Events Calendar

Are you interested in joining the Student Bar Association?

Submit the form below to be considered for one of SBA’s vacant positions from the Spring Election or for an appointed position on the board. Available positions and descriptions of the responsibilities for each position can be found inside the form. All positions listed will be selected and filled by appointment.

Timeline for Filling Each Position in the Application: April 7th before Noon: Candidate Interest Form due. April 12th: Selected Candidates Notified

Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7z4UYRaVrFA6QZkOIem3o_bgYVbUw0wIJvd-3VASwvZXXuQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Please send any questions to texas.sba@gmail.com.

Good luck to all candidates!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/07/77427/

The crewneck restock is in! Stop by the SBA Office from 11-1 M-Th to pick up a cream or an orange crewneck. Please do not donate before confirming with an SBA member that your size/color preference is available. Shirts, totes, and hats are also still available!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/08/77473/

The entire Law School community is invited to celebrate the Total Eclipse of the Horns! Food, music, and eclipse glasses provided.

Festivities will get started in the Atrium around 11:30. Eclipse viewing is on the South Lawn from 1 to 2 pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/08/77367/

On Monday, April 8th, the Strauss Center is joining the International Affairs Society in hosting the International Affairs Society Roundtable 2024: “Unraveling States: Political Instability in The Sahel and the Ripple Effect on Local and International Security.”

This year’s expert panel includes Ambassador (Ret.) Larry André, Dr. Michael Mosser, and Dr. Toyin Falola, exploring the wide range of factors behind political instability in the Sahel region and looking into the implications for local and international security.

The Roundtable will be held in the WCP Student Activity Center Ballroom, room 2.410 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Food will be provided. Registration is recommended, via the link on the Strauss Center event page.

International Affairs Society Roundtable 2024 will be held on Monday, April 8th, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the WCP Student Activity Center Ballroom, Room 2.410.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/08/77469/

Final round of the Strasburger Advanced Mock Trial Competition put on by Texas Law Board of Advocates.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/09/76550/

The crewneck restock is in! Stop by the SBA Office from 11-1 M-Th to pick up a cream or an orange crewneck. Please do not donate before confirming with an SBA member that your size/color preference is available. Shirts, totes, and hats are also still available!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/09/77487/

Join SAO and Divine Canines to meet some furry friends!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/09/77331/

Please RSVP by Monday, April 8, on Symplicity. Pizza will be served.

Learn about about the big picture for 2L summer law firm recruiting, the Summer Interview Program, informal recruiting processes and timelines, and what you could be doing now to set yourself up for success.

The CSO will give an overview, answer your questions, and provide tips to help you along the way.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/09/77053/

Join TLAA in a visit to the Blanton Museum of Art, where admission is FREE for those with UT student ID. We will meet in the Atrium at 12pm and walk over together! Tuesday 4/9 from 12pm to 2pm.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/09/77407/

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

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/2024/04/09/76568/

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/2024/04/09/76532/

Come relax, get a mocktail, enjoy some snacks, and grub a plushie at the last Alternative Bar Review of the semester! Each plushie has its own disability and neurodivergent-related backstory.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/09/77472/

The Center for Women in Law will convene their eighth biennial Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership™ at the Austin Marriott Downtown.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/10/74486/

The crewneck restock is in! Stop by the SBA Office from 11-1 M-Th to pick up a cream or an orange crewneck. Please do not donate before confirming with an SBA member that your size/color preference is available. Shirts, totes, and hats are also still available!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/10/77488/

Professor Franciska Coleman (University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law) joins us to discuss her paper: The Anatomy of Cancel Culture. In her paper, Professor Coleman explores how social regulation of speech works in practice on university campuses, and the extent to which social regulation in practice affirms or undermines the stereotypes and caricatures that characterize the cancel-culture wars.

Visit the link to RSVP and reserve a lunch. We hope you join us!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/10/77408/

Come get some delicious healthy food provided by Locke Lorde, hear from Dr. Maria Timm and a panel of attorneys working in different fields as they discuss their work-life balance and how they take care of their mental health.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/10/76687/

Judge Nancy Atlas, retired U.S. District Judge, will host a conversation with Sara Moss, former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Estée Lauder Companies.

During this conversation, they will discuss their legal careers, including Judge Atlas’s path to the bench and Ms. Moss’s path to becoming General Counsel and Chair of the Board for Estee Lauder. They will also discuss women in the legal profession and how opportunities have changed over time.

Moss will address the role of the general counsel in providing both legal and strategic advice and driving culture change within an organization.

