Where: SRH 3.122, LBJ School

Sponsored by: The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Join the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for National Security on Tuesday, September 22, for “The Law of the Sea Treaty at Risk,” with former Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter. The Law of the Sea Treaty was the product of the third UN convention on law of the sea held from 1973 to 1982 with more than 160 states participating. Currently, however, many states, including the US and Iran, still have not ratified the treaty. Furthermore, some states that have ratified the treaty, such as the PRC, blatantly ignore treaty provisions. At a time when maritime commerce represents over 80% of world trade, can the international community let this treaty effectively become irrelevant? Join Secretary Winter as he answers these questions. Lunch will be served.

Biography Dr. Donald C. Winter is an independent consultant supporting national and international security interests in the US and allied nations. He served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from January 2006 to March 2009. As Secretary of the Navy, he led America’s Navy and Marine Corps Team and was responsible for an annual budget of over $125 billion and almost 900,000 people. Dr. Winter’s prior business career in the aerospace and defense industry spanned over 30 years as a systems engineer, program manager and corporate executive.

From 2009 to 2020, he was a Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan where he taught graduate level courses on systems engineering, satellite design, and maritime policy. He was reappointed to this role in 2024. Since 2011 he has served in multiple roles assisting the Commonwealth of Australia in their efforts to reconstruct the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet and establish a sustainable shipbuilding capability. During 2019 to 2021 he also served as the US DoD’s Senior Defense Industry Advisor for Ukraine. Dr. Winter was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2002 and served as its chair from 2020 to 2024.

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More information: https://www.strausscenter.org/events/the-law-of-the-sea-treaty-at-risk/

Where: SRH 3.122, LBJ School

Sponsored by: The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Join the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for National Security on Tuesday, September 22, for “The Law of the Sea Treaty at Risk,” with former Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter. The Law of the Sea Treaty was the product of the third UN convention on law of the sea held from 1973 to 1982 with more than 160 states participating. Currently, however, many states, including the US and Iran, still have not ratified the treaty. Furthermore, some states that have ratified the treaty, such as the PRC, blatantly ignore treaty provisions. At a time when maritime commerce represents over 80% of world trade, can the international community let this treaty effectively become irrelevant? Join Secretary Winter as he answers these questions.

Lunch will be served. For more information, please reach out to Ali Prince Ponce at ali.prince@austin.utexas.edu.

Biography Dr. Donald C. Winter is an independent consultant supporting national and international security interests in the US and allied nations. He served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from January 2006 to March 2009. As Secretary of the Navy, he led America’s Navy and Marine Corps Team and was responsible for an annual budget of over $125 billion and almost 900,000 people. Dr. Winter’s prior business career in the aerospace and defense industry spanned over 30 years as a systems engineer, program manager and corporate executive.

From 2009 to 2020, he was a Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan where he taught graduate level courses on systems engineering, satellite design, and maritime policy. He was reappointed to this role in 2024. Since 2011 he has served in multiple roles assisting the Commonwealth of Australia in their efforts to reconstruct the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet and establish a sustainable shipbuilding capability. During 2019 to 2021 he also served as the US DoD’s Senior Defense Industry Advisor for Ukraine. Dr. Winter was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2002 and served as its chair from 2020 to 2024.

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More information: https://www.strausscenter.org/events/the-law-of-the-sea-treaty-at-risk/

Where: TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)

Sponsored by: Muslim Legal Society

Event with local Imam (Mufti Anwar Imam) coming and giving advice to students.

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Where: TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)

Sponsored by: Law Students for Life

Allan Parker, President of the Justice Foundation and lead counsel for Norma McCorvey ("Roe" of Roe v. Wade) and Sandra Cano ("Doe" of Doe v. Bolton), will discuss litigation strategy on how to fight for life in a post-Dobbs world.

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Where: CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)

Sponsored by: Center for Women in Law

The Center will host a conversation with Cisselon Nichols Hurd, Senior Legal Counsel for Shell USA, Inc (ret.). Join us to hear career insights and leadership lessons from a nationally respected environmental litigator whose career includes two Fortune 500 companies, is a former federal prosecutor and a legal leader in mentorship and community service. Lunch will be provided.

