Events Calendar

The Meaning of Life: The Campaign to End Life Sentences in the U.S.

Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project discusses her new book “The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences”

Authored by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis, with contributions by Kerry Myers, “The Meaning of Life” argues that the dramatic growth of life imprisonment – which has led to one of every seven people in prison serving a life sentence – requires advocates and lawmakers to address the problem of excessive sentencing to end mass incarceration.

Moderated by Michele Deitch, Senior Lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and The University of Texas School of Law

Lunch provided

To RSVP, visit: https://meaningoflifebooktalk.eventbrite.com

Presented by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law

Cosponsored by the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, Capital Punishment Center, and the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/01/44525/

Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen will discuss the importance of free speech and Ms. April Farris of Yetter Coleman LLP will join her to discuss ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) and its implications.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/02/43009/

Mentoring Program: Speed Mentoring at Hotel Ella

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/03/44786/

Annual TMLS banquet. For more information email tmlspresident@gmail.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/05/42385/

Capital Punishment Center's annual symposium will discuss the death penalty in Texas--where we've been, where we are, and where we're likely to go.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/05/43329/

Continuation of Friday, April 5 symposium

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/06/43331/

KBH Center Distinguished Lecture with Stephanie Reed, Parsley Energy

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/45768/

Texas Law Alumna Tara Ross will discuss the Electoral College's past, present, and future with Professor Levinson.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/43005/

Lara Bazelon will discuss her book:

Rectify, The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

Tuesday, April 9 12 pm‐1:30 pm TNH 1.324

Lara Bazelon is a law professor, author, and contributing writer for Slate. She has also written for the New York Times,Washington Post, and Politico, among other media outlets.

Lunch will be served. All are welcome.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/09/45727/

Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to speak on “Latino and Immigrant Rights in the Trump Era.”

Lunch available at 11:45

Co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Student Organization Cosponsors: American Constitution Society, Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/10/45705/

On April 11, 2019, join the Institute for Transnational Law for a lecture on the different dimensions (law, ethics, politics) involved in justifying the use of force in international affairs. Dr. Schmidt is a Lecturer in International Relations at Swansea University and a Fellow at the LSE, working on ethics and politics of international law and institutions. He has been awarded a 2019 Texas Collaboration Fund Award for joint research on international criminal law institutions with The University of Texas at Austin and Rice University.

Lunch will be served.

Registration required

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45545/

Join the Institute for Transnational Law for a book talk by Heidi K. Brown, Director of Legal Research & Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Brown will discuss her recent book, The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy. Professor Brown will talk for 45-50 minutes, and then save time for questions.

MCLE credit hours are being requested. Professor Brown has previously been approved for 60 minutes of CLE, no ethics credits. Additional information coming soon.

After the talk, the Institute will host a reception in the Jamail Pavilion, adjacent to the Eidman Courtroom. Refreshments will be served.

Registration is required. RSVP link coming soon.

About the Book:

While naturally loquacious law professors, law students, lawyers, and judges thrive in a world dominated by the Socratic question-and-answer method and rapid-fire oral discourse, quiet thinkers and writers can be sidelined. The Introverted Lawyer illuminates the valuable gifts that introverted, shy, and socially anxious individuals bring to the legal profession—including active listening, deep thinking, empathy, impactful legal writing, creative problem-solving, and thoughtful communication. This presentation also provides a practical seven-step process for amplifying our voices in an authentic manner when we need to make ourselves heard in the legal arena.

About Heidi K. Brown:

Professor Brown joined Brooklyn Law School as Director of the Legal Writing Program in 2016. A prolific scholar and author on the importance of legal writing, she has published four books on predictive and persuasive legal writing and federal litigation, as well as numerous scholarly articles for law journals. In 2017, she published her fifth book, The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy. Inspired by her own experience conquering the fear of public speaking during her litigation career, she is passionate about helping law students and lawyers “find their authentic lawyer voices” and overcome anxiety about Socratic legal discourse.

Prior to joining the Law School, Brown served as Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she helped launch the school’s Legal Practice program. Before that, she was an Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing at the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law in Orange, California.

Brown has more than two decades of experience in law practice. She served as Of Counsel with Moore & Lee, LLP, a boutique litigation firm with offices in the Washington, D.C., area and New York City, where she handled all aspects of litigation and arbitration of complex construction contract and building development disputes. She specialized in brief writing for state and federal cases throughout the United States, and mentored the firm’s junior associates in civil procedure, litigation strategy, and legal writing. Before that, she was an associate at the Manhattan firm of Thacher, Proffitt & Wood and at the Washington, D.C., area firm Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP.

