McKen V. Carrington
Dean and Professor of Law

Joined Faculty 1984

Education:
B.S., 1979 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York
J.D., 1982 Albany Law School, Albany, New York

Phone: (713) 313-1071

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: Mc Ken Carrington

Summary of Experience
Professor McKen V Carrington’s professional career consists of academic, corporate and government service. His academic service includes law teaching for over eighteen years, academic administration for over twelve years, overseas academic service, membership of accreditation teams, as well as service to national legal education organizations. Professor Carrington’s academic career also includes service as a member of accreditation teams to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) as well as the American Bar Association. He has other national service as the head of an LSAC task force, member of an LSAC task force as well as a Committee member. Professor Carrington’s work includes service as the lead liaison for the American Bar Association African Law Initiative Sister Law School Project in Malawi, Africa. The project resulted in several faculty exchanges, a Fulbright scholarship and library development at both the High Court of Malawi and the University of Malawi. Professor Carrington’s academic career includes his current position as Dean and Professor of Law at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law and prior positions of Chair of the Texas Southern University Faculty Senate/Assembly, the University Rank Tenure and Promotion Committee, as well as the Advisory Committee on the Faculty Manual.

Academic Interests
Wills
Estate Planning
Estates & Trusts

Publications
Book Review: In Struggle against Jim Crow, Lulu White and the NAACP by Merline Pitre, Texas A&M Press 26 Thurgood Marshall L. Rev. 107 (2000)
Book Review: Thurgood Marshall, American Revolutionary by Juan Williams, Times Books 1998 PP 459 $27.50 Southern University Law Journal 81, (1999)
Commentary: Bush Threatens Separation of Church and State. Texas Lawyer, September 20, 1999
The Demise of Race Based Scholarship: National Association of African-American Studies Conference Proceedings (1998)
Legal Education in Malawi 23 Thurgood Marshall L. Rev., 56 (1997)
TSU and the Bar Examination, a Question of Institutional Credibility 16 Thurgood Marshall 499 (1991)
The Texas Inheritance Lottery 17 Thurgood Marshall L.Rev., 32 (1991) (with I.B. Usoro)
Estate Planning for the Non Taxable Estate 21 St. Mary's L. Journal 367 (1989)
Texas Probate Court Legislative Update The Houston Lawyer (March 1988)
Retirement Issues for Lawyers Texas Bar Journal (May 1987)
Renting Real Estate to Family Members The Houston Lawyer (January 1986)
Accommodation of Family Status in the Tax Treatment of Retirement Plans 12 Thurgood Marshall L. Rev. 47 (1986) (With Carl Poston)