Events Calendar

We will hold a memorial service for long-time Texas Law professor Zipporah Wiseman, who passed away early this year.

A Celebration of the Life of Zipporah Wiseman

Memorial Service: 3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. – Eidman Courtroom

Reception: 4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. – Jamail Pavilion

Some speakers, including some of Zipporah’s family members, will likely join virtually online.

All the law school community, including, of course, graduates and the far-flung networks of Zipporah’s family, friends and colleagues are invited to join, in person or online.

LIVESTREAM VIDEO LINK: virtualmeeting.la.utexas.edu/meet/memorial-for-zipporah-wiseman

Share memories and condolences: currentobituary.com/member/obit/252102

Read the law school's In Memoriam: law.utexas.edu/news/2021/02/01/in-memoriam-professor-zipporah-b-wiseman

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/04/01/63905/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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 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/

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/

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/

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/