Events Calendar

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The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Competition is a 64-person, single-elimination tournament for first-year law students at the University of Texas. Details will be announced at a later date.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/25/57021/

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

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Competition is a 64-person, single-elimination tournament for first-year law students at the University of Texas. Details will be announced at a later date.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/26/57022/

Monday, April 26 from noon to 12:45 via Zoom

Learn about becoming a 2021-22 student member of one of the Austin Inns of Court! The Inns provide excellent opportunities for law students to meet and be mentored by local judges and practicing attorneys across a range of fields. Each Inn meets monthly, fall through spring. Students are assigned to a team of attorneys and judges, which meets to prepare and then present a program at one of the Inn meetings. This is an excellent opportunity for students to socialize with and be mentored by practicing attorneys and judges.

The Inns will hold an information session for law students on Monday, April 26 from noon to 12:45 via Zoom. The meeting will include short panel discussion and breakout sessions with Inn members. Register by April 25 to receive a link to the Zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Registration link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAucOqtqjouH9ahqiZSYCJA4iEAVdgtdfvZ

For more information about the Austin Inns of Court and how to apply to be a student member, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/austin-inns-of-court-2/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/26/60485/

Throughout the semester, the GSC offers a series of weekly free and confidential groups for students. Click the link for more about such groups as Finding Our Voice: Women of Color Discussion Group, Trans Thursdays, Feminist Friday, Queer Voices Discussion Group, and more.

Finding our Voice: A Women of Color Discussion Group meets weekly on Mondays and all graduate students are welcome. This free and confidential group is open to the entire UT student community.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/26/60626/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/26/58787/

This orientation is required for all students accepted into the Summer 2021 Judicial Internship course. It will be held online. For more information on the Judicial Internship Program email Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu or check out our website at https://law.utexas.edu/internships/judicial-internship/.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/27/59205/

This event is sponsored by the KBH Energy Center. To RSVP: http://attend.com/tinker

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/27/60046/

Presentation: Constitutional Elaboration in Divided Societies

Speaker: Ashley Moran, The University of Texas at Austin Discussant: Daniel Brinks, The University of Texas at Austin

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/28/59365/

Join us as we study through Colossians!

Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92236881234

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/28/59038/

Join us for our bi-weekly women's Bible study. This semester, we are doing a video study titled "Meant for Good" exploring how to trust God's plan for our lives no matter what! Join us any week. Zoom ID: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/2144227782

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/29/59170/

Trans Thursdays is an informal weekly meet-up that provides space for trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, agender, bigender, genderfluid, intersex, and gender questioning students at UT Austin to build community.

For more information please visit: https://law.utexas.edu/diversity-and-inclusion/events/trans-thursdays/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/29/60612/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/29/60706/

The Beck Awards Ceremony honors our Teaching Quizmasters for one and two years of service, student winners of the Beck award, the Beck Center's best-memo award, The Review of Litigation's best-brief award, and interscholastic moot court competitors and coaches.

Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92472999439

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/29/57023/

Hoping to receive academic credit this summer for an internship with a government agency or nonprofit organization?

Academic credit is available through the law school’s 3-credit summer session government and nonprofit internship courses. Students must apply for instructor approval to register, and must attend an orientation session with the Texas Law instructors via Zoom on Thurs., April 29, from 4 to 5:30 pm. Students will receive an invitation to the Zoom orientation once they have applied for approval to register for the program, or they contacted the instructor interest. (An audio recording will be made available to students who have a class conflict.)

Applications for approval to register are available online at:

Government Internship: https://law.utexas.edu/internships/government-internship/

Nonprofit Internship: https://law.utexas.edu/internships/nonprofit-internship/

Students who begin internships before obtaining instructor approval to register and attending the orientation will be precluded from enrolling in this course.

Questions? Contact Prof. Helen Gaebler at hgaebler@law.utexas.edu or Prof. Lucy Wood at lwood@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/29/60665/

Growing evidence regarding persistent disparities in school discipline poses serious implications about the impact of the educational experience for youth. Statewide, Black students in Texas are approximately two times more likely to experience in-school suspensions (I.S.S.), nearly three times more likely to experience out-of-school suspensions (O.S.S) and are admitted to either alternative or juvenile justice education programs at higher rates than white students. Join IUPRA’s moderated panel discussion around this issue with a focus on equity and school- community solutions.

