The University of Texas School of Law has one of the most outstanding faculties in the nation. Legal giants such as W. Page Keeton, Charles Tilford McCormick, and Charles Alan Wright spent decades on our faculty. The tradition of excellence continues today. UT Law faculty are experts and scholarly innovators in every legal field and specialty. There are twenty-seven members of the American Law Institute on the faculty, five law professors have been elected to the University of Texas’ prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers, and UT Law professors have written prominent casebooks and treatises in use across the nation. More than fifty members of the faculty hold endowed chairs or professorships, and many faculty members have advanced degrees in fields related to their individual research, including economics, history, and physics.