Events Calendar

In celebration of National Pro Bono Week the Mithoff Pro Bono Program will be serving pizza, answering questions and accepting PB in J applications in the Atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/26/21368/

Alfred Dewayne Brown spent 10 years on Death Row in Texas for a crime he did not commit. He was released in June of 2015. Mr. Brown is the 13th person released from Texas’s Death Row, and the 154th person released from Death Row in the United States, since 1973. Come hear from two of Mr. Brown’s attorneys, Brian Stolarz of LeClairRyan and Casey Kaplan (UT Law 2007) of Nike, Inc. Mr. Brown will join his attorneys for this presentation.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/26/21406/

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Right to Development After the Collapse of Development”

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/26/21089/

In celebration of National Pro Bono Week the Mithoff Pro Bono Program will be serving pizza, answering questions and accepting PB in J applications in the Atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/27/21369/

Members and interested students,

We would like to invite all interested 2Ls and 3Ls to participate in this year's Gibbs & Bruns Moot Court Tournament.

The Gibbs & Bruns Tournament is the first semester intramural moot court tournament, open to all 2Ls and 3Ls regardless of prior moot court experience. It will run from October 26 through November 6th with rounds on the evenings of Tuesday and Thursday starting at around 6:30 p.m. Registration closes and briefs are due by midnight, October 20, 2015.

This year’s tournament question is an actual Supreme Court case and will include a short memo writing component. For more information and to sign up, please fill out the form available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RCShk30lemAU-zMR2rcjtRiZ-dUzfJVM3MPQunGBojY/viewform?usp=send_form

Question related? E-mail the BOA Moot Court Director at UTLawMootCourt@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/27/21386/

Please join us this coming Tuesday, October 27th, for a screening of "Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley" and a Q&A with director Jesse Freeston.

After being shown at festivals worldwide, this groundbreaking documentary on the resistance to the 2009 Honduran coup d'état is coming to Austin. Filmmaker Jesse Freeston will be with us to lead a post-film discussion.

The event is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Graduate Students Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association, and LLILAS Benson.

Tuesday, October 27th 7pm AVAYA Auditorium (POB 2.302), UT Austin

More info about the play and its director is available below. Check out a trailer for the film here. Check out the Facebook event here.

We hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/27/21449/

Now that Obergefell is on the books, what does the future of religious liberty look like in America? Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation and author of the recently-published "Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Liberty" debates UT Law Professor Lawrence Sager on the question.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/28/21427/

Pro Bono for a Cause: Pro Bono Collaboration to Represent Immigrant Families and End Family Detention

In honor of the American Bar Association’s National Pro Bono Celebration, the Mithoff Pro Bono Program will bring together representatives from Akin Gump, Lincoln-Goldfinch Law, RAICES, and the Texas Law clinical program to discuss their work with immigrant families detained in Karnes. Their discussion will focus on topics including how lawyers in different practice settings can collaborate on coordinated pro bono efforts, and how pro bono representation in individual cases can contribute to campaigns for broader social justice goals.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu no later than noon on Friday, October 23.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/29/20778/

Members and interested students,

We would like to invite all interested 2Ls and 3Ls to participate in this year's Gibbs & Bruns Moot Court Tournament.

The Gibbs & Bruns Tournament is the first semester intramural moot court tournament, open to all 2Ls and 3Ls regardless of prior moot court experience. It will run from October 26 through November 6th with rounds on the evenings of Tuesday and Thursday starting at around 6:30 p.m. Registration closes and briefs are due by midnight, October 20, 2015.

This year’s tournament question is an actual Supreme Court case and will include a short memo writing component. For more information and to sign up, please fill out the form available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RCShk30lemAU-zMR2rcjtRiZ-dUzfJVM3MPQunGBojY/viewform?usp=send_form

Question related? E-mail the BOA Moot Court Director at UTLawMootCourt@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/29/21392/

Texas Law students are invited to celebrate pro bono and Halloween with a candy buffet in the Tom Clark Lounge from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Mithoff Program staff will be collecting Pro Bono in January applications at this event. The event also will serve as a welcome reception for the Getting Radical in the South (GRITS) Conference, which begins at 3pm. GRITS is a student-run public interest law conference that will focus on the difficulties and constraints inherent to social justice work in the South, and the unique strategies that legal practitioners and other public interest workers have developed to meet those needs. The welcome reception will provide an opportunity for law students from schools throughout the south to share their pro bono experiences and ideas with each other.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/30/21149/

Women in Energy: Perspectives on Business, Law, Policy, and Science

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/30/21435/