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March 23 All day TLF Pledge Drive Come by the TLF table in the breezeway to donate, vote, and get your MAKE LOVE, NOT LAW REVIEW swag! Texas Law Fellowships is a student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides summer funding for UT Law students who take unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations. Your donations of $20 or more... 1. Help your fellow students. 2. Help the amazing organizations they work for. 3. Help the people and causes aided by those organizations. 4. Win your society and section major cred for being good-hearted givers. 5. Earn you awesome goodies, including bumper stickers and t-shirts. Last year UT came together to fund every single applicant—let's do it again! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/23/18422/	March 24 All day TLF Pledge Drive Come by the TLF table in the breezeway to donate, vote, and get your MAKE LOVE, NOT LAW REVIEW swag! Texas Law Fellowships is a student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides summer funding for UT Law students who take unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations. Your donations of $20 or more... 1. Help your fellow students. 2. Help the amazing organizations they work for. 3. Help the people and causes aided by those organizations. 4. Win your society and section major cred for being good-hearted givers. 5. Earn you awesome goodies, including bumper stickers and t-shirts. Last year UT came together to fund every single applicant—let's do it again! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/24/18423/ 3:45pm 2014-03-24T17:45-05:00 Employment Discrimination Please join us for the next event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. This event will focus on “Approaches to Employment Discrimination.” Light refreshments will be served. Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/24/17580/	March 25 All day TLF Pledge Drive Come by the TLF table in the breezeway to donate, vote, and get your MAKE LOVE, NOT LAW REVIEW swag! Texas Law Fellowships is a student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides summer funding for UT Law students who take unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations. Your donations of $20 or more... 1. Help your fellow students. 2. Help the amazing organizations they work for. 3. Help the people and causes aided by those organizations. 4. Win your society and section major cred for being good-hearted givers. 5. Earn you awesome goodies, including bumper stickers and t-shirts. Last year UT came together to fund every single applicant—let's do it again! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18424/ 11:30am 2014-03-25T14:30-05:00 Fajita Fiesta The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association presents its semi-annual FAJITA FIESTA to fund scholarships. We'll be selling plates of beef/chicken/veggie fajitas - grilled on site - with all the fixings in the Atrium. We usually sell out so come out, enjoy delicious food, and support this great cause! Cash and credit accepted! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18562/ 12:00pm 2014-03-25T13:30-05:00 Labor Trafficking in the US Come learn about the growing labor trafficking problem in the United States, exemplified by the current ongoing litigation against the shipbuilding company Signal International. The Human Rights Law Society has invited UT Law alumnus and Equal Justice Center attorney Kayvon Sabourian to speak about his experience representing 21 of the 200+ plaintiffs in the case. This is a great opportunity to learn about issues surrounding the H2-B guest worker program as well as the rarely discussed form of human trafficking that is labor trafficking. The event will be held in room TNH 3.124 on Tuesday 3/25 from 12:00-1:30. Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18722/	March 26 All day TLF Pledge Drive Come by the TLF table in the breezeway to donate, vote, and get your MAKE LOVE, NOT LAW REVIEW swag! Texas Law Fellowships is a student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides summer funding for UT Law students who take unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations. Your donations of $20 or more... 1. Help your fellow students. 2. Help the amazing organizations they work for. 3. Help the people and causes aided by those organizations. 4. Win your society and section major cred for being good-hearted givers. 5. Earn you awesome goodies, including bumper stickers and t-shirts. Last year UT came together to fund every single applicant—let's do it again! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/26/18425/	March 27 All day TLF Pledge Drive Come by the TLF table in the breezeway to donate, vote, and get your MAKE LOVE, NOT LAW REVIEW swag! Texas Law Fellowships is a student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides summer funding for UT Law students who take unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations. Your donations of $20 or more... 1. Help your fellow students. 2. Help the amazing organizations they work for. 3. Help the people and causes aided by those organizations. 4. Win your society and section major cred for being good-hearted givers. 5. Earn you awesome goodies, including bumper stickers and t-shirts. Last year UT came together to fund every single applicant—let's do it again! