Events Calendar

Questions about registration? Come talk to SAO in the Atrium!

Join WLC for brunch! Food is served to members only.

"Schooling Free Speech" by Justin Driver, our 2023 Distinguished Visiting Professor and the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School

Please join the Judicial Clerkship Program in welcoming alumni a panel discussion on clerkship interviews, what they look like, and how to be a successful candidate. This event is for 2Ls and 3Ls.

RSVP by Monday, March 20, on Symplicity by selecting the Events tab.

Professor Sherif Girgis and Josh Hammer will discuss and debate the recent academic debates about originalism and common good constitutionalism.

If/When/How, ACS, TJCLCR, and the Center for Women in Law are hosting former Texas Law Professor Alex Albright for a discussion about the state of abortion laws in Texas. She'll provide an overview of the Texas statutes that prohibit abortion (pre-Roe, Trigger Law, and SB8) and litigation concerning those statutes (SB8 litigation in state court and “right to travel” litigation in federal court). She will also talk about threats of litigation made to law firms and other businesses in Texas and plans for new legislation this session. Lunch will be served!

Join TLAA and Professor Levinson for a tour of the Levinson Collection of American Flag Art. The tour will begin in the atrium at 12pm on Tuesday, 3/21. We hope to see you there!

In this talk, Chilean legal scholar Amaya Alvez, who served as an elected member of the 2021-22 Chilean Constitutional Convention, argues that Chile’s Constitutions have long enabled natural resource governance that perpetuates (neo)colonial dispossession and makes Indigenous peoples invisible. Focusing on water, she demonstrates that Chilean constitutional law fails not only to recognize collective rights that are guaranteed under international law but to take seriously the cosmological vision of water held by Indigenous peoples. Chile’s 1980 Constitution, for instance, preserves the European, colonizing, and standardizing view of waters in Mapuche territory. Alvez illustrates the ongoing coloniality of norms, knowledge, and of livelihoods through examination of competing rationalities that emerge in conflicts between Indigenous communities and supporters of extractive projects.

Dr. Amaya Alvez is a Professor of Law at the University of Concepción in Concepción, Chile. Alvez is a former Member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention, where she developed a constitutional approach to the decentralization of Chile. Alvez is an activist and human rights defender and is an active member of multiple organizations promoting environmental, women's, and Indigenous rights. Alvez's research focuses on Constitutional Law, Human Rights, water regulation and Indigenous Peoples.

Students interested in being Mithoff Pro Bono Scholars for the 2023-2024 academic year are invited to attend an information session on Tuesday, March 21, from 4pm-5pm (Zoom).

Houston Admitted Students Reception Xochi 1777 Walker St. Houston, TX 77010 5:30-7:00PM