State legislators from the Rio Grande Valley did not achieve their goal of establishing a public law school in that region this session, but what they did get is a study. An amendment the House added to S.B. 936 – the bill that authorizes the establishment of the University of North Texas System College of Law in Dallas – also requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to study the need and feasibility of establishing a public law school in areas that do not have a law school, including the Texas-Mexico border region. S.B. 936 requires the board to deliver results of the study to the chairmen of each legislative committee with jurisdiction over higher education by Nov. 1, 2010. Can anyone doubt that a law school for the Valley region will be an issue before the Legislature in 2011?
-- Mary Alice Robbins
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July 14, 2009
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