Events Calendar

Regina Bynote Jones, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of ADM (one of the world’s largest nutrition companies), will be interviewed by our Executive Director, Veronica Stidvent.

During this conversation, they will discuss Jones’s legal career and the ethical standards and challenges of a corporate general counsel. Jones will discuss how to help companies navigate regulatory frameworks and how regulatory and compliance expertise can transfer across industries. (Prior to joining ADM, Jones served as general counsel in the energy sector.)

Approved for 1 Hour Ethics CLE.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/77093/

Mentoring Program event hosted by Jackson Walker LLP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76589/

Houston Admitted Students Reception

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/74146/

Sponsored by Swedish Excellence Endowment, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment, and Texas Global.

Swedish lawyer and nuclear disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn will reflect on her Nobel Peace Prize winning work toward the 2017 adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Fihn led the mobilization of civil society, diplomats, scientists, and legal experts in support of the treaty. In her lecture, Fihn will speak on the ongoing threats posed by nuclear weapons, and on the power of movement-based advocacy to fight them.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/77068/

Join TLF for our annual Casino Night! This event is meant to help raise funds for public interest law students. Casino Night will be held on Thursday, March 21st from 7-10pm at Lustre Pearl East! Tickets will be on sale in the atrium.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76847/

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The world is at “90 seconds to midnight,” the closest it has ever been, according to the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. However alarming this prognosis is, nuclear disaster has long been in the making, demonstrated by decades of Indigenous, Third World, and feminist anti-nuclear advocacy. For decades, these advocates have recognized that nuclear and environmental threats and harms are intrinsically connected through legal, political, and economic structures of imperialism.

“Disarming Toxic Empire” will bring fresh, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to peace, nuclear disarmament, and environmental justice. Participants will consider and contest the unjust, imperial histories and geographies of nuclear testing, production, storage, and weaponry. The conference will bring together academics, advocates, and artists working through intergenerational channels of memory and justice to respond to nuclear toxicity in all its forms and manifestations, in sites ranging from the Navajo Nation and the Pacific Islands to Japan, North Africa, and Ghana.

The conference will open with a keynote address by 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). It will end with a performance of A Body in Fukushima by the movement–based interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake.

Hosted by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice of the Rapoport Center, the conference is a collaborative effort among many institutions at the University of Texas and beyond. Fihn’s keynote event is sponsored by the Swedish Excellence Endowment, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment, and Texas Global.

Co-sponsored by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice; Swedish Excellence Endowment and The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment; Texas Global; Center for European Studies and France-UT Institute; Humanities Institute, funding support provided by Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts; the Charles N. Wilson Chair in South Asian Studies and the Department of Government; Planet Texas 2050; Center for East Asian Studies; South Asia Institute; the Oscar Brockett Center for Theatre History and Performance as Public Practice in the Department of Theatre and Dance; Briscoe Center for American History; the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies; and Rude Mechs.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/22/76467/