Events Calendar

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/

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/

Learn how to reach the people you want to meet and successfully develop long-term professional relationships for job leads and future business from Ari Kaplan, a nationally recognized author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (Thomson-West, 2008). Lunch will be served. RSVP by Friday, March 21, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab. Presented by Jackson Walker L.L.P.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/24/18275/

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/

If you plan to graduate in May, you must submit your application to the Student Affairs Office by 5 p.m.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/24/18721/

Early spring write-on applications for the Texas Environmental Law Journal (TELJ) are due Monday, March 24th at 5:00pm.

Applications must be submitted to texasenvironmentallawjournal@gmail.com and must include: 1. Resume 2. Writing Sample: Your writing sample can be any legal memo or brief that you have written either for school or work. It must include citations. You are welcome to use the memo you wrote for your LRW class. 3. Personal Statement: State in a concise manner why you are interested in environmental law of joining TELJ. Suggested length is one-half page.

If you have any questions about TELJ, stop by our journal office (TNH 4.128) or email us at texasenvironmentallawjournal@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/24/18735/

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/

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/

The State Bar of Texas Section of Taxation will present a discussion about various career opportunities available to attorneys in the area of tax law. Panelists include Patrick O’Daniel, ‘92, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright; Cindy Grossman, ‘04, Partner, Giordani Swanger Ripp Phillips, LLP; Nancy Prosser, ‘93, Assistant Director of Tax Administration, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; Corby Brooks, ’04, Partner, Cook Brooks Johnson PLLC; and an attorney from the Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. Moderated by Christi Mondrik, ‘01, Mondrik & Associates.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Monday, March 24, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Part of the Career Exploration Series, which offers students an opportunity to learn more about different areas of the law and network with leading practitioners in these areas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18322/

Pizza for Con Law II makeup class

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18741/

3Ls and LLMs are invited to get a jump on studying for the bar with these skills based sessions. Learn how to effectively write bar exam essay answers. TX bar questions will be used as examples. Sessions take place on Tuesdays at noon in TNH 2.140 and repeat Friday at 10:30 in TNH 3.124.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18611/

Lunch with William Cunningham's corporate governance students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/25/18666/

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/

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/

The women lawyers of Baker Botts and the UT Women's Law Caucus invite you to join them on Wednesday, March 26, for lunch and an informative panel discussion. This luncheon program will give women 1L students an opportunity to obtain valuable insights from women lawyers across all levels of the firm. Topics to be discussed include: • Practicing law in a big firm • Selecting a practice group/department • Navigating the recruiting process • Mentoring and professional development • Maintaining work life balance • Tips for success in law school and beyond The target audience for this event is 1L women students. Limited space is available. For questions, please contact Lindsey Kucharski, +1.512.322.2516.

RSVP to: houstonrecruiting@bakerbotts.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/26/18694/

Jane Hwang, formerly of Social Accountability International, will join us via Skype to discuss the NGO's work in combating sweatshops, promoting labor rights internationally, and holding corporations accountable for the supply-chain working conditions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/26/18718/

Join ACS and Profs. Sanford Levinson and Lawrence Sager to discuss progressive constitutional interpretation. Wednesday, 3/26, 1:15 - 2:15

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/26/18707/

Meeting

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/26/18734/

Come to the last IPLS meeting of the year and hear Thad Faleski and Kristian Sullivan from Conley Rose discuss the experience of working in a IP boutique firm. Dinner will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/26/18740/

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/

Public Notaries will be available in the Tom Clark Lounge to notarize Texas Bar Applications on March 27 and March 28.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/27/18683/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/27/16706/

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/

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/

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/

Street Law invites high school and middle school students to visit the law school for a tour, mock lesson, mock trial, career panel and lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18348/

Public Notaries will be available in the Tom Clark Lounge to notarize Texas Bar Applications on March 27 and March 28.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18684/

3Ls and LLMs are invited to get a jump on studying for the bar with these skills based sessions. Learn how to effectively write bar exam essay answers. TX bar questions will be used as examples. Sessions take place on Tuesdays at noon in TNH 2.140 and repeat Friday at 10:30 in TNH 3.124.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18615/

Trial skills workshop for 2L interscholastic mock trial team

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18470/

Dinner and lecture for Parents Leadership Group

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/28/18466/

Outlaw will offer a fee legal clinic for income-qualified LGBT individuals.

The clinic will offer the following services: basic will, declaration of guardian, directive to physicians. disposition of remains, priority in visitation, HIPAA release, medical power of attorney, durable power of attorney

For more information visit http://bit.ly/OUTLawClinic

Location: Waterloo Counseling Center 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd #301 Austin, TX 78752

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/30/18378/

If you plan to participate in the Sunflower (graduation) ceremony, you must complete the online form by noon today.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/31/18723/

The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/03/31/17769/

Stop by the Atrium and enjoy Cajun style Red Beans and Rice on Tuesday April 1st, all proceeds support the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society. We hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/18695/

Join ACS for a discussion about MALDEF's recent victory in fighting against Farmers Branch, Texas's lengthy series of attempts to unconstitutionally regulate immigrants who seek to live in Farmers Branch. Nina Perales, MALDEF's Vice President of Litigation, who argued the case successfully in the Fifth Circuit will be joining us for lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/18731/

