Events Calendar

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event. During this week of March, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/26/36684/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event. During this week of March, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/27/37085/

Join Texas Law ACS, CHLSA and PILA for a lunch talk featuring Andre Segura, the Legal Director of the ACLU of Texas. Mr. Segura will discuss state and local immigration enforcement under the Obama and Trump administrations. Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/27/37844/

In 1965, three years before Mauritius achieved independence, the British separated the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, from the rest of its colony. Mauritius claims this separation was in breach of UN resolution 1514, passed in 1960, which banned the breakup of colonies before independence. A few years later, the British forcibly removed the inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago from their homeland to make way for construction of a U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia.

The Chagossians have been engaged in litigation for decades over proper compensation for their removal as well as the right to return to the islands. Their cases have been heard in sites including British and U.S. courts, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 2017, the UN General Assembly voted to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The ICJ will review core questions of sovereignty (both the UK and Mauritius claim the islands as their own), as well as wider issues of decolonization and the exercise of the right to self-determination.

Robin Mardemootoo, who holds an LLM from Texas Law, will speak about his involvement in the Chagos Island case. He has litigated in the UK, the US, and now before the ICJ. He is coordinating the crossborder litigation.

Lunch will be provided!

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Transnational Law and the Human Rights Law Society

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/27/37964/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event. During this week of March, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/28/37086/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event. During this week of March, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/29/37087/

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, together with Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law & Policy and The Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society at Northeastern University School of Law, will host the following event: "The Role of Law in the Production of Inequality: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives," on March 29, 2018, 4:00-7:00pm, at the University of Texas School of Law. James Ferguson (Stanford University) and Walter Johnson (Harvard University) will each give talks (titles provided below), followed by scholarly commentary and a conversation with the audience. A reception will follow. Please register!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/29/34944/

Join ACS as we welcome Professor Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School for an afternoon discussion about voting rights in the United States. ACS Faculty Advisor Professor Joseph Fishkin will join Professor Karlan in conversation, with time for Q&A from students afterwards. Coffee & snacks will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/29/37926/

The symposium will include three panels and one keynote. The three panels are: Leadership in the Latino/a Community, Uniting Legal Forces in the Fight Against SB4, and MALDEF DACA Panel. The Keynote speaker will be Julian Castro.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/30/36387/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event. During this week of March, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/30/37088/

Brandon Garrett discussing his new book, “End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice”

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970991

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/30/31944/

In today's society communication is easier and faster than ever thanks to social media. JT Morris of JT Morris Law and Professor Ryan Garcia, co-author of Social Media Law in a Nutshell, will lead a discussion on the interplay between the government, the First Amendment and social media.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/04/03/38064/

The Texas Federalist Society presents a panel on modern international cyberwarfare issues featuring Dean Chesney, Professor Vladeck, and Professor Tait.

Amy's Ice Cream will be served!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/04/03/38104/

Chaumtoli Huq founded Law@theMargins in 2013 and serves as its Editor-In-Chief.  Huq is a social justice innovator with extensive experience in movement lawyering, litigation, public policy, management and creation of programs from emerging trends in law, teaching, assisting non-profits and individuals with strategic direction and governance issues mainly in areas of labor, human rights both in the United States and South Asia. Huq is a contributor to the anthology Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality (Ed. Sarah Husain; Seal Press 2006), co-author of “Laying the Groundwork for Post 9-11 Alliances: Reflections Ten Years Later on Desis and Organizing” (Asian American Literary Review, Volume 2, Issue 1.5, Fall 2011) and has authored Op-Eds in Al Jazeera, Huffington Post and Daily Star, the largest English daily in Bangladesh.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/04/03/37846/

The UT Law Capital Punishment Center will host its annual symposium on April 6 & 7, 2018.

This year’s conference, "Mitigation Advocacy," will discuss the growth of mitigation practice over the past 30-40 years along several dimensions: changes in best practices; empirical assessments of what "works" in mitigation development and presentation; the extension of mitigation practices to non-capital contexts; the importance of cultural competence in mitigation investigation; and the significance of mitigation to the practice of American capital punishment. The goal of the conference is to understand the evolving role of mitigation development and presentation in criminal litigation. We also hope to build momentum for the establishment of a mitigation program within UT's Capital Punishment Center. The proposed program would bring together experts from a variety of disciplines at UT and beyond (law, social work, nursing, psychology, medicine, communications, journalism, etc.) to train students for careers as mitigation professionals and to research best mitigation practices (both within and outside of the capital context).

Please join the Capital Punishment Center faculty and a stellar group of nationally-renowned and local panelists for a retrospective examination of mitigation investigation in the modern era as well as group discussion of our vision for mitigation training and development moving forward.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/04/06/31824/

2018 Capital Punishment Center Conference: "Mitigation Advocacy"

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/04/07/31844/

TLR Banquet

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/04/07/35891/