Reem Haikal
Assistant Professor of Law

 

Phone: (713) 313-1394
Email: Reem.Haikal@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Joined the faculty in 2022

Education:

• LL.M. Tax- Business Transactions, The University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  

• J.D. Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas
  

• B.B.A. University of Houston- Downtown, Houston, Texas
  

Courses Taught

• Criminal Procedure

• Criminal Law

• Lawyering Process I
  

• Lawyering Process II

Curriculum Vitae: (pdf)

Bar Admissions:
Admitted to the State Bar of Texas

Biographical Information

• Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas. (2022- Present)

• Assistant Director, Academic Success and Bar Readiness, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas. (2018-2022)
  

• Adjunct Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law- Legal Education and Advancement Program, Houston, Texas (2018-2019)
  

Publications:

• Shadows of Prejudice: The History of the Right to Counsel and the Strickland’s Pursuit of Justice Amidst Forgotten Witnesses and Disregarded Evidence. Lead Article, Ohio Northern University Law Review.

• Conservative Jurisprudence: Evaluating Ineffective Counsel Claims in the Supreme Court (2020-2023). Forthcoming,  George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal.

• Professors Cure, Academic Support Cares: The Potential Role of Academic Support in Increasing Graduation Rates at Law Schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 51 U Balt LF 63.

Selected Presentations:

• No One Writes Memos Anymore; Testing the Claim and its Implications for Teaching (Panel with Christina Crozier, Reem Haikal, Alberto Rodriguez, and Katherine Vukadin), Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. July 2024.

• Discussion Group: Street law v. Constitutional Criminal Procedure. Southeastern Association of Law Schools “SEALS” Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 2024

• A Day in the Life of a Law Student, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Council on Legal Education Opportunity College Scholars, Houston, Texas, February 2023.

• New Scholars Workshop - Environmental and Housing Justice Panel. Southeastern Association of Law Schools “SEALS” Conference in Boca Raton, Florida, July 2023. 

• Exploring the Uses and Abuses of Unincorporated Entities, Southeastern Association of Law Schools “SEALS” Annual Conference, Destin, Florida, August 2022.

• The Role of Academic Support at Law Schools in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Lessons to be Learned from Medical Schools, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Fall Faculty Lecture Series, Houston, Texas, 2019
  • A Discussion on Marginalized Individuals through the Lens of Academic Support Educators at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly White Institutions, 2019 Association of Academic Support Educators Biennial Diversity Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 2019
  • Reading for Learning and the Overuse of Technology in Higher Education, Damascus University Faculty of Law, Damascus, Syria, 2018
  

Affiliations:

• American Bar Association
  

• Houston Bar Association
  

• Golden Key International Honour Society
  

Research & Teaching Interests

• Right to counsel

• The death penalty

• Capital punishment

• Legal pedagogy
  

• Mergers and acquisitions
  

• Antitrust
  

Poetry Collections

• Echoes in Silence

• The Road to Damascus
  

• Shattered Memories

 

 

 

 

 

 

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