Events Calendar

Starting on Monday, January 23rd, the Texas Law Alumni Association is pleased to announce that it will kick off its Spring 2017 Townes Hall Morning Coffee for all students every Monday morning. Please bring your favorite travel mug from home (we are “going green,” so no paper products will be provided) and enjoy FREE coffee every Monday morning to start off your week on behalf of the Alumni Association. Coffee will be located at one, large station located near the 1L Classrooms (by TNH 2.140, TNH 2.139, etc.) beginning at 8:45 am. until it's gone, so get there early!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/03/28286/

Messner Reeves

1430 Wynkoop Street, Suite 300

Denver, CO, 80202

5:30 - 7:00 p.m. MT

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/05/27448/

The Texas Law Alumni Association is excited to announce the return of Popcorn Break in Spring 2017! Starting February 2, 2017, Popcorn Break will be every Thursday afternoon from 1:30 – 2:30 pm. The popcorn will be located in the Tom Clark Lounge. We look forward to seeing you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/06/28253/

Public forum on global supply chains and the possibilities and limitations of third‐party certification schemes for the realization and enforcement of human rights.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/06/27964/

April 7-8, Capital Punishment Center Conference: "Comparative Capital Punishment."

This conference, “Comparative Capital Punishment” will address the many commonalities (and some significant differences) in the worldwide movement away from the death penalty that began in the late eighteenth century and that sharply accelerated in the last half of the twentieth century. At the present moment, the industrialized West is an almost completely abolitionist zone (with the notable exception of the United States), while the death penalty is seeing a resurgence in some parts of the Middle East and Africa. This conference will look broadly and deeply at the practice of capital punishment around the world. There are many common themes even in apparently disparate parts of the world, such as the kinds of restrictions and reforms that usually precede abolition, the moral, political, and legal strategies of reformers and abolitionists, the forces that promote retention, and the distinctive possibilities and pitfalls of various pathways to change (legislative action vs. judicial intervention vs. international or transnational institutions and influences). The conference brings together experts on different regions and issues to evaluate the past, present, and future of the practice of capital punishment.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/07/23124/

HRLS is hosting a film screening and discussion of ‘The Good Lie’ to coincide with Genocide Awareness Month in April. The Good Lie is the story of 20,000 children who traveled thousands of miles on foot during the Second Sudanese Civil War to reach refugee camps in Kenya. We will also have the opportunity to talk with a representative from the Enough Project which works to eliminate genocide and crimes against humanity.

For more information about the film: http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/guest-review-good-lie-0

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/07/28224/

April 7 - 8, 2017 Capital Punishment Center Conference: "Comparative Capital Punishment."

This conference, “Comparative Capital Punishment” will address the many commonalities (and some significant differences) in the worldwide movement away from the death penalty that began in the late eighteenth century and that sharply accelerated in the last half of the twentieth century. At the present moment, the industrialized West is an almost completely abolitionist zone (with the notable exception of the United States), while the death penalty is seeing a resurgence in some parts of the Middle East and Africa. This conference will look broadly and deeply at the practice of capital punishment around the world. There are many common themes even in apparently disparate parts of the world, such as the kinds of restrictions and reforms that usually precede abolition, the moral, political, and legal strategies of reformers and abolitionists, the forces that promote retention, and the distinctive possibilities and pitfalls of various pathways to change (legislative action vs. judicial intervention vs. international or transnational institutions and influences). The conference brings together experts on different regions and issues to evaluate the past, present, and future of the practice of capital punishment.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/08/23144/

Starting on Monday, January 23rd, the Texas Law Alumni Association is pleased to announce that it will kick off its Spring 2017 Townes Hall Morning Coffee for all students every Monday morning. Please bring your favorite travel mug from home (we are “going green,” so no paper products will be provided) and enjoy FREE coffee every Monday morning to start off your week on behalf of the Alumni Association. Coffee will be located at one, large station located near the 1L Classrooms (by TNH 2.140, TNH 2.139, etc.) beginning at 8:45 am. until it's gone, so get there early!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/10/28287/

Khushi Kabir, a Rapoport Center Visiting Practitioner, will present a luncheon lecture entitled, "Where are we heading? The State of Democracy and Rights in Bangladesh." Khushi Kabir is a human rights activist based in Bangladesh. She has a long and storied career in advocating for landless, indigenous, and women’s rights throughout the country and is a voice for progressive politics in Bangladesh and South Asia more broadly. The core of her work has been the organization Nijera Kori (NK), a nonhierarchical, non-service providing civil society organization in Bangladesh which supports landless peasants in organizing for change. Nijera Kori, which translates from Bengali as “we do it ourselves,” empowers local groups of landless peasants to advocate for their own rights—to state institutions, to local governmental organizations, and to NGOs mounting development projects in their communities. Founded in the 1980s out of a frustration with the systematic neglect of landless-issues, NK has grown into a broad network throughout the country that extends to over 1100 villages and over 200,000 members. Ms. Kabir has been a vocal public advocate for a range of issues in Bangladesh including women’s rights, indigenous rights, conflict resolution in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, secularism and intellectual freedom, and more.She is an outspoken voice against the rise of militant Islam in Bangladesh and has been an active participant in Bangladesh’s pro-democracy movement. She is the coordinator in Bangladesh for 1 Billion Rising, a transnational solidarity movement working against the exploitation of women. Her work has gained her significant notoriety both in and beyond Bangladesh. Ms. Kabir was one of the 1000 women collectively nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/10/30204/

To commemorate the fourth anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, join Counter Balance: ATX, National Lawyers Guild - Texas Chapter, the Human Rights Law Society, and Law@theMargins. We stand in solidarity with women of color both in our own country and overseas.

With over 1,100 casualties, the easily preventable disaster was the worst single incident in terms of death toll in the history of the garment industry. However, it is far from the only such instances in the global apparel industry, in which multinational manufacturers and retailers "race to the bottom", seeking contractors with the lowest costs and quickest turnaround, lading to the lowest wages, worst access to worker rights, and most dangerous factory conditions.

Crowdfunded and subtitled in English, Sramik Awaaz: Worker Voices is the first film to fully explore the lives, work, and organizing efforts of Bangladesh's garment workers.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/10/30284/

You are invited to a free, classical music performance by law student musicians.

Free! Any optional donations will support the Texas Law Fellowships.

Cookies and brownies from Tiff's Treats will follow the performance.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/12/29425/

The Federalist Society will be hosting a talk entitled "Reflections on Nine Years in the Least Dangerous Branch" with Judge Jennifer Elrod of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Lunch will be served!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/13/29465/

The Texas Law Alumni Association is excited to announce the return of Popcorn Break in Spring 2017! Starting February 2, 2017, Popcorn Break will be every Thursday afternoon from 1:30 – 2:30 pm. The popcorn will be located in the Tom Clark Lounge. We look forward to seeing you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/13/28254/

Broadly, the Symposium aims to educate lawyers and other law professionals about the value of, and best practices for, diversifying and improving access to opportunities in the legal profession for people of color and diverse backgrounds.

Therefore, the Symposium will improve its attendees’ understanding of such topics as: - the current state of diversity, and how to improve it, in professional legal practices; - implicit bias in hiring and firing decisions in the legal academy, and in public and private legal practice; - the current state of diversity, and how to improve it, in law schools; and - how to identify, understand, and combat micro- and macro-aggressions in legal academic and work environments.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2017/04/14/27564/