Events Calendar

Please RSVP by Sunday, February 25, on Symplicity. Zoom link will then be sent before the event.

Learn more about the exciting opportunities available with the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of General Counsel. The CIA's OGC provides legal advice and policy counsel to the Director of the CIA and other CIA officers on a variety of legal issues relating to the operations and management of CIA. Join this information session to learn about the exciting and varied practice areas available within the CIA, as well as internship and permanent employment opportunities.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/26/76954/

All interested candidates must come to one of the six infosessions during the week of 2/26 to be eligible to run for an elected SBA position! Infosessions are on Monday (2/26), Wednesday (2/28), and Thursday (2/29) at 12:00 and 12:30 in the SBA office. Please email Morgan Johnson at texas.sba@gmail.com with any questions!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/26/77047/

The Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability (SSSS) Program at The University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Cockrell School of Engineering, in partnership with the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and MITRE, will hold the 10th annual Space Traffic Management Conference, “Inflection Points of Change: Civil, Commercial & Security” for space operations. Additional support is provided by NorthStar Earth and Space, Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University O’Maley College of Business, and Runways to Space LLC.

The conference will take place on February 27-28, 2024, hosted at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Experts from all over the world will gather to discuss and exchange knowledge on Space Traffic Management. Technical sessions will be devoted to several topics like Changing Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Airspace/Orbital Space Integration, Space Safety and Sustainability, Security, and Related Issues.

For more information, including to register (1 euro for students), the agenda, paper access, and more, see the website. Breakfast, lunch, and a networking reception are included.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76772/

Please RSVP by Monday, February 26, on Symplicity.

Learn more about pathways in white collar law and enforcement from attorneys who have practiced in these fields in both the government and private sectors. Pizza will be served.

Panelists include: Ephraim (Fry) Wernick ‘03, Partner – Government Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense, Vinson & Elkins (Washington, D.C.), former federal prosecutor and supervisor of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Fraud Section

Rebecca Fike, Partner – Shareholder Litigation & Enforcement, Government Investigations & White Collar Defense, Vinson & Elkins (Dallas), former Securities and Exchange Commission Senior Counsel

G. Zachary Terwilliger, Partner – Government Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense, Vinson & Elkins (Washington, D.C.), former Senate confirmed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76447/

Make room, ChatGPT! Artificial intelligence is coming to familiar legal research platforms. Lexis+ AI is available, and Westlaw is not far behind. How good are these tools? What can you do with them, and how can you make the most of them while minimizing their risks? Check out Legal AI: An Introduction, prepared for 2Ls and 3Ls and brought to you by the Beck Center faculty and the Tarlton Law Library. Tuesday, February 27, 11:45-12:45. Pizza will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76968/

Join Women's Law Caucus for cookies and fun! Sponsored by our generous supporters, Katten.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76675/

Join the Texas Law Development Team to debrief the student organization fundraising process and provide insight into the experience. Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76832/

Presented by Law Student for Black Lives and ACS, this series explores standard doctrinal law classes from an anti-racism perspective and considers perspectives often absent from the standard law school curriculum. Professor Mechele Dickerson will discuss: what does race have to do with a "race-neutral" area like civil procedure? And how have due process rights been threatened in majority-Black communities?

Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/77067/

Join Jonathan Haidt (NYU) and Jonathan Rauch (Brookings) for a discussion of the role of the modern university in the formation of knowledge, the importance of heterodox views in that process, and the many modern obstacles in the way.

Visit the link for more information about our speakers and to RSVP to reserve a seat. We hope you join us!

Co-sponsors:

The Athanaeum

The Civitas Institute

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76407/

The Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability (SSSS) Program at The University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Cockrell School of Engineering, in partnership with the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and MITRE, will hold the 10th annual Space Traffic Management Conference, “Inflection Points of Change: Civil, Commercial & Security” for space operations. Additional support is provided by NorthStar Earth and Space, Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University O’Maley College of Business, and Runways to Space LLC.

The conference will take place on February 27-28, 2024, hosted at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Experts from all over the world will gather to discuss and exchange knowledge on Space Traffic Management. Technical sessions will be devoted to several topics like Changing Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Airspace/Orbital Space Integration, Space Safety and Sustainability, Security, and Related Issues.

For more information, including to register (1 euro for students), the agenda, paper access, and more, see the website. Breakfast, lunch, and a networking reception are included.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/28/76773/

Enjoy a delicious lunch while connecting with lawyers from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/28/76771/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society at 12:00 on Wednesday, February 28 in TNH 2.139 for a timely debate on whether one of the nation's leading presidential candidates is even constitutionally qualified to hold the Presidency.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/28/77040/

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/2024/02/28/76628/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 28, on Symplicity. Zoom link will then be sent before the event.

As a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, you will experience the most diverse legal practice available to an attorney. Working in locations around the world, you will get hands-on experience in everything from international law to civil litigation and military justice. Join this information session to learn more about the exciting employment and internship opportunities available through the U.S. Navy JAG Corps.

