Events Calendar

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Paul Hastings to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/18/76987/

Many people think that Big Law effectively limits its work to serving the most powerful corporations in the world who may, in one form or another, contribute to poverty, harm to the environment, and political disenfranchisement. But many Big Law attorneys have changed the legal landscape for public interest legal issues. This panel will illustrate important cases that Big Law attorneys participate in and lead for public interest. It will also show how certain Big Law firms create a culture and system that promotes pro bono work. This panel will include three to four attorneys from Big Law firms around Texas who have done, and continue to do, important pro bono work, and even create a paradigm for how some of our budding law students would want to navigate the Big Law litigation world.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/18/76671/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Foley & Lardner to learn more about their firm and grab coffee and snacks.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/18/77087/

Join BOA and Foley & Lardner for breakfast tacos and coffee in the atrium!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76908/

Faculty meeting and lunch

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76728/

Please RSVP by Monday, March 18, on Symplicity.

CSO Career Counselor Jordan Holtzer will be giving a presentation on the potential career paths in entertainment law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/77009/

2Ls and 3Ls share their experiences in studying environmental law, doing extracurriculars, the environmental job search, etc. We will especially discuss our experience in Environmental Law classes, and we'll give advice to 1Ls on the best order to take them in.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/76907/

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/

Get ready for the MPRE Exam by taking a practice exam! Pizza will be served at 5:30 PM and the exam will begin at 6:00 PM.

Register Here: http://links.utexas.edu/bllvjhu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/19/77007/

Mentoring Program event hosted by Jackson Walker LLP.

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

Join Wilson Sonsini and APALSA for bagels and coffee on 3/20 at the Jamail Pavilion

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77229/

Find out about Advocacy Program courses (in preparation for early registration), workshops, and extracurricular activities such as interscholastic mock trial and moot court. Also discover what the Board of Advocates has to offer. You will have the opportunity to meet the Director of Advocacy and ask questions of the Advocacy Program staff and/or current students involved in the Program. Not to mention, FREE LUNCH!

It is a come and go event, so feel free to stop by the 3rd floor of CCJ (Connally Center for Justice), grab a lunch, and chat with Advocacy Program staff and students anytime between 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77208/

Come join us for a DE&I in the law lunch panel led by Simpson Thacher!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/76956/

Panelists will talk about how toxics and industrial pollutants disproportionately impact lower income communities and communities of color, and what we as lawyers can do about it. Professor Wendy Wagner to moderate.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77041/

Have questions about the July 2024 bar exam? Come get them answered and grab a slice of pizza.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/76667/

Students interested in being Pro Bono Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year are invited to attend an information session on Wednesday, March 20, from 4pm-5pm (Zoom). Register here: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-iurj0sHtBCsIUXsxnuuct7aZuIoWL9

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/20/77042/

Houston Admitted Students Reception

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

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

TBD

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76489/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 20, on Symplicity.

Join this program to learn tips and pointers for how to succeed in your summer public service internship position. This program will include information concerning ethical considerations for summer interns, as well as a panel of public service employers to provide insight on how to really stand out as an intern in your summer public service position. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76446/

Informational session for rising 2L & 3L students who are interested in becoming Teaching Quizmasters (teaching assistants) for the JD legal-writing program and the LLM legal-writing course.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/76386/

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/2024/03/21/77034/

Learn more about careers in the tech law sphere with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP! Free lunch will be provided. Please fill out this form for lunch logistic information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBHzEbmbh8kmneMBnjF51Qgmso54L4gtgOi1U6SVpI0D-4Xw/viewform

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/21/77227/

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/

Get ready for the inaugural UT Law Kickball Tournament! 🏆

Who can participate? EVERYONE! 1Ls, 2Ls, 3Ls and LLMs are all invited to join the fun! ⚖️⚽

What's at stake? Glory, bragging rights, and awesome prizes! The winning team will receive a shiny trophy and special championship t-shirts! 🥇👕

Don't miss out on this epic event! Mark your calendars and gather your squad for a day of kickball excitement! 🎉🌟

Sign-Up: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6kqqP5xBK276T4

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/22/76087/

Questions about registration? Come visit the SAO staff and get your questions answered.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/25/76610/

