Events Calendar

The Texas Law Alumni Association's Townes Hall Morning Coffee will kick off on Monday, January 28th, through the spring semester. Open to all students every Monday morning! Please bring your favorite travel mug (we are going green, so no paper products will be provided) and enjoy FREE coffee every Monday morning to start your week off right on behalf of the Alumni Association. Coffee will be located at one, large stations located near the 1L Classrooms (by TNH 2.140, TNH 2.319) beginning at 8:45am until it's gone, so get there early!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/11/44247/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/11/43765/

Urska Velikonja from Georgetown University will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/11/44527/

The Texas Law Professional Development Institute: Prepared For Practice is taught by industry experts and practicing attorneys, covering facets of new attorney professionalism most sought after by legal employers. It is promoted widely to employers, many of whom contributed to the content of the program.

Whether you're a 1L preparing for your first summer clerkship or the fall recruiting season, a 2L working to turn your summer clerkship or fellowship into an offer, or a graduating 3L getting a head start on your legal career, the Texas Law Professional Development Institute (PDI), which is presented each Spring, will help you be a more competitive candidate and a better lawyer.

Online registration will be announced in October and will be awarded on a first-come basis. Please note that 2Ls and 3Ls who attended last year may sign up for this year’s Institute.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/12/41509/

For our 2019 Symposium, Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy will host a Latino Lunch Series every Tuesday of February with speakers discussing various legal and policy issues on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Stripped Away: Stories of Immigrant Children

This panel will discuss the issues immigrant children face while in state and federal custody. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the discussion will include legal representation for immigrant children, conditions faced by children who are detained or placed in federally licensed unaccompanied refugee foster care programs, and the long term psychological impact and trauma of being separated from family for long periods of time. Speakers include Kate-Lincoln Goldfinch (private practice), Ana Maria Rea (RAICES), Sarah Valdes (RAICES), Monica Faulkner (PHD, LMSW), and Melanie-Chung Sherman (LCSW)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/12/42806/

We will present sessions on natural leadership styles, strategic leadership, and change management, among other topics. The workshop will be held on Tuesdays, Feb. 5-March 12, at lunch. Students must attend 5 of the 6 sessions to receive a certificate of completion.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/12/43745/

Open House of the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Richard & Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program

Tuesday, February 12 Noon – 1 pm Connally Center, ground floor, suite 1.312 Lunch Provided

Learn about Justice Center funding for summer fellowships, our events and programming, and other resources we provide for students interested in nonprofit, government, and legislative service. Explore how you can be involved next year, including participating as a Public Service Scholar or Pro Bono Scholar. There will also be a chance for you to get to know us and students who are involved in our projects

Noon – 12:15 pm: Remarks – a brief introduction to our staff, students, and programs

12:15 pm – 1 pm: Informal meet & greet with staff, students, and Career Services Office public interest and government counselors

Join us!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/12/42825/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/13/43489/

The Rapoport Center will host a public screening of the film "War Don Don," about the Issa Sesay case before the Sierra Leone Tribunal. Director Rebecca Richman Cohen (Lecturer, Harvard Law School) will join us via video call for a talk-back following the film.

For more information on the film: http://www.wardondonfilm.com/

For more information about Rebecca: https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11141/Cohen

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/13/44346/

Women's Bible study at the law school. This semester we will be studying "Finding I Am." This event occurs every other Thursday from 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Coffee and breakfast will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/43987/

Staff Valentine's Day breakfast

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/44145/

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

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/39148/

Meeting of the clinical faculty.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/42925/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/43845/

Professor Logan Beirne of Yale Law School will join Professor Sievert to discuss government surveillance and its legal limits following the Supreme Court's decision in Carpenter v. U.S.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/43006/

The Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas is sponsoring a panel discussion regarding the life of a transactional lawyer. Practicing lawyers will describe the rewards, challenges and opportunities of a career as a business lawyer - these are lawyers who never go to court but work for law firms and companies in many exciting fields such as mergers and acquisitions, real estate, intellectual property, oil and gas, technology, etc. This moderated discussion is an open forum and the participants are encouraged to ask as many questions as they would like of the panelists.

Panelists include: Christina Marshall, Haynes and Boone, LLP; Carol Mattick, Carol Bavousett Mattick, PC; Justin Long, Norton Rose Fulbright

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, February 13, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/14/43045/

By this point in law school you’ve learned the foundations of black letter law. You’ve learned the foundations of legal research. You’ve learned the foundations of legal writing.

