Events Calendar

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SPEAKER:

Meghan Morris

Assistant Professor of Law

Cincinnati College of Law

DISCUSSANT:

Susie Morse

Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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/2023/02/20/72387/

Join section 1 for a reunion lunch!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/21/72367/

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/2023/02/22/72591/

The TJOGEL Symposium will take place on Thursday, February 23 and Friday, February 24, 2023. Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to a wide variety of energy related presentations from leading attorneys in the industry. If you have questions, please email symposiumdirector@tjogel.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/23/72646/

Texas Law, Moody College of Communications, and UTLA alumni will share how their communications and law degree has led to a career in entertainment and media arts. Q&A will follow.

Panelists include Calvin Berman, UT Moody '12, Media Entrepreneur and formerly Director of Business Affairs at Sony (Center City, CA); Iman Houston Farrior, Texas Law '08; TV Business Affairs Executive at Creative Artists Agency (CAA; Loss Angeles, CA); Julie Street Kassouf, Texas Law '07, Senior Vice President, Corporate Legal at MRC (Beverly Hills, CA): and Matt Robinson, UT Moody '09, Associate in DLA Piper's Media, Entertainment, Finance, & Transactions Group and formerly Activision Blizzard (Century City, CA).

Register for Zoom link.

Presented by the UTLA Program, Moody Career Center, and Texas Law Career Services.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/23/73108/

Demetria McCain, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will give an address entitled “Federal Fair Housing Policy in the Biden-Harris Administration.”

Reception to follow in the Jamail Pavilion.

About Demetria McCain:

Demetria McCain serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). At FHEO, McCain assists HUD’s efforts to eliminate housing discrimination, promote economic opportunity, and achieve diverse, inclusive communities.

McCain joined HUD following fifteen years of service, with five as president, at the Inclusive Communities Project (ICP), a Dallas, TX-based affordable fair housing nonprofit. Prior to becoming president, she oversaw operations, communications and ICP’s Mobility Assistance Program, a housing mobility program that helps housing choice voucher holders exercise their fair housing rights. Conceived by Demetria, ICP’s “Voices for Opportunity” initiative has provided advocacy training to low-income renters and neighborhood groups of color.

Before joining ICP, McCain worked on USDA Section 515 rural multifamily housing matters at the National Housing Law Project in Oakland, CA. She was also a staff attorney for the Neighborhood Legal Services Program of Washington, D.C., assigned to the southeast office, where her portfolio primarily included landlord-tenant matters for low-income renters in private and public housing. She has taught, as an adjunct instructor, a Fair Housing and Homelessness course to undergraduate Coppin State University students.

McCain brings dual vantage points to FHEO after having spent years assisting both housing choice voucher holders who sought low-poverty well-resourced housing options and neighborhood groups in underserved communities of color who sought more equitable distribution of resources and services. She is a graduate of Howard University School of Law, New York University and Brooklyn College and a member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

About the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence:

McCain’s visit to Texas Law as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence is supported by a generous gift from the G. Rollie White Trust. The program brings outstanding legal scholars, practitioners and advocates from the field of public service to Texas Law to foster discussion of issues related to public interest law, to raise the profile of lawyers working in this area, and to encourage students to view public service as an honored and expected part of every legal career. McCain is Texas Law’s tenth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/23/72607/

The TJOGEL Symposium will take place on Thursday, February 23 and Friday, February 24, 2023. Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to a wide variety of energy related presentations from leading attorneys in the industry. If you have questions, please email symposiumdirector@tjogel.org.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/24/72671/

The Texas Intellectual Property Journal is hosting its 22nd Annual Symposium. This event will connect attorneys, practitioners, students and faculty interested in intellectual property law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/24/69848/

Texas Law’s Pipeline Program: Beginnings and Beyond, its Office for Equity and Inclusion, and its Admissions Office invite students, faculty, and the general public to a screening of the award-winning documentary, Becoming Black Lawyers: African Americans and the Law School Experience. Following the screening, Texas Law alums will discuss their experience navigating law school and the legal profession while Black. The panel discussion will be moderated by Shavonne Henderson, Lecturer and Texas Law’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. The event is co-sponsored by the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society.

Refreshments will be served. RSVP here by Wednesday, February 15: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25WNDlQDoZGbjUO

Special thanks to the Pipeline Program Founding Sponsor, Vinson & Elkins LLP, and Partner Sponsor, Greenberg Traurig LLP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/02/24/72605/