Events Calendar

The American Journal of Criminal Law (AJCL) is now accepting new members. If you are interested in joining one of the country's top criminal law journals, please send a resume, transcript, and a writing sample to managing.ajcl@gmail.com by February 3rd. Applicants who got an A+ or A in Criminal Law will automatically be invited to join after an application is submitted. If there are any questions, please contact Brenna McGee at managing.ajcl@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/29/13557/

Reminder for 3Ls planning to sit for the Texas July 2012 Bar Exam: in order for your In-State Application to Take the TX Bar Exam to be considered timely-filed it must be postmarked by Jan. 30, 2012. This deadline is strictly enforced. A $150 late fee will apply for all applications filed after Jan. 30 and up to the March 30, 2012 absolute postmark deadline.

Applicants who have not yet filed their Declaration of Intention to Study Law must do so prior to or with their In-State Application.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/30/9229/

The American Journal of Criminal Law (AJCL) is now accepting new members. If you are interested in joining one of the country's top criminal law journals, please send a resume, transcript, and a writing sample to managing.ajcl@gmail.com by February 3rd. Applicants who got an A+ or A in Criminal Law will automatically be invited to join after an application is submitted. If there are any questions, please contact Brenna McGee at managing.ajcl@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/30/13558/

Notaries public will be made available at the Law School in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on Monday, January 30. All students needing to have materials notarized prior to their January bar exam deadlines should plan to attend this clinic.

Please note that notary services will NOT be available at the Law School at any other time.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/30/13500/

First, second- and third-year students and alumni up to one year after graduation are eligible to participate in Spring On-Campus Interviews per employer requests. Online bidding takes place January 30-February 6, 2012.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/30/12775/

UT Law’s LexisNexis representative, Jaclyn Thompson, provides an update for faculty on the latest LexisNexis features.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/30/12956/

The American Journal of Criminal Law (AJCL) is now accepting new members. If you are interested in joining one of the country's top criminal law journals, please send a resume, transcript, and a writing sample to managing.ajcl@gmail.com by February 3rd. Applicants who got an A+ or A in Criminal Law will automatically be invited to join after an application is submitted. If there are any questions, please contact Brenna McGee at managing.ajcl@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/31/13559/

Texas Law Students for Reproductive Justice educate, organize, and support law students to ensure that a new generation of advocates will be prepared to protect and expand reproductive rights as basic civil and human rights.

Come to our first meeting of the semester on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 3:15 in rm. 3.124.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/01/31/13631/

Last day to drop a course for a refund. Adds after this date will be billed, even if a drop is made.

This is the 12th class day. All courses dropped after this date will appear on your transcript.

Payment for added courses is due by 5:00 p.m.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13144/

For more information, visit www.utexas.edu/law/admissions/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13214/

The American Journal of Criminal Law (AJCL) is now accepting new members. If you are interested in joining one of the country's top criminal law journals, please send a resume, transcript, and a writing sample to managing.ajcl@gmail.com by February 3rd. Applicants who got an A+ or A in Criminal Law will automatically be invited to join after an application is submitted. If there are any questions, please contact Brenna McGee at managing.ajcl@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13560/

All UT Law students are welcome to stop by for breakfast tacos and meet with the Austin, Dallas, and Houston hiring partners of Andrews Kurth LLP. This is a great opportunity for 1Ls to learn more about the firm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13598/

This is the second of a two-part webinar series, co-sponsored by NALP and Equal Justice Works, which will provide law students with insight on the key elements of the summer public interest job application process. Attorneys with years of experience in candidate selection will highlight do’s and don’ts and explore the dynamics of personal interactions in interviews and networking situations. Panelists include Nicole Simmons ‘07, Public Interest Career Counselor, The University of Texas School of Law; Nita Mazumder, Program Manager for Law School Relations, Equal Justice Works; and David Zisser, Associate Counsel, The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

We invite you to watch this webinar. Pizza will be served. RSVP on UT Law Symplicity by Tuesday, January 31, by selecting the 'Events' tab.

If you are unable to attend, you may register for the webinar directly.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13519/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13393/

Do you wonder what your professors work on outside of the classroom? Here’s your chance to find out! Our next speaker is Professor Bill Allison, Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at UT Law. Professor Allison will discuss some of his notable cases, including the Michael Morton case. Morton spent nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit and was released in October, 2011. Join us on Wednesday, February 1 at 3:30 pm in the Sheffield Room. Light refreshments will be served. We will be recording the session for those who can’t make it – a link will be posted on the Library’s blog.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13075/

An attorney from Akin Gump will speak to the Intellectual Property Law Society about his practice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/01/13494/

The American Journal of Criminal Law (AJCL) is now accepting new members. If you are interested in joining one of the country's top criminal law journals, please send a resume, transcript, and a writing sample to managing.ajcl@gmail.com by February 3rd. Applicants who got an A+ or A in Criminal Law will automatically be invited to join after an application is submitted. If there are any questions, please contact Brenna McGee at managing.ajcl@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/02/13561/

