April 21, 2025
The Texas A&M Undergraduate Journal of Law & Society Symposium provides students interested in the law or law-adjacent fields the opportunity to hear scholars and professionals speak on the pressing legal issues of our time.
We hope the campus will join us on April 21 as we work to promote undergraduate legal research and foster a vibrant intellectual community of students, scholars, and professionals at Texas A&M.
We hope the campus will join us on April 21 as we work to promote undergraduate legal research and foster a vibrant intellectual community of students, scholars, and professionals at Texas A&M.
SCHEDULE
April 21, 2025 11:30 AM-2:30 PM | |||
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| Time | Event | Description | Location |
| 11:30 AM | Panel: The Unitary Executive and the Legal Theory Reshaping Federal Government | Featuring Texas A&M School of Law Guest Speakers Randy Gordon, Daniel Walters, and Nicholas Handler | MSC 2406 |
| 12:30 PM | Mixer | Food and refreshments to be provided. Limited Availability. Served on a first come, first serve basis. | MSC 2406 |
| 1:20 PM | Texas A&M Undergraduate Journal of Law & Society Inaugural Journal Launch (vol.1) | MSC 2406 | |
| 1:30 PM | Live Q&A with Dean Robert Ahdieh of Texas A&M School of Law | Learn about Dean Ahdieh's extensive career, his strategic transformation of the Texas A&M School of Law, and his visionary plans for Texas A&M - Fort Worth. | MSC 2406 |
Guest Speakers | ||||
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 | Dr. Robert Ahdieh, Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean's Chair at the Texas A&M School of Law, Vice President for Professional Schools & Programs at Texas A&M University, and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M - Fort Worth | |||
| Robert B. Ahdieh is the Dean and Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair at Texas A&M School of Law. He is also the Vice President for Professional Schools & Programs at Texas A&M and the Chief Operating Officer of the new Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus. Dean Ahdieh received his A.B. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs and International Relations and his J.D. from Yale Law School. After graduating law school, he clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then went on to work in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney in the civil division. Prior to Texas A&M, Dean Ahdieh held positions as a visiting professor at Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown before he arrived at Emory School of Law where he was a Professor of Law and served as the Vice Dean. His research interests revolve around models of regulation and issues of regulation design. His book Russia's Constitutional Revolution: Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy (1997), which he wrote while still in law school, remains one of the seminal texts on the subject. | ||||
 | Dr. Randy Gordon, Executive Professor of Law | |||
| Randy Gordon is an Executive Professor of Law, History, and Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts and was a Faculty Fellow in the School of Innovation at Texas A&M University. At the Law School, he teaches Torts, Constitutional Law, Evidence, and a variety of upper-level courses. He is a past Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh, a former adjunct at SMU, and a Fellow of the Dallas Institute. He has also served as an Advisory Board Member of the College of LA&S, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the Spencer Museum of Art at KU and as a Key Collaborator in the Beyond Text project at the University of Edinburgh. Randy’s RICO articles are routinely cited as authority by courts, commentators and practitioners, including in pattern jury instructions, leading law reviews (e.g., Columbia, Harvard, NYU, and Yale), and briefs in cases before the US Supreme Court (e.g., Anza, Bank of China, and Bridge). | ||||
 | Mr. Nicholas Handler, Associate Professor of Law | |||
| Nicholas Handler is an Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of Law. His research focuses on administrative law and civil procedure. He is the recipient of the American Constitution Society's 2024 Cudahy Prize in Administrative and Regulatory Law, and the co-recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s 2019 Sutherland Prize for best article in the field of English legal history, and his scholarship has been cited by the D.C. Circuit and the High Court of Ireland. He received his bachelor's degree in history from Yale College and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also holds an M. Phil. In History from Cambridge University, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow at Stanford Law School. Before entering academia, Professor Handler clerked on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced litigation for 5 years at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. | ||||
 | Dr. Dan Walters, Associate Professor of Law | |||
| Daniel E. Walters is an Associate Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law. Professor Walters writes about administrative and regulatory law, with a particular focus on the implications of democratic theory for the administrative state, on public participation in administrative processes, on deference doctrines, on empirical studies of administrative behavior, and on the court-agency relationship. Prior to joining the Texas A&M faculty, he was an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Law, and before that a Regulation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. He earned a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is also admitted to practice law (but inactive) in Illinois. | ||||