Moderator: Brion Oaks, Chief Equity Officer, City of Austin

Panelists:

Kevin Foster Ph.D., School Board Member, Austin Independent School District

Andrew Hairston, Director, Justice Education Project, Texas Appleseed

Natosha Daniels, Round Rock Black Parents Association

Farah Muscadin, Director, Office of Police Oversight, City of Austin

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/30/60685/

Feminist Friday is an informal weekly meet-up that discusses intersectional feminism topics through guest speakers, student-led discussions, artmaking, and anything else that students would like.

For more information please visit https://law.utexas.edu/diversity-and-inclusion/events

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/04/30/60608/

Leading advocates for workers in a variety of formal and informal sectors – from care work and construction to digital platforms and the arts – compare the challenges they see to the future of work and organizing in their respective fields and global contexts.

Richard Dobson Co-Founder and Project Leader, Asiye eTafuleni

Katie Joaquin Deputy Director, Jobs to Move America

Lenny Sanchez Co-Founder, Independent Drivers Guild of Illinois (IDG)

Lise Soskolne Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)

Emily Timm Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Workers Defense Project

Moderated by Nicole Burrowes Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University

Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Artistic Labor and the Humanities, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96584980049

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/01/60806/

In the guise of entrepreneurialism and individual freedom the gig-economy was once hailed as the solution to the ills of the degrading work relationships that formed the backbone of the capitalist economy. Legal scholar and activist Veena Dubal considers how organized workers have helped dispel this myth by speaking out about the darker side of the gig-economy. In conversation with legal labor historian William Forbath, Dubal will discuss these issues and more – from the future of the gig-economy to the potential for legal change in the aftermath of California’s Prop 22.

Veena Dubal Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, University of California, Hastings

&

William E. Forbath Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law & Associate Dean for Research, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Essential Work

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96278435068

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/01/60826/

Please join us for this first public watch party of the “Electric Dreams” episode, Autofac, which we will discuss with celebrated cyberpunk writer and UT graduate Bruce Sterling on June 2 at 6:30 pm.

You can also watch the episode on June 2 at 5:30pm or on your own with Amazon Prime!

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/97864457088

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/01/60830/

Sarita Gupta, nationally recognized leader on labor and economic justice, will present a keynote lecture, followed by a conversation with representatives of each of our five research clusters.

Sarita Gupta Director, Future of Work(ers), Ford Foundation

Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Artistic Labor and the Humanities, Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/94566578855

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/02/60827/

Please join us for this second public watch party of the “Electric Dreams” episode, Autofac, immediately preceding our 6:30 pm discussion with celebrated cyberpunk writer and UT graduate Bruce Sterling.

You can also watch the episode on your own with Amazon Prime!

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/97331719108

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/02/60813/

This panel takes the Future of Work conversation beyond the bromides of today by meditating on yesterday’s visions of our future, as encapsulated by Philip K. Dick’s classic science fiction story “Autofac” and its recent adaptation for Amazon’s “Electric Dreams” video anthology. Participants include Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, Director of the Good Systems Critical Surveillance Inquiry (CSI) Research Focus Area, and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness; Nitin Verma, an advanced graduate student in the School of Information whose research concerns political and scientific misinformation and the ethical issues raised by machine learning technology; and the celebrated cyberpunk writer and UT graduate Bruce Sterling.

If you’d like to watch the “Electric Dreams” episode, Autofac, you can join us at one of our two screening parties on June 1 at 6:00pm or June 2 at 5:30pm, or watch on your own with Amazon Prime!

Bruce Sterling Science Fiction Writer

In conversation with

Samuel Baker Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin

Simone Browne Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Neville Hoad Associate Professor of English & Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

Nitin Verma PhD Student in the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin

Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Artistic Labor and the Humanities

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/97331719108

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/02/60807/

A pivotal dimension of COVID-19 has been the classification of certain work(ers) as essential. In dialogue with Sara Stevano, lead author of “Essential for What? A Global Social Reproduction View on the Re-organisation of Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” respondents will discuss their own research on essential work.

Sara Stevano Lecturer, Department of Economics, SOAS

In discussion with:

Mechele Dickerson Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice & University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Karen Engle Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

Sam Tabory PhD Student, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Sharmila Rudrappa Professor of Sociology & Director of the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Relevant Research Clusters: Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/95596121534

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/03/60808/

Building from their work on public health, care work, and racial capitalism, the panelists discuss the lengthy and ongoing crisis in caring labor that has only been exacerbated by the current pandemic.

Carrie Freshour Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Washington

Libby McClure Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Occupational Safety and Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Data Health Analyst, DataWorks NC.

Snehal Patel Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin

Sharmila Rudrappa Professor of Sociology & Director of the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Relevant Research Clusters: Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96706403727

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/04/60828/