Drawing Board Luncheon: Mechele Dickerson

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/25/76947/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Seyfarth Shaw to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/25/76952/

Join WLC and the Hogan Lovells firm to discuss what life is like as a practicing lawyer! Lunch is provided. Hogan Lovells is home to over 2,800 lawyers working across more than 45 offices with over 150 practice areas. A panel of attorneys from the firm's Houston Office will be here to introduce the firm and answer all your questions!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/25/77267/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society March 25th for a discussion about the future of independent agencies in light of recent Supreme Court decisions. Guiding us in this discussion will be the Texas Solicitor General Aaron Neilson and Professor John Golden.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/25/77307/

Please join the judicial clerkship program in welcome alumni for a panel discussion on clerkship interviews. We will look at what the interviews look like and how to be a successful candidate.

Lunch will be served. RSVP by Friday, March 22 on https://law-utexas-csm.symplicity.com/students by selecting the Events tab.

For more information, contact the Judicial Clerkship Program Coordinator at ben.ewald@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/25/76887/

Questions about registration? Come visit the SAO staff and get your questions answered.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/26/76611/

This year marks the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy's 2024 Symposium: "Elevar / Uplift" on topics in immigration law and uplifting Hispanic and Latinx immigrants through law. The Symposium explores the current legal experience of Hispanic and Latinx immigrants from the time they cross the U.S border to their grant of citizenship and beyond. Through panel discussions with legal experts and practicing attorneys, the Symposium panels examine immigration law through the lenses of constitutional law, disability law, and labor and employment law.

This panel's discussion topic is: Workers & Ideas On The Move: Pressing Issues Facing Immigrants & Their Employers.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/26/76833/

Faculty and staff will be on hand to discuss clinic and internship courses for summer and fall 2024. Lunch provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/26/76068/

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/2024/03/26/76559/

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/2024/03/26/76531/

Join NRF for a delicious BBQ dinner at Franklin BBQ. Meet and greet with NRF attorneys. Invitations to follow via e-mail - First-Come First-Serve.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/26/76682/

Los Angeles Admitted Students Reception

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/26/74137/

BOA members welcome to network with NRF attorneys at breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/76733/

Questions about registration? Come visit the SAO staff and get your questions answered.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/76590/

“The Struggle Over Native American Children and Haaland v Brackeen: Permanent Peace or Temporary Truce?”

Lives in the Law speaker Michael E. Urena will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Haaland v. Brackeen, which rejected constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), in the context of the history of the U.S. Government’s treatment of Native American children, including the establishment of federal Indian boarding schools and other practices that led to the ICWA’s passage. He’ll also address the state court proceedings that preceded the federal case and explore the likelihood of future challenges to the ICWA.

This event has been accredited by the State Bar of Texas for 1.00 hour of CLE credit.

Eidman Courtroom, 11:45-12:45 pm, with boxed lunches in the Jamail Pavilion immediately following. Mr. Urena will also be available to meet with students from 1-2 pm.

Hosted by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Career Services Office.

About the speaker:

Michael E. Urena has provided legal services to low-income Texans and their families in Eagle Pass for almost 30 years as an attorney at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA). Currently, he leads TRLA’s Disability Rights practice as well as its Native American practice.

For more information, visit: https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/lives-in-the-law-with-michael-urena/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/75946/

Join PALS at 12pm in TNH 2.137 this Wednesday March 27th for a conversation with Jeffrey Simon—a distinguished Dallas-based plaintiffs' lawyer—to discuss his firm's litigation against pharmaceutical companies for their role in the nation's opioid epidemic, and the related importance of the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial. Jeffrey will also discuss his new book: Last Rights, which examines corporate efforts to undermine the jury trial. It's the last PALS lunch—Loro will be served!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/77327/

Come learn about what it means to be a health lawyer and other topics, including data privacy in health care from Akin Gump attorney and UT Law alumnus, Daniel Graver!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/77347/

1Ls, wear your Society Program Shirt and get free Franklin BBQ provided by Norton Rose Fulbright. Attorneys from NRF will be available to chat.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/77031/

On Wednesday, March 27, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, LBJ School of Public Affairs, and Clements Center for National Security will welcome authors Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware to discuss their newly published book “God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America.” Hoffman and Ware will trace the historical trajectory and assess the present-day dangers of this violent extremist movement, along with the harm it poses to U.S. national security.

