Robert W. Hamilton (law Professor)
Robert W. Hamilton (Mar 4, 1931 – January 12, 2018) was an American legal scholar who was the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. Hamilton earned his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1952 and obtained a J. D. from the University of Chicago Law School three years later. He served as a law clerk for Tom C. Clark before joining the Washington D. C. law firm Gardner, Morrison & Rogers. In 1964, Hamilton began teaching at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. The Robert W. Hamilton Book Award was named for him. Over the course of his career, Hamilton was named a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He retired in 2004. His wife Dagmar Hamilton taught at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. See also * List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10) References

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University Of Texas School Of Law
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%. According to Texas Law’s 2019 disclosures, 90 percent 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 Te ...
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