About Us

The Texas Law Democrats is an organization dedicated to providing the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Texas School of Law with a forum for discussion, networking, and learning.

        The goal of the organization is to provide members with opportunities to meet with democratic candidates, elected officials, and party members and learn about the structure, organization, and principles of the Democratic Party.

        We are affiliated with the Young Democrats of America, College Democrats of America, National Democratic Law Students Council, and the University Democrats of UT.

Mission Statement

We are Democrats out of conviction, not out of habit.

We believe in the core values of opportunity, responsibility, and community, and we believe that these values can best be realized by the efforts of individuals working together to achieve common goals.

We believe in only the government we need but we insist on all the government we need.

We believe in democratic capitalism – allowing anyone willing to work for it the chance to do well and share in America’s prosperity. Government’s responsibility is to put its own house in order, keep the private sector honest, expand markets here and abroad, and equip individuals for economic success and security.

We believe that Americans face a grave threat to our security and that the nation’s resources should be mobilized to meet and defeat our nation’s enemies. The central mission of this time is to defend America’s security and ideals in the world though progressive internationalism – the bold exercise of leadership to foster peace, prosperity and democracy. We must use our strength to earn the world’s respect and to enlist our allies in a worldwide fight for freedom, not to inspire more enemies to thwart the American cause.

We believe that education is the great equalizer, and we should work to strengthen our public schools. We should give parents more choices among public schools, pay teachers better and expect more in return, and give anyone willing to work or to serve the chance to earn their way through college and graduate debt-free.

We believe it is our obligation to secure cleaner air and cleaner water, and to protect and preserve the earth for future generations. We advocate new approaches that will spur new jobs and technologies with the power to improve public health and safety here and around the world.

We believe that government must ensure access to affordable health insurance and require in return that parents take responsibility for covering their families.

We believe in preventing crime and punishing criminals and that the criminal justice system should be rooted in and responsive to the communities it serves.

Finally, we believe Americans deserve a government that upholds their values of faith, family, liberty, responsibility, equal opportunity, and hard work. We will work to usher in a new era in which safety is paramount, family is honored, hard work is rewarded, responsibility is a way of life, and our leaders put country first.