Events Calendar

This multidisciplinary and comparative conference will explore the ambivalent relationship between human rights and property and the extent to which the right to property might advance a human rights agenda. An impressive array of scholars from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States will provide comparative perspectives on such topics as changing conceptions of property, the role of property rights in dispossession and redistribution, and the implications of private titling.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/01/12618/

This Thursday the American Constitution Society is having its Spring Attorney-Student Happy Hour at the Dog & Duck. We usually have a great turnout of students, recent grads, faculty, and local attorneys. Feel free to bring friends or significant others.

Who: UT ACS Members, Friends, and Local Attorneys What: General Membership Happy Hour and Attorney-Student Mentor Meet-up Where: Dog & Duck Pub, 406 W. 17th Street (Corner of Guadalupe & 17th) When: 5:30 PM on Thursday, March 1st Why: Drink with Fellow Progressive Students and Attorneys for FREE

This will be a great opportunity to talk to the current board about applying to the ACS Board. Finally, the weather forecast says it'll be a warm and sunny afternoon that calls for a cold drink!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/01/14004/

A&F presents: "Callback to the Future," an original law school parody musical written by and starring law students. Intermission will feature a performance by Medley, the law school a capella group. The show is in the Utopia Theater in the School of Social Work, located at 1925 San Jacinto. Tickets are available in the atrium or at www.assaultandflattery.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/01/13995/

This multidisciplinary and comparative conference will explore the ambivalent relationship between human rights and property and the extent to which the right to property might advance a human rights agenda. An impressive array of scholars from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States will provide comparative perspectives on such topics as changing conceptions of property, the role of property rights in dispossession and redistribution, and the implications of private titling.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/02/12624/

A&F presents: "Callback to the Future," an original law school parody musical written by and starring law students. Intermission will feature a performance by Medley, the law school a capella group. The show is in the Utopia Theater in the School of Social Work, located at 1925 San Jacinto. Tickets are available in the atrium or at www.assaultandflattery.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/02/13997/

Spring Trial Academy

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/03/13817/

Explore UT participants are invited to get an overview of the application process and requirements for law school admission. Learn about steps to take early in an academic career to better prepare for law school consideration. Presented by Director of Admission Programs Sam Riley.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/03/13724/

Why is a dress code allowed under our right to freedom of expression in the Constitution? Come see what you can and can’t do, wear and say in school. You may be surprised.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/03/13725/

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/2012/03/03/13726/

Free Amy’s Ice Cream is served to visitors. Come over for a cool, creamy break.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/03/13728/

A&F presents: "Callback to the Future," an original law school parody musical written by and starring law students. Intermission will feature a performance by Medley, the law school a capella group. The show is in the Utopia Theater in the School of Social Work, located at 1925 San Jacinto. Tickets are available in the atrium or at www.assaultandflattery.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/03/13998/

ABA Site Visit

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/04/12215/

A&F presents: "Callback to the Future," an original law school parody musical written by and starring law students. Intermission will feature a performance by Medley, the law school a capella group. The show is in the Utopia Theater in the School of Social Work, located at 1925 San Jacinto. Tickets are available in the atrium or at www.assaultandflattery.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/04/13996/

ABA Site Visit

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/05/12216/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/05/13943/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/05/13942/

ABA Site Visit

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/06/12217/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/06/13948/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/06/13945/

The Texas Young Lawyers Association’s (TYLA) Law Student Outreach Committee will be presenting its job search seminar, "How to Get a Job After Law School: The Unclassified Story," which will give practical advice to students about finding a job. Of note is the seminar’s focus on students who traditionally do not find employment through on-campus interviews. Student attendees will receive a TYLA “Tip Card” that contains advice on networking, interviewing, and building a job search strategy. The Tip Card also contains information about non-legal jobs for lawyers. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP by Monday, March 5, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the “Events” tab.

**The program will be held in the Eidman Courtroom. Please make note of the change.**

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/06/13748/

Come to our meeting: Tuesday, March 6th, 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/2012/03/06/13634/

ABA Site Visit

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/07/12218/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/07/13949/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/07/13946/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/08/13950/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/08/13947/

The Credit CARD Act of 2009 changed the fine print for credit cards, standardizing billing cycles, restricting interest rate hikes and fees, and protecting vulnerable populations such as teens and sub-prime borrowers. Critics argue that the Act raised interest rates, redistributed the cost of risky borrowers onto reliable borrowers, and cost consumers billions.

The UT Law Student Chapter of the American Constitution Society hosts a discussion with UT Law Professor Angela K. Littwin, a consumer protection, credit card, and bankruptcy expert. Prof. Littwin will speak about the effects of the CARD Act on consumers and lenders, and will offer her insights as to what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its new director should do next.

Lunch will be provided.

Where: TNH 3.127

Date: Thursday, March 8th Time: 11:30-12:20

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/08/14000/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/09/13951/

Second Annual Texas Environmental Law Journal Symposium

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/09/12605/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/10/13952/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/11/13953/

Spring Break week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/12/13145/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/12/13954/

Spring Break week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/13/13146/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/13/13955/

Spring Break week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/14/13147/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/14/13956/

Spring Break week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/15/13148/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/15/13957/

Spring Break week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/16/13149/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/16/13958/

Spring Break week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/17/13150/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/17/13959/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/18/13960/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/19/13961/

Arleas Upton Kea 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/2012/03/20/12326/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/20/13962/

Judge Yeakel will be speaking to the student body on his perspective on clerkships, as well as his recent trip to Cuba where he was sent as an emissary for the US.

