Events Calendar

Texas Law Fellowships' annual Excellence in Public Interest Awards (EPIA) reception honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the public interest law field. This year, TLF will be hosting the EPIAs at the home of Bill and Stephanie Whitehurts on Sunday, April 3 at 5:30 PM. For more information about the EPIAs and to see past recipients, please check out our website.

RSVP: Please use the following form to RSVP by March 20th. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoTUCrSaMSURkHN6JnxUQHTGznqs91RlO7PBobW5HwlZSJEA/viewform?usp=sf_link

NOMINATIONS: We are now seeking nominations for all five categories: (1) Students; (2) Professors; (3) UT Staff; (4) Public Interest Attorneys; (5) Private Attorneys. Nominees should demonstrate a strong commitment to serving the public interest community. Please use the following form to submit your nominations by March 11th at Noon. https://forms.gle/BjdKENziqYFX5GrE8

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/03/67105/

If you have questions about selecting classes, early registration process, or how to apply for clinics or internships, please stop by our table in the Atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/04/67145/

If you have questions about selecting classes, early registration process, or how to apply for clinics or internships, please stop by our table in the Atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/05/67146/

Stop by the Advocacy Program Open House to find out about Advocacy Program courses, workshops and extracurricular activities such as interscholastic mock trial and moot court. You will have the opportunity to meet the new Director of Advocacy and ask questions of the Advocacy Program staff, or current students involved in the Program.

Not to mention, FREE LUNCH and Advocacy Program goodies!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/05/67505/

The Texas Law Professional Development Series is taught by industry experts and practicing attorneys, covering facets of new attorney professionalism most sought after by legal employers. This must-attend program will help you prepare for your summer clerkship or postgraduate job.

This session covers communication with the various stakeholders a junior associate will encounter in a law firm, from partners to clients to support staff including how expectations differ between partners and associates, and how to customize your communication style to the partner, the client, and your peers, and how to develop beneficial working relationships with the support staff at your firm. Panelists will offer tips and tools for communicating in a professional manner across a diverse and inclusive law firm environment, including a discussion about the role that technology/social media/apps/texting plays in your communications and legal practice.

RSVP on Symplicity by Friday, April 1, 2022. Lunch/snacks will be served after the program.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/05/64826/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society as we host Josh Hammer, opinion editor of Newsweek and research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, and Keith Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton, for a discussion of common good originalism.

Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/05/65867/

Working as a Summer Intern for a non-profit or public interest organization is an extremely rewarding experience. However, it is not without its difficulties, and many students report feeling burnt out or overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done in these spaces. Please join Texas Law ACS and TLAP for a Compassion Fatigue training and give yourself the tools to balance the weight of the issues, your work in a nonprofit space, and your own personal health and wellbeing.

Comfort food will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/05/67185/

For 3Ls seeking postgraduate employment, learn about Texas Law's postgraduate internship program, the Long Career Launch Program (LCLP). Discuss the program details and application, as well as strategies for how to maximize the benefit of participating in LCLP, and receive practical advice on how to make your job search more efficient and productive.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/05/67749/

The Center for Women in Law will hold the 2022 Women's Power Summit on Law & Leadership at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/06/67545/

If you have questions about selecting classes, early registration process, or how to apply for clinics or internships, please stop by our table in the Atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/06/67147/

Rosann Mariappuram is Executive Director of Jane’s Due Process, a nonprofit that ensures legal representation for pregnant minors in Texas. Immediately after graduating from law school, she was an If/When/How Reproductive Justice Fellow with Surge Reproductive Justice and Legal Voice in Seattle. Read more about Rosann here: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/directory/rosann-mariappuram/

Please RSVP for Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rd-iuqTkuGt1xeD-UfDiZmt7pSihLI4QH

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/06/67089/

Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 5, on Symplicity.

A panel of first-generation law students will discuss what they learned about OCI and law firm recruiting, what they wish they had known before going through OCI, and how to avoid common mistakes first-generation law students make during the OCI recruiting season. Panelists TBD.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/06/67065/

Join the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, and the American Constitution Society for a conversation with Texas Law Professors Elizabeth Sepper and Stephen Vladeck and Washington University School of Law Professor Susan Appleton. The discussion will focus on the legal landscape following Supreme Court's upcoming decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and the decision's potential impact on reproductive rights, substantive due process, and beyond.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/06/67625/

The Center for Women in Law will hold the 2022 Women's Power Summit on Law & Leadership at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/67546/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/66470/

A day of panels and presentations for admitted students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/62508/

If you have questions about selecting classes, early registration process, or how to apply for clinics or internships, please stop by our table in the Atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/67148/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/65667/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/65028/

Join TLF for Happy Hour and learn more about joining our Board of Directors! No prior participation in TLF is necessary. We look forward to meeting you and answering any questions!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/67785/

TJOGEL's Spring Happy will be on Thursday, April 7 from 6:30pm-8:30pm. The location for the Happy Hour is still being decided. Beverages and Hors d'Oeuvres will be served, and we will be inviting lawyers from many different firms and companies to attend the event. Since the law school does not allow us to pay for more than 2 drinks per student, you will only receive two drink tickets when you check in, but there will be a cash bar to purchase more beverages. Attire is business casual. Dues must be paid to RSVP.

