Events Calendar

Join ELS for a casual lunch with big-law environmental attorneys! Find out more about practicing environmental law in this setting. Guest speakers include:

Samia Broadaway - environmental attorney at Bakerbotts LLP. Samia works on a variety of environmental matters including environmental permitting, environmental litigation, and regulatory compliance matters at the state and federal levels. Her experience includes water quality, water rights, air quality, enforcement, and waste issues.

Katie Bennett Hobson - environmental attorney at Katten Muchin. Katie focuses her practice on environmental regulatory matters, with an emphasis on the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and climate change policy and regulation.

Fricano's sandwiches provided!

Co-sponsored by the KBH Center & CSO.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/02/29/21876/

Attorney Scott Hendler of Hendler Lyons Flores (Austin) will talk about his experience litigating the 'DBCP' cases, lawsuits against large American corporations on behalf of Central American agricultural workers, in particular on banana plantations, for infertility linked to the use of an insecticide. He will also talk and answer questions about his experience more generally working at the intersection of personal injury, environmental law, labor relations and international human rights, and how one can integrate work in these areas into a thriving private practice. Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/01/21664/

Join the Student Animal Legal Defense, the Environmental Law Society, and the Humane Society of the United States for a Discussion on Hunting in Texas.

Captive hunts, also known as “canned hunts,” are the very opposite of traditional "fair chase" hunting. Shooters at captive hunts pay to kill animals—even endangered species—trapped behind fences. The Texas Director of the Humane Society of the United States will speak about this industry and its conservation impacts on native wildlife, current regulations, and the future of hunting in Texas.

Free lunch! RSVP by emailing: saldf.texas.law@gmail.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/02/21842/

The topic of this year's Symposium is PTAB Proceedings. We will have academic speakers, PTAB judges, District court judges, and IP practitioners speaking about the recent changes to the PTAB appeals process, and the effects of these changes.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/04/21597/

Please join WLC, TMLS, ALSA, and CHLSA for a lunch panel featuring prominent women attorneys discussing the intersectionality of gender and race in the legal profession. Panelists will discuss their different experiences in the profession to create a dialogue about how race, culture, and ethnicity impact these experiences, and what tools can be applied to advance all women.

Lunch will be provided. Special thanks to the Center for Women in Law for sponsoring this event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/08/21800/

The Future of the National Security Agency, with Deputy Director Rick Ledgett. Strauss Center Event

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/03/08/21950/