Events Calendar

Come hear from faculty and current students on how to study for and take law school exams.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/07/12501/

“Lives in the Law,” Karen Lash, Senior Counsel for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Nov. 7, ’11, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, Sheffield Room, co-sponsored with the Career Services Office

Lash will speak from 11:30 to 12:30 about the Obama Administration’s Access to Justice Initiative and her work at the federal level to close the justice gap. From 12:30 to 1:30 Lash will speak about her life in the law and offer tips for students considering public service careers. Lunch will be served at 11:30 and 12:30. Audience members may attend one or both sessions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/07/12585/

Dr. John Hardin of the Koch Foundation will make a presentation entitled "Economic Freedom: The Relationship Between Law and Growth."

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/08/12712/

Bob Estrada will be the guest speaker. RSVP required. Event is open to the first 35 students who respond.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/10/12323/

Law and Philosophy workshop series

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/10/12477/

This summer, Governor Rick Perry signed into law a mandatory ultrasound bill. Not long after, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit to stop the law in its tracks. What happens now?

Join us and learn more about the case, Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey, and hear from a leading scholars about what is behind these mandatory ultrasound laws:

Implications of Mandatory Ultrasound Laws November 10, 2011 at 3:30pm, TNH 2.140

This event will feature a presentation by award-winning Professor Carol Sanger of Columbia Law School. She will lead a conversation about what's at stake with mandatory ultrasound laws for women seeking abortions, and address the concept of "visualization of the fetus."

Responding will be: TX State Representative Donna Howard, Blake Rocap, NARAL Lobbyist, and UT Professor Gretchen Ritter, Vice Provost and Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

The event will be followed by a reception at UT’s George’s Café where you will have the opportunity to meet and talk with our presenters more informally. This event is open to the public and we encourage you to forward this invitation to any students, professors, or advocates you think would be interested in attending.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/10/12807/

Beyond Any Bar will be hosting its Fall Alumni-Student Mixer from 6-8pm on Thursday, November 10th at Icenhauer's on Rainey Street. Have a drink on us while networking with local non-practicing alumni, incluing CEOs, consultants, health care professionals, and others. To RSVP, please email Juliana Mulholland at juliana.mulholland@gmail.com.

This event is free to all Beyond Any Bar members. For details on how to become a member, please contact Luis Rincon, BAB President, at luisfrincon@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/10/12872/

The University of Texas School of Law will host an event that will bring nationally renowned experts on capital markets, securities markets, and economics to Austin.

On Friday, November 11, 2011, UT Law will host the Massey Prize Symposium, an event that will honor Robert E. Litan, the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Massey Prize for Research in Law, Innovation, and Capital Markets. The Symposium is free and open to the public.

The event runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and features:

New York Times senior financial writer Diana Henriques, author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, who will give the keynote on “Mixed Signals: Madoff, the Meltdown, and the Media”

Charles R. Plott, professor of economics and political science at the California Institute of Technology, who will discuss how to understand the way capital markets actually function in a talk entitled “Economics Experiments and Securities Markets”

Massey Prize recipient Robert Litan, who will discuss the impact of the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was designed to more closely regulate the banking industry, in a talk entitled “The Political Economy of Dodd-Frank: A Look Ahead”

A roundtable discussion on the “Regulation of Financial Markets” moderated by Thomas W. Gilligan, the dean of the McCombs School of Business. Henriques, Litan, and Plott, will be joined by Paul Atkins, a former Securities and Exchange commissioner; and Edward S. Knight, executive vice president, general counsel, and chief regulatory officer of NASDAQ.

Dr. Litan is the vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, where he oversees the Foundation’s extensive program for funding data collection and research relating to entrepreneurship and economic growth. He is also a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he was previously vice president. His book, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (coauthored with Kauffman Foundation President Carl Schramm and New York University Professor William Baumol) has been translated into ten languages and is used as a college text around the world.

The event will be held at the University of Texas School of Law, 727 East Dean Keeton Street, Austin, Texas. Morning events will be held in the Francis Auditorium (Townes Hall, 2.114); afternoon events will be held in the Eidman Courtroom (Connally Center, 2.306).

For more information, please visit the Massey Prize Symposium webpage at: http://www.utexas.edu/law/massey/index.html

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/11/10303/