Events Calendar

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

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

For more information, visit www.lsac.org.

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

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/

Join the American Constitution Society for a lunchtime panel discussion on the National Defense Authorization Act, featuring Professor Robert Chesney, Professor Ranjana Natarajan, and Professor Ahmed Ghappour. We will focus on the conflict between national security and civil liberties inherent in certain provisions of the bill. This promises to be a fascinating debate.

We will provide FREE PIZZA and drinks for all attendees. See y'all there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/28/13941/

The Alumni Association is hosting a reception for alumni on Tuesday, February 28 at 6:00 p.m. at Rosa Mexicano, 575 7th Street at F street NW, Washington DC.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/28/13695/

An Associate from Pirkey Barber will talk about Trademark Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2012/02/29/13940/