The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and is highly selective—registering the 8th lowest acceptance rate among all U.S. law schools for the class of 2022—with an acceptance rate of 17.5%. Every year, Texas Law places a significant part of its class into law firms, where median base salaries start at $190,000. According to Texas Law’s 2019 disclosures, 90% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term bar passage required/JD advantage employment nine months after graduation.

The school has 19,000 living alumni. Amongst its alumni are U.S. Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark; U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker; U.S. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen; White House Senior Advisor Paul Begala; Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Sam Rayburn; litigator Sarah Weddington who represented Jane Roe in the seminal case Roe v Wade; Wallace B. Jefferson, the first African American Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court; United States Permanent Representative to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison; statesman Robert S. Strauss; and Gustavo C. Garcia, Carlos Cadena, James DeAnda, lead litigators for the landmark civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas.