Events Calendar

Now viewing: November 5–18, 2023

Monday, November 6

11:30am12:45pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Elizabeth Sepper

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:45am12:45pm
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP: Attorney Panel (Hosted by IPLS)

TNH 3.125 (Denius Classroom)

IPLS is hosting a panel of attorneys from Pillsbury to discuss IP Law and life working at Pillsbury.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/06/75331/
4:00pm5:45pm
Priscilla Ocen: Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

In this talk, Professor Ocen argues that post-Dobbs restrictions on abortions are facilitated by the vast network of surveillance and punishment constructed as part of the “war on crime” that produced the largest prison population in the world, and that to secure the right to reproductive autonomy, advocates and scholars must challenge the role of policing in care settings and question the fundamental role of imprisonment and punishment i

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/06/73990/

Tuesday, November 7

8:00am5:00pm
Mock Interview Program: Private Sector

Career Services Interview Suite (TNH 3.122)
11:30am
Texas Talks: Private Sector

TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
3:45pm5:45pm
Law and Economics Seminar - Kobi Kastiel, Tel Aviv University
(This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/07/74716/

Wednesday, November 8

8:00am5:00pm
Mock Interview Program: Private Sector

Career Services Interview Suite (TNH 3.122)
11:30am
Texas Talks: Private Sector

TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
3:30pm4:30pm
Scales & Savasana - Yoga w/ Dr. Timm

TNH 3.140 (Jeffers Courtroom)
6:30pm7:30pm
6:30pm8:30pm
Diwali

TNH PATMAN (Patman Family Plaza)

Thursday, November 9

All day
33rd Annual Entertainment Law Institute

Don't miss the 33rd Annual Entertainment Law Institute (ELI), now co-sponsored by The University of Texas School of Law and the Entertainment and Sports Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. ELI continues to bring together an outstanding faculty of nationally-regarded practitioners and industry insiders to keep entertainment lawyers up to date on the latest emerging trends, issues and breaking developments in music, film, games, and digital med

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/09/74442/
8:00am5:00pm
Mock Interview Program: Private Sector

Career Services Interview Suite (TNH 3.122)
11:30am
Texas Talks: Private Sector

TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
12:00pm12:50pm
Paper Crafts with TLAA

TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)

Join TLAA for paper crafts in the atrium--materials provided.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/09/75846/
12:00pm12:50pm
6:00pm7:30pm
CLS Thanksgiving Potluck

TNH 3.115 (Bell Seminar Room)

Thanksgiving Potluck! Food! Fellowship! Faith!

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/09/75870/

Friday, November 10

All day
2023 Bernard O. Dow Leasing Institute

The Bernard O. Dow Leasing Institute – Texas’ preeminent leasing conference – brings together experts in real estate law and finance for a focused day of programming on the latest leasing issues. Join us in person ONLY this year in Houston.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/10/74444/
11:00am12:00pm
1L Practice Exam - Sections 1 & 3

TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)
12:00pm3:00pm
1:00pm2:00pm
1L Practice Exam - Sections 2 & 4

TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)

Monday, November 13

11:00am12:50pm
CANCELED
11:30am12:45pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Hugh Brady

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:45pm5:45pm
Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Jay Tidmarsh, University of Notre Dame
(This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/13/74617/

Tuesday, November 14

8:30am10:30am
11:45am1:00pm
Clinical Faculty Meeting
(This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/14/74432/
12:00pm1:00pm
3:45pm5:45pm
Lecture - "International Law Restrictions on Domestic Constitutional Amendments"

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm5:45pm
Law and Economics Seminar - Lee Fennel, University Of Chicago
(This event’s full information is restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff only.) For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/14/74717/
5:00pm6:00pm
Albena Azmanova: The Politics of Precarity and Patterns of Autocracy in Europe

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)

Abstract: Two dynamics have been making their imprint on the political landscape of Europe over the past decade: the rise of autocratic rule, even in the ‘mature’ democracies of western Europe, and the spread of economic and social precarity, rooted in the insecurity of livelihoods. Professor Azmanova will trace policy developments through which these processes have taken place, and will examine the relations between the two phenomena.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/14/75929/
5:00pm
Alternative Bar Review

TNH PATMAN (Patman Family Plaza)
6:00pm7:30pm
The Visiting Room Project

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)

Wednesday, November 15

All day
42nd Annual Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference

Now in its 42nd year, UT Law CLE's Jay L. Westbrook Bankruptcy Conference is one of the premier bankruptcy programs in the nation. The conference attracts a stellar national faculty of prominent judges, academics, and practitioners. This year’s conference will be a day and a half and provides an in-depth focus on current topics in business and consumer bankruptcy.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/15/74445/
8:00am9:00am
Judicial Clerkship Applications: Getting Started (Makeup)

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
12:00pm1:00pm
Intellectual Property Law Society Mid-Sized Firm Panel

TNH 2.123 (Beck Classroom)

IPLS is hosting a panel of attorneys from several Texas-based mid-sized law firms. The attorneys will provide insight into their firms, work-life balance, and recruiting cycles at mid-sized/boutique firms.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/15/75351/
3:30pm4:30pm
Scales & Savasana - Yoga w/ Dr. Timm

TNH 3.140 (Jeffers Courtroom)
4:00pm5:30pm
STEPHEN BRIGHT: The Fear of Too Much Justice

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)

Join the longtime director of the Southern Center for Human Rights as he discusses his work in capital punishment, indigent criminal legal defense, racial discrimination in the criminal legal system, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, judicial independence, and his new book (with co-author James Kwak), The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts (2023).

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/15/76006/
6:00pm
2023 John C. Akard Lecture: Coerced Debt: New Data on Debt and Domestic Violence

Professor Littwin presents brand-new data from her National Science Foundation study of coerced debt, which occurs when the batterer in an abusive relationship uses fraud or coercion to incur debt in his partner’s name. New findings will include the eligibility of participants’ coerced debts for relief under bankruptcy and other debtor-creditor law as well as the effect of coerced debt on participants’ credit scores.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/15/74450/

Thursday, November 16

All day
16th Biennial Oil, Gas, and Energy Tax Conference

Join leading members of the oil, gas and energy tax community—including senior government officials, IRS staff, corporate energy and tax counsel, and members of the energy tax bar—at the 16th Biennial Parker C. Fielder Oil, Gas, and Energy Tax Conference.

This nationally recognized event is a unique collaboration between The University of Texas School of Law and the Chief Counsel’s Office of the IRS, and provides an exchange of views an

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/16/74446/
11:45am12:45pm
12:00pm1:15pm
The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance

Zoom Webinar

On Thursday, November 6th, the Strauss Center is hosting a panel and book talk on The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance, edited by Joana Cook and Shiraz Maher. The event will feature a panel with Dr. Joana Cook, Assistant Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence at Leiden University, and Senior Project Manager at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, Dr. Inga Trauthig, head of research of the Propagan

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2023/11/16/75707/
2:00pm4:00pm
CANCELED
ALDF Theater Night: The Smell of Money

TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)