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Professor Sarah Worthington QC (Hon) FBA, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, and Co-Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, will deliver the University of Texas School of Law’s John C. Akard Lecture at the Four Seasons Hotel Austin on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 6 p.m. Professor Worthington’s Akard Lecture is entitled “Lessons from Lehman: Persistent Probles in Secured Lending.”

The lecture, which will be presented in the San Jacinto room at the hotel, is free and open to the public.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/11/20/17871/

The conference will focus on several difficult issues at the intersection of sexual self-determination and human rights, including same-sex marriage and family, the potential and limits of anti-discrimination laws, transgender rights, sex work and trafficking, youth sexuality, pornography as it affects minors, and the regulation of sex offenders. Individual papers will explore European and American attitudes and practices on each of these issues, with the goal of presenting new conceptual paradigms for future reform efforts. The conference brings together academics, practicing attorneys and therapists, state policy makers, and activists from various points of view.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/11/22/17018/

The conference will focus on several difficult issues at the intersection of sexual self-determination and human rights, including same-sex marriage and family, the potential and limits of anti-discrimination laws, transgender rights, sex work and trafficking, youth sexuality, pornography as it affects minors, and the regulation of sex offenders. Individual papers will explore European and American attitudes and practices on each of these issues, with the goal of presenting new conceptual paradigms for future reform efforts. The conference brings together academics, practicing attorneys and therapists, state policy makers, and activists from various points of view.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/11/23/17019/

The conference will focus on several difficult issues at the intersection of sexual self-determination and human rights, including same-sex marriage and family, the potential and limits of anti-discrimination laws, transgender rights, sex work and trafficking, youth sexuality, pornography as it affects minors, and the regulation of sex offenders. Individual papers will explore European and American attitudes and practices on each of these issues, with the goal of presenting new conceptual paradigms for future reform efforts. The conference brings together academics, practicing attorneys and therapists, state policy makers, and activists from various points of view.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2013/11/24/17020/