Events Calendar

Jacob Mchangama, Director of Justitia and author of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, joins us to discuss the history of free speech and the challenges to it today. Light refreshments will be offered. Join us!

Livestream link will be posted to event page on Oct. 16th.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/16/75248/

As part of its Ginsburg Initiative, the Center for Women in Law will host a virtual panel discussion to discuss the caregiver penalty and what legal employers can do to address and remedy the issue in their places of employment. Although advances have been made, the pandemic made clear that women continue to be primarily responsible for child and family care. The panel will discuss research and data about the caregiver penalty, what this means for the state of the legal profession, and what leaders in the profession can do to promote gender equity in the legal workplace. Approved for 1 Hour of CLE Ethics Credit.

Panelists:

• Michelle Budig, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts

• Michelle Browning Coughlin, founder, Mothers Esquire; Assistant Professor, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase School of Law

• Juanita Harris, AVP, Senior Legal Counsel of Labor & Employment, DirecTV

Moderated by Veronica Vargas Stidvent, Executive Director, Center for Women in Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75469/

Renaldo Hudson is an educator, minister, and community organizer, and focuses his work on ending mass incarceration in Illinois. After being sentenced to death row, Renaldo worked for 37 years while incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections, founding groundbreaking programs including the prison-newspaper Stateville Speaks and the Building Block Program, a transformational program run by incarcerated people within the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/18/75566/

Is there a new kid on the block? Does Common Good Originalism offer a better way forward for the American legal system? With a new brand of conservative legal thought emerging, these questions must be answered. Join us Oct. 19th to hear a debate between Chance Weldon and Josh Hammer and find out where you stand!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/75606/

This critical, interdisciplinary roundtable discussion, framed by two exhibitions of materials from Chile at the Benson Latin American Collection, brings together scholars and activists who will focus on different historical memories to consider the history and trajectory of Chile over the past six decades as they think towards possible futures.

Roundtable participants: Arnulf Becker Lorca, Chair in Public International Law, European University Institute; María Diemar, Mapuche Activist and Member of Chile Adoption, Chileadoption de Suecia; John Dinges, Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor Emeritus, Columbia Journalism School; Alina Namuncura Rodenkirchen, Mapuche Activist and Member of Hijos y Madres del Silencio; Carola Zuleta, Administrator, Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi

Facilitators: Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies, UT; Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Co-director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT

Conveners: Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT; Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), UT; The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, UT; Latin American Initiative, School of Law, UT; Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies, UT

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/19/74586/

Join your fellow Texas Law grads for a fun evening to get ready to cheer on the Texas Longhorns against the Houston Cougars. All alumni are invited. We hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/10/20/74131/