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11:00am1:30pm
TLF Sweatshirt Sale

Tom Clark Lounge

Come grab a sweatshirt during the cold front! Sweatshirts are $50 and all sales benefit public interest students.

3L big law students: come learn how to get a free sweatshirt!

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/11/16/71766/
2:30pm5:00pm
Crypto Wars: Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and American National Security

Bass Lecture Hall, LBJ School of Public Affairs

On Wednesday, November 16, the Strauss Center is hosting the mini-conference, “Crypto Wars: Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, and American National Security” during its inaugural Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Policy Week. This conference features experts on the intersection of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies and national security and law.

Are cryptocurrencies the next frontier in innovation or a threat to national security? How wil

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/11/16/71625/
4:15pm5:15pm
Address by Melissa Murray, Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)

Melissa Murray will give an address entitled “Race-ing Roe and Woke Warriors: Weaponizing Racial Justice at the Supreme Court.”

Professor Melissa Murray of New York University School of Law is a leading expert in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice. Murray’s award-winning research focuses on the legal regulation of intimate life and encompasses such topics as the regulation of sex and sexuality, marriage and its alternatives, the marriage equality debate, the legal recognition of caregiving, and reproductive rights and justice. She is also a cohost of the podcast Strict Scrutiny. For more of her complete biography, visit: https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.biography&personid=40825

This event has been accredited by the State Bar of Texas for 1.00 hour of CLE credit.

This event is open to the public. Professor Murray’s talk in the Eidman Courtroom will be followed by a reception in the Jamail Pavilion.

Hosted by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law. Her address is cosponsored by the Center for Women in Law and Texas Law’s Office for Equity and Inclusion, along with the American Constitution Society Austin Lawyer and Texas Law Chapters, the Chicano/Hispanic/Latino Law Students Association, If/When/How, Law Students for Black Lives, the Public Interest Law Association, and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2022/11/16/68645/