Prof. Mark Tushnet from Harvard presents his paper "Art and the First Amendment" at Profs. Berman, Sager and Ferejohn's Colloquium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/02/13667/

The American Journal of Criminal Law (AJCL) is now accepting new members. If you are interested in joining one of the country's top criminal law journals, please send a resume, transcript, and a writing sample to managing.ajcl@gmail.com by February 3rd. Applicants who got an A+ or A in Criminal Law will automatically be invited to join after an application is submitted. If there are any questions, please contact Brenna McGee at managing.ajcl@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/03/13562/

The ten years since the attacks of 9/11 and range of government responses have featured important and competing trends in the arena of civil rights damages litigation. This conference will bring together leading civil rights litigators, advocates, and scholars in criminal justice, racial justice, immigration, and national security to explore the confluence of these trends across substantive areas, discussing both concrete litigation strategies as well as the broader practical and theoretical context in which these remedial barriers operate.

The day will consist of three panels addressing immunities, Bivens doctrine, and privileges and secrecy, as well as a lunchtime keynote address by Susan Herman, President of the American Civil Liberties Union, chaired professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, and author of the recently published Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy.

For more information about the conference and how to register, please consult the conference website: http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/publicinterest/events/civilrights.html

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/03/12631/

A luncheon meeting for planning the 100th Anniversary of the Chancellors

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/03/13636/

Tentative date for sculpture unveiling

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/03/12958/

Law students perform in a mock trial with Gold E. Locks, a well-known storybook figure, as the defendant. The Honorable Edward C. Prado, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, will preside. Children in the courtroom will be selected to serve as the jurors.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/04/13727/

Charles E. Di Leva, Chief Counsel, Climate Change, Sustainable Development and International Law, Legal Vice Presidency at the World Bank will address climate change and sustainable development between 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and then his life in the law from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Audience members may attend one or both sessions. RSVP on UT Law Symplicity by Friday, February 3, by selecting the 'Events' tab. Co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law; the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, & Environmental Law; and UT Law Career Services Office.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/06/12751/

UT Law’s Westlaw representative, Chris Schmidt, provides an update for faculty on the latest Westlaw features.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/06/12957/

Come join as we plan events for February focusing on anti-trafficking in Central Texas. We will be working on our mission statement, volunteer projects, and other events.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/06/13697/

First, second- and third-year students and alumni up to one year after graduation are eligible to participate in Spring On-Campus Interviews per employer requests. Online bidding ends at 5 p.m. today.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/06/12776/

The Federalist Society presents Justice Wainwright, speaking on the topic: "Judicial Philosophy, what is it really?"

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/06/13732/

Come to our meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 7th at 3:15pm in rm. 3.124

Texas Law Students for Reproductive Justice educate, organize, and support law students to ensure that a new generation of advocates will be prepared to protect and expand reproductive rights as basic civil and human rights.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/07/13632/

Julia Vaughan, Executive Director of the Texas Board of Law Examiners, will explain the components of the Texas Bar Exam, as well as the rules regarding taking the bar

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/07/13679/

The Alumni Association is hosting a reception for Los Angeles alumni on Tuesday, February 7 at 6:00 p.m. at Rosa Mexicano, 800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/07/13693/

Please join your fellow LSRJ members for an interactive webinar with the Center for Reproductive Rights to learn more about abortion law reform movements globally, and the Center’s work in securing women’s access to safe abortion services in both law and practice, straight from the attorneys working on the cases.

Since 1998, the Center for Reproductive Rights has produced The World's Abortion Laws map which visually compares the legal status of induced abortion in different countries and is a tool to advocate for greater progress in ensuring access to safe and legal abortion services for all women worldwide. The legal status of abortion is an important indicator of women's ability to enjoy their reproductive rights, and legal restrictions on abortion often cause high levels of illegal and unsafe abortion. There is a proven link between unsafe abortion and maternal mortality.

Since 1994, when 179 governments signed the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action, signaling their commitment to prevent unsafe abortion, more than 25 countries worldwide have liberalized their abortion laws, while only a handful have tightened legal restrictions on abortion. However, despite the positive trend toward liberalized abortion laws globally, gaps in the implementation of abortion laws, or procedural barriers placed in the way of abortion services, may render services in some countries inaccessible in practice.

This webinar will highlight recent trends and cases and will also introduce the new interactive component of The World's Abortion Laws map, which makes the abortion laws of key countries easily available online. This also provides links to helpful advocacy tools for abortion law reform and links to more information on the Center's work around the world.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/07/13719/

Please join Christian Legal Society for a presentation by local priest, Father Kincl of the Diocses of Austin, on the basics of Catholic canon law. The presentation will be Wednesday February 8th at 9:30am in the Fleming Room. It will be very informal, so if you can only make a portion feel free to come for what you can.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/08/13735/

Want to spend your summer making a difference but afraid you can't afford it? Do you have a public interest job for the summer? Interviewing at the Public Service Career Fair?

