Events Calendar

Please RSVP by Sunday, February 11, on Symplicity.

Interested in learning about judicial decision-making first-hand, or how you can parlay your coursework with a unique opportunity for experiential learning during the semester or summer? Come hear from students about their different internship experiences and how the Judicial Internship Program helped them hone their communication, analytical, and research and writing skills.

Learn more about how to match your goals with the right internship experience - the types and styles of work and opportunities for court observation vary widely. There are opportunities available in state and federal courts that handle a variety of legal cases and issues involving child welfare, probate and guardianship, bankruptcy, trial courts, administrative hearings, and appellate practice. Also learn about the internship's course component and the focus on enhancing the internship, legal writing, confidentiality and ethics, professionalism, and judicial decision-making.

Moderated by Vasu Behara, Clinical Professor and Director of the Judicial Internship Program.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/12/76679/

The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service and the Institute for Transnational Law invite you to join us for a book talk with Dana Brakman Reiser, JD, author of For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving.

The book reimagines the history of philanthropy law, revealing it not to be a tool to subsidize private efforts to benefit the public, but a strategic arrangement binding ordinary Americans and elites together in a common purpose. What role do legal reforms and private solutions have in rebuilding public trust in philanthropy?

Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and is a globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity. The book talk will be followed by a Q&A with the author. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees.

Register at this link: https://events.humanitix.com/shattering-barriers-dana-brakman-reiser

Email any questions to sydney.wilburn@austin.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/12/76758/

Any students interested in participating in the write-on competition are encouraged to visit the Journal Fair to learn more about the various student-run publications at Texas Law. Each journal will have representatives tabling during the lunch hour. Come say hi!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/12/76769/

Please join the ALDF for the semester's first Theater Night! This time we will be hosting The Smell of Money. This is a documentary that follows Elsie Herring and her rural North Carolina community as they take on the multibillion-dollar pork industry in a fight for their rights to clean air, pure water, and a life free from the stench of pig feces. All are welcome. Plant-based Japanese food from Nori will be provided. Please register for food here: https://forms.gle/YUPe2Yf4V3koqa7x7

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/12/76732/

Join the Women's Law Caucus for Breakfast! We will have gluten-free and vegetarian options as well as coffee, bagels, fruit, and muffins.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/13/76674/

Please RSVP by Tuesday, February 13, on Symplicity.

The State Bar of Texas Section of Taxation presents a discussion about various career opportunities available to attorneys in the area of tax law. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/14/76326/

Prof. Vladeck will discuss the Legislative Branch’s powers over the Supreme Court under our Constitution and how the Legislative Branch can use those powers to hold the Court more accountable. What are Congress’ powers over the Supreme Court? What are the limits of those powers? How are those powers to be enforced? What if there is a disagreement between Congress and the Court: who decides and how is a decision enforced?

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/14/76867/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76470/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 14, on Symplicity.

The Department of Family and Protective Services seeks to promote safe and healthy families and protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Join this information session to learn more about DFPS's varied work in these areas and employment/internship opportunities available to law students.

Panelists include:

Kellie Starr Price '07, DFPS Special Projects Attorney

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76829/

Any Texas Law students interested in participating in the write-on competition are invited to attend this information session. Attendance at this meeting is mandatory in order to enroll in the write-on process, which takes place after finals and qualifies you for consideration by all the journals. Members of the Texas Law Review will be available to answer any questions and talk about their experiences on TLR. Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76768/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society at 12 PM on Thursday, February 15 in TNH 2.139 as Yale University Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar discusses his book The Words That Made Us and explores the biggest constitutional questions confronted by early Americans––and what answers they came to.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76869/

BOA will hold a mock trial with your favorite trial advocacy professors competing. More info TBD.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76534/

The Review of Litigation will host its 2024 Spring Symposium on ESG and Litigation.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/16/75726/

Getting Radical In The South (GRITS) will be hosting eight panels, several trainings and displays, and a keynote speaker on campus over the course of two days.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/17/76166/

The Texas Law Pipeline Program is hosting a one-day in-person workshop aimed at preparing undergraduate and recent graduate attendees for the law school application process. Session includes: - Law School Admissions Council and Preparing for the LSAT - Law School Admissions Dean Panel and Mock File Review - Writing A Personal Statement - Resources For Applicants

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/17/76587/

Makeup informational for those who could not attend the first Texas Law Review mandatory informational session. Any Texas Law students interested in participating in the write-on competition are invited to attend this information session. Attendance at one of these meetings is mandatory in order to enroll in the write-on process, which takes place after finals. The write-on qualifies you for consideration by all the journals.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/19/76760/

