Events Calendar

All TMLS 1Ls are invited for an online evening with Painting with a Twist. Pick up your paint kits, food, and drinks on campus on February 18th!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/20/66408/

Join the PILA Board for coffee and goodies in the morning as you go to and from class! Just stop by and grab whatever catches your eye. We'd love to see you and check in with how you're doing :)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/21/66645/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/21/65955/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society as we host Dr. Sohan Dasgupta, Senior Counsel at Schaerr Jaffe and former Deputy General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security, for a discussion of the limits of congressional investigations.

Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/21/65886/

ASD Committee Meeting

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/22/66766/

Join us for “Biden on Immigration: Better than Trump?”, a talk by Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, who is visiting Texas Law as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence. Lunch will be provided in the Jamail Pavilion after his talk.

To reserve a lunch, please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/256944787777.

This event has been accredited by the State Bar of Texas for 1.00 hour of CLE credit.

Gelernt’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. Gelernt is Texas Law’s ninth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/22/64465/

The adoption of amendments to the Constitution after the Civil War is often referred to as the Second Founding. Did the Second Founding fundamentally alter our understanding of the First Amendment and when it applies? What did newly freed enslaved persons think of these new First Amendment freedoms, and how should their narratives affect our modern interpretation of the text?

Join Professors Ilan Wurman (Arizona State College of Law) and William M. Carter, Jr. (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) to hear their perspectives on the Second Founding. Moderated by Professor Steven Collis (Texas Law).

We hope you join us!

Participants have the option of attending this event in-person or over Zoom. If attending in-person, breakfast tacos (including vegan), chips and cookies will be offered (individually packaged for Covid safety).

To register for this event, please visit https://perspectivesonthesecondfounding.eventbrite.com.

Hosted by the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/22/65385/

Please RSVP by Monday, February 21, on Symplicity.

Come join Captain Johnson during your lunch break to learn more about careers in the Army JAG.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/22/66627/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/22/65947/

Come join us to learn about judicial clerkships from Kathleen Overly! It's never too early to start thinking about preparing for these (and also, it's not too late!) Either attend on Zoom or come in person where food will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/22/66665/

As a part of the annual spring UT Marketplace the School of Law will have exhibitors in the atrium

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/23/65605/

Join Lee Gelernt for an informal conversation about his work as a civil rights lawyer. To-go lunches will be available after 12:30.

Please RSVP to reserve a lunch: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/257214273817

About Lee Gelernt:

Gelernt has worked at the ACLU’s national office in New York since 1992 and has litigated civil rights cases in courts across the country and at every level, including the U.S. Supreme Court. As an example, Gelernt successfully argued a national class action challenge to the Trump Administration’s practice of separating immigrant families at the border. In 2018, a federal court issued an injunction in Ms. L. v. ICE holding the practice unconstitutional and requiring the Administration to reunite the thousands of separated families. Find his complete biography here.

Gelernt’s visit to Texas Law 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. Gelernt is Texas Law’s ninth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/23/66245/

Join the Mithoff Program in a conversation with Lee Gelernt and Steven Herzog about their work to locate migrant parents deported without their children, and to reunite and secure monetary compensation for separated families.

RSVP to reserve a to-go snack: https://reunitingfamilies.eventbrite.com

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/23/66346/

Join TMLS for our February General Body Meeting!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/23/66106/

Festivities for Society Week kicks off with Trivia Night!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/23/66145/

This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Law Society.

Please join us for a Zoom discussion with human rights and criminal defense lawyer Nancy Hollander on Wednesday, February 23rd from 6:00 until 7:15 PM. Before the event, we encourage you to watch The Mauritanian, which depicts Hollander’s representation of Guantanamo detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Jodie Foster won a Golden Globe for her performance as Hollander.) The film will spark a discussion about the role of criminal defense lawyers in protecting human rights at Guantanamo Bay and beyond.

Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense attorney, well-known for representation of individuals and organizations accused of crimes the government deems related to national security. In addition to Ould Slahi, whose release she secured after fourteen years of detention at Guantanamo Bay, Hollander’s clients include Chelsea Manning and Abd Rahim Al-Nashiri. Though she has successfully represented Al-Nashri twice before the European Court of Human Rights, he is currently detained in Guantanamo Bay where he faces the death penalty. Hollander is a partner at Freedman, Boyd, Hollander & Goldberg P.A in Albuquerque, NM, an associate tenant at London’s Doughty Street Chambers, and of counsel with Savolainen Avocats, a Geneva-based firm.

The discussion will be moderated by Professors Karen Engle and Ranjana Natarajan. Professor Natarajan is the director of the Civil Rights Clinic at Texas Law and has been involved in representation of Guantanamo detainees and other post 9/11 national security litigation. Professor Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and co-directs the Rapoport Center. She has written critically about the human rights movement’s reliance on criminal prosecution as its principal enforcement mechanism.

We encourage you to register as soon as possible. UT students, staff, and faculty will be provided with a link to watch The Mauritanian for free. All others are welcome to join us for the event and can view the movie for a fee through streaming services, such as Hulu, Showtime, YouTube, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/23/66626/

Join the Women's Christian Fellowship for our weekly time of Bible study, prayer, and fellowship.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/24/66466/

This is Day 1 of the 2022 Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Symposium. The Symposium this year will be in a "hybrid" format, where registrants and attendees may attend in-person or online via Zoom.

More details will be provided as we get closer to the event. If you have any questions, please email our Symposium Director, Kathy Dzienkowski, at symposiumdirector@tjogel.org.

https://www.tjogel.org/2022-symposium

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/24/64685/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/24/66705/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 23, on Symplicity.

Learn about careers in prosecution and how prosecution has changed after the death of George Floyd. Panelists include Rob Kepple, Texas District and County Attorney's Association; Erik Nielsen, ’98, Travis County District Attorney's Office; Denise Hernandez, Travis County Attorney's Office; Amber Platt, Texas Attorney General's Office; and more TBA. Moderated by Abbey Fowler, Government Career Counselor in the CSO.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/24/66605/

This is the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law's annual Symposium Banquet Dinner following the first day of our Symposium on Thursday, February 24.

Attendance for the banquet dinner is by invitation only. For information on attending the banquet dinner, please contact TJOGEL's Symposium Director, Kathy Dzienkowski, at symposiumdirector@tjogel.org

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/24/65225/

Society week continues with our second night of trivia

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/24/66146/

Come join SBA and TMLS for a morning of celebration and honoring of Black History & Excellence! Open to all Texas Law Students. This morning of celebration will include coffee baristas, breakfast treats and more!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/25/66767/

This is Day 2 of the 2022 Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Symposium. The Symposium this year will be in a "hybrid" format, where registrants and attendees may attend in-person or online via Zoom.

More details will be provided as we get closer to the event. If you have any questions, please email our Symposium Director, Kathy Dzienkowski, at symposiumdirector@tjogel.org.

https://www.tjogel.org/2022-symposium

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/25/64686/

Join TMLS for our annual Symposium. This year's topic will be on police brutality with a variety of panelists such as Dexter Guilford, the former Houston City Councilwoman; Chief Chris Blue, Chief of the Chapel Hill N.C. Police Department; Kami Chavis, Professor at the University of Wake Forest School of Law; and Jennifer Laurin, Wright C. Morrow Professor of Law at the University of Texas.

Lunch will be sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich, & Rosati.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/25/65845/

1L meet and greet with Dean Farnsworth

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/25/66845/

1L meet and greet with Dean Farnsworth

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/25/66846/

UT graduate students, faculty members, and alumni are invited to this Shabbat dinner (a Jewish event). Hosted by Jewish Legal Society at Texas Law, Texas Hillel, and Dean Bangs. Please RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/Feb25Shabbat.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/02/25/65928/