Maybe you came to law school after years of participating in speech and debate. Maybe you were active in student government or community organizing. Or maybe you’ve never done any public speaking at all. Whether you end up spending every day in the courtroom arguing to a judge or group of jurors, or in a boardroom advocating to a group of venture capitalists, a necessary part of our profession is public speaking.

You advocate every day already. You are advocating for yourself when you write cover letters. You advocate when you interview for summer clerkships. You are using advocacy when you present at your upcoming LRW oral argument and even when you write exams or answer questions in class.

ADVOCACY MATTERS.

If you didn’t already experience success as an advocate, you wouldn’t be in law school. The art of advocacy as a lawyer is an important part of your legal education, no matter where your career in law takes you.

The upcoming Workshop will offer you a chance to add more skills to your repertoire. Professors from the Advocacy Department at the University of Texas School of Law will offer two sessions for the 1L Public Speaking Workshop on Friday, February 8th and Friday, February 15th, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. You will be taught by successful trial lawyers and talented National Mock Trial Champions; you will be taught by lawyers who are hired to teach experienced lawyers how to be even better.

You will be on your feet. You will be practicing voice and gestures. You will work on fluidity and rhythm and pace and cadence and tone. No matter what your skill level when you walked in the door, in two hours, you will be a better advocate than before. And if you show up at 12:30, we’ll even feed you lunch.

Please contact Marla Massin at mmassin@law.utexas.edu to request a registration form. In order to tailor the workshop to your current skill level and let you get the most out of the workshop, the form includes a brief self- assessment of your current public speaking experience so that we may group people with similar experience levels together. Registration forms will also be available outside of the Advocacy Program Office, CCJ 3.338.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/15/44225/

In honor of Black History Month, come out and test your trivia skills at our Black History inspired quiz! The event will be held at Spiderhouse Ballroom (2908 Fruth St). Trivia begins at 6. Parking is limited. Entry is free and a limited bar tab will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/15/44565/

The Texas Law Alumni Association's Townes Hall Morning Coffee will kick off on Monday, January 28th, through the spring semester. Open to all students every Monday morning! Please bring your favorite travel mug (we are going green, so no paper products will be provided) and enjoy FREE coffee every Monday morning to start your week off right on behalf of the Alumni Association. Coffee will be located at one, large stations located near the 1L Classrooms (by TNH 2.140, TNH 2.319) beginning at 8:45am until it's gone, so get there early!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/18/44248/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/18/44566/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/18/43785/

Quinn Curtis of the University of Virginia will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/18/44705/

The Texas Law Professional Development Institute: Prepared For Practice is taught by industry experts and practicing attorneys, covering facets of new attorney professionalism most sought after by legal employers. It is promoted widely to employers, many of whom contributed to the content of the program.

Whether you're a 1L preparing for your first summer clerkship or the fall recruiting season, a 2L working to turn your summer clerkship or fellowship into an offer, or a graduating 3L getting a head start on your legal career, the Texas Law Professional Development Institute (PDI), which is presented each Spring, will help you be a more competitive candidate and a better lawyer.

Online registration will be announced in October and will be awarded on a first-come basis. Please note that 2Ls and 3Ls who attended last year may sign up for this year’s Institute.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/41510/

For our 2019 Symposium, Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy will host a Latino Lunch Series every Tuesday of February with speakers discussing various legal and policy issues on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border Zones II: This Land is Whose Land?

This panel will will discuss the complex legal, environmental and eminent domain issues present at Texas’ border zones. Many Texans have felt the impact of the border wall with land agents assessing the land between Texas and Mexico in the spring of 2007. The previous visits launched the most aggressive seizure of private land by the federal government in decades. What impact will the President’s talk of a border wall have on property owners? How will lawyers and scientists predict the environmental impact of a border wall? This panel will discuss the legal, property and environmental implications of a border wall in 2019. Speakers include Professor John Echeverria (Vermont Law School), Nick Laurent (Baron Adler), Roy Brandys (Baron Adler), Kiah Collier (Texas Tribune), and Professor Tim Keitt (UT).

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/42807/

Professor Richard F. Duncan will visit Texas Law to discuss the history of the U.S. Senate and how the institution has evolved to embody its current form.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/43013/

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.

During the first hour, which is free and open to the public, John Pollock will discuss his work to establish the right to counsel for low-income individuals in civil cases involving fundamental rights in a talk entitled “The Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases: Successes and the Potential in Texas.” During the second hour he will meet with students more informally over lunch to discuss his life and career.

