week Dedication, 1990, (Student Recognition of a Faculty Member for Teaching Excellence.)

Award:   “Open Door Award”—1984—UT School of Law (Student Awarded for Helpfulness to Students).

Award:    Honorary Barrister Award (Student Board of Advocates Honors an Attorney or Faculty member).

As A Student:

Student Editor:   Comment Editor, Texas Law Review, 1962.

Award:  Best Student Law Review Article on Tort Law (Student Publication) for “Negligence Per Se in Texas,” 4 Tex. L. Rev. 104; published nationally also in Personal Injury Commentator.

Scholarship: Ralph McKie Scholarship in Law—1961.

Student Honorary: Friar’s Society—University of Texas 1961 (Campus Honorary and Leadership Society).

Graduation:  With Honors, UT School of Law, 1962.