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!

Spring Meeting for the Student Steering Committee

Learn about the pathways to becoming a prosecutor at the state or federal level. Panelists include Mindy Montford, ’95, First Assistant District Attorney, Travis County District Attorney’s Office; Jeremy Sylestine, Assistant District Attorney, Travis County District Attorney’s Office and Adjunct Professor, Texas Law Prosecution Internship; Sharon Pierce, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas; and Lisa Tanner, Division Chief of the Criminal Prosecutions Division, Texas Attorney General’s Office. Moderated by Rob Kepple, Executive Director of the Texas District and County Attorney’s Association and Adjunct Professor, Texas Law Prosecution Internship.

Lunch will be served after the program. RSVP online by Monday, March 26. Part of the Texas Law Professional Development Institute: Prepared for Practice.

CHLSA will be selling chicken and beef fajitas today in the Atrium from 11:45am - 2:00pm. You can purchase 2 fajitas for $7 or 3 fajitas for $9 (all purchases include beans and rice).

Join the American Constitution Society (ACS) at Texas Law for a lunch talk with 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.

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

This workshop series is designed to help students develop the skills necessary to do well on the essay portion of the bar exam. Students will write essays and receive individualized feedback during each of the four week sessions.

Dean Bangs, Brandi Welch and Rick Garza (and any possible combination of the three) will be in the Atrium all week to advise you on course selection for Fall 2018.

Tuesday, 3/27: 1-2:30pm Wednesday, 3/28 12-1:30pm Thursday, 3/29: 10-11:30am Friday, 3/30: 10-11am Stop by with your questions! Can't make it? You are always welcome in our offices - drop by or email questions to Brandi Welch at bwelch@law.utexas.edu.