Come grab some breakfast and meet Baker & McKenzie attorneys!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76759/

Come by and meet lawyers from Baker McKenzie and learn more about the firm + corporate practice group!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76834/

Join Texas Law Art Association and Professor Levinson for a tour of the Levinson Collection of American Flag Art on display in the atrium. The tour will begin in the atrium at 12:00pm on Tuesday, February 20. Please meet us at the library entrance. We hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76685/

Please join members of Volume 103 of the Texas Law Review to learn more about Bluebook rules in preparation for the write-on Bluebooking exam. Lunch will be provided thanks to our sponsor, Beck Redden!

Feel free to email any questions to writeonquestions@texaslrev.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76910/

The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and sconstitutional theory. Organized around a series of seven workshops, each features a deifferent leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with both law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76536/

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium closely studies the works-in-progress of leading scholars of health innovation from across the country and engages with the authors about their work.

Spring 2024 Speakers:

Feb. 6 – Ameet Sarpatwari – Harvard University Feb. 20 – Matthew Lawrence – Emory University March 5 – Wendy Epstein – DePaul University March 26 – Erin Fuse Brown – Georgia State University College April 9 – Myrisha Lewis – College of William & Mary April 23 – Rachel Sachs – Washington University

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76553/

Come join us for pub food and zero-proof mocktails made by the SHIFT Makers... we hope to see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/20/76870/

Please RSVP by Tuesday, February 20, on Symplicity.

Hosted by PGLETS. Join premier Austin estate planners for a discussion on creative problem solving for large and complex estates.

Featuring: Sam Hildebrand of Jackson Walker LLP Lois Ann Stanton of Osborne, Helman, Scott, Knisely & Stanton, LLP Steve Saunders of Saunders & Associates

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/21/76951/

Interested in becoming a Dean's Fellow, Society Coordinator or Academic Success Fellow for the 2024/25 academic year?

Come to an info session and hear from SAO + current Society Program members. Get your questions answered before applying.

Attendance at an info session is a pre-requisite to applying.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/21/76648/

Come network with industry professionals at TJOGEL's annual CLE Symposium! This year's Symposium has a fantastic lineup of speakers who will discuss an array of topics.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/22/76708/

Please join a variety of panelists for programming about the realities of being a woman in the legal field. Hosted by Texas Law Review and Baker Botts.

Lunch provided and happy hour reception to follow.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/22/75508/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/22/76488/

Drawing on her work in human and animal research ethics, Dr. Hope Ferdowsian will discuss how starting from clear ethical principles has informed human research policy, and how a similar approach could better inform research policy surrounding the use of animals in research—resulting in improvements in medicine, science, and ethics and greater protections and benefits for people and animals. Join us in-person in TNH 3.125 or online via Zoom (https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92155979467?pwd=MXJncTJ1eVFNVmxJL2FEZlMxdktlZz09) Meeting ID: 921 5597 9467 Passcode: 242422

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/22/76807/

Emily Strauss presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/22/76556/

Come network with industry professionals at TJOGEL's annual CLE Symposium! This year's Symposium includes a great panel of industry experts who will present on a wide variety of topics.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/23/76709/

Swing by the Atrium for coffee c/o V & E! Happy Friday, y'all!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/23/76734/

Co-Sponsored by FedSoc -- Lunch provided

Moderator and Panelist: Barry Friedman, 2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor

Panelists: Sylvia Moir, Clark Neily

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/23/76753/

Moderator and Panelist: Maria Ponomarenko

Panelists: Jamein Cunningham, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Art Acevedo, Trudy Strassburger

Barry Friedman, 2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor, serves as the founding director of the Policing Project at NYU Law, which he co-founded with Texas Law Assistant Prof. Maria Ponomarenko.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/23/76754/

Moderator and Panelist: Barry Friedman, 2024 Distinguished Visiting Professor

Panelists: Christy Lopez, Chris Harris

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/23/76755/

The Texas International Law Journal's Annual Symposium and Banquet will be held on February 24, 2024, and is titled “Current Challenges to the Effectiveness and Future of the International Criminal Court.” The event will consist of three panels, united by a common focus on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a focus on its efficacy and future. Our event promises to be the preeminent venue for fruitful discussion and disagreement, with new ideas and approaches presented and analyzed from different viewpoints.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/24/75769/