Panelists include:

Lt. Ariel Sarandinaki, Staff Judge Advocate

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/76831/

Join the Women's Law Caucus as we discuss what life at a mid-size law firm is like. We will have a panel of current attorneys from various firms. Lunch provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/76686/

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/2024/02/29/76950/

This event is part of the Justice Center initiative designed to support students whose lived experiences intersect with the legal systems they seek to challenge in their careers. For example: students who have themselves or had family members become entangled in the criminal legal system who are interested in public defense work; immigrant students, or students who are the children or family members of immigrants seeking to challenge the immigration system; low-income students seeking to challenge laws and policy that further marginalize poor people such as predatory lending, cash bail, etc.

EPI gatherings serve as a space for dialogue, mentorship, and resource-sharing tailored to the particular needs and strengths of students whose public interest work as attorneys may be directly tied to their lived experiences and/or those of their loved ones. This lunch will be a unique opportunity for students to meet with Texas Law faculty over lunch to discuss navigating law school and public interest legal careers.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/77050/

Gordon Smith presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/76539/

In 2021, the California State Legislature approved a reparations scheme for victims of forced sterilization carried out from 1909-1979. As the window for victims of state-sanctioned forced sterilization to apply for reparations comes to a close in December 2023, an evaluation of the efficacy of the initiative can now be undertaken. One way of evaluating the reparations scheme’s efficacy is through the lens of transitional justice – a theory in international law describing the process and mechanisms through which a state seeks to reform and repair relations with its citizens following a mass human rights abuse, conflict, or political regime change. The California State Legislature is therefore engaging, to a certain extent, in transitional justice by creating the reparations scheme and attempting to address the historical injustice caused to its citizens. In her talk, Helen Jennings will evaluate the extent to which this engagement has been successful, and will suggest lessons from transitional justice that can be applied to California’s reckoning with the legacy of eugenics.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/77051/

Assault & Flattery's annual musical

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/75345/

Join the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal for its 23rd Annual Symposium on Friday, March 1. Location TBD.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/01/74909/

Annual Society Games at the IM Fields! Law students dedicate an afternoon to engaging in a variety of field day activities in a fun, spirited environment while bonding with their fellow Society mates.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/01/75986/

Assault & Flattery's Annual Musical

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/01/75346/

Open house event for prospective students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/02/77032/

Assault & Flattery's Annual Musical

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/02/75347/

Come by the Atrium from 11-1 Monday - Thursday to pick up a new crewneck, quarter zip, shirt, hat, or tote! Donations will be collected at the table!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/04/77043/

Drawing Board Luncheon: Abraham Wickelgren

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/04/76909/

Mandatory information session for students interested in competing in the 2024 Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/04/76406/

Are you considering going into public service after law school? Did you take federal loans while attending UT Law? This presentation is for you!

Come learn about the Texas Law Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), and how you may qualify to receive financial assistance from Texas Law while you are repaying your federal loans. Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/04/76868/

Come by the Atrium from 11-1 Monday - Thursday to pick up a new crewneck, quarter zip, shirt, hat, or tote! Donations will be collected at the table!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/77107/

Please RSVP by Monday, March 4, on Symplicity.

It is a common misconception that there are not good opportunities for transactional work in the government sector. Join a panel of transactional attorneys who are or have worked in the government to learn more about opportunities to gain valuable transactional experience while working for the government. Pizza will be served.

Panelists Include: Josh Gold '13, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Megan Sylvester, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs Holly Heinrich '18, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/76448/

While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is growing harder and harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves punished – both socially and criminally – for failing to live up to these norms. In Caitlin Killian’s new book, Failing Moms, she uncovers how women of all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses have been interrogated, held against their will, and jailed for a rapidly expanding list of offenses such as falling down the stairs while pregnant or letting a child spend time alone in a park, actions that were not considered criminal a generation ago. While poor mothers and moms of color are targeted the most, all moms are in jeopardy, whether they realize it or not. Women and mothers are disproportionately held accountable compared to men and fathers who do not see their reproduction policed and almost never incur charges for “failure to protect.” The gendered inequality of prosecutions reveals them to be more about controlling women than protecting children. Using a reproductive justice lens, Killian analyzes how and why mothers are on a precipice and what must change to prevent mass penalization and instead support mothers and their children.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/77052/

While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is growing harder and harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves punished – both socially and criminally – for failing to live up to these norms. In Caitlin Killian’s new book, Failing Moms, she uncovers how women of all ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses have been interrogated, held against their will, and jailed for a rapidly expanding list of offenses such as falling down the stairs while pregnant or letting a child spend time alone in a park, actions that were not considered criminal a generation ago. While poor mothers and moms of color are targeted the most, all moms are in jeopardy, whether they realize it or not. Women and mothers are disproportionately held accountable compared to men and fathers who do not see their reproduction policed and almost never incur charges for “failure to protect.” The gendered inequality of prosecutions reveals them to be more about controlling women than protecting children. Using a reproductive justice lens, Killian analyzes how and why mothers are on a precipice and what must change to prevent mass penalization and instead support mothers and their children.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/77088/