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/27/18426/ 11:45am 2014-03-27T13:00-05:00 Doug Laycock on Religious Freedom Case Thursday, March 27, 11:45 to 1 in the Sheffield Room Lunch provided Join us for a talk by Professor Douglas Laycock, one of the nation’s leading constitutional law scholars and advocates. Professor Laycock will discuss Town of Greece, currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which involves the legal limits on public prayer in government meetings. He argued before the Court on behalf of Galloway last fall. Douglas Laycock, one of the nation's leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberty, visits the law school as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence. He will discuss Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last fall that may clarify the legal limits on public prayer in government meetings. Laycock has testified frequently before Congress and has argued many cases in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of the leading casebook Modern American Remedies; the award-winning monograph The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule; and many articles in the leading law reviews. He has co-edited a collection of essays, Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, and he recently published Religious Liberty, Volume I: Overviews and History, and Volume II: The Free Exercise Clause. These two volumes are the first half of a four-volume collection of his many writings on religious liberty. Laycock is vice president of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2009 winner of the National First Freedom Award from the Council on America's First Freedom. Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/27/18355/	March 28 All day Diversity Higher Education Post-Fisher This all-day conference will bring together scholars, advocates, educators and students to examine contemporary debates involving diversity in higher education. Noted Princeton sociologist Marta Tienda will provide a keynote address at lunch. For more information and to register, please visit the conference website. Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18204/ All day TLF Pledge Drive Come by the TLF table in the breezeway to donate, vote, and get your MAKE LOVE, NOT LAW REVIEW swag! Texas Law Fellowships is a student-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides summer funding for UT Law students who take unpaid summer internships with public interest organizations. Your donations of $20 or more... 1. Help your fellow students. 2. Help the amazing organizations they work for. 3. Help the people and causes aided by those organizations. 4. Win your society and section major cred for being good-hearted givers. 5. Earn you awesome goodies, including bumper stickers and t-shirts. Last year UT came together to fund every single applicant—let's do it again! Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18427/	29
30	31	April 1 12:00pm 2014-04-01T13:00-05:00 2014 Drought in Central Texas Join us for the fifth and final installment of the Energy Center’s Spring 2014 Distinguished Lecture Series. Listen to water experts Christy Muse, Executive Director, Hill Country Alliance (HCA), and Lyn Clancy, Senior Water Policy Advisor at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), discuss the severe drought gripping Central Texas/Hill Country that shows little sign of relenting in 2014 and its environmental implications. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to mpajon@law.utexas.edu. About Christy Muse Since 2005, Christy Muse has served as the Executive Director of HCA. She travels extensively throughout the Hill Country hosting gatherings of interested stakeholders, speaking at community meetings, participating in educational programs, and meeting with landowners and residents alike. Her personal HCA objectives are to weave a network of smart action-oriented people who care about this special region, to connect the many valuable conservation initiatives, to avoid redundancy, and to create unique informative resources that are shared freely and generously. About Lyn Clancy A frequent presenter on water rights, Lyn Clancy is Senior Water Policy at LCRA and is editor-in-chief of the Texas Environmental Law Journal. Her specialties include: Texas water rights, water supply acquisition and development, river management and flood liability, and water policy and planning. Clancy served as chair of the Water Laws committee on the Texas Water Conservation Association and received the President’s Award in 2007. She holds a master’s degree in water resources management and water chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. > Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/18052/ 7:00pm 2014-04-01T21:00-05:00 PILA Potluck Join the Public Interest Law Association Tuesday, April 1st at 7:00PM for our monthly Potluck. We will hear from professors and practitioners about their public interest career paths as well as from representatives from other public interest student organizations. There is no better way to get plugged in to the public interest community than to attend PILA Potlucks! PILA will provide the main meal and drinks, but feel free to bring additional side dishes or desserts. Need a ride? We are setting up a carpool for those of you who don’t have transportation from and back to campus. Contact sarahpbryant@gmail.com to get your name on the carpool list. Location: 1175 Graham, Austin, Texas 78702. Note on parking: My neighbors will thank you if you can park your car on Walnut Avenue (beside the Baptist church or behind the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex). My house is the fourth one on the right on Graham Street. Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/17513/	2	April 3 5:30pm 2014-04-03T19:00-05:00 UT Law LL.M. Alumni-Student Mixer All UT Law international and domestic LL.M. students and international exchange students are invited to meet and network with UT Law LL.M. alumni and friends to learn about their student experience and career path after graduation. Hosted by the UT Law Career Services Office and International Student Programs, this mixer is a great way to expand your network and meet local LL.M. alumni, so don't miss out! The UT Law LL.M. Alumni-Student Mixer will be held on Thursday, April 3, 2014 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd. in Austin (map). Scholz Garten is one mile from the Law School, which is about a 15-20 minute walk (see map above). Please RSVP by Thursday, March 27, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab. Dress is business casual. Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/18727/	4	5