Events Calendar

Please help the BOA by collecting donations for SAFE Alliance in Austin. We will be hosting a donation drive this week from Monday-Friday collecting items for mothers and children who rely on organizations like SAFE. Please donate what you can so that we can be the voice against violence! The donations will be collected in the BOA room in the journal hall behind the 1L classrooms.

Please click the link to see what items are needed.

Please RSVP by Sunday, October 22, on Symplicity. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. Leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.

Join our Women's Law Caucus members for our first breakfast event! Our breakfasts will have goodies (merch) and many food options (including gluten-free, vegan, and dairy-free).

Stop by the SBA table this week in the atrium to make a donation and pick up a new hat, tote, or apparel item from last year's stock. Check out our Canvas and Instagram for more information!

Presenter:

Gonçalo Almeida Ribeiro

Justice, Constitutional Court of Portugal

Discussant:

Lawrence Sager

Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair

University of Texas at Austin

Did you miss one of the introductory clerkship sessions designed to help you get your clerkship application started? Don’t worry – this is a makeup session during which the Judicial Clerkship Program will introduce you to the resources and support available to apply to judicial clerkships as well as detailed instructions on how to begin the application process for 2025-term clerkship positions. For 2Ls and 3Ls only. The program will not be recorded. Please RSVP on Symplicity– if no one has RSVP’d the program will be cancelled.

Join attorneys from Pillsbury for a lunch panel! This event is only open to members of Women's Law Caucus.

OUTLAW and TLDNA, the Texas Law Disability and Neurodivergent Alliance, partnered on this event exploring the intersection of disability and LGBTQI+ rights. David Knight will speak about his experience working in this area and the most pressing issues facing LGBTQ+ people with disabilities today. David is a trial attorney for the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. He also co-chairs the LGBTQ+ Working Group and is a member of the steering committee for the White House’s National HIV/AIDs Strategy.

Professor Song's talk examines the extent of hospitals' participation in policing and punishment, arguing that hospitals in the “free world” have become part of the carceral infrastructure, performing functions essential to the operations of mass incarceration by identifying criminals, helping build criminal cases, preparing people for incarceration, and treating and returning people to imprisonment.

Please RSVP by Sunday, October 22, on Symplicity. You may sign up for one session.

Start your preparation for your upcoming legal interviews by attending this interactive workshop. You will learn what to expect in a legal interview, hear common legal interview questions, and have the opportunity to practice your interview messaging and skills in this small-group setting. Leave the program with the tools and the confidence to help you prepare for and nail your interviews.