Events Calendar

Professor Josh Blackman of South Texas College of Law and Mr. Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed and former UT Law student, discuss the fascinating legal issues relating to the enterprise of printing 3D guns and gun parts. Cody Wilson is regularly in litigation and often draws the ire of federal gun regulators. Prof. Blackman has represented him in court, and is himself an expert on the constitutionality of Defense Distributed's activities.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/01/21313/

The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas and Energy Law (TJOGEL) is hosting its inaugural Fall Luncheon. Journal members, society members, alumni, sponsors, and friends of the Journal are invited. Please join us for an opportunity to network with students and professionals in the energy industry!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/02/21112/

SAVE THE DATE! The University of Texas School of Law Student-Alumni Diversity Weekend October 2 – 3, 2015 Featuring Saturday night dinner keynote speaker, Dr. Greg Vincent, UT-Austin Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement

More details coming soon! Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact Angela Krause, Director of Alumni Relations at akrause@law.utexas.edu or 512.471.7188. ________________________________________ Hotel Accommodations Limited Availability

Doubletree Suites by Hilton Austin 303 West 15th Street 800.222.8733 – mention group code UT9 Reserve by September 4 to secure rate of $249/night

Hyatt Place Austin Arboretum 3612 Tudor Boulevard 877.242.3654 – mention group UT Law – Diversity Weekend Reserve by September 11 to secure rate of $139/night

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/02/20324/

SAVE THE DATE! The University of Texas School of Law Student-Alumni Diversity Weekend October 2 – 3, 2015 Featuring Saturday night dinner keynote speaker, Dr. Greg Vincent, UT-Austin Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement

More details coming soon! Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact Angela Krause, Director of Alumni Relations at akrause@law.utexas.edu or 512.471.7188.

Hotel Accommodations Limited Availability

Doubletree Suites by Hilton Austin 303 West 15th Street 800.222.8733 – mention group code UT9 Reserve by September 4 to secure rate of $249/night

Hyatt Place Austin Arboretum 3612 Tudor Boulevard 877.242.3654 – mention group UT Law – Diversity Weekend Reserve by September 11 to secure rate of $139/night

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/03/21002/

Review of Capital Punishment Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, 2014 and 2015 Terms.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/05/21180/

Ambassador Alberto Pedro D’Alotto, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations Office at Geneva, will speak at the School of Law. His speech is entitled “United Nations and Human Rights in the XXI Century: Progress and Challenges." RSVP is required.

Lunch will be served after the event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/07/21102/

The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund's first general body meeting! It'll be quick and informative, so please stop by to learn more about us! We'll have ice cream for everyone.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/07/21301/

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/2015/10/08/21181/

Representatives from the International Center for Mental Health and Human Rights, a nonprofit based here in Austin, will hold a training at UT Law. The first part of the event will focus on understanding trauma and resiliency in human rights victims, and the second part will be a training on therapeutic interviewing with interactive exercises. The ICMHHR focuses on strengthening communities through the use of innovative therapeutic techniques to mitigate the psychological trauma caused by human rights abuses. Snacks provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/08/21344/

Free Admission. Reception followed by panel on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Panel members include Alan Friedman, Coordinator, AFTLS; David Kornhaber, Coordinator, AFTLS; Professors Angela Littwin, UT Law; James Loehlin, Director, Shakespeare at Winedale, and the Spirit of Shakespeare's players.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/10/08/20386/

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/

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/