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28 October 29
  1. 4:00pm 2018-10-29T18:00-05:00
    Inequality & Elite Origins of Democracy

    Rapoport Center Colloquium: Law and the Production of Inequality - Michael Albertus presents "Inequality and the Elite Origins of Democracy"

    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/2018/10/29/38466/

  2. 6:00pm 2018-10-29T21:00-05:00
    First Generation Student Soc Dinner

    An evening with first generation lawyers from in and out of town, including dinner, presentations, and opportunity for small group conversations.

    Full line-up to be confirmed, present speakers include Cary Hyden, a partner in Latham Watkins' OC office, proud UT alum and a First Gen Professional.

    Event co-sponsored by Latham Watkins. Room tbc shortly.

    All students, faculty, and alumni are invited. As places are limited, pease RSVP by Oct 22 by emailing Cassidy Hall (at cassidy.hall@utexas.edu). Thank you.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/29/42045/

  3. 6:00pm 2018-10-29T21:00-05:00
    First-Generation Dinner & Networking

    First-Generation Law Students will be hosting a dinner and networking event for Texas Law students who are the first in their families to attend law school. The event, sponsored by Latham & Watkins, will feature partner Cary Hyden, a first-generation attorney and Texas Law alum, as keynote speaker. Before, during, and after the dinner, students will have the opportunity to connect with local area first-generation attorneys.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/29/42406/

October 30
  1. 11:45am 2018-10-30T13:45-05:00
    Power Lunch Series

    Power Lunch Series featuring Judge Elsa Alcala, Texas Court of Appeals.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/30/38847/

  2. 12:00pm 2018-10-30T13:00-05:00
    Distinguished Lecture

    The Institute for Transnational Law invites you to attend a distinguished lecture by two alums of the Law School’s LL.M. Program.

    Roberto Aguirre Luzi (LL.M. ’03) specializes in counseling multinational corporations on complex arbitration. A partner in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration practice, Roberto is experienced in administrative and civil law, government contracts, oil and gas contracts, public utilities, and power and infrastructure projects. Roberto represents clients in complex arbitrations before the World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and UN Commission on International Trade Law, as well as in arbitration under the International Centre for Dispute Resolution and International Chamber of Commerce rules. Roberto also has extensive experience in civil and administrative law, government contracts, oil and gas contracts, public utilities, and power and infrastructure projects.

    Humberto Padilla González (LL.M. ’06) is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Houston office. He represents clients in a broad range of cross-border matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, international commercial finance transactions, and contractual and simple operational matters throughout Latin America. Further, he often assists clients with respect to internal compliance investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as data privacy issues. Humberto is also part of a cross-practice Global Workforce team providing integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning on labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues in Latin America.

    Lunch will be served.

    RSVP required. RSVP link coming soon.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/30/39365/

October 31
  1. 11:45am 2018-10-31T12:45-05:00
    Working Together Towards Justice

    The University of Texas is proud to host Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore, APD’s Chief Brian Manley, and Director of the Travis County DA's Office Civil Rights Unit Dexter Gilford for an open discussion on the unique relationship between police officers and prosecutors.

    The DA’s office, the police, and civil rights advocates must strike a delicate balance between enacting justice in complicated situations, maintaining good relationships between these organizations and the public, and handling significant media attention. This is a moderated Q&A event, with the opportunity for the student body to ask these experts how they manage such complicated concerns.

    Free food will be provided to attendees.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/10/31/42465/

November 1
  1. 11:45am 2018-11-01T13:00-05:00
    Court Packing: A Weponization of Judicia

    Ian Samuel will debate a to-be-determined speaker

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/11/01/40907/

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  1. 11:45am 2018-11-07T13:00-06:00
    Judge Pitman Lunch Talk

    Join OUTLaw for a lunch time conversation with Judge Robert Pitman, the first openly gay judge in the 5th Circuit. Judge Pitman will discuss potential impacts of the election results on the federal judiciary, as well as provide remarks on his experience on the bench. Lunch will be provided.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/11/07/42845/

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11 November 12
  1. 4:00pm 2018-11-12T18:00-06:00
    Law and the Reproduction of Food Poverty

    Rapoport Center Colloquium: Law and the Production of Inequality - Tomaso Ferrando presents "Law and the Reproduction of Food Poverty" with a response from Rajeev Patel

    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/2018/11/12/38467/

November 13
  1. 11:45am 2018-11-13T13:45-06:00
    Lives in the Law: Sunu Chandy

    11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the Eidman Courtroom and 12:45-1:45 p.m. in the Jury Room. Lunch served at 12:45.