For more information, please email our Society Director, Lyle Paul, at lrpaul@utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/07/67205/

The Center for Women in Law will hold the 2022 Women's Power Summit on Law & Leadership at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/08/67547/

A day of panels and presentations for admitted students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/08/62446/

The Capital Punishment Center presents a two-day series of panels with national experts discussing the conditions of confinement, the challenges and costs of incarcerating death-sentenced prisoners, and the physical and psychological effects of death-row conditions on prisoners.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/08/67706/

Please join the Texas International Law Journal for an evening of celebration and recognition of everything the journal has accomplished over the past year.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/08/66786/

The Capital Punishment Center presents a two-day series of panels with national experts discussing the conditions of confinement, the challenges and costs of incarcerating death-sentenced prisoners, and the physical and psychological effects of death-row conditions on prisoners.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/09/67727/

Join TMLS for our annual Banquet in celebration of all that we have accomplished this past year!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/09/67765/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/11/65956/

The Texas Law Professional Development Series is taught by industry experts and practicing attorneys, covering facets of new attorney professionalism most sought after by legal employers. This must-attend program will help you prepare for your summer clerkship or postgraduate job.

Learn tips to help you succeed in your public service summer internship from a panel of employers.

Whether you're a 1L preparing for your first summer clerkship or the fall recruiting season, a 2L working to turn your summer clerkship or fellowship into an offer, or a graduating 3L getting a head start on your legal career, the Texas Law Professional Development Institute (PDI), which is presented each Spring, will help you be a more competitive candidate and a better lawyer.

RSVP on Symplicity by Friday, April 8, 2022. Lunch/snacks will be served after the program.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/12/64827/

Jessica Brand, Founder and Co-Director of the Wren Collective, an organization which advises and consults on criminal justice issues, and Trudy Strassburger, the Deputy District Attorney of Travis County, will discuss the concept of “Progressive Prosecution” as well specific policies and practices of the Travis County District Attorney's Office.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/12/65952/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/12/65949/

On Wednesday, April 13, the Strauss Center will host an event on “War Crimes in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine” with UT Law School Professor Derek Jinks. Russian atrocities in Ukraine have shocked the world, reviving memories of some of the darkest moments of the 20th Century. Many of these acts are war crimes, a phrase that is used by many but fully understood by few.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/13/68125/

Please join us for LLILAS and Rapoport Center Visiting Resource Professor Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin’s presentation on his current work on the legal protection of forests and emerging principles in environmental law. Justice Benjamin’s lecture is cross-listed with Planet Texas 2050’s Spring Research Symposium: A Week of Resilience Research in Action.

This event is co-sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), the LLILAS Benson Brazil Center, and Planet Texas 2050.

Please register for the event here: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/event-registration-can-the-law-save-tropical-forests/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/13/67665/

The Texas Environmental Law Journal (TELJ) is excited to announce our Symposium on Legal System Changes to Address Climate Change and the Energy Transition. The Symposium will bring together current practitioners in the area of climate change law with scholars and emerging thought leaders.

The Symposium will cover a range of subjects on the important and urgent topics of climate and energy transition. We expect it to be eye-opening and to provide deep and thoughtful insights into this very complex arena. The program will include presentations and discussion on topics such as:

The role of corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) Intellectual property law and diffusion of green technology Transportation electrification Developing commercial terms and contracting standards to enable the energy transition

If you are interested, please register at https://www.texenrls.org/cle-programs/climate-change-conference/.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/14/68025/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/14/66471/

The National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) and the Travis County Women Lawyers Association present the Color of Justice Program. Local area teens will learn about the legal profession and hear from judges and attorneys about their paths to law school and beyond.

Cosponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/14/65485/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/14/65686/

Learn about becoming a 2022-23 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.

Please RSVP for Zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvd-6vpzgpH9W7WrQdvRULax5G7R5D0TMl

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/14/67485/

Join Michael Ellis, Visiting Fellow for Law and Technology, at The Heritage Foundation or a discussion on the Biden Administration’s decision to end DOJ’S China Initiative.

Prior to joining Heritage, Mr. Ellis was general counsel of the National Security Agency and served in several different national security roles in the Trump administration. Prior to his service at the White House, Mr. Ellis was general counsel of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The event will be moderated by Prof. Adam Klein, Deputy Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

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DOJ launched a “China Initiative” in November 2018 that sought to to identify and prosecute trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage; protect U.S. critical infrastructure against threats from Chinese foreign direct investment and supply chain compromises; and combat covert efforts to influence the American public and policymakers. In February 2022, the Biden administration announced it would end the initiative.

Mr. Ellis will discuss foreign policy and national security consequences of the decision and the benefits of the China Initiative.

More information: https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/doj-emboldens-china-ending-initiative-against-our-greatest

Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/14/67645/

Join us for a night of food, drinks, and merriment! Registration required.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/15/67805/

The Constitutional Studies Program will host the inaugural Texas Constitutional Law Assembly, a first-of-its-kind conference for high school students in grades 9-12. This free event will be held at the Law School on April 16, 2022. The purpose of the Assembly is to engage high school students in discussion on democracy, rights, and the rule of law.

We are grateful to our outstanding roster of speakers: Justice Evan Young and Professors Zach Elkins, Mimi Marziani, Liz Sepper, and Steve Vladeck. The tentative program is available here.

Registration is available here for free, though space is limited. Note that any student attending the Assembly must be accompanied by a school representative; no student may register on her/his/their own, nor attend on her/his/their own.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/16/67046/