Events Calendar

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/

Assault & Flattery's Annual Musical

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

Assault & Flattery's Annual Musical

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

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/

Washington DC Admitted Students Reception

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

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/

NYC Admitted Students Reception

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

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/

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/

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/

Los Angeles Admitted Students Reception

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

“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/

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/

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/

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/