Events Calendar
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Monday, February 15 | |
4:15pm – 6:15pm | Law and Economic Seminar - Kathy Zeiler // Boston University (This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/15/58729/ |
5:30pm – 6:30pm | Texas Environmental Law Journal Core Session For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/15/58885/ |
Wednesday, February 17 | |
5:30pm – 7:00pm | Virtual Women in Energy Panel For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/17/58807/ |
6:30pm – 8:00pm | CLS Bible Study For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/17/59028/ |
8:00pm – 9:30am | SBA Trivia Night For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/17/59646/ |
Thursday, February 18 | |
8:00am – 9:00am | TLWCF Bible Study For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/18/59165/ |
10:00am – 4:00pm | The Review of Litigation Spring 2021 Symposium For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/18/58485/ |
Friday, February 19 | |
CANCELED | Celebrating Scholarships - Virtual Event Invitees will join us as we celebrate the gratitude and hope that scholarships inspire. For questions, call 512-232-4604 or email events@law.utexas.edu. For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/19/59146/ |
11:30am – 1:30pm | Faculty Colloquium - Aziz Rana // Cornell University (This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/19/58745/ |
Monday, February 22 | |
4:00pm – 5:30pm | GRITS Welcome Event For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/22/59485/ |
Tuesday, February 23 | |
11:30am – 12:30pm | GRITS - Intersection of Disability Rights and Racial Justice Join Getting Radical in the South for a panel discussion with Talia Lewis, Caren Short, and Lucy Wood For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/23/59486/ |
CANCELED | The UT Law Board of Advocates Presents a Panel Discussion: How to Conduct Difficult Witness Examinations Virtual Join UT Law Board of Advocates as we host a panel discussion with UT Law professors and trial attorneys as they discuss different approaches to conducting difficult witness examinations. Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/6180846380. For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/23/59425/ |
5:00pm | GRITS 2021 - Environmental Justice in the Southern United States This panel will explore the work being done by environmental justice lawyers, organizers, and advocates across the South fighting for the right to a safe, clean, and livable environment for their communities. For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/23/58945/ |
Wednesday, February 24 | |
8:30am – 11:00am | Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Webinar For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/24/58808/ |
12:00pm – 1:00pm | First Generation Lawyer Challenges and Tools For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/24/59685/ |
5:00pm | Not Policy, Power! Movement Lawyering in Action For Movement lawyers, lawyering is a tool to be harnessed and leveraged in support of movements fighting for greater power in a system that disproportionately concentrates power among the white, wealthy, and corporate. In essence, a lawyer is accountable to goals of movements. For these lawyers, organizers and leaders, the primary goal is not to change laws or policies but to change the disproportionate allocations of power that create and rei For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/24/58965/ |
6:30pm – 8:00pm | CLS Bible Study For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/24/59029/ |
Thursday, February 25 | |
8:00am – 4:00pm | Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law (TJOGEL) Symposium For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/25/57866/ |
11:30am – 1:15pm | Faculty Colloquium - Leora Bilsky // Buchman Law (This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/25/58765/ |
5:00pm – 6:00pm | GRITS Public Interest Social Hour Grab your favorite cocktail or La Croix and join other public interest law students to chat and play some games! For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/25/59466/ |
5:30pm | America's Red Rock Wilderness Act - Film & Discussion For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/25/59745/ |
6:30pm – 7:30pm | An Evening with Judge Don Willett For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/25/59725/ |
Friday, February 26 | |
All day | Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 2020 Symposium COVID 19: the Ongoing Effects of the Global Pandemic on Latinxs For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/26/55745/ |
8:30am – 5:00pm | TJOGEL Symposium For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/26/58405/ |
2:30pm | GRITS - Labor Organizing: From the US South to the Global South Capitalism in the 21st century is accelerating its power. Employers continue to accumulate capital and exploit vulnerable communities, forcing many to relocate to the Global North. But just as the American workforce grows and diversifies, the US government offers workers little to no protection. In Janus v. AFSCME, The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of right-to-work laws, which are intended to financially weaken unions. While emplo For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/26/58966/ |
4:30pm – 6:00pm | GRITS - Organizing in Law School The traditional law school experience often feels, at best, an inadequate training for social justice-minded students, and at worst, a toxic environment that favors privilege over equity and reinforces oppressive norms. This panel, Organizing in Law School, will highlight the efforts of some law students and groups, who have resisted this traditional experience, by actively engaging in efforts to organize around urgent issues outside and insid For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/26/59467/ |
Saturday, February 27 | |
11:00am – 12:00pm | GRITS - Crimmigration in the Carceral State Through an expansive network of federal and local policing, the carceral state constantly entraps immigrants, especially immigrants of color. For example, in the past year alone, over 15,000 immigrants in Texas have been detained by the Department of Homeland Security. This panel of legal practitioners and community organizers will discuss the day-to-day havoc the system wreaks in communities of color, especially in the context of COVID-19. Th For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/02/27/59487/ |