Events Calendar

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/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/18/65932/

Get your stress relief on with a visit from our friends at Divine Canines and their human companions!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/19/67385/

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 how to navigate the summer clerkship program and come out with an offer. Panelists will discuss ways to stand out during the summer program and provide tips for building your professional network within the firm.

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 19, 2022. Lunch/snacks will be served after the program.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/19/64828/

There’s a standard story we tell ourselves about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the Constitution. But, with the country increasingly divided, this story isn’t working for us anymore—what’s more, it’s not even true. As Kermit Roosevelt argues in this eye-opening reinterpretation of the American story, our fundamental values, particularly equality, are not part of the vision of the Founders. Instead, they were stated in Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and were the hope of Reconstruction, when it was possible to envision the emergence of the nation committed to liberty and equality.

We face a dilemma these days. We want to be honest about our history and the racism and oppression that Americans have both inflicted and endured. But we want to be proud of our country, too. In The Nation That Never Was, Roosevelt shows how we can do both those things by realizing we’re not the country we thought we were. Reconstruction, Roosevelt argues, was not a fulfillment of the ideals of the Founding but rather a repudiation: we modern Americans are not the heirs of the Founders but of the people who overthrew and destroyed that political order. This alternate understanding of American identity opens the door to a new understanding of ourselves and our story, and ultimately to a better America.

America today is not the Founders’ America, but it can be Lincoln’s America. Roosevelt offers a powerful and inspirational rethinking of our country’s history and offers a shared past that we can be proud to claim and use as a foundation to work toward a country that fully embodies equality for all.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/19/66847/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society as we host Judge Lawrence VanDyke, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, for a discussion of the Ninth Circuit's "well reasoned dicta" rule.

Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/19/65888/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/19/65950/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/20/67566/

Mario Villa, the Director of the Financial Aid Office will provide information to graduating 3L students on what to expect from the Department of Education, the University, and loan servicers as well as outline accessible financial services for rising alumni from the Financial Aid Office and our partners

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/20/67965/

Arundhati Roy: “Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus”

The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Rothko Chapel present the seventh annual Frances "Sissy" Farenthold Endowed Lecture (2021-2022), which features renowned political activist and author Arundhati Roy. LBJ School professor Raj Patel will engage Roy in a conversation about “Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus.”

Arundhati Roy, author of the Man Booker prize-winning The God of Small Things (1997) as well as The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), has devoted the past decades to advocating for justice, equality, and political transformation. She is a preeminent critic of the economic, social, and political inequalities produced by neoliberal globalization. Her work includes leadership on environmental causes, opposition to India’s policies on nuclear weapons, and activism and advocacy against imperialist military interventions. Since 1998, Roy has published twenty nonfiction books, most recently Capitalism: A Ghost Story (2014), My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction (2019), and Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.  (2020).

Raj Patel is a research professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and a senior research associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. His latest book, co-authored with Rupa Marya, is Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (2021).

This event will take place in-person at the LBJ Auditorium on The University of Texas at Austin campus on April 20, 2022 at 6pm.

Tickets are available through our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arundhati-roy-farenthold-lecture-tickets-295352957647

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/20/67345/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/21/66472/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/21/65909/

End of year lunch recognizing excellence in teaching and service – including the SBA Teaching Awards, Justice Center Graduating Student Awards, Spring 2022 post-graduate fellowship recipients, and students’ pro bono – and celebrating the law school’s culture of using the law to serve others, with pizza and Amy’s Ice Cream for all.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/21/64625/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/21/65029/

A banquet held to celebrate the hard work and dedication of the TROL editors.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/21/67865/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/22/62465/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/22/66746/

All incoming president/chair/executive directors, financial contacts, and banquet and symposium chairs must attend a mandatory training session the afternoon of Friday, April 22.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/22/67905/

Sissy Farenthold devoted her life to exposing and responding to injustices and inequality as a public servant and citizen, both at home and abroad. Join us in celebrating the remarkable life & times of Sissy Farenthold.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/22/68005/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/23/62505/

This is an opportunity for those interested in applying to the JD program to get an overview of the admissions process, participate in a mock class and hear from current students on their experiences as law students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/23/65525/