Events Calendar

Townsend and Townsend and Crew, an intellectual property boutique law firm, sponsors a writing contest in which all eligible students may submit a paper of 2,000 words or less on an IP-related topic of the student's choosing. The first place winner at each school will receive a cash award of $1,000. Come learn more about the writing prize as well as life as an IP attorney from Miranda Martinez, ’08, a litigation associate at Townsend and Townsend and Crew. Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Society. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP by Friday, November 12, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/15/9422/

International Study Abroad Fair for JD students, during International Education Week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/16/8727/

Stop by our table for tasty treats. We have gluten-free stuff in addition to the always popular cookies and cupcakes. Help us raise money to attend our regional conference! -Law Students for Reproductive Justice

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/16/9661/

Do you wonder what your professors work on outside of the classroom? Here’s your chance to find out! Professors speak to students in an informal setting about their personal research – what interests them, what they’ve learned, how they do it. Get an inside look into legal scholarship and a chance to interact with professors outside of the classroom. Our next speaker is Professor Bobby Chesney, whose work focuses on the legal aspects of U.S. national security policy and practices. Whether it is terrorism, WMD proliferation, Guantanamo, torture, surveillance, computer network operations, or cartel violence in Mexico, there are many legal issues that arise. If you are interested in how legal scholarship engages such questions, don’t miss this one! Join us on Tuesday, November 16 at 3:30 pm in the Sheffield Room. Light refreshments will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/16/9183/

Come relax over turkey with your fellow CHLSA members.

This event is open to all dues-paying members.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/16/9583/

Dean Sager will discuss the state of the Law School. Refreshaments will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/17/9621/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/17/9581/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Exam prep session for mentor group 3B

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/17/9645/

New technology has revolutionized how we all live. Technology can also pose risks to customers' privacy and freedom of expression. Failing to take these rights into account can easily lead to negative press, costly lawsuits and government investigations. That's why the ACLU of Northern California has developed 'Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business,' a primer designed to help free speech protections in new technology.

The talk will be give by Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director from the ACLU’s Northern California affiliate will speak about Internet rights and privacy and will be in the Eidman Jury Room on Thursday, November 18, at 12:30PM. Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/18/9681/

As part of both the Law & Philosophy Colloquium and the Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series, Thomas Pogge will deliver a lecture on "The Health Impact Fund: How to Make New Medicines Accessible to All." Pogge is the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. Lecture co-sponsored by the Law & Philosophy Program and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/18/8819/

Law and Philosophy Workshop

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/18/8837/

On Friday, November 19, 2010 The University of Texas School of Law, in cooperation with the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, will host a one-day roundtable addressing the Criminal Justice Section’s current project of revising its Standards concerning the Prosecution and Defense Functions. Invited participants, consisting of respected prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges from across the State of Texas, and academics in the fields of criminal justice and professional responsibility, will engage in a series of moderated discussions on whether the proposed revisions provide adequate and appropriate guidance to prosecutors and defense lawyers, focusing on ethical issues surrounding case loads, conflicts of interest, and prosecutor discretion in initiating and maintaining criminal charges. The day’s proceedings will be reported and circulated to the Standards Revision Task Force to provide concrete guidance from criminal justice stakeholders in the Standards revision process.

The Prosecution and Defense Functions Standards are just two of the Criminal Justice Section’s Standards documents, which set forth aspirational goals for a variety of arenas of the criminal justice system, including Criminal Appeals, Discovery, DNA Evidence, the Legal Status of Prisoners, Mental Health, and Speedy Trial. The Standards in general, and the Prosecution and Defense Functions Standards in particular, have been widely influential since their initial promulgation in 1974, when Chief Justice Warren Burger hailed the Standards project as "the single most comprehensive and probably the most monumental undertaking in the field of criminal justice ever attempted by the American legal profession in our national history." Hundreds of Supreme Court and lower court opinions have cited the Standards as persuasive authority, legislatures have looked to the Standards in enacting state codes of criminal procedure and other criminal justice reforms, courts have adopted the Standards in their local rules, and prosecutor and defense offices have incorporated the Standards into local office policies.

The current revision process will culminate in the publication of the third edition of the Prosecution and Defense Functions Standards, which were last revised in 1992 and 1991, respectively. The University of Texas School of Law is honored to play a small part in that important endeavor by hosting this series of conversations among the leading players in Texas criminal justice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/19/9644/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/19/9483/

Author Robert Perkinson talks about his book “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire”

Co-presented with the Institute for Historical Studies

Co-sponsored by the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of American Studies, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Department of History, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, the American Journal of Criminal Law, the Criminal Law Association, and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/22/8879/

Paola Bergallo, "Cycles of Right to Health Litigation: The Elusive Argentine Experience.” Bergallo is a professor at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lecture co-sponsored by LLILAS and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/22/8818/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

The Drawing Board Luncheon is a regular colloquium series designed to permit members of the UT faculty (permanent and visiting) to present projects at an early stage of development. Unlike many colloquia series, here and elsewhere, that are often described as fora for the presentation of "works in progress" but which, in actuality, feature works that are entirely, or substantially, complete, the Drawing Board lives up to its name. This is a forum for faculty members who would like feedback, suggestions, and guidance at a point in time at which they can be made use of.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2010/11/23/8808/