Events Calendar

SPEAKER:

Carlos Bernal

Justice, Constitutional Court of Colombia

Professor, University of Dayton

Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

DISCUSSANT:

Lawrence Sager

Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair

University of Texas School of Law

MODERATOR:

Richard Albert

William Stamps Farish Professor in Law

University of Texas School of Law

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/23/72549/

Questions about the public interest summer job search, classes/clinics, postgrad opportunities, or public interest at Texas Law more generally? Members of the Justice Center student advisory board are here to help. We're holding office hours in the Justice Center conference room through February 1. Stop by to see us! We’re available with advice and snacks.

Location: The Justice Center conference room on the ground floor of the Connally Center, CCJ 1.324. (Take the elevator in the Jamail Pavilion, go one floor down.)

For more information, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/justic-center-student-advisory-board-drop-in-office-hours/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/24/72708/

Christian Legal Society will be hosting a Bible study and meeting for anyone interested in learning more about the Bible or the faith. We encourage all people who are curious about Christianity or want to grow in their faith to join. This a good opportunity to build community and learn more about the Bible!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/25/72587/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/25/71466/

Questions about the public interest summer job search, classes/clinics, postgrad opportunities, or public interest at Texas Law more generally? Members of the Justice Center student advisory board are here to help. We're holding office hours in the Justice Center conference room through February 1. Stop by to see us! We’re available with advice and snacks.

Location: The Justice Center conference room on the ground floor of the Connally Center, CCJ 1.324. (Take the elevator in the Jamail Pavilion, go one floor down.)

For more information, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/justic-center-student-advisory-board-drop-in-office-hours/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/26/72688/

Questions about the public interest summer job search, classes/clinics, postgrad opportunities, or public interest at Texas Law more generally? Members of the Justice Center student advisory board are here to help. We're holding office hours in the Justice Center conference room through February 1. Stop by to see us! We’re available with advice and snacks.

Location: The Justice Center conference room on the ground floor of the Connally Center, CCJ 1.324. (Take the elevator in the Jamail Pavilion, go one floor down.)

For more information, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/justic-center-student-advisory-board-drop-in-office-hours/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/26/72689/

Join us on January 26th at 6:30 p.m. CST for an evening with Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence. DNI Haines will give keynote remarks, followed by a fireside chat with Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. This program is co-hosted by the Clements Center for National Security, LBJ Presidential Library, Public Interest Declassification Board, and the Strauss Center as part of a two-day conference “America’s Secrets: Classified Information and our Democracy” on January 26 and 27.

Director Haines’s keynote will be held in-person in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium located at the LBJ Presidential Library.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/26/72788/

Session I

8:00 am • Registration

8:25 am • Welcome

8:30 – 9:30 am • Panel 1: Scholars and Documents: A Complicated Relationship Jim Goldgeier, Visiting Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; Chair, State Department Historical Advisory Committee Deborah Pearlstein, Co-Director, Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Cardozo School of Law; Member, State Department Historical Advisory Committee Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Sheena Greitens, Founding Director, Asia Policy Program, University of Texas at Austin Moderator: Aaron O’Connell, Director of Research, Clements Center for National Security

9:30 am – 10:30 am • Panel 2: Is Technology the Problem or the Solution? Jared Abrams, Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratories Ivan Lee, Founder & CEO, Datasaur.ai Alex Joel, Senior Project Director and Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law, American University Ezra Cohen, Former Chair, PIDB, and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Moderator: Adam Klein, Director, Strauss Center for International Security and Law

10:30 am – 10:45 am • BREAK

Session II and Keynote

10:45 am – 11:45 am • Panel 3: Presidential Records and the National Archives Tim Naftali, Clinical Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, New York University Gary Stern, NARA General Counsel Warren Finch, Former Director, George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Mark Lawrence, Director, LBJ Presidential Library Moderator: Paul Noel Chretien, PIDB Board Member and Retired Central Intelligence Agency Officer

11:45 am – 12:30 pm • Lunch

12:30 – 1:15 pm • Declassification, Transparency, and the Importance of Section 702: A Conversation with Senator John Cornyn Moderator: Will Inboden, Executive Director, Clements Center for National Security

1:15 pm – 1:30 pm • BREAK

Session III

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm • Panel 4: The Media, Secrecy and Transparency Adam Goldman, New York Times Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Dustin Volz, Wall Street Journal Josh Gerstein, Politico Moderator: Ben Powell, PIDB Board Member, Former DNI General Counsel