In 2014, Brown was appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Roster, making her eligible for two international teaching grants in the next five years through the J. William Fulbright Scholars Program. She studies Italian and has taught legal writing at the University of Trento in Italy. She received her bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs and French litera

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/11/45105/

Reunion 2019

Reunion 2019 is April 12-13, 2019 and honors classes whose years end in "4" and "9". All Texas Law alumni are encouraged to attend the festivities.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/13/41405/

Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, visiting Texas Law as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence, will speak on “Access to Democracy: Race, Citizenship, & Voting”

Lunch provided

Student Organization Cosponsors: American Constitution Society, The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association, and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society

Nelson’s visit as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence is supported by a generous gift from the G. Rollie White Trust. The program brings outstanding legal scholars, practitioners and advocates from the field of public service to Texas Law to foster discussion of issues related to public interest law, to raise the profile of lawyers working in this area, and to encourage students to view public service as an honored and expected part of every legal career. Nelson is Texas Law’s eighth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/16/43365/

Professor, and former Federal Trade Commissioner, Josh Wright will discuss the Consumer Welfare Standard, Rule of Law, and Rent-Seeking with Professor Wickelgren.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/16/45211/

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/2019/04/17/45685/

Please join us for a free classical music concert by current law students.

• Cheesecake and cannolis following!

• Judge Andrew Austin will be presiding!

• Special guest Prof. Kull will be conducting the quartet.

• Wait . . . this is in the Eidman Courtroom? Yes! We will have a 6 foot, Steinway grand piano in the Eidman Courtroom.

We would like to acknowledge Dean Bangs and the Student Affairs Office for sponsoring the event, Dean Farnsworth for his support, and the Justice Center for printing.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/17/45065/

Grassroots Leadership Luncheon

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/18/44208/

KBH Center Distinguished Lecture Series with Marcela Berdion-Straub

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/23/45769/

Join us for our Inaugural Scholars at Risk Lecture,"'Islamic Democracy' Arrested? Resistance to Authoritarian Transition in Turkey," by Halil Ibrahim Yenigun. Halil Ibrahim Yenigün is a visiting post-doctoral scholar at Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. He was dismissed from his assistant professor position at Istanbul Commerce University soon after Erdoğan’s regime began the purge and persecution of non-loyal academics in reaction to the Petition for Peace. A reception will follow his lecture.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/24/45948/

Join us for a reception following our Inaugural Scholars at Risk Lecture,"'Islamic Democracy' Arrested? Resistance to Authoritarian Transition in Turkey," by Halil Ibrahim Yenigun. Halil Ibrahim Yenigün is a visiting post-doctoral scholar at Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. He was dismissed from his assistant professor position at Istanbul Commerce University soon after Erdoğan’s regime began the purge and persecution of non-loyal academics in reaction to the Petition for Peace.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/24/45926/

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition is a 64-person, single elimination tournament for fist-year law students at the University of Texas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/26/41005/

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition is a 64-person, single elimination tournament for fist-year law students at the University of Texas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/27/41025/

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition is a 64-person, single elimination tournament for fist-year law students at the University of Texas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/28/41006/

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition is a 64-person, single-elimination tournament for first-year law students at the University of Texas. A reception will immediately follow the finals.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/29/41007/

Constitutional Studies Luncheon, presenter Professor Joshua Braver, Harvard Law School. Talk Titled: We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making as Extra-ordinary Adaptation.

Joshua is Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and received his Ph.D from Yale Political Science and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His research includes court-packing and conflicts over how to make constitutions. Joshua’s work has been published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the Georgetown International Law Review and his co-authored casebook, the U.S. Constitution and Comparative Constitutional Law was published by Foundation Press. He has also published shorter pieces in a variety of outlets, such as Politico, Dissent and Talking Points Memo.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/30/43286/

End of year lunch recognizing excellence in teaching and service - including the SBA Teaching Awards, Justice Center Graduating Student Awards, Spring 2019 post-graduate fellowship recipients, Whitehurst summer fellows, and students’ pro bono - and celebrating the law school's culture of using the law to serve others, with pizza and Amy's Ice Cream for all.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2019/04/30/41625/