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More information: https://cwil.law.utexas.edu/events/power-lunch-cisselon-nichols-hurd-senior-legal-counsel-shell-usa-inc-ret

Where: TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

Sponsored by: Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the United States possesses a fragmented patchwork of state laws imposing varying degrees of restrictions on and penalties for abortion. This talk will examine the profound implications of this arrangement for noncitizen women, whose rights and mobility are already constrained by federal immigration laws and policies. It will argue that the intersection of state-level abortion restrictions and federal immigration enforcement creates de facto internal borders, uniquely curtailing the reproductive freedoms of noncitizens.

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More information: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/valeria-gomez-baltimore-the-new-abortion-borders-for-immigrant-women/

Where: Virtual

Sponsored by: Career Services

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Thursday, October 8, 2026 (virtual): Interviews conducted virtually from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CT) via the TEX – Powered by 12Twenty In-App Video.

Friday, October 9, 2026 (in-person): Interviews held in-person from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CT) in the Texas Law Career Services Interview Suite (TNH 3.122).

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the event sponsor or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.

More information: https://law.utexas.edu/careers/interview-programs/fall-interview-program/

Where: SRH 3.122, LBJ School

Sponsored by: The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Join the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for National Security as we host Caitlin Lee, Ph.D., the director of Acquisition Technology and Policy at RAND Corporation, as she gives a lecture on “The Central Role of the US Industrial Base in US National Security Decision Making.”

Deterring the next great power conflict isn’t just about military might. It’s about who can build, mobilize, and sustain faster. As the rivalry between the United States and China intensifies, the US industrial base is emerging as a game-changing instrument of national power, fueling an intense industrial base mobilization contest between the two great powers. Lee, a leading expert in defense policy, will reveal how new technologies and shifting geopolitics are transforming the way America prepares for and deters global threats. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine and other recent conflicts, this talk will show why the ability to scale up production and innovation is now the ultimate US advantage. Join us for a discussion that will shed new light on how mobilization capacity is shaping US force design—and what it means for US deterrence and the ability to prevail in twenty-first century conflict. Whether you’re a student, a curious member of the public, or a defense industry insider, don’t miss this chance to rethink the foundations of American security.

No registration required. Seating is first come, first served. Lunch will be served. For more information, reach out to Ali Prince at ali.prince@austin.utexas.edu

Biography Caitlin Lee, Ph.D., is the director of Acquisition and Technology Policy in the National Security Research Division at RAND, where she oversees the RAND’s research for the Pentagon related to US-China competition, emerging technology, defense industrial base issues, and acquisition. In her research role as a senior political scientist, she is currently leading projects focused on US and Chinese defense mobilization trends and implications, and US efforts to build resilience in the industrial base to deter great power war. She has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, published on military innovation and drone warfare in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Air and Space Power Journal, and other academic and popular outlets, and has authored or co-authored RAND studies on a variety of aerospace, force design, and technology topics including RAND’s Thinking Through Protracted War with China. She previously founded the Mitchell Institute’s Center for UAV and Autonomy Studies and served as the senior aviation reporter for the America’s Bureau of Jane’s for over a decade. She teaches Planning US Military Forces at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from King’s College London.

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More information: https://www.strausscenter.org/events/building-to-win/

Where: In-Person at Texas Law

Sponsored by: Career Services

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Thursday, October 8, 2026 (virtual): Interviews conducted virtually from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CT) via the TEX – Powered by 12Twenty In-App Video.

Friday, October 9, 2026 (in-person): Interviews held in-person from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (CT) in the Texas Law Career Services Interview Suite (TNH 3.122).

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the event sponsor or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.

More information: https://law.utexas.edu/careers/interview-programs/fall-interview-program/

Where: CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)

Sponsored by: William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law

Join us for a conversation with Azadeh Shahshahani as she talks about her work in the U.S. South and support for social movements in the Global South as a movement lawyer. She will discuss the theory of change behind movement lawyering, what movement lawyering looks like in practice, and how to prepare for a career as a movement lawyer during law school.