Approved for 1 Hour Ethics CLE.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/10/77447/

Administration of the write-on bluebook evaluation.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/10/76752/

The Center for Women in Law will convene their eighth biennial Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership™ at the Austin Marriott Downtown.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/74487/

More information will be made available in the coming weeks.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/76911/

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: Constitutions, Borders, & Immigrants: Recent Developments in Constitutional Law on Immigrants & Immigration.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/76790/

The crewneck restock is in! Stop by the SBA Office from 11-1 M-Th to pick up a cream or an orange crewneck. Please do not donate before confirming with an SBA member that your size/color preference is available. Shirts, totes, and hats are also still available!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/77489/

TBD

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/76491/

Our friend Benny the Miracle Donkey will be in the Atrium and South Lawn for a meet and greet today!

TMR Rescue will be bringing Benny back for more photo opportunities, petting, and education about their rescue mission of equines (horses, donkeys, mules, and ponies): https://www.tmrrescue.com/copy-of-featured-story

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/77092/

Join Professor Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, while she discusses her article "Misdemeanor Declination: A Theory of Internal Separation of Powers" with Texas Law professors Lee Kovarsky and Jennifer Laurin. In the article, Professor Natapoff argues that criminal law theory should borrow from administrative law in designating prosecutors' misdemeanor declination powers as a type of internal separation of powers designed to curb police overreach. She argues that charging individuals with a misdemeanor should require more than the low bar of probable cause required for an arrest, and that prosecutors' rubber stamping of arrests is an abdication of their responsibility to conduct a more thorough review before bringing the full weight of the government's adversarial process against individuals.

Misdemeanor Declination is featured in Volume 102, Issue 5 of the Texas Law Review.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/77389/

A conversation with Dr. Harshan Kumarasingham, Senior Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Edinburgh, hosted by Constitutional Studies Program in collaboration with the Civitas Institute.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/77467/

Texas Talks 2L Summer Preview serves as a chance for 1Ls to connect with law firms ahead of the summer recruiting season to learn more about their organizations, office locations both within and outside of Texas, and 2L summer programs. Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/77209/

Join the Justice Center’s EmPOWERed for Public Interest Initiative for a Mentorship Dinner for public interest law 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.

While this is not necessarily an event meant to pair each student with a mentor, the Justice Center hopes this will be a time for students to meet and form connections with attorneys who have overcome similar challenges. The Mentorship Dinner will be held on Thursday, April 11th, from 6:30-8:30 pm at Qi Austin: Modern Asian Kitchen.

There is no cost to attend this event, however, capacity for this event is limited. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Monday, March 25th. Students will be notified whether they have been selected to attend on Monday, April 1st. Apply here: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bxUKiAQOEWpoV3E

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/11/77228/

The Center for Women in Law will convene their eighth biennial Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership™ at the Austin Marriott Downtown.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/12/74488/

Texas Law Alumni Weekend celebrates Reunion 2024 honoring classes whose years end in “4” and “9” from 1959-2019.

Learn more: law.utexas.edu/reunion

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/12/75408/

AAEC Spring 2024 Meeting 11am-1pm

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/12/74139/

This is a mandatory orientation for all journal and student organization leadership that will be in place for 2024-2025 academic year. Join SAO to be introduced to the variety of resources the Law School and the university at large has to support you in your leadership role!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/12/77350/

Texas Law Alumni Weekend celebrates Reunion 2024 honoring classes whose years end in “4” and “9” from 1959-2019.

Learn more: law.utexas.edu/reunion

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/13/74138/

Drawing Board Luncheon: Theodore Rave

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/15/77029/

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 Tracy McCormack will discuss the intersection of racism and evidence law.

Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/15/77131/

Spring Faculty Dinner

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/15/76684/

The National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) and the Travis County Women Lawyers Association present the Color of Justice Program. Local area teens will learn about the legal profession and hear from judges and attorneys about their paths to law school and beyond.

Cosponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and the Texas Law Pipeline Program

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/16/76747/

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

Faculty meeting and lunch

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/16/76729/

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/2024/04/16/76542/

Hoping to receive academic credit this summer with a judicial internship? Academic credit is available through the law school’s judicial internship program, a 3-credit summer session course. Students must apply for instructor approval to register at the link above and must attend an orientation at the law school on Wednesday, April 17, 11:45pm-1:00pm. Lunch will be provided. Questions? Contact Prof. Vasu Behara at vasu.behara@law.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/17/77288/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/18/77429/

TBD

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/18/76474/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, April 17, on Symplicity.

Get tips from former public defenders and fellow students on their experiences at public defender offices. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/18/77470/

William Moon presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/18/77468/

Professor Steve Meili (University of Minnesota) will present his book, “The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law: Implications for Refugees“.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/18/76346/

BOA's annual spring advocacy banquet will be held at an off-campus location. The 2024 Honorary Barrister will be Sharon Baxter. RSVP required to attend. BOA members will be provided more information regarding this event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/18/76551/

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition is a 64-person, single elimination tournament for first-year law students at the University of Texas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/19/74870/

The Thad T. Hutcheson First-Year Moot Court Competition is a 64-person, single elimination tournament for first-year law students at the University of Texas.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/04/20/74871/