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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/06/70605/

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.

During this conversation, they will explore their career journeys and discuss their experiences as Latinas in the legal profession, including the challenges of being “the first” or “the only.” Ms. Atencio will discuss her extensive research on Latina lawyers. Chief Justice Martinez will offer her perspectives as one among 3 of the highest-ranking Latina judges in Texas. The two will discuss their thoughts on diversifying the legal profession and how current lawyers can help future generations of attorneys.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/06/70789/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/06/70172/

This event is approved for 1 hour of CLE credit.

Join us for a virtual panel discussion on building successful coalitions to advance gender equality in the workplace. The panel will discuss recent research by Professor Insiya Hussain that shows groups seeking to advance gender equality in the workplace need to include both men and women to increase their likelihood of success.

The panelists will discuss the ideas of standing, legitimacy, and priority, and the groups that can help bring those to coalitions. They will also discuss successful ways for men to become allies, as well as the practical applications of these ideas in legal organizations.

Panelists include:

Insiya Hussain, Assistant Professor of Management, The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business

Jim Sandman, Distinguished Lecturer and Senior Consultant to the Future of the Profession Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Allison Shue, Assistant General Counsel, Toyota Motor North America

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/12/70879/

An opportunity for alumni in the Chicago area to meet Texas Law's new dean, Bobby Chesney.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/12/70317/

Join us to welcome back several Texas Law alumni for a Q&A session on October 12 from 6-7pm at TNH 2.138. The alumni joining us are currently working in either the Public Interest and Government areas. Come get insider information on the various career paths available. Food will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/12/70925/

Please join TJOGEL for its inaugural Ladies and Lattes event! Alumnae of TJOGEL and other women from prominent law firms will be there to discuss their career paths and offer their candid guidance. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet and learn from leading women in law. There will be a coffee bar!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/13/70313/

TJOGEL and co-host TLF are hosting a tailgate for the UT home football game.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/15/69916/

This panel discussion will consider the expansion beyond physical detention of migrants to new digital restrictions on liberty, including ankle monitors and intrusive reporting apps. The panelists will raise legal concerns regarding the rapid buildup of immigration detention and digital monitoring over several decades and will present videography of the impacts on migrants. The panel will also look at the overlap between the use of detention and surveillance in the immigration and criminal justice systems and offer insights from the perspective of work in the criminal justice system. It will further place detention and electronic monitoring into context by considering the history of violence and dehumanization of Latinos and other people of color. The panel will conclude by considering opportunities for further research and advocacy on these critical issues.

Moderator: Elissa Steglich, Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law

Panelists:

Denise Gilman, Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law

Carolina Sanchez Boe, Carlsberg Fellow at IMC, Aarhus University, Denmark, affiliated to CERLIS, Université de Paris and SADR, City University of New York

Becky Pettit, Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professorship of Liberal Arts, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Monica M. Martinez, Associate Professor, History, University of Texas at Austin

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/17/70738/

An opportunity for alumni in the Houston area to meet Texas Law's new dean, Bobby Chesney.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/18/70451/

Join the Center for Women in Law on October 19, 2022, for a discussion with Sherry Boschert, Author of 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.

Half a century of legal battles and social backlash revolve around a law that girls and women wield to demand fairness in education — a law called Title IX. 37 Words is the first book to tell the complete history of Title IX through the gutsy people behind it, from women denied jobs at the law’s beginnings to students struggling against sexual assault today. Their intersecting narratives offer a timeless playbook for anyone who is horrified by current attacks on women’s rights and is wondering what to do about them.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/19/70790/

The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and the Asia Policy Program welcome Nury Turkel, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, to discuss his new book "No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs".

"No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs" is a harrowing personal account of the biggest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century. It describes conditions in the Uyghur homeland, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In the past few years, the entire region has been turned into an intensive surveillance state, with millions placed in modern-day “re-education” camps in what is the largest mass detention of an ethno-religious group since the Holocaust.

Join us in conversation with Nury Turkel and Dr. Sheena Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program at UT, to discuss this memoir and the questions it raises regarding the US and global policy response to the Chinese Communist Party.

Event will be held at the LBJ Bass Lecture Hall. Lunch will be offered beginning at 11:45am. Visitors may park for free in Lot 38.

Registration at the link is appreciated for planning purposes but not required for attendance. Thank you!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/21/70066/

Join the Justice Center for the launch of a new program designed to support public interest law students whose lived experiences intersect with the legal systems they seek to challenge in their careers.

Law schools need to do more to support the well-being, needs, and leadership development of students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, students with disabilities, immigrant students, LGBTQ+ students, formerly incarcerated students, and students with families who have been impacted by the criminal or immigration enforcement systems. This space is meant to build a positive community for students who not only have these experiences, but whose public interest work as attorneys may be directly tied to their lived experiences and/or those of their loved ones.

This program seeks to serve as a space for dialogue, mentorship, and resource-sharing that is tailored to the particular needs, and strengths, of students in this position.

Wednesday October 26, noon to 1pm

Goodwin Conference Room (Room 1.312, ground floor of the Connally Center)

Lunch provided. Please RSVP to Liza Soria liza.soria@law.utexas.edu by Thursday, October 20.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/26/70591/

Join attorneys from APALSA, OUTlaw, TMLS, and CHLSA to meet with attorneys of diverse backgrounds and professional interests, and learn about their pathways to law. Please RSVP via form to be circulated among members of respective organizations prior to the event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/27/70212/

CHLLSA will be putting on a "Dia de los Muertos" ofrenda in the Affinity Suite to celebrate the Day of the Dead

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/10/31/71406/