Events Calendar

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event, and this year, it's all online! During this week of April, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over the summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/05/59766/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event, and this year, it's all online! During this week of April, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over the summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/06/59825/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event, and this year, it's all online! During this week of April, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over the summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/07/59826/

On April 7th, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will host Nana Gyamfi, Executive Director for Black Alliance for Just Immigration. The event will be held at the University of Texas Law School in the Eidman Courtroom at 12:30pm. This is part of our Brumley Speaker Series.

Register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/immigration-is-a-racial-justice-issue-tickets-309986346507

BIOGRAPHY

Nana Gyamfi is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), the largest Black-led social justice organization representing the nearly 10 million Black immigrants, refugees, and families living in the U.S. A Movement attorney for the past 25 years, Nana is co-founder of Justice Warriors 4 Black Lives and Human Rights Advocacy, both dedicated to fighting for human rights and Black liberation. She is the current President of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and a member of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table. Nana is a former professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University Los Angeles, and has long been a sought after voice for legal and political insight into issues affecting Black communities. She has appeared in documentaries and other media, including Tales of the Grim Sleeper and Democracy Now! With Amy Goodman.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/07/67825/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event, and this year, it's all online! During this week of April, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over the summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/08/59827/

The Spring Pledge Drive is Texas Law Fellowships's biggest fundraising event, and this year, it's all online! During this week of April, TLF raises money from around the UT community to help fund and award TLF fellowships to Texas Law students. Students donate so their peers can work in public service over the summer. Alumni, faculty, and staff pitch in as well with donations and class incentives. Many law firms match student donations. During Pledge Drive, anyone who donates over $30 during Pledge Drive can vote for fellowship candidates. Pledge Drive is also your best chance to get TLF merchandise!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/09/59828/

Presentation: Language Networks and Constitutional Design

Speaker: Zachary Elkins, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Rhonda Evans, The University of Texas at Austin

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/14/59345/

Join us for the third of a 3-part webinar series on immigration law and policy changes following the inauguration of President Biden.

The Biden administration has committed to end the Remain in Mexico program, which has forced asylum seekers to wait indefinitely for their US asylum proceedings in dangerous conditions in Mexico. Other policies that effectively blockade the border to asylum seekers may also finally be abandoned. In addition, there is a strong push for President Biden to end an immigration system that has seen widespread detention of asylum seekers, families and children, and other migrants, often in facilities run by for-profit prison companies. This panel will explore not only a possible end to exclusionary policies but also a new vision that would emphasize humane processing of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S. southern border. The panelists will consider public health, legal and policy questions that will arise during the transition away from an enforcement-focused approach.

This event is sponsored by the Immigration Clinic, the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law , and the St. Edward’s University Social Work Program.

REGISTER for Part 3: Re-Building the US Refugee Resettlement Program on April 14 at noon here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/139283930987

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/14/59465/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society for a conversation with Jordan Lorence, Senior Counsel and Director of Strategic Engagement with Alliance Defending Freedom. Mr. Lorence has argued and worked on a number of First Amendment cases at the Supreme Court of the United States, and he also serves as a frequent legal commentator in television, radio, and print media.

Using the recent case of Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski for context, Mr. Lorence will be discussing the suppression of speech on college campuses and the process of taking a First Amendment case to the Supreme Court.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/15/60545/

Join Dean Ward Farnsworth for an update on your alma mater.

Registration required to watch on YouTube Live

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/16/60565/

"What? I have an ethical obligation to do that?" A dynamic, interactive CLE that takes a fresh look at the disciplinary rules and Texas Lawyers Creed, some hidden provisions, and a deeper look at professionalism

1 hour ethics CLE credit.

Registration required.

Tracy W. McCormack ’86 is a lecturer and Director of Advocacy at The University of Texas School of Law. Professor McCormack practiced as a trial lawyer for 14 years in Austin before joining the faculty full time in 2000. She teaches courses in Evidence, Trial Advocacy, ADR advocacy and related subjects. She heads the John L. Hill Trial Advocacy Center, the Harry M. Reasoner Center for Trial Practice and the Kincaid and Horton Excellence Fund for Empirical Advocacy Research.

Open to all alumni

Zoom Meeting

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/16/60566/

Each class party will be hosted by the committees online in Zoom so we can spend time with each other, share our Law School memories, and have some fun with group activities.

Registration required to participate in Zoom meeting.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/16/60585/

Each class party will be hosted by the committees online in Zoom so we can spend time with each other, share our Law School memories, and have some fun with group activities.

Registration required to participate in Zoom meeting.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/16/60586/