Please RSVP with WLC. A panel of Baker Botts attorneys will be at your disposal to answer all your burning questions about the life of a Big Law attorney, how best to prepare for 2L OCI and more! Cabo Bob's will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/77069/

Join The New York Times' lead newsroom lawyer David McCraw, Susman Godfrey's Justin Nelson, Professor Lyrissa Lidsky (University of Florida Levin College of Law), and Professor Amy K. Sanders (UT-Austin School of Journalism and Media) for a discussion on the recent criticism of Sullivan's actual malice standard.

Please visit the link for more information and to RSVP for lunch. We hope you join us!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/76830/

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, NRF!

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/77033/

Come by for some Cabo Bob's tacos and a chance to meet with attorneys from Morrison Foerster!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/77070/

The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of seven workshops, each features a different 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/2024/03/05/76558/

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/2024/03/05/76530/

Washington DC Admitted Students Reception

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/05/74135/

Join a variety of Bar Prep vendors to learn about the services they offer.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/06/76652/

Come by the Atrium from 11-1 Monday - Thursday to pick up a new crewneck, quarter zip, shirt, hat, or tote! Donations will be collected at the table!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/06/77108/

This is a mandatory Law School 101 discussing curriculum review with Dean Morse and early registration with SAO. Lunch will be served.

Section 1,2,3 in TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)

Section 4 in TNH 2.138 (Blanton Classroom)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/06/76627/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 12:00 in TNH 2.139 for a discussion on the philosophical approaches federal judges take on the bench, and how they view the role they play in the judiciary. We'll be pleased to host actual Article III judges as our speakers for this enlightening event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/06/77090/

On Wednesday, March 6, the Strauss Center and the Alexander Hamilton Society UT chapter will host Alex Velez-Green, Senior Policy Advisor at the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security, for a conversation on “Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan: Can the United States be Everywhere at Once?”

Within this conversation, Velez-Green will discuss the competing demands on American military and defense-industrial power in today’s world. He will address questions including: Which regions are the most important for future U.S. security? Does the United States need to prioritize or can we handle several major regional crises at once? How can policymakers best posture and equip the U.S. military to keep America’s promises? What role do U.S. allies and partners have to play in resourcing collective security?

This talk will be held at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and lunch will be provided. For more information about this event, please contact Brittany Horton at brittany.horton@austin.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/06/76955/

Today only, vote for your next Board of Governors for SBA! Here is what each class year will have on their ballot:

1Ls - SBA Candidates, Teaching Awards, and Society Program Leaders 2Ls - SBA Candidates and Teaching Awards 3Ls/LLMs - Teaching Awards

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/77044/

Come by the Atrium from 11-1 Monday - Thursday to pick up a new crewneck, quarter zip, shirt, hat, or tote! Donations will be collected at the table!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/77109/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/76472/

2Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Arnold & Porter to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/76748/

Come by for lunch and meet some DLA Piper attorneys!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/76949/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 6, on Symplicity. Pizza will be served.

Hosted by PGLETS. Join fiduciary litigators from around Austin who focus on trust, guardianship, probate, and estate litigation, helping clients handle the aftermath of breaches in fiduciary duty from their trusted advisors, often in the context of loss. Attorneys will discuss their experiences on a moderated panel.

Featuring: Craig Hopper, Hopper Mikeska, PLLC Ellen Stewart, Barnes Lipscomb & Stewart, PLLC Brian Thompson, Thompson East Law, PLLC

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/77089/

Join PALS for a lunch speaker event with local plaintiffs' firm, Austin Kaplan! The firm founder and some of the firm's attorneys will be sharing their career trajectories and will highlight a couple of their most exciting cases in the firm's two practice areas: employment law and civil rights litigation. Specifically they plan to talk about a pregnancy discrimination case for employment law and the Kate Cox abortion case for civil rights litigation. Lunch will be catered by Peached Tortilla.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/76967/

Stop by the Atrium for Amy's Ice Cream and an "I Voted" sticker to celebrate SBA's Election Day. Make sure to vote for SBA's Board of Governors, SBA's Teaching Awards, and Society Program Leader Awards--the ballot is in your email!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/77071/

Natlaya Shnitser presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/76540/

The Board of Advocates invites you to attend the final round of the Susman Godfrey Moot Court Competition in the Eidman Courtroom from 6:00-8:00 PM. This competition is open to all University of Texas School of Law students to participate. All are welcome to come watch!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/76756/

Come to Hotel Zaza to meet and network with attorneys from mid-size firms!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/77048/

NYC Admitted Students Reception

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/07/74136/