Events Calendar

The University of Texas School of Law’s Higher Education Taxation Institute (HETI) provides a unique forum for college and university tax professionals from around the country to examine and discuss federal tax issues and compliance, legislative, judicial, regulatory and administrative changes affecting colleges and universities. Don't miss valuable expertise, timely insight into federal tax law developments, and numerous networking opportunities with sessions that include:

- Updates from key IRS officials - Sunday Evening Keynote Presentation by the U.S. Department of Education—The Future of Higher Education - Major developments in college and university tax law - Issues in tax-exempt finance, alternative investments, charitable contributions and employment law - In-house counsel advice and strategies for managing IRS audits - Hot topics in college and university UBIT - Preparing and implementing a tax-exempt bond and compliance policy - Practical approaches to evaluating and structuring joint venture opportunities - Changing tax regulations regarding foreign payees - Risks and opportunities in global expansion of higher education

Register at www.utcle.org/conferences/UT13

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/24/16226/

The University of Texas School of Law’s Higher Education Taxation Institute (HETI) provides a unique forum for college and university tax professionals from around the country to examine and discuss federal tax issues and compliance, legislative, judicial, regulatory and administrative changes affecting colleges and universities. Don't miss valuable expertise, timely insight into federal tax law developments, and numerous networking opportunities with sessions that include:

- Updates from key IRS officials - Sunday Evening Keynote Presentation by the U.S. Department of Education—The Future of Higher Education - Major developments in college and university tax law - Issues in tax-exempt finance, alternative investments, charitable contributions and employment law - In-house counsel advice and strategies for managing IRS audits - Hot topics in college and university UBIT - Preparing and implementing a tax-exempt bond and compliance policy - Practical approaches to evaluating and structuring joint venture opportunities - Changing tax regulations regarding foreign payees - Risks and opportunities in global expansion of higher education

Register at www.utcle.org/conferences/UT13

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/25/16227/

The University of Texas School of Law’s Higher Education Taxation Institute (HETI) provides a unique forum for college and university tax professionals from around the country to examine and discuss federal tax issues and compliance, legislative, judicial, regulatory and administrative changes affecting colleges and universities. Don't miss valuable expertise, timely insight into federal tax law developments, and numerous networking opportunities with sessions that include:

- Updates from key IRS officials - Sunday Evening Keynote Presentation by the U.S. Department of Education—The Future of Higher Education - Major developments in college and university tax law - Issues in tax-exempt finance, alternative investments, charitable contributions and employment law - In-house counsel advice and strategies for managing IRS audits - Hot topics in college and university UBIT - Preparing and implementing a tax-exempt bond and compliance policy - Practical approaches to evaluating and structuring joint venture opportunities - Changing tax regulations regarding foreign payees - Risks and opportunities in global expansion of higher education

Register at www.utcle.org/conferences/UT13

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16228/

Please join us for a special event featuring Miguel Sarre, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Public Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Professor Sarre will present a talk entitled “Prisons in Latin America: Building up the Wall of Separation between Justice and Revenge.” The event is co-sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Immigration Clinic. Lunch will be provided; RSVP to humanrights@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/26/16383/

Need a notary for your state bar exam application? Notaries are available in the Susman Godfrey Atrium at the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Notaries are not available outside of these hours on these dates. Students must be prepared to show a photo ID and the notary must witness the student sign the document. Notaries are available for Law School and state bar-related business only. There is no charge.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16330/

CHLSA will be selling baked goods to raise money for scholarships for students doing public interest work. We will begin selling in the atrium at 10am until 3 or sold out.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/16335/

The Federalist Society will host a debate on national security and terrorism between Professor Robert M. Chesney and Greg McNeal. Mr. McNeal, among other things, co-directed a transnational counterterrorism program for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/27/15932/

Need a notary for your state bar exam application? Notaries are available in the Susman Godfrey Atrium at the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Notaries are not available outside of these hours on these dates. Students must be prepared to show a photo ID and the notary must witness the student sign the document. Notaries are available for Law School and state bar-related business only. There is no charge.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/16333/

Please join us for a discussion of recent developments with immigration law experts Lucas Guttentag of the ACLU, and Nina Perales of MALDEF Moderated by Professors Michael Churgin and Barbara Hines, UT Law School

Nina Perales is Vice President of Litigation for MALDEF. Lucas Guttentag is senior counsel and founding national director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Yale Law School Distinguished Senior Fellow in Residence. The event organizers have request 2 hours of CLE.

Lunch provided. Please RSVP to Rachel Sidopulos, rsidopulos@law.utexas.edu, by March 22 to reserve your spot.

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/15849/

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, The Texas Observer, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History will host a panel discussion entitled “The Legacy of the Dirty Thirty.” The panel will explore a pivotal period in Texas politics in the early ’70s when a group of lawmakers, known as the Dirty Thirty, challenged the influence of special interest in the Legislature and the power of House leadership.

Panelists will be Sissy Farenthold, Dirty Thirty member and former gubernatorial candidate; Tom Bass, Dirty Thirty member and former Harris County commissioner; Terry O’Rourke, legal strategist, Dirty Thirty; Ronnie Dugger, founding editor of The Texas Observer. The moderator will be State Rep. Ana Hernandez Luna of Houston.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at Walthall@texasobserver.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/28/16098/

Reminder for 3Ls planning to sit for the Texas July 2013 Bar Exam: in order to sit for the exam, your In-State Application to Take the TX Bar Exam must be post-marked by March 30. This deadline is strictly enforced.

Applicants who have not yet filed their Declaration of Intention to Study Law must do so prior to or with their In-State Application.

The TX BLE is not open on weekends. If you would like to hand deliver your completed application by the preceding Friday, their office is located at:

205 W. 14th St. Ste 500, Austin, TX 78701

You're encouraged to arrive well in advance of the 5 PM closing time.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/03/30/14764/