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Peroni and Steiker
Receive Teaching Awards
T
HE STUDENT SELECTION
committee for the Texas
Exes Faculty Teaching
Award chose Professor
Robert J. Peroni as the recipient
of the 2005–06 award.
Peroni holds the James A.
Elkins Centennial Chair in
Law and has taught at the
Law School since 2003. His
primary areas of teaching
and scholarship are federal
income taxation, international
taxation, natural resource
taxation, and professional
responsibility/legal ethics.
“The SBA-Texas Exes
Teaching Awards Committee
selected Professor Peroni
based on the overwhelming
number of nominations he
received from students,” said
Student Bar Association
president Ann Hsu. “Having
been a student in his Federal
Income Tax class, I wholeheartedly
agree with the
committee’s decision. Professor
Peroni is an engaging
speaker who is not only
incredibly well versed in tax
law but also genuinely interested
in the progress of his
Professor Jordan Steiker (far right) was honored for his teaching and his work in the student societies.
President-elect
Carrin Patman,’82
The Alumni Association has named
Carrin Patman, ’82, its presidentelect.
Her term will start September
1, 2006.
Patman is a member of the
Executive Committee of the Law
School Alumni Association. She was
a member of the Texas Law Review
while in school and currently serves
as a director of the Texas Law Review Association.
Patman is a partner in the Trial Section of Bracewell
Guiliani LP’s Houston office. She handles all types of commercial
disputes at the trial and appellate levels, including
business torts and class actions. She is the first woman to
have served on the firm’s management committee. In
2003 and 2004, Patman earned the distinction of Texas
Super Lawyer in civil litigation defense. She also received
the prestigious Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award,
given each year by the Anti-Defamation League, and was
selected a 2000 Woman on the Move by the Houston
Chronicle, Channel 11, and Texas Executive Women. Both
awards recognize professional achievement combined
with community service.
Project honored clinical
professor Sarah Buel
with its Henry B. González
Award for Civil Rights for
her work to help the victims
of domestic violence.
“I am tremendously honored
by this award, both
because of my deep admiration
for Representative
González as a trailblazing
activist throughout his life
and because of the
phenomenal work
of the TCRP in
steadfastly fighting
to protect Texans’
civil rights,” said
Buel.
Professor Buel
has spent the past 28
years working with
battered women,
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students and available as a
resource, mentor, and friend,”
she said.
The Student Bar Association
Board of Governors
selected Professor Jordan
Steiker as the faculty honoree
for this year’s W. Page
Keeton Law Week. Steiker
is the Cooper K. Ragan Regents
Professor. He teaches
constitutional law, criminal
law, and death penalty law,
and works with the school’s
Capital Punishment Clinic.
Hsu said that Steiker was
honored not only for his
outstanding reputation as a
faculty member but also for
his work as as advisor to the
Sheffield Society. “Professor
Steiker’s high level of
involvement in his students’
lives was the major factor in
selecting him as this year’s
honoree.”
(See related article on Reymundo
Ramos, who was also honored
by the SBA.)
Buel Honored for
Civil Rights Work
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Buel has worked
to help hundreds
of victims of domestic
violence.
abused children, and juveniles
within the legal system.
She founded and codirects
UT Law’s Domestic Violence
Clinic. She also teaches
Domestic Violence and the
Law, and torts courses.
She cofounded the University
of Texas Voices
Against Violence, a program
that has developed a
system of comprehensive
coordinated services for
victims of sexual
assault, relationship
violence, and stalking.
She also cofounded
UT’s Institute
on Domestic
Violence and Sexual
Assault, which focuses
on research,
pedagogy, and direct
services.
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