Texas Law Fellowships gives $4,000 fellowships to students who spend their summers doing at least 10 weeks of public interest work. If you are interested in receiving funding, come to the informational meeting on Wednesday February 8 at 3.15 in 2.138

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/08/13670/

The bar exam includes The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), which is 200 multiple choice questions in six basic ares of law. Learn the skills you'll need (and can practice now!) to do well on this part of the bar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/08/13703/

Join us on Wednesday as we watch and discuss "Demand," a 45-minute documentary film by Shared Hope International, about the economic side of sex trafficking. The film will be shown in TNH 2.124 at 4pm with a discussion (and pizza) afterwards in TNH 3.119F at 5pm. This is the first in a series of events organized by the Human Rights Law Society about human trafficking.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/08/13737/

Overview: The Thurgood Marshall Legal Society (TMLS) will host its Second Biennial Spring Symposium on February 9, 2012 at The University of Texas School of Law. The theme of the Symposium is “Pursuing Social Justice.”

The Spring Symposium will attract attorneys, professors, entrepreneurs, judges, and law students from around the nation in a stimulating exchange of ideas and legal experience. We are honored to have the Supreme Court of Texas open the Symposium with oral arguments in UT Law’s Eidman Courtroom. A formal luncheon will follow the oral arguments as well as an opportunity to meet the Justices. Attendees will then attend a series of panels covering civil, political, and ethical topics, receiving up to 3.0 hours of CLE credit for attendance while hearing from leading minds in their respective legal fields.

The Symposium is sure to be a distinctive event with an anticipated 150 to 200 Symposium attendees, including local media outlets. Your attendance is encouraged and welcomed by not only Symposium panelists and attendees, but by all UT Law students and faculty. We look forward to seeing you there!

Registration: Payments in the form of check or cash will be accepted on the day of the event, should you wish to use another form of payment. RSVPs can thus also be sent to secretary.tmls@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13716/

Oral Arguments from the Supreme Court of Texas followed by a luncheon and CLE panels.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13480/

The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law will hold the seventh annual Texas Energy Law Symposium at the Alumni Center on February 9-10. Topics will include hydraulic fracturing, solar energy law, legal implications of competitive energy markets, and the use of MLPs in oil & gas transactions. For a full program and additional information, please visit www.tjogel.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13602/

Oral arguments from the Supreme Court of Texas followed by a luncheon and CLE panels.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13596/

Profs. Berman, Ferejohn and Sager's Seminar #29875 Spring 2012

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13740/

Texas International Law Journal 2012 Symposium, The Euro Crisis Thursday February 9. Keynote Address is 5:00-5:30p in the Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306).

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13453/

All UT Law students are invited to attend a networking reception with New York-based employers at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center on campus. This is a perfect opportunity to learn more about the New York legal market as well as network in a casual setting. Dress is business casual.

RSVP on UT Law Symplicity by Wednesday, February 8, by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/09/13520/

8:30a-9:00a Check-in and breakfast - Jamail Pavilion

9:00a-9:15a Introduction - Eidman Courtroom

9:15a-11:00a Panel 1: Euro Crisis and Financial Markets - Eidman Courtroom

11:15a-1:00p Panel 2: Euro Crisis and Legal Responses - Eidman Courtroom

2:15p-4:00p Panel 3: Euro Crisis and EU Constitutional Law - Eidman Courtroom

4:15p-4:30p Concluding Remarks - Eidman Courtroom

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/10/13454/

The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law will hold the seventh annual Texas Energy Law Symposium at the Alumni Center on February 9-10. Topics will include hydraulic fracturing, solar energy law, legal implications of competitive energy markets, and the use of MLPs in oil & gas transactions. For a full program and additional information, please visit www.tjogel.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/10/13603/

This is the first of two mandatory meetings for 2Ls and 3Ls who will be applying for judicial clerkships. UT Law Judicial Clerkship Advisors will discuss how to determine what courts you are competitive for, how to select judges, and how and when to apply for clerkships.

3Ls: For those of you who have already applied for clerkships, you do not need to attend this meeting. You should speak to your recommenders by late March to reaffirm their willingness to write letters or seek out new recommenders. You do not need to meet with a clerkship advisor unless you want to. However, you must attend the second mandatory meeting on Thursday, April 12, to learn about the new application process.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/10/13521/

The bar exam includes The Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), which is 200 multiple choice questions in six basic ares of law. Learn the skills you'll need (and can practice now!) to do well on this part of the bar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/10/13704/

For more information, visit www.lsac.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/11/13212/