Events Calendar

Come get a student perspective on clinics offered at UT, including: what to expect, how to choose a clinic that's right for you, and how to be successful in your clinic. This event is sponsored by the Public Interest Law Association and the American Constitution society. Lunch will be provided.

March 29, 2011 from 1:40PM to 2:40PM Fleming Room, at George's Cafe Food provided

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/03/29/11396/

Erin Rodgers, an attorney with Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA), and UT Law alum John Spong, who now writes for Texas Monthly Magazine, will be speaking on their careers in law and the arts. Professor David Sokolow will moderate the panel.

TALA is a non-profit organization that helps meet the legal and accounting needs of artists and arts nonprofits across the State of Texas by matching low-income artists and small budget arts nonprofits with volunteer attorneys and accountants to assist with arts-related legal and financial matters.

In 2010, John Spong was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the category of Leisure Interests for his story about Texas dance halls, “Step Right Up." He has been a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters’ O. Henry Award for Magazine Journalism four times, which he won in 2006 for “The Good Book and the Bad Book” and again in 2010 for “Holding Garmsir.” He was also named 2005 Writer of the Year by the City and Regional Magazine Association.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/03/29/11374/

Interested in learning about how to pursue public interest goals in a private law firm setting? Come meet lawyers at small for-profit law firms with public interest missions, such as protecting the environment or the rights of employees. Topics will include - How does a public interest firm operate? What is it like to work in a public interest firm? What do public interest firms look for in the lawyers they hire?

Lunch provided

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/03/30/10654/

Come join ACS for a lunch discussion on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act and how to reform the broken U.S. health care system. Internationally renowned constitutional law professors and scholars Jack Balkin - Yale Law professor and editor of leading Constitutional law blog Balkinization - and UT Professor William Forbath expert in the area of social and economic rights. Both helped create The Constitution in 2020, ACS vision for constitutional right and the direction of the U.S. courts.

Thursday, March 31st 12:30pm, Rm. 2.139 Lunch Provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/03/31/11375/

An opportunity for admitted students to visit UT Law that could not make it to Admitted Students Day. Includes a welcome from Dean Sager; mock class; tours of the Law School; financial aid visits; and luncheon

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/01/10244/

conference hosted by Sanford Levinson

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/01/11102/

Expert lawyers from South America will discuss issues that are of particular relevance to energy practitioners in Latin America and give their perspectives on the challenges and rewards of practicing energy law in their respective countries. During the course of this symposium you will hear from Luis Cuervo, Partner, Fowler Rodriguez Valdes-Fauli; Vera de Gyarfas, Foreign Legal Consultant, King & Spalding LLP; Roberto Aguirre Luzi, also from King & Spalding and Luiz de Lemos, Partner leading the Oil and Gas Practice Group, Campos Mello Advogados. Each speaker will give a 30-minute presentation followed by questions and discussion from the audience.Learn about issues that are of particular relevance to energy practitioners in Latin America and hear the perspectives of expert lawyers from that region. Please RSVP to David Leonard, Managing Director of the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law at dmleonard.jr@gmail.com by Thursday, March 31.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/01/10122/

The American Constitution Society is hosting a lunch with Professor Rob Owen on April 4 at 11:30am in the Fleming Room, down by George's Cafe. Free lunch will be provided.

Professor Rob Owen will discuss the Capital Punishment Clinic's recent victory in the Supreme Court in Skinner v. Switzer. The Supreme Court held: a postconviction procedural due process claim for DNA testing is properly pursued in a §1983 action. Professor Owen will discuss what this ruling means for his client, Hank Skinner, his reactions to the ruling, and what it means for the future of DNA testing in the courts.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/04/11386/

Former UT Law Professor Ernest Young returns to give a talk entitled, "A New Federalism Revival?" Young posits that just as Rehnquist's court-led federalist revival may be petering out, public controversies (healthcare, immigration, gay rights, state debt, etc.) have forced federalism back onto the national agenda. Lunch will be served at the event, which is Monday, 4/4 at 11:30am in room 3.126.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/04/11452/

Law School Colloquium on Justice Breyer's "Making Our Democracy Work", with Mitch Berman, Lynn Blais, and Sandy Levinson acting as commentators.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/04/11377/

The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association proudly presents our semi-annual Fajita Fiesta. We will be preparing and grilling steak, chicken, and vegetable fajitas (with all the trimmings) on site and selling plates around lunch time to benefit our Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/05/11364/

Informal Student Meeting with Justice Breyer

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/05/11379/

Monday, April 5, 3:30—5:00 PM Judith Kimerling, CUNY School of Law "Oil, Litigation and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador: Can Cowode Law Protect the Rights of Indigenous Huaorani in the Oil Patch and Yasuni Biosphere Reserve?" Lecture co-sponsored by the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration and Environmental Law

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/05/11235/

Students looking beyond large firms will find this reception a great opportunity to meet with attorneys from small and midsized firms as well as solo practitioners in a casual setting. This is a great way to expand your network, so don’t miss out! Dress is business casual. Additionally, the CSO is providing a student resume directory to practitioners attending the reception. Note that the resume directory is for future job opportunities and is not created for any specific current job posting. Employers may contact students in the future for part-time, full-time and contract positions. Information about how to submit your resume will be made available in March. RSVP by Wednesday, April 6, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the “Events” tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/07/10279/

An opportunity for admitted students to visit UT Law that could not make it to Admitted Students Day. Includes a welcome from Dean Sager; mock class; tours of the Law School; financial aid visits; and luncheon

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/08/10245/

Street Law will be hosting middle school and high school students from the Austin area to participate in a day of learning about practical issues and to get acquainted with higher education. These students will come to the law school to attend a mock law school lesson, witness a mock trial, attend a career panel, and wrap up the day with lunch and a tour of the school by our members.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/08/11359/

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

Early Bar Prep continues with Torts.

At the beginning of this session (and each subsequent session), we'll review the practice MBE questions handed out the week before. Hear why answers are right/wrong to sometimes tricky MBE questions.

After the session, you may log on to an MBE question bank to test your understanding - come find out how to get access and what you should be doing now to help guarantee your future bar success!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/08/11069/

Speaker will be Marilda Rosado, who is a professor at Rio de Janeiro State University School of Law. Professor Rosado is also a partner at Doria Jacobina Rosado e Gondinho law firm. She formerly worked for the National Petroleum Agency in Brazil as the Bidding Superintendent and later was head of the Legal Affairs Department of a subsidiary of Petrobras.

Pizza will be served after the event.

Please RSVP to Gena gdawson@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/04/08/11414/