University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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5 tr We ' re Leadership. Texas Law faculty are among the most frequently cited in court opinions. Texas Law is also one of the top pro- ducers of articles and books for practitioners and judges.

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2004 University of Texas School of Law Annual Leadership Faculty leadership in law UT Public Affairs As AALS Presdi- ent he announced a continuation of the learned society theme, but added the idea of en- gaged scholarship to highlight the ways in which law schools differ from purely academic departments. At the annual meeting of the Ameri- can Association of Law Schools, held this year in Atlanta, Jan. 2-Jan.6, UT Law professor Gerald Torres began his term as the organization ' s president, and nine other law faculty members spoke on scholarly topics or held im- portant leadership positions. The AALS is a non-profit organization of 164 law schools. UT Law is one of a select number of schools to have provided five presidents to the AALS over the past century. UT Law faculty members engaged in numerous scholarly discussions by commenting or presenting papers and organizing panel discussions. Other participants included: Michael Churgin on Bar Admissions and Law- yer Performance. Lee Fennell spoke on State and Local Government. Teri LeClercq spoke on International Legal Exchange. Sanford Levinson discussed Randy Barnett ' s new book Restoring the Lost Constitution. Neil Netanel spoke about copyright and the first amendment at the Consti- tutional Law Section session. Robert Peroni represented Texas in the AALS House of Representatives. Tony Reese was program chair of the section ' s pro- gram. Louise Weinberg was involved in three recent AALS including chairing the AALS Section on Federal Courts. Ernest Young spoke on the influence of foreign law on U.S. courts. 6 THE STATE OF TEXAS -THE SCHOOL OF LAW

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2004 University of Texas School of Law Annual Discovery Resources for research The Tarlton Law Library occupies over 167,000 square feet. The staff numbers over 40 individuals, many with both law degrees and graduate degrees in information sci- ence The Tarlton Law Library was award- ed a $15,375 grant from the Knowl- edge Gateway initiative of the Univer- sity. The grant will fund the digitization of a large segment of the papers of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark which have been housed in the Law li- brary since 1985. Justice Clark, the only native Texan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is a 1922 graduate. His collection of per- sonal papers from these years has been described by legal historians as one of the most complete for a Supreme Court justice of this era. The papers arrived on the UT campus not long after Clark ' s death in 1977, but weren ' t opened to re- searchers until March 19, 1985. The digitized content from the Clark papers will be the basis of an online re- source called Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court: the Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark. This resource will allow people from around the world to use the Clark files to research seminal cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Mapp v. Ohio and many others. Tobe Liebert, director of special projects at the library, was responsible for writing the successful grant application. Liebert and Michael Widener, the head of spe- cial collections and curator of the Clark papers at the Library, will supervise the digitization project that is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2004. 8 THE STATE OF TEXAS -THE SCHOOL OF LAW