Events Calendar

The Rapoport Center and the Rothko Chapel are pleased to announce that Charles M. Blow will deliver the sixth annual Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.

Charles M. Blow is an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times, where his column appears on Mondays and Thursdays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justice, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement.He is also a CNN commentator and was a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale, where he taught a seminar on media and politics. Mr. Blow is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014. People Magazine called it “searing and unforgettable.” Previously, Mr. Blow was art director of National Geographic Magazine and worked at The Detroit News. Mr. Blow graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications.

The event is hosted by the Rothko Chapel in Houston and will take place online on October 1, 2020. Mr. Blow and audience members will join virtually.

Registration information coming soon!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2020/10/01/56285/

A Discussion with the Authors of Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

The Center for Women in Law will hold a panel discussion with the authors on October 5, 2020 from 4:00-5:15 pm CT.

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court tells the inspirational and previously untold history of the nine women considered–but not selected–for the United States Supreme Court.

“This fascinating book reconstructs a chapter of women’s history that has been hiding in plain sight: the numerous qualified women whose names were floated for the Supreme Court but who never got there. Just as they were overlooked, so have their individual stories been — until now.”

— Linda Greenhouse, New York Times contributing columnist

CLE Certification Available

This event is free and open to the public.

Register Here: https://utexas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yoauNJlLTVSS2HnwkjuTCw

Renee Knake Jefferson is an award-winning author and Professor of Law and the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston. Knake Jefferson is a Fulbright recipient and elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a frequent speaker at top research universities around the world whose research focuses on innovation in the regulation of legal services.

Read more about Renee Knake Jefferson here.

Hannah Brenner Johnson is the Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and an Associate Professor of Law at California Western School of Law. Brenner Johnson served as the first executive director of the Center for Women in Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and gender, with a specific lens on gender inequality in the legal profession and gender-based violence.

Read more about Hannah Brenner Johnson here.

Marcy Hogan Greer (moderator) Marcy Greer has 30 years of experience in federal and state trial and appellate courts throughout the country. As managing partner of Alexander Dubose & Jefferson, her practice includes appeals, as well as class actions and mass tort cases, including federal and state multidistrict litigation. This experience contributed to her recognition by Chambers USA for Appellate Litigation, as well as Best Lawyers in America in Appellate, Bet-the-Company and Commercial Litigation. In addition, she was honored as “Lawyer of the Year” in 2012 and 2016 for Austin Appellate Practice and Austin Bet-the-Company Litigation in 2015. In 2017, The Texas Bar Association awarded her the Louise B. Raggio Award, which recognizes attorneys who have actively addressed the needs and issues of women in the legal profession and the community. Marcy also has been Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1997.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2020/10/05/56547/

This is the second lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2020/10/05/55666/

Congressman Beto O'Rourke will join us via Zoom Webinar to address the student body. His address will be followed by a voter protection hotline training.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2020/10/05/57047/

Join us for a presentation on the key findings of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic’s newly released report: Public Facility Corporations and the Section 303.042(f) Tax Break for Apartment Developments: A boon for affordable housing or windfall for apartment developers? The presentation will include a summary of how the exemption is being used across the state and ways the exemption can be strengthened to best serve the state’s affordable housing needs.

A link to the report is available at https://law.utexas.edu/clinics/2020/09/14/pfc-apartment-tax-breaks/.

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2020/10/07/57206/