Events Calendar

Clark Neily of the Cato Institute will debate Professor Laurin

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/15/40906/

Rapoport Center Colloquium: Law and the Production of Inequality

Our public debates are increasingly centered on the question of socio-economic inequality – its increase, its economic and political consequences, its importance to the present and its likely future. Inequality may well be at the root of many of the human rights violations in the world today. Our Fall 2018 speaker series will explore the role of law (including, perhaps, human rights law) in the production of inequality, and the role of law (including, of course, human rights law) in responding to inequality. The Colloquium presents an interdisciplinary group of scholars who focus their investigations on the ways in which various legal regimes create, reinforce, and/or ameliorate patterns of structural inequality, locally and globally.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/15/38487/

Power Lunch Series featuring Mandy Price, Co-Founder and CEO of Kanarys, Inc.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/16/38845/

A new report by UT researchers has identified a wave of gentrification sweeping through Austin neighborhoods, hitting low-income African-American and Hispanic renters the hardest. Come learn about three case studies the researchers developed to help inform what it will take for Austin to address these disturbing trends. The presenters will share information about anti-displacement policies utilized in Columbia Heights in Washington, D.C., Inner North/Northeast neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, and Guadalupe neighborhood in Austin—along with key takeaways for Austin. Lunch will be included.

Panelists:

Heather K. Way, Clinical Professor The University of Texas School of Law

Nicholas Armstrong, Graduate Student Community and Regional Planning Program, The University of Texas at Austin

Benjamin Martin, Graduate Student Community and Regional Planning Program, The University of Texas at Austin

Moderator:

Jake Wegmann, Assistant Professor Community and Regional Planning Program, The University of Texas at Austin

Lunch Series Co-Sponsors:

The Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis

RGK Center for Philanthropy & Community Service, LBJ School of Public Affairs

The Longhorn Center for Community Engagement

The Graduate Program in Community & Regional Planning

School of Nursing Center for Transdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Self-Management Science

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/19/41565/