A reception will be held afterwards in the Jamail Pavilion for Delta Theta Phi members to visit with Judge Yeakel and other noted alumni.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/20/13980/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/21/13963/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/22/13964/

The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association will grill on-site and serve plates of fresh beef, chicken, and veggie tacos to Law School patrons to support academic and public interest scholarships awarded each summer.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/22/14042/

We will bring together legal and policy professionals to discuss issues related to civil rights and access to fair credit.

There will be a panel in the morning and a lunch break followed by a keynote speaker and a second panel discussion in the afternoon.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/22/13702/

Beyond Any Bar presents its first “The Career Path Less Traveled” Speaker Panel - Consulting & Oil & Gas Exploration

Beyond Any Bar, the law student association for students considering nontraditional careers, is hosting a speaker panel to discuss paths to a successful nontraditional career in business and community consulting, and oil, gas, and mineral land exploration and production. If you are thinking that a law firm might not be the best place for you, come hear why you are right! The three panelists are representative of many of our alumni that have used their legal education to succeed in other careers.

Joining us on at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday March 22, 2012 will be:

Lindsay Jaffee (JD) Senior Landman and Team Lead-Avalon Shale at Anadarko Petroleum in The Woodlands, Texas.

Luis G. Gonzalez (JD) President, Co-Founder, and CEO of Our Community Inc., in San Antonio Texas.

H. Analco Gonzalez (JD) President and Co-Founder of Our Community Inc., in San Antonio Texas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/22/14117/

Elizabeth Julian (UT Law ’73), Director of the Inclusive Communities Project in Dallas and former Deputy General Counsel of HUD, will speak about housing segregation and innovative tools being used in the Dallas region to provide low income minority families with better access to good schools and healthy neighborhoods. A local response panel will explore how these tools could be applied in the Austin region. 1.5 Hours CLE available. Lunch provided. RSVP to rsidopulos@law.utexas.edu.

Co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the UT Opportunity Forum

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/22/13455/

Clint Bolick, from the Goldwater Institute, will be speaking on the topic of School Choice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/22/13993/

The Leadership Boot Camp is a limited enrollment, all-day, intensive workshop for 2Ls, 3Ls, judicial clerks, and LL.M. students. Expert trainers will deliver lectures in effective communication, self-promotion, and networking. Following each lecture, students will work in interactive small groups of four to six students with two faculty members (distinguished attorneys from across Texas) to perfect these skills and receive individualized critiques.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/23/12857/

The Spring Pledge Drive is our biggest fundraising event. During the weeks before and after Spring Break, we raise money from around the UT law community. Students donate money so their peers can enter public service. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/23/13965/

A symposium focusing on the historical link between lynching and the death penalty, their similarities and differences, and the enduring role of lynching and race discrimination in contemporary capital litigation.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/24/12318/

educational workshop for second-year interscholastic mock trial members

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/24/14001/

Come join Texas Law Students for Reproductive Justice and the American Constitution Society for "Shackling During Labor & Delivery: Practice, Policy, and Texas Prisoners' Reproductive Rights." We'll be hosting Michelle Smith of the Texas Civil Rights Project; Diana Claitor of the Texas Jail Project; and Andrea Bos, our own UT Law student to discuss the history, use, constitutionality of such practices in Texas. Everyone is welcome on March 26th at 3:30pm in TNH 3.142. Light snacks will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/26/14112/

In February, The Texas Abortion Sonogram Law went into effect. This law requires a woman seeking an abortion to first get an ultrasound, and then be shown the ultrasound image and listen to her doctor describe the image in detail. Please join us to learn about the legal and medical effects of this highly controversial law.

Mr. Blake Rocap, Legislative Council for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, will discuss the legal aspects of the bill. Joining him, Dr. Scott Spear, Medical Director of Planned Parenthood - Texas Capital Region, will discuss its medical implications.

Event hosted by the Health Law and Bioethics Society, American Constitution Society, and the Texas Law Students for Reproductive Justice. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/27/14056/

2C & 2D Registration Session

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/27/14172/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/28/13718/

The Prosecutorial Oversight Campaign is a national tour to initiate dialogue and seek answers to these questions: • What are the systems we rely upon to ensure prosecutorial accountability? • What does research-based evidence tell us about how well those systems are working? • What improvements should be made to these systems to ensure quality and accountability?

The Austin, Texas event will be a public discussion of these issues, with a prosecutor, a jurist, a legal ethicist, and a representative of the Texas bar disciplinary committee.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/29/13815/

TMLS 31st Annual Banquet Thurgood Marshall Legal Society | Friday, March 30, 2012

Please RSVP by Friday, March 16, 2012

The Thurgood Marshall Legal Society (TMLS) is proud to be The University of Texas School of Law's local chapter of the national Black Law Students Association (NBLSA). A group of about 65 students, TMLS strives to provide benefits to its members and the entire law school community.

TMLS concludes each year with its annual banquet honoring out outgoing third-year members, the African-American legal community, and our donors for their distinguished support of the organization and the community. We hope you can join us if you are in town for admitted students weekend.

This year our reception begins at 6:30 pm on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 1800 Congres Avenue, Austin, TX. The banquet will commence immediately following the reception at 7:30 pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/30/13711/

educational workshop for second-year interscholastic mock trial members

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/03/31/14003/