Mark Levy, '01 and Kayna Stavast-Piper will discuss fall internship opportunities available in the Texas Office of the Attorney General - Antitrust Division, which may qualify for academic credit.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Monday, March 31, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/18749/

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/

3Ls and LLMs are invited to get a jump on studying for the bar with these skills based sessions. Learn how to effectively write bar exam essay answers. TX bar questions will be used as examples. Sessions take place on Tuesdays at noon in TNH 2.140 and repeat Friday at 10:30 in TNH 3.124.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/18612/

Renovation project meeting

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/01/18766/

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/

Come join ACS for coffee at J.P.'s Java for a talk with Lenzi Sheible, the founder of Fund Texas Women. Fund Texas Women works to maintain access to abortion services for Texas Women despite recent restrictions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/02/18737/

General body meeting for the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/02/18565/

Casa Marinanella will facilitate a training for students interested in volunteering for it's Citizenship Drive. For more information please email Andrew Hill at ahill@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/02/18742/

Are you considering opportunities in government service or public interest law? The UT Law Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), administered by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, provides financial assistance to graduates with educational debt who enter qualifying public service. The UT Law LRAP, coupled with the new federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Income Based Repayment programs, will significantly help graduates in public service repay their educational debt.

Eden Harrington, Director of the Justice Center, will present basic information about UT Law LRAP and answer questions about it. Wednesday, April 3rd, 2014, 8:15-9:00 am, Sheffield Room, breakfast provided

For more information about the event, contact Andrew Hill, Justice Center Administrator, ahill@law.utexas.edu

For more information about UT LRAP, see http://www.utexas.edu/law/centers/publicinterest/lrap/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/18682/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/16707/

Learn about some of the more popular project-based fellowships obtained by UT Law graduates. You’ll learn about the application process and strategies for putting together a competitive fellowship application. Panelists include Mark Dawson, 3L, and 2014 UT Law Justice Corps Fellow; Cat McCulloch, 3L, and current UT Law Justice Corps Fellow applicant; Gonzalo Serrano, 3L and current Equal Justice Works Fellowship applicant; Abby Anna Batko-Taylor, ’13, Julius Glickman Public Interest Law Fellow with Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas; Meredith Shytles, ’11, Staff Attorney with Disability Rights Texas and former Skadden Foundation Fellow; Megan Sheffield, ’13, UT Law Faculty/Julius Glickman Fellow with Casa Marianella Immigration Legal Services and current Equal Justice Works Fellowship applicant; and Professor Mary Crouter, Assistant Director, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. Moderated by Nicole Simmons, Director of Public Service Programs, UT Law Career Services Office.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, April 2, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/18323/

In the first hour, Niki Moore and Tomimi Glover, Co-Founders of 3L+ Law Prep, will show you how to step ahead of the curve and be a better summer associate. At 12:45 p.m., Joe Noel, Reference Librarian and Lecturer with the Tarlton Law Library will talk about legal research strategies for summer clerkship assignments. He’ll discuss how to familiarize yourself with your firm's research environment, what questions to ask when you receive an assignment, and best practices for deciding where to start your research.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, April 2, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/18327/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Join the Texas Federalist Society Thursday, April 3rd, for free lunch and a great discussion on cloning led by Nikolas Nikas and UT Law Professor John A. Robertson.

Mr. Nikas is the co-founder, president, and general counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), a pro-life public-interest legal and educational organization that advocates for the human right to life and the fundamental right of conscience throughout the United States and abroad.

Professor John A. Robertson holds the Vinson and Elkins Chair at The University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He has written and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues. He is the author of two books in bioethics The Rights of the Critically Ill (1983) and Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (1994), and numerous articles on reproductive rights, genetics, organ transplantation, and human experimentation. He has served on or been a consultant to many national bioethics advisory bodies, and is currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/18746/

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/

Casa Marinanella will facilitate it's second training for students interested in volunteering for it's Citizenship Drive. For more information please email Andrew Hill at ahill@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/03/18743/

The Texas Business Law Society and Norton Rose Fulbright are pleased to present the First Annual Mergers & Acquisitions School for UT Law students. This program will provide participants with a thorough understanding and analysis of the M&A process and agreements. Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, April 2, on UT Law Symplicity by selecting the 'Events' tab.

Note: We understand that some of you may have class and/or oral arguments that day and welcome you to attend as much as of the M&A School as you can.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/04/18724/

3Ls and LLMs are invited to get a jump on studying for the bar with these skills based sessions. Learn how to effectively write bar exam essay answers. TX bar questions will be used as examples. Sessions take place on Tuesdays at noon in TNH 2.140 and repeat Friday at 10:30 in TNH 3.124.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/04/18616/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/04/18704/

The Pro Bono Program has partnered with Casa Marianella in it's facilitation of a Citizenship Drive to occur April 5th at Travis High School, address below.

Travis (William B. Travis) High School 1211 E. Oltorf Austin, TX 78704

For more information email Andrew Hill at ahill@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2014/04/05/18644/