Events Calendar

Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Center for Oral History Research at Columbia University, will visit Professor Ann Cvetkovich’s Archival Fictions seminar in order to discuss Columbia University’s September 11, 2001 Oral History and Narrative Memory Project. All are welcome to attend.

Sponsored by the Archive and Human Rights Working Group with support from the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, Department of English, and Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professorship in English.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/01/36886/

Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Center for Oral History Research at Columbia University, will explore the ethical, legal and constitutional issues that have arisen since the designation of Guantánamo Bay as a site of incarceration and torture for people suspected of terrorism against the United States, following the events of September 11, 2001. In 2008 the Center for Oral History Research at Columbia University developed a large-scale oral history project on the legal, political, ethical and moral consequences of the US sanctioning of this prison. The crisis engendered deep conversations on the consequences of the loss of habeas corpus, the implementation of sustained torture that was visible for the world to see, and the corruption of ethical associations such as the American Psychological Association through its support of government psychologists who contributed to the enhancement of torture techniques, as was revealed in our interviews and later made public by New York Times journalist James Risen. Reflecting on the creation of this ‘dark archive’ made up of over 350 hours of conversation with advocacy lawyers, judges, journalists, psychologists and former prisoners, I will attempt to answer the questions: 1) Why is oral history essential to understanding the disruptions of democracy, as well as its achievements? 2) How can the ‘archive’ represent those who are unseen and unheard, blindfolded from themselves and from us? And what is our role in interpreting the stories we collect and share? 3) What are the implications of constructing an archive on torture, in the country that has legitimized it?

Sponsored by the Archive and Human Rights Working Group with support from the Rapoport Center for Human Rights, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, Department of English, and Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professorship in English.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/01/36885/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/06/36845/

The Texas Federalist Society and the Asian Law Students Association present a debate about the Asian American challenge to Affirmative Action. Cory Liu from Students for Fair Admissions and Professor Levinson from UT Law will both be participating.

Free Freebirds for lunch!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/06/37244/

We plan to have an alumni panel for 1Ls to hear about the Texas Law Review. The hope is for the panel to be in Sheffield-Massey from 4:00pm until 5:30pm, followed by a reception in the atrium from 5:30pm until 7:00pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/06/36925/

Approximately 60 students and around 15 lawyers, a networking event with themed tables about how to get the most of your summer internship. I will be providing my own food and drinks (beer/wine and snacks) However, I will be hiring a bartender.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/07/35008/

On Monday, March 19, 2018, the Robert Strauss Center welcomes Dr. Diane Howard, Assistant Professor of Commercial Space Operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, for a discussion on the law, security, and technology policy issues arising from steadily increasing space traffic. This talk, free and open to the public, will take place at the Texas Law School in the Sheffield-Massey Room, TNH 2.111.

Dr. Diane Howard is Assistant Professor in the Commercial Space Operations program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida USA. She is responsible for curriculum development and teaching space law and policy courses that are core to the program. Diane first became involved in space initiatives in 2004, participating in citizen lobbying efforts to facilitate the passing of the Commercial Space Law Amendments Act of 2004, a critical piece of US legislation that has made possible the development of innovative technologies and a burgeoning commercial space transportation industry.

Dr. Howard has retained her interest in commercial space issues. After working as a staff attorney in the Florida Appellate courts for a number of years, she took the decision to specialize in space law and attended McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law. Her LLM thesis centered upon private space law issues and her doctoral work focused upon effective spaceport regulation.

Diane serves as Executive Secretary of the International Institute of Space Law and participates in numerous legal projects, both domestically (within the US) and internationally. She works with COMSTAC Working Groups when invited. The US Department of State named her a private sector advisor and subject matter expert in Expert Group D of the UN COPUOS STSC Long Term Sustainability of Space Activities Working Group, hoping to soon conclude its work. Dr. Howard was legal lead for the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety Suborbital Safety (IAASS) Technical Committee, which recently finalized its guidelines. She continues to publish her research and speaks at space conferences and events throughout the world. In addition to the IISL and the IAASS, Diane is a member of the AIAA and the Florida Bar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/19/37604/

Join If/When/How Texas Law and Texas Law ACS for a screening of the documentary "Trapped" and learn about the fight for reproductive rights that culminated in the 2016 U.S. Supreme Court case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.

Dinner will be provided!

Since 2010, 288 TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures. Unable to comply with these far-reaching and medically unnecessary measures, clinics have taken their fight to the courts. "Trapped" follows the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/20/37524/

The Texas Federalist Society presents a talk by Texas Law alum, Judge Royce Lamberth of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals! He will be speaking about his judicial career, including his time as Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Jimmy John's will be served!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/22/37744/

TELJ's 2018 Symposium

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/03/23/33287/

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/