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/