The event will take place in the Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306) from 11:50 AM to 12:50PM. Lunch will be provided in the Jamail Pavilion immediately following the discussion. 

About Azadeh Shashahani and her visit to Texas Law as the Justice Center’s fourteenth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.

Open to the public. Please RSVP for lunch by noon, October 12.

https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7TrMh9SjScmn54

Contact Information:

Liza Soria (Center Coordinator/Event Organizer) liza.soria@law.utexas.edu

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More information: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/movement-lawyering-from-the-u-s-south-to-the-global-south-with-azadeh-shahshahani-project-south/

Where: TNH 2.139 (Wilson Classroom)

Sponsored by: American Constitution Society

Featuring Professor Sellers and practicing attorneys, we will discuss recent and upcoming developments in election law.

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Where: TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

Sponsored by: Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

Faulty forensic evidence and biased evidence relying on sex-based stereotypes have long been used to convict innocent women in situations where an accident or health event has been misconstrued as a criminal act. This talk will conceptualize and consider “reproductive wrongful convictions,” which are instances in which a noncriminal pregnancy-related event or act––such as a miscarriage, stillbirth, or taking legally prescribed medicine––is erroneously labeled as criminal. It will also attend to the ways that women with disabilities and from racially and economically subordinated communities are often labeled as “unfit” and made particularly vulnerable to these charges.

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More information: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/valena-beety-indiana-reproductive-wrongful-convictions-the-making-of-unfit-mothers/

Where: TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)

Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details to follow.

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Where: TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

Sponsored by: Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

Using the example of post-Dobbs abortion bans that contain no exceptions for incest or rape, this talk will argue that law and institutions charged with protecting the vulnerable are often responsible for the oppression of women, the suppression of their capacities, and the harms that follow. It will examine some of the ways that the state wields and perpetuates sexual violence inconsistently based on race and class, as it curates prurient and avoidable harm against women and girls, fails to shield them from harm, and too frequently magnifies both risks of this harm and the harm itself.

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More information: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/michele-goodwin-georgetown-gaslighting-the-politics-of-sexual-violence-and-reproductive-health-rights-and-justice/

Where: TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)

Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details to follow.

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Where: TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

Sponsored by: Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

Healthcare conscientious objection allows providers to refuse treatment based on moral or religious beliefs. Alongside the legalization of abortion since the 1970s, conscience clauses have expanded globally. In response, some legislative bodies and courts have implemented institutional safeguards to ensure that conscience-based refusals do not become insurmountable obstacles for patients.  This talk will argue that while these institutional safeguards hold potential, they have not fundamentally altered the dominant understanding of medical objection, which frames the conflict and its resolution as a situation involving two equally balanced parties. 

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More information: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/agustina-ramon-michel-palermo-and-cedes-argentina-conscientious-objection-to-abortion-comparative-legal-frameworks-and-debates/

Sponsored by: Communications

No classes will be held November 23-27, and the University will be closed November 26-27, 2026.

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Sponsored by: Communications

No classes will be held November 23-27, and the University will be closed November 26-27, 2026.

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Sponsored by: Communications

No classes will be held November 23-27, and the University will be closed November 26-27, 2026.

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Sponsored by: Communications

No classes will be held November 23-27, and the University will be closed November 26-27, 2026.

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Sponsored by: Communications

No classes will be held November 23-27, and the University will be closed November 26-27, 2026.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Communications

The University will be closed for the Winter Break from December 23, 2026 until January 1, 2027.

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Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details to follow.

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Sponsored by: Communications

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday; no classes held.

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Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details to follow.

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Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details will be announced soon.

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Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details to follow.

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Sponsored by: Communications

Spring break; no classes held.

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Sponsored by: Communications

Spring break; no classes held.

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Sponsored by: Communications

Spring break; no classes held.

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Sponsored by: Communications

Spring break; no classes held.

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Sponsored by: Communications

Spring break; no classes held.

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Sponsored by: Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center

Details to follow.

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