Events Calendar

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/

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/

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/

Supreme Ct. Clinic meeting and lunch

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

Alternate students have until noon to schedule interviews via UT Law Symplicity for Spring On-Campus Interviews. Alternate scheduling is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/19/12780/

Please join us for the first event in our spring Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series. Professor Jorge Contesse of the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile will present a talk entitled “Inter-American Constitutionalism: The Creation and Internalization of Human Rights.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Monday, February 20th, from 3:30-5:30pm, in TNH 3.142 at the University of Texas School of Law. Daniel Brinks, Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director of the Rapoport Center, will serve as a respondent to his talk.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/20/13812/

Come to our meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 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/2012/02/21/13633/

The Alumni Association is hosting a reception for New York alumni on Tuesday, February 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the law firm of Covington & Burling, 620 Eighth Avenue, NYC.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/21/13694/

Delta Theta Phi's 2nd annual lawschool volleyball tournament benefitting Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/22/13814/

Tom Loeffler 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/2012/02/23/12325/

The Federalist Society presents Sandra Froman, President of the NRA, speaking on the topic of Gun Control.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/23/13733/

The Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law holds an annual symposium. Our topic for this year will be The Evolution of Entertainment and Sports Law: Breaking Technological and Geographical Barriers. For this year's symposium we have the honor to welcome Professors Daniel Gandert, Lucas A. Powe Jr., Michael J Cramer, prominent entertainment attorneys Mr. Joseph A. Stallone and Lawrence Waks among others to discuss our topic. A special invitation luncheon will also be held during this event. For agenda and additional information please contact Ms. Abril Davila at symposiumeditor.tresl@gmail.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/24/13517/

The Texas Law Review has partnered with Professor Henry T.C. Hu to host a symposium focused on the landscape of modern capital markets and corporations. The symposium, Reshaping Capital Markets and Institutions: Twenty Years On, will take place in Austin, Texas on February 24–25, 2012.

Envisioned as a follow-up to Texas Law Review’s groundbreaking 1991 symposium issue on financial innovation, also in partnership with Professor Hu, this event will bring together exceptional academics, practitioners, and regulators to present papers examining various elements of the current financial landscape.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/24/13336/

The Texas Law Review has partnered with Professor Henry T.C. Hu to host a symposium focused on the landscape of modern capital markets and corporations. The symposium, Reshaping Capital Markets and Institutions: Twenty Years On, will take place in Austin, Texas on February 24–25, 2012.

Envisioned as a follow-up to Texas Law Review’s groundbreaking 1991 symposium issue on financial innovation, also in partnership with Professor Hu, this event will bring together exceptional academics, practitioners, and regulators to present papers examining various elements of the current financial landscape.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/25/13337/

Spring Trial Academy

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/25/13816/