Events Calendar

ELS Speaker Series on Tuesday, September 18th at 12:00 pm in the Eidman Jury Room featuring Adam Abrams of the Texas Environmental Law Center. Mr. Abrams will talk about climate change litigation and the public trust doctrine. Lunch will be served.

The Student Affairs Office is holding a mandatory student organization meeting at 2:15 on Tuesday, Sept 18 in the Auditorium. All UT Law student organizations must have representation at the meeting. We’ll go over events, accounting, rules for publicizing events and how to use the many resources available to you as student orgs.

Please join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary, MISS REPRESENTATION, for the UT Community in the Francis Auditorium (TNH 2.114) on September 20. We will gather at 5:30 pm, followed by the moving screening at 6:00, and a brief discussion after the movie. SPONSORED BY: Center for Women in Law and Texas Wall Street Women

An Expert Panel to Consider: Do copyright protections hamper free speech? or facilitate it? Is a mash-up plagiarism? or creative expression? Does digitalization change the old rules?

Robert Levine, Editor and Author covering the culture business Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, George Mason University Neil Netanel, Professor of Law, UCLA

Created in response to the Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was borne of the Dodd-Frank Act, the most significant piece of financial regulation since the Great Depression. Together, the legislation and the agency that it created are supposed to make the financial system safer, but critics claim it is too convoluted to understand, let alone implement. Rob Ellsworth and Chris DiAngelo will explain how the Act came to fruit