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/2022/04/18/65932/

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/

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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/