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Judge Jennifer Elrod, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Cir., discusses the effects of arbitration and administrative agency adjudication on the decline of the american trial.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/26/21765/

Please join us for a Texas Law Alumni Reception

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, 150 E. Houston St., San Antonio, TX

Please register at http://law.connect.utexas.edu/SA2016

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/27/21467/

The two-day event will feature dynamic speakers and leaders from various sectors of the energy industry. The Symposium will take place in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, located on the University of Texas campus, at 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78712. Please see the attached program for details.

Pending approval from UT CLE, the Symposium will provide 13.5 CLE credits, including 2.0 hours of ethics. If you have any questions, please email the Symposium Director, Cody Dreibelbis, at TJOGELSymposium@gmail.com.

The Journal looks forward to seeing you in January 2016!

For more information, please contact our Symposium Director at tjogelsymposium@gmail.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/28/21735/

Please join us for the first event in the Rapoport Center's spring Human Rights Speaker Series. Rob Nixon, Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and Environment at Princeton University, will present "Environmental Justice and the Anthropocene." The talk is co-sponsored with the Texas Institute for Literary & Textual Studies and the Department of American Studies.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/28/21795/

The Texas Law Review at the University of Texas in Austin will be hosting a symposium January 28–30, 2016, Thursday evening to Saturday luncheon, tentatively titled “The Constitution and Economic Inequality.” While the general topic of economic inequality has recently attracted a huge wave of popular and scholarly attention, legal scholars are only now beginning to explore the problem’s constitutional dimensions. This Symposium will change that. We will examine the emerging, many-sided problem of economic inequality in constitutional theory, history, and political economy.

The Texas Law Review is working with Professors Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath to design this event, which will bring together a high-powered group of legal scholars, historians, and other academics to focus on the relationship between the Constitution and our political economy, including arguments that the Constitution depends on preventing oligarchy and preserving a broad, accessible middle class. We are inviting scholars to think about inequality and unequal opportunity in a variety of substantive areas. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Texas Law Review.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/29/21143/

The two-day event will feature dynamic speakers and leaders from various sectors of the energy industry. The Symposium will take place in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, located on the University of Texas campus, at 2110 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78712. Please see the attached program for details.

Pending approval from UT CLE, the Symposium will provide 13.5 CLE credits, including 2.0 hours of ethics. If you have any questions, please email the Symposium Director, Cody Dreibelbis, at TJOGELSymposium@gmail.com.

The Journal looks forward to seeing you in January 2016!

For more information, please contact our Symposium Director at tjogelsymposium@gmail.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/29/21737/

The Texas Law Review at the University of Texas in Austin will be hosting a symposium January 28–30, 2016, Thursday evening to Saturday luncheon, tentatively titled “The Constitution and Economic Inequality.” While the general topic of economic inequality has recently attracted a huge wave of popular and scholarly attention, legal scholars are only now beginning to explore the problem’s constitutional dimensions. This Symposium will change that. We will examine the emerging, many-sided problem of economic inequality in constitutional theory, history, and political economy.

The Texas Law Review is working with Professors Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath to design this event, which will bring together a high-powered group of legal scholars, historians, and other academics to focus on the relationship between the Constitution and our political economy, including arguments that the Constitution depends on preventing oligarchy and preserving a broad, accessible middle class. We are inviting scholars to think about inequality and unequal opportunity in a variety of substantive areas. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Texas Law Review.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/01/30/21168/

Please join us for the second event in the Rapoport Center's spring Human Rights Speaker Series. Hina Jilani is a prominent human rights lawyer and activist and Advocate for the Supreme Court of Pakistan. She will present a talk entitled "Rights, Conflict and Crises." The event is co-sponsored with the Wilson Chair in Pakistan Studies at UT Austin.

Hina Jilani is a prominent lawyer and has been a civil society activist in Pakistan for the past three decades. She founded the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. She served as a UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders from 2000 to 2008, and most recently served as a member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Gaza in 2009. Over her long and impressive career as an activist, Jilani established Pakistan’s first all-women’s law firm in 1980, Pakistan’s first legal aid center in 1986, and Dastak – a housing facility for women who are targets of honor killings. She has conducted many landmark cases setting new standards for human rights in Pakistan, focusing particularly on the most vulnerable populations in society including women, minorities, children, and prisoners. She has repeatedly called for the democratization of the political system in Pakistan and amendments to the Constitution to increase the representation of women in its legislature. Jilani’s work has made her a target of hostile propaganda, arrests, and abuse. Despite this, she continues to live in Lahore and pursue her work. Her publications include Human Rights and Democratic Development in Pakistan (1998) and Hadood Laws: A Divine Sanction? (1988). She was awarded the Millennium Peace Prize for Women in 2001 in recognition of her life-long contribution to peace-building and human rights. In 2013, The Elders – a group of independent leaders working for peace, justice, and human rights founded by Nelson Mandela – appointed Jilani as an Elder.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/02/01/21533/

Please join us for a Texas Law Scholarship Reception, Thursday, February 4, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

Susman Godfrey Atrium, Townes Hall, 727 Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/02/04/21589/