Rate My Professor Meredith Duncan

Duncan teaches Torts, Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics, Sexual Assault Law, and Equal Justice and the Law. Her publications include co-authored textbooks Tort Law: A Contemporary Approach (4th ed., West Academic Publishing, 2024) with Rory Bahadur, Advanced Torts: A Lawyer’s Perspective (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2020) with Alex Long, and articles such as “Digital Ecosystem of Accountability and Digitized Open-File Criminal Discovery,” 59 American Criminal Law Review (2021), and “Lucky” Adnan Syed: Comprehensive Changes to Improve Criminal Defense Lawyering and Better Protect Criminal Defendants’ Sixth Amendment Rights, 82 Brooklyn Law Review 1651 (2017). She has earned the University of Houston Distinguished Leadership in Teaching Excellence Award (2018), Houston Lawyers Association Roberson L. King Excellence in Education Award (2024), multiple Outstanding Professor of the Year awards from the Student Bar Association, UHLC Faculty Commencement Speaker selections (2021-2024), and recognition as a “hooder” at commencements. One of 26 law professors profiled in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2013), she oversees the Pre-Law Pipeline Program, chairs committees including Appointments and Opportunities and Community, advises student organizations, and serves on the Houston Food Bank Board and AALS Section on Teaching Methods.