Events Calendar

TLF Auction tickets will be on sale in the atrium starting Oct 31 until Nov 3rd from 10-2 for $10. $15 at the door.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/01/12771/

Join Dean Sager and the American Constitution Society for a conversation on why the Supreme Court should uphold President Obama’s healthcare legislation. Dean Sager will respond to popular arguments raised against the Act’s constitutionality, including those advanced in Doug Bandow’s recent talk, and take your questions on this important national issue. Austin's Pizza will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/01/12812/

TLF Auction tickets will be on sale in the atrium starting Oct 31 until Nov 3rd from 10-2 for $10. $15 at the door.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/02/12772/

The Foundation Board of Trustees will meet in Austin November 3rd and 4th at The Four Seasons Hotel.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/03/9743/

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

Judges in Residence series; bench trial

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/03/11173/

TLF Auction tickets will be on sale in the atrium starting Oct 31 until Nov 3rd from 10-2 for $10. $15 at the door.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/03/12773/

A screening of the documentary "IOUSA" with comment by Professor Henry T.C. Hu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/03/12711/

All UT Law students and alumni are invited to attend the CSO's 14th Annual Cocktails & Conversation networking reception, which provides the perfect opportunity to meet and network in a casual setting with UT Law alumni and friends. Free street parking and UT Shuttle (40 Acres) is also available. The AT&T Conference Center is located on campus at 1900 University Blvd. at MLK Blvd. This is a great way to expand your network, so don’t miss out! Dress is business casual. RSVP by Wednesday, November 2, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/03/12404/

The Foundation Board of Trustees will meet in Austin November 3rd and 4th at The Four Seasons Hotel.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/04/9744/

Professor Graeme Austin, School of Law Victoria University of Wellington

Professor Austin will talk about indigenous peoples' rights/human rights and intellectual property, with a focus on a significant case that was just decided in New Zealand. 

Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Gena Dawson at gdawson@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/04/12663/

The Law School will host an event honoring Lela and Robin Gibbs, Michelle and Bryan Goolsby, and Judge William and the late Margaret Kilgarlin Friday, November 4 at 4:00 p.m. at the Law School in the Stephen D. Susman Academic Center

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/04/12054/

The Law School's annual Tailgate Party will be on Saturday, November 5 on the South Lawn of the Law School, 2 hours before the UT/Texas Tech game.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/05/11633/

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/

Join Beyond Any Bar, Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law, and Law Students for the Arts for a speaker event that will cover professional sports team management, TV and film production, social media, and print and online journalism. The four specific speakers will be:

Lawrence Payne (JD '76) - EVP Corporate Partnerships & Broadcasting, San Antonio Spurs (http://www.nba.com/spurs/inside_the_spurs_lawrence_payne.html)

John Spong (JD '93) - Senior Editor, Texas Monthly Magazine (http://www.texasmonthly.com/authors/johnspong)

Lindsay Rogers (JD '08) - Social Media Consultant, Belle Belle Social Media (http://www.bellebellemedia.com/)

Lynn Boswell (JD '93) - independent documentary and filmmaker (http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/about/lynn_boswell.php)

Pizza will be served. Please RSVP by Friday, November 11, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/14/12860/

Henry Steiner, Professor of Law at Harvard University, will give a public talk entitled, "Muslims in Europe: Multiculturalism, Cultural Clash, Human Rights."

For more information on the Rapoport Center's Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series, including additional upcoming speakers, please visit:

http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/humanrights/events/speaker-series.php

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/14/12560/

This is an administrative evidentiary hearing conducted by the State Office of Administrative Hearings, involving contract claims asserted by Bi-Inform LLC versus the Texas General Land Office, as well as counterclaims in response. The hearing will last two or three days (through November 16 or 17). Students and faculty are encouraged to observe, but all members of the public are welcome.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/15/12695/

If you have an interest in the music industry or entertainment law more generally, please join us November 15 at 5:30. Joe Stallone, a partner at Oaks, Hartline & Daly, LLP, will be speaking about both his career in entertainment law as a music attorney and the Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI). The ELI is part of the Grammy Foundation and has an upcoming essay contest for law students which Mr. Stallone will tell us more about.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/15/12864/

This event will be rescheduled for a later date.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/16/12961/

Law and Philosophy workshop series

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/17/12478/

On September 20, 2011, the Pentagon officially certified repeal of the U.S. military's 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT), which barred openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from active military service. Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization dedicated to bringing about full LGBT equality within the military, has provided free and direct legal assistance to more than 10,000 servicemembers affected by discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Danny Hernandez, SLDN Communications and Development Assistant will speak about outstanding legal issues still impacting LGBTQ servicemembers after DADT's repeal.

Questions to be discussed may include: - What nondiscrimination and harassment protections exist for out servicemembers? - In states that allow same-sex marriage, do any protections, services, or support for same-sex spouses exist? - What obstacles exist for gay and lesbian veterans discharged under DADT to return to the military? - If a servicemember was dishonorably discharged under DADT, may they upgrade their discharge paperwork after repeal? - What about open transgender service after DADT's repeal?

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. University of Texas School of Law (street map: http://g.co/maps/4v8wa) Charles I. Francis Auditorium, room 2.114 (building map: http://www.utexas.edu/law/about/maps/) Free food will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2011/11/22/12873/