University of Houston Law Center at a Glance Profile

· Established: 1947
· Enrollment: 1000+
· Faculty: 40 (full-time); 80 (adjunct)
· Alumni: 11,000 (54% reside in the Greater Houston area)
· Library: 435,000 volumes
· Member of the Association of American Law Schools

Highlights

UH Law Center boasts a number of programs that span the panoply of legal issues- health law, intellectual property & information law, consumer law, energy & environmental law, criminal justice. Two of our institutes, which oversee the UH Law Center programs, are considered among the best in the country: Health Law & Policy Institute and Intellectual Property & Information Law.

UH Law Center is an integral part of the legal community of the nation’s fourth largest city and seventh largest legal market.
UH Law Center offers the following combined and concurrent degree programs:
J.D./M.B.A. (UH)
J.D./M.A. in History (UH)
J.D./M.S.W. (UH)
J.D./M.P.H. (UT School of Public Health)
J.D./Ph.D. in Medical Humanities (UT Medical Branch)
J.D./Ph.D. in Criminal Justice (Sam Houston State University)
J.D./M.D. (Baylor College of Medicine).
The UH Law Center’s extensive Clinical Legal Education program offers law students the opportunity to be the lawyer—and oftentimes represent indigents in cases ranging from immigration and asylum issues to landlord/tenant disputes.
The UH Law Center’s curriculum is the broadest of any law school in Texas.
"Albertus Magnus" or Albert the Great is the name of the imposing bronze statue situated in the courtyard of the University of Houston Law Center.  

Albert the Great was a medieval theologian and "Man of Universal Knowledge." Born in Lauingen, Bavaria sometime between 1193 and 1206, he was a bishop, doctor and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, having as one of his students Saint Thomas Aquinas. He taught in Paris and at the Studium Generale in Cologne, a university run by the Order of the Dominicans in the 13th century and one of the first universities in Europe. A dominant figure, he was an influential teacher, an experienced traveler, a keen observer of life and nature and the one learned man of the Golden Age to be called "the Great."   He was later declared a saint by the catholic church.

Albertus Magnus is the best-known work of German sculptor Gerhard Marcks (1889 - 1981)and considered to be his finest by many scholars and artists. The UH acquisition was made from a special cast in Dusseldorf by permission of Marcks and his family.  An identical casting was placed in 1955 in front of the Albertus-Magnus-University of Cologne, Germany. The third casting is at the University of Bogotá.

With his open law book and profound expression, Big Al, as he is informally called, is the bigger than life symbol of the legal profession to Law Center students and faculty.

Lex Logo

The seal of the University of Houston Law Center is composed of three martlets above an opened text emblazoned with the Latin word for law, LEX. The martlet, a gentle Lowlands bird, symbolizes peace and deliverance. Martlets appear in the University of Houston seal which has as its genesis the coat of arms of General Sam Houston who claimed descent from an eleventh century Norman knight, Sir Hugh of Padavan.