    Students please RSVP by Thursday, November 8, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

    During the first hour, which is free and open to the public, Sunu Chandy of the National Women’s Law Center, will discuss her work advocating for women in a talk entitled “#MeToo, TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, & The Resistance: Using Litigation to Protect the Rule of Law.” During the second hour she will meet with students more informally over lunch to discuss her life and career.

    Sunu Chandy oversees the National Women’s Law Center’s litigation efforts, providing strategy and guidance to staff across NWLC to create better legal outcomes for women and girls at school, the workplace, and the health care sector. Prior to joining the Center, Chandy served as the Deputy Director for the Civil Rights Division with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Chandy has also served as the General Counsel of the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR) and in that role oversaw agency decisions following investigations of discrimination in employment, education, housing and public accommodation matters. Before that, Chandy served as a federal attorney with the U.S. Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), where she litigated class civil rights employment matters including based on sex, race, national origin, disability, age and religion based discrimination. Chandy was also a member of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Regional Working Group and helped to organize conferences and civil rights panels alongside federal partners in New York City.

    In her talk, Chandy will discuss current litigation, in which the NWLC has a leadership role, challenging the Trump administration's efforts to roll back civil rights laws in education, healthcare, and the workplace. In addition, she will discuss the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, housed at the NWLC, which works with the Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity to enable more individuals who experience sexual assault, abuse or harassment to find legal representation. TIME’S UP was started by women in the entertainment industry to combat the systemic power imbalances that have prevented many women, especially women of color, from being safe and reaching their full potential in the workplace.

    Chandy earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston and her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Queens College/The City University of New York.

    The “Lives in the Law” speaker series focuses on the work and lives of lawyers who strive to improve the lives of others through litigation, advocacy and public service.

    Hosted by the Career Services Office and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. Cosponsored by the Center for Women in Law.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/11/13/39405/

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25 November 26
  1. 4:00pm 2018-11-26T18:00-06:00
    The Regulation of Sex Work

    Rapoport Center Colloquium: Law and the Production of Inequality - Hila Shamir presents "Feminist Approaches to the Regulation of Sex Work: Patterns in Transnational Governance Feminist Law Making," with a response from Christine Williams

    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/2018/11/26/38488/

27 28 29 November 30
  1. 12:30pm 2018-11-30T20:30-06:00
    Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis

    This symposium will focus on Puerto Rico one year after Hurricane Maria and will bring together scholars, activists, and artists from the island and the diaspora to reflect on how Maria and its aftermath have affected their work. Discussions will center around questions of equitable recovery, environmental and climate change related issues in the post-Maria landscape; the nexus of debt and colonialism and how that has been shaping the post-Maria moment; the mental health and mortality epidemics; energy and food sovereignty; and tourism. There will be a featured event with activist Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and prominent climate justice activist, who has been visible in the post Maria recovery efforts on the island. Yeampierre is also the 2018 Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.

    A reception will follow. Please register!

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/11/30/42146/

December 1
  1. 9:00am 2018-12-01T13:00-06:00
    Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis

    This symposium will focus on Puerto Rico one year after Hurricane Maria and will bring together scholars, activists, and artists from the island and the diaspora to reflect on how Maria and its aftermath have affected their work. Discussions will center around questions of equitable recovery, environmental and climate change related issues in the post-Maria landscape; the nexus of debt and colonialism and how that has been shaping the post-Maria moment; the mental health and mortality epidemics; energy and food sovereignty; and tourism. Participants include Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and prominent climate justice activist, who has been visible in the post Maria recovery efforts on the island. Yeampierre is also the 2018 Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/12/01/42147/