John Pollock is a Staff Attorney for the Public Justice Center and serves as the Coordinator of the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. He focuses entirely on working to establish the right to counsel for low-income individuals in civil cases involving fundamental rights such as child custody, housing, and benefits. Previously, he served as the Enforcement Director for the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center (CAFHC) in Montgomery, Alabama, addressing systemic housing discrimination in rental, sales, lending, and insurance. He started his legal career at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, where he worked on immigrant civil rights violations by state and federal officers, involuntary land loss in minority communities, wage/hour violations by employers of migrant workers, predatory lending, and hate crimes. While at SPLC, he founded the Heirs' Property Retention Coalition, a network of dozens of organizations across the southeastern United States working on stopping the forced sales of ancestral property within low-income African-American communities. John drafted the first version of what eventually became the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, a uniform law to reduce forced sales that was adopted by the ABA and the Uniform Law Commission in 2011. The Act has been adopted by the states of Nevada, Georgia, Montana, Alabama, and Arkansas, and has been introduced as legislation in several other states. He attended Wesleyan University and Northeastern University School of Law.

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, the UT Opportunity Forum, and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. Cosponsored by the UT Chapter of the American Constitution Society, If/When/How, and the Public Interest Law Association.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/43125/

We will present sessions on natural leadership styles, strategic leadership, and change management, among other topics. The workshop will be held on Tuesdays, Feb. 5-March 12, at lunch. Students must attend 5 of the 6 sessions to receive a certificate of completion.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/43746/

Sign up for a chance to meet pne on one with John Pollock, Attorney at the Public Justice Center, to discuss his career path and current work advocating for civil Gideon representation. This meetings follow his Lives in the Law talk from 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m. in the Eidman Courtroom.

Sign up by Monday, February 18 on Symplicity under the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/19/44425/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/20/43490/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/39149/

Paul Hastings lLP invites all 1L students to join them for a lunch taco in the Law School Atrium. Attorney and recruiting personnel will be in attendance to answer questions about the firm on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Be sure to stop by on your way to class.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/44606/

A Luncheon with attorneys from Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/44685/

Kathleen Rubenstein, Associate Director of the Skadden Foundation, will discuss the Skadden Fellowship for students who are interested in applying for the prestigious postgraduate public interest fellowship.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, February 20, on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/43825/

Find out why working in a small or midsize firm might be right for you. Panelists will discuss how to effectively prepare for a career in a small or midsize firm, as well as strategies for building a network and finding opportunities.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Wednesday, February 20 on Symplicity by selecting the "Events" tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/43407/

Conference hosted by Prof. Sanford Levinson, Prof. Richard Albert, and Prof. Gary Jacobsohn.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/21/39709/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

For our 2019 Symposium, Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy will host multiple panels and speakers throughout the month of February under a common policy issue. Details forthcoming.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/22/38965/

The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/22/39710/

Described by one partner at a top law firm as “the most practical tool I’ve encountered in my 20 years of practicing,” the Women in Law Institute is an all-day, intensive workshop for law students, judicial clerks, and LL.M.’s. Participants can look forward to expert presentations on the essential skills for navigating a successful career in law: effective communication, self-promotion, and networking. Following each lecture, students work in small groups led by distinguished practitioners (3:1 ratio) to perfect these skills through practice and individualized critiques in a supportive environment.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/22/44485/

The Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal is happy to announce that it will be hosting this year's Symposium on February 22nd, 2019. It will include speakers from academia, the judiciary, and both government and private practice. Our theme this year is the administrative state and its effect on intellectual property practice- a theme commented on by many, including the Supreme Court, in recent years. Students, faculty, alumni, and anyone else interested in intellectual property should come check out this great event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/22/41825/

The Institute for Transnational Law invites you to a distinguished lecture by Rod E. Wetsel. The title of the lecture is “How to Negotiate and Draft a Wind Energy Lease with a Look at New Developments in Wind Law.” Wetsel will talk about both wind leases and new developments, including legislation on wind.

Wetsel received his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 1977. He taught Wind Law at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he served as as adjunct professor, from 2012-2018. He currently serves as adjunct professor at Texas Tech University School of Law. In 2011, Wetsel co-authored the first treatise on Texas Wind Law with Professor Ernest Smith, Steven DeWolf, and Becky Diffen. He is a frequent speaker on wind energy issues throughout the United States.

Lunch will be served.

Registration is required.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/22/44288/

This will be an extended meeting of the clinic students and professors.Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/22/44785/

The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/02/23/39711/