Biographies Bruce Hoffman is the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service; professor emeritus of terrorism studies at the University of St Andrews; and the George H. Gilmore Senior Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center. His Columbia University Press books include Inside Terrorism (third edition, 2017).

Jacob Ware is a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and at DeSales University. He serves on the editorial boards for the academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and the Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/77247/

Join PALS and Jeffrey Simon from Simon Greenstone Panatier—a Dallas-based product liability, pharmaceutical, and toxic torts plaintiffs' firm—for delicious food and cocktails at Love Supreme Pizza on Manor. The happy hour is from 4-6pm this Wednesday, March 27th. You don't need to be working in plaintiffs' law to come enjoy free food and drinks—all are welcome!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/27/77328/

Questions about registration? Come visit the SAO staff and get your questions answered.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/76591/

HOW DID CORPORATIONS GET STUCK IN POLITICS AND CAN THEY ESCAPE? Corporations have always been involved in politics, but today is different. They are publicly taking positions, either directly or indirectly, on contested political and social issues unrelated to their businesses. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, we argue that this practice, which we term “corporate political posturing,” is problematic. First, it is of dubious value to the corporation and its stakeholders. Corporate political posturing often backfires, it does so unpredictably and potentially catastrophically, and it is particularly susceptible to agency costs. Second, it is harmful to society. The fundamental problem is that corporations are institutionally ill-equipped to take center stage in policy debates. They are inherently self-interested economic actors with goals that often conflict with those of society. This manifests in statements that tend to polarize rather than enlighten and actions that undermine the positions that they back publicly.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/76490/

1Ls: 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/2024/03/28/77128/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 27, on Symplicity. Zoom link will then be sent before the event.

Government Honors programs provide prestigious and exciting post-graduate pathways. Learn more about these unique programs from a panel of attorneys who started their careers in government honors programs.

Panelists include:

Gus Maxwell ‘18, 2019 Department of Justice Honors Attorney – Environmental and Natural Resources Division Bonnie Devany ‘22, 2023 U.S. Department of Justice Honors Attorney – Federal Programs Branch Zaki Haidary ‘23, 2024 U.S. Department of Justice Honors Attorney – Criminal Division

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/76466/

Prof. Joshua Sellers will lead a seminar-style discussion on "The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness."

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/77091/

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/2024/03/28/77129/

Join OUTLaw and the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center for a conversation on the Texas drag ban that was struck down on First Amendment grounds, other similar bans, and broader implications for the queer community and free speech generally. Food provided! Please RSVP at the link. We hope you join us!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/77248/

Tomer Stein presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/76557/

Dallas Admitted Students Reception

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/74147/

Please join us at TJCLCR's virtual symposium on disability rights. On Thursday, March 28th at 6pm, the authors of TJCLCR's special spring issue on disability rights will speak on their research. If you are on campus, please join us in the Sheffield-Massey Room to share a meal and listen to the virtual panel together. On Friday, March 29th, we will enjoy snacks and beverages at our in-person watch party as we learn from panels on the intersection of disability rights with employment law, immigration law, and reproductive rights.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/28/76789/

Get a jump start on your bar exam preparation by attending this in-person writing workship with renowned bar exam writing instructor Prof. Chris Ide-Don! This session will kick-off your bar prep studies by introducing you to the writing sections.

In the past, our students have requested additional help with writing on the bar exam, don't miss this 3-part series. The 1st session is today and 2 more will be offered online during summer 2024.

If you attend all 3 sessions your name will be entered to win an Apple Watch!

Plus, a delicious lunch from Sweetgreen will be served to those that RSVP!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/29/76535/

Please join us at TJCLCR's virtual symposium on disability rights. On Thursday, March 28th at 6pm, the authors of TJCLCR's special spring issue on disability rights will speak on their research. If you are on campus, please join us in the Sheffield-Massey Room to share a meal and listen to the virtual panel together. On Friday, March 29th, we will enjoy snacks and beverages at our in-person watch party as we enjoy panels on the intersection of disability rights with employment law, immigration law, and reproductive rights.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/03/29/76791/