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Thoughtful, well-trained legal professionals who serve with both integrity and skill are needed today more than ever. At Texas A&M Law, our mission is to offer you a high-caliber education, enhanced by real-world training and investment in your character and capacity for leadership.
The trajectory of Texas A&M Law over the past decade is unprecedented — emerging from relative obscurity to become one of the leading law schools in the nation. This rise reflects significant investments in the pursuit of excellence, including recruiting a diverse community of world-class faculty and high-caliber students. It also reflects our commitment to your success beyond your academic program.
For the last several years, our JD graduates have ranked among the highest in Texas in bar exam passage and lead the nation in “gold standard” employment outcomes. In addition to training excellent lawyers, we now also provide a career-enhancing legal education to non-lawyer professionals across a wide range of highly regulated and complex industry sectors.
Join us on our journey to producing the next generation of professionals ready to take on whatever the world throws at them.
Gig ‘em,
Robert “Bobby” Ahdieh
Dean & Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair
Vice President for Professional Schools & Programs
Texas A&M University School of Law
Additionally, he is an expert on Russian and post-Soviet law and author of multiple articles, book chapters, presentations, and an authoritative book on post-Soviet Russia’s constitutional transformation titled Russia’s Constitutional Revolution: Legal Consciousness and the Transition to Democracy, 1985-1996.
Before joining the Aggie family, Dean Ahdieh held several visiting professorships at Princeton University, Columbia University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center, among others.
From 2000-2018 he served in multiple capacities at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta including as a professor, vice dean, associate dean of faculty, and director of the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance.
His higher education journey began at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he studied abroad at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B.
Ahdieh then went on to earn his J.D. from renowned Yale Law School.
Prior to joining the world of academia, he held the prestigious law clerk position for Judge James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before making waves as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
In his spare time, Dean Ahdieh’s professional engagement runs the gamut as:
It is hard for me to imagine a better summary of the essential characteristics of success in law and leadership than the Aggie Core Values. In direct proportion to our individual and collective embrace of those values will come our success at the law school, as a law school, and in the world beyond.
- Robert “Bobby” Ahdieh, Dean & Anthony G. Buzbee Endowed Dean’s Chair
Vice President for Professional Schools & Programs
Texas A&M University School of Law
