Events Calendar

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/2022/04/24/62506/

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/2022/04/25/62507/

The First Amendment Center welcomes Nadine Strossen (former national president of the ACLU) and Keith Whittington (Princeton University), two of the nation’s leading intellectuals on freedom of speech, for a thought-provoking and timely discussion of how universities and governments should handle speech and academic freedom in these polarized times.

Moderated by Steven Collis, Director of the First Amendment Center.

Light reception begins at 4:00pm. Event starts at 4:30pm.

For more details and to register, please visit the link. We hope you join us!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/26/68007/

2021 Texas Law Alumni Awards

A highly-anticipated in-person celebration to honor our 2021 Alumni Award winners.

Attendance by invitation only.

Learn more about the Alumni Awards: https://law.utexas.edu/alumni/get-involved/alumni-awards/

(Rescheduled from Sept. 24, 2021)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/28/60887/

April 29-30: Reunion 2022 honors classes whose years end in “2” and “7” from 1972-2017. We will also honor the classes of 1970 and 1971 for their belated 50th reunions and the Class of 1996 for its belated 25th reunion.

Learn more: law.utexas.edu/reunion

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/29/61705/

April 29-30: Reunion 2022 honors classes whose years end in “2” and “7” from 1972-2017. We will also honor the classes of 1970 and 1971 for their belated 50th reunions and the Class of 1996 for its belated 25th reunion.

Learn more: law.utexas.edu/reunion

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/30/61706/