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm • Panel 5: The View from Government Historians and Archivists Erin Mahan, Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense Adam Howard, Director, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State John Fox, Historian, Federal Bureau of Investigation Moderator: Carter Burwell, PIDB Board Member

3:30 pm • Conference adjourns

This agenda is subject to change. Please check back for updates.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/27/72789/

Join the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy for our first general meeting of the semester!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/27/72790/

Questions about the public interest summer job search, classes/clinics, postgrad opportunities, or public interest at Texas Law more generally? Members of the Justice Center student advisory board are here to help. We're holding office hours in the Justice Center conference room through February 1. Stop by to see us! We’re available with advice and snacks.

Location: The Justice Center conference room on the ground floor of the Connally Center, CCJ 1.324. (Take the elevator in the Jamail Pavilion, go one floor down.)

For more information, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/justic-center-student-advisory-board-drop-in-office-hours/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/30/72690/

This roundtable discussion, the first event of the Rapoport Center's Spring 2023 Cultures of Environmental Justice colloquium and co-sponsored by Planet Texas 2050, will feature local activists and organizations discussing the ongoing justice implications of Winter Storm Uri.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/01/30/72545/

Christian Legal Society will be hosting a Bible study and meeting for anyone interested in learning more about the Bible or the faith. We encourage all people who are curious about Christianity or want to grow in their faith to join. This a good opportunity to build community and learn more about the Bible!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/01/72588/

Questions about the public interest summer job search, classes/clinics, postgrad opportunities, or public interest at Texas Law more generally? Members of the Justice Center student advisory board are here to help. We're holding office hours in the Justice Center conference room through February 1. Stop by to see us! We’re available with advice and snacks.

Location: The Justice Center conference room on the ground floor of the Connally Center, CCJ 1.324. (Take the elevator in the Jamail Pavilion, go one floor down.)

For more information, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/justic-center-student-advisory-board-drop-in-office-hours/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/01/72691/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/01/71926/

Register online. As part of the Public Service Career Fair, you are invited to attend this practical and engaging presentation featuring attorney and advocate Heather Jarvis and covering: All the latest student loan updates Public Service Loan Forgiveness from A to Z; expert tips for navigating the student loan system; and a Q&A.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/02/70568/

Friday, February 3, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Saturday, February 4, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm

This symposium brings together leading experts on prison and jail conditions to reflect on some of the most critical and challenging issues in the field. We will discuss what can be done to address the seemingly intractable horrific conditions in certain correctional systems, and debate whether meaningful reform of America’s prisons and jails is truly possible.

There will be four main sessions:  the first is focused on “The Depths of Deliberate Indifference,” with case studies of four different corrections agencies (Rikers, Alabama, Arizona, and Texas); the second examines “The Levers of Change,” and asks about the tools available to turn a prison or jail around, even after a win in the courts; the third presents some rare examples of innovations in prisons that seek to change institutional culture; and the fourth asks whether meaningful change is truly possible and whether there is hope for reforming America’s prisons and jails.

For more information and to register, visit: https://pjil.lbj.utexas.edu/events/cruel-and-not-unusual

Hosted by the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas

Co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/03/68994/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Public service employers and public service students are invited to take part in a happy hour as part of this year's Public Service Career Fair which will provide an opportunity for employers and students to mingle in a casual setting. Hosted by the Career Services Office and William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/03/70569/

Friday, February 3, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Saturday, February 4, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm

This symposium brings together leading experts on prison and jail conditions to reflect on some of the most critical and challenging issues in the field. We will discuss what can be done to address the seemingly intractable horrific conditions in certain correctional systems, and debate whether meaningful reform of America’s prisons and jails is truly possible.

There will be four main sessions:  the first is focused on “The Depths of Deliberate Indifference,” with case studies of four different corrections agencies (Rikers, Alabama, Arizona, and Texas); the second examines “The Levers of Change,” and asks about the tools available to turn a prison or jail around, even after a win in the courts; the third presents some rare examples of innovations in prisons that seek to change institutional culture; and the fourth asks whether meaningful change is truly possible and whether there is hope for reforming America’s prisons and jails.

For more information and to register, visit: https://pjil.lbj.utexas.edu/events/cruel-and-not-unusual

Hosted by the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas

Co-sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/04/68995/