Events Calendar
Now viewing: November 12–18, 2023
Monday, November 13
TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
Tuesday, November 14
TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
Virtual
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
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/TNH PATMAN (Patman Family Plaza)
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
Wednesday, November 15
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/JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
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/TNH 3.140 (Jeffers Courtroom)
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/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
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/TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)
TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)
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/TNH PATMAN (Patman Family Plaza)
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)