Events Calendar

Edit session for members of the Texas Environmental Law Journal

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/12/13746/

Featuring Nina Perales, Director of Litigation, MALDEF, and Sam Brooke, Staff Attorney, Immigrant Justice Project, Southern Poverty Law Center

Moderated by Professor Barbara Hines, UT Law School Immigration Clinic

February 13, 2012, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

University of Texas School of Law, Sheffield Room, lunch provided

Discussion topics:

11:30 am - 12:30 pm The Current Wave of State Anti-Immigrant Laws

12:30 - 1:30 pm Challenging State Anti-Immigrant Laws - Litigation Nuts and Bolts

Attend one or both sessions.

The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP to Rachel Sidopulos, rsidopulos@law.utexas.edu, by February 8 to reserve your spot.

Cosponsored by the Immigration and Nationality Section of the State Bar of Texas and UT Law School’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law

About the featured speakers:

Nina Perales is a leading civil rights litigator and an expert on a range of issues, including immigrants’ rights, voting rights, and redistricting litigation. Among her current cases, she recently successfully argued in the lawsuit challenging Arizona’s anti-immigrant law known as SB 1070; she also leads the litigation that has struck down repeated anti-immigrant laws in Farmers Branch, Texas.

Sam Brooke is litigating state anti-immigrant laws throughout the Southeast, including Alabama’s HB56, Georgia’s HB87, and South Carolina’s SB20. He was a staff attorney with the ACLU of Connecticut, and a law fellow with the ACLU of Alabama. In 2009, he came to SPLC as a Soros Justice Fellow to focus on immigration enforcement abuses in the Southeast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/13/13217/

Learn what to expect in a law firm interview by listening to a candid discussion about interviewing with Michael Newman, '95, Partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP (Dallas) and Susan Salch ’94, Partner at Cantilo & Bennett, L.L.P. (Austin). They will discuss interviewing strategies and the do's and don'ts of law firm interviewing. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP.

RSVP on UT Law Symplicity by Friday, February 10, by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/13/13522/

Featuring Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa, Professor & Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Colombia.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/13/12480/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/14/13600/

Are you interested in working in the field of international human rights this summer? Are you concerned about how to make it a financial reality? The Rapoport Center offers $4,000 fellowships to students working in international human rights, including within the US. If you would like to learn more about the process and get one-on-one help from Rapoport Center scholars and fellows, please drop by at any point between 1-3pm on February 15th in room TNH 3.119F.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/15/13772/

The bar exam includes 200 multiple choice questions in six basic ares of law, including Property. In this session, students will review basic portions of Property law in preparation for the July Bar exam. Students will also answer sample bar questions on Property, using skills learned in earlier sessions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/15/13705/

The Tarlton Law Library will present its eighth annual rare book lecture, "An Accidental Collector: The Making of an Historian's Law Library" on Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. The talk features Warren M. Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/16/13395/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/16/13754/

American Gateways will train students to assist pro bono attorneys in preparing UVisa applications for the UVisa Pro Bono Project. To learn more about the project, visit: http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/publicinterest/probono/opportunities/attorneyprojects.html

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/16/12405/

Oral argument training for the first round of oral arguments for TQs.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/16/13738/

An attorney for Conley Rose will be speaking.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/16/13793/

Preselected students may begin scheduling via UT Law Symplicity for Spring On-Campus Interviews. Scheduling for preselected students ends tomorrow, Saturday, February 18, at noon. Alternate students may begin scheduling available interviews at 7 p.m. Alternate scheduling is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/17/12777/

Attorneys and professors from across the country speak about their experiences in Intellectual Property practice and offer analyses of recent changes and developments in the law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/17/13573/

The bar exam includes 200 multiple choice questions in six basic areas of law, including Property. In this session, students will review basic portions of Property law in preparation for the July Bar exam. Students will also answer sample bar questions on Property, using skills learned in earlier sessions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/17/13709/

Supreme Ct. Clinic meeting and lunch

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/17/13753/

The LBJ School of Public Affairs and the School of Law invite you to a lecture in the Mexico Watch 2012 Series: The July 1st Presidential Elections, featuring Dr. Manuel González Oropeza, Minister of the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación. Light refreshments will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/17/13797/

Preselected students must accept/decline interviews by noon via UT Law Symplicity for Spring On-Campus Interviews. Alternate students may begin scheduling available interviews at 7 p.m. Alternate scheduling is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/18/12778/

Alternate students may begin scheduling via UT Law Symplicity for Spring On-Campus Interviews. Alternate scheduling is on a first-come, first-served basis and closes tomorrow, Sunday, February 19, at noon.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/18/12779/