Events Calendar

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Croesus' World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality”

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/12/21091/

Please join the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund for a panel that introduces the connection between domestic violence and animal abuse.

Our guest speaker is Attorney Victoria Rambo, a staff attorney at the Texas Advocacy Project (TAP).

Ms. Rambo is personally involved in the animal law community in Austin along with her work on domestic violence cases with TAP.

Animal protection and domestic violence professionals have established that a strong correlation between animal abuse and domestic violence exists.

Women who enter shelters often report that their batterer has injured, maimed, killed, or threatened the family pet for revenge or to psychologically establish control. More than often, violence towards animals in the domestic setting occurs while children are present. It has been documented that domestic violence victims whose animals have been abused see the animal cruelty as just another step in a long history of violent behavior directed at them and their children. Often, victims in these situations resist entering shelters as they fear leaving their pets behind will put the animals at risk at the hands of their abuser.

This panel will address these issues, and among others, the role of law enforcement and the legal system in this area. For more information and to RSVP please email us at saldf.texas.law@gmail.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/13/21360/

Join ELS for a panel on Careers in Environmental Law.

Our guest speakers will discuss their career paths and give advice to students interested in practicing environmental law. Their backgrounds range from environmental policy work, firm work, ngo work, and government.

Guest Speakers include:

Adrian Shelley, Executive Director Air Alliance (UT Law '10) Kelly Davis, Attorney Save Our Springs (UT Law '09) Ashley Phillips, Attorney Thompson & Knight LLP & formerly EPA (UT Law '03)

Please RSVP by clicking the "events" tab on Symplicity or email us at els.texas.law@gmail.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/14/21351/

HRLS will be discussing how media can be used to engage in human rights discussions and awareness campaigns.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/15/21356/

TLF's Annual Fall Auction

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/15/20421/

Opportunity Forum Panel: Uniting Our Divided City: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Austin

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/16/21355/

Join Texas Law Women's Christian Fellowship as we go through the book Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity. Author and Austinite Jen Hatmaker encourages readers to get uncomfortable with their faith and to engage in a life of service to the least among us.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/22/21182/

Please join us for the Inaugural Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights, which will feature journalist and author Mark Danner, Chancellor’s Professor of English and Journalism at UC Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College. His talk is entitled “Spiraling Down: Human Rights, Endless War.” The event is co-sponsored by Houston's Rothko Chapel.

Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who has written for three decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans, Iraq and the greater Middle East, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, with a focus on human rights violations during that time. His books include Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009), The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travel's Through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004), and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994). Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is Chancellor's Professor of English and Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College.

Danner's work has been honored with a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, Danner was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2006 he was awarded the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association to honor that year's “major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” In 2008 he was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome, a post he took up again in 2010. Danner has had a longtime association with the Telluride Film Festival, where he introduces films and conducts interviews; in 2013, he became a resident curator at Telluride. Danner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Century Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of the Humanities at New York University.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/22/21166/