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/