Events Calendar

Join the Capital Punishment Center in welcoming guest speaker Renaldo Hudson.

Renaldo Hudson is an educator and a community organizer, and has focused his work on ending perpetual punishment in Illinois. After being sentenced to death row, he worked for 37 years while incarcerated to change mindsets regarding prisoner rehabilitation. Join us to hear Renaldo speak on how to focus attention on true rehabilitation.

Lunch will be provided before the event.

Join the TJOGEL Society for a Roundtable Lunch with partners and associates from national law firms. Please RSVP via a form that will be sent out about a week before each Roundtable to TJOGEL Society Members.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 5, on Symplicity.

Join Marilyn Drees ("the introvert") and Mindy Finnigan ("the extrovert") from the CSO to learn practical tips to help anyone have productive, meaningful conversations and build professional relationships.

TBLS is excited to be hosting their second panel in their Business Law 101 series with Baker Botts. Partners and associates from their offices in Texas will be talking about different components of transactional law and answering your questions. This event is for TBLS members only, but if you are not a member, you can sign up here: https://bit.ly/3fdiopl

Join us to hear Chief Justice Rebeca Martinez, Chief Justice of the Fourth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas, and Dolores Atencio, former co-chair of the HNBA Latina Commission and creator of the Luminarias de la Ley Project, speak about their career journeys as Latinas in the legal profession.

On Thursday, October 6, the Strauss Center welcomes Dr. Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and Director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, for a talk on “The Evolving Nature of Organized Crime in Mexico and Why We Should Care.” This talk is part of our Brumley Speaker Series.

In this conversation, Dr. Payan will discuss how Mexico’s struggle with elevated levels of violence and crime has diverted attention from understanding the drastic changes in the nature and character of Mexico’s criminal organizations, with detrimental consequences for not only Mexico, but the United States as well. Payan will argue that, although it is important to examine crime and violence in Mexico today from a quantitative standpoint, it is essential to also analyze how and why criminal organizations have changed in recent years from large, hierarchical organizations primarily dedicated to drug trafficking to networks of sophisticated, vicious groups creating chaos in Mexico’s society and endangering its institutions. According to Payan, the role that these organizations play within the United States in the fentanyl crisis, as well as immigration and human trafficking, shows that Washington, D.C. can not hesitate to address what is happening on the ground south of the border.

Come join us Thursday from 12:30-1:30pm in the Jury Room (CCJ 2.310) for an hour of community and Bible study. Feel free to drop in as you're able. We welcome all women regardless of faith background!

Mentors and mentees from the Explore Law Program meet each other.

Open house for prospective JD applicants.

Join TLF for our annual fall auction! Each year, students bid on silent auction items from local businesses and on experiences with professors. All students, including 1Ls and LLMs, are encouraged to attend, enjoy an open bar, and bid on items. All profits from the fall auction directly support public interest students with summer stipends.

Doors open at 6:30 with a live performance from Texas Law's Sex Parte. The live auction begins at 7:15.

Fall Auction pre-sale tickets are $20 and $25 at the door. Tickets will be sold at the law school at the following times: --Sept. 29 from 11-2 in the atrium; --Oct. 4 from 9-2 on the Patman Plaza (breezeway); --Oct. 5 from 9-2 in the atrium; and --Oct. 6 on the Patman Plaza (breezeway)

Buy online at: https://texaslawfellowships.org/main/donate/.