Events Calendar

Join the Judicial Clerkship Program for one of our four introductory sessions on Judicial Clerkships. We'll introduce you to the resources and support available to apply to judicial clerkships as well as detailed instructions on how to begin the application process for 2026-term clerkship positions. For 2Ls and 3Ls only. The program will not be recorded.

Attendance will be capped at 30 per session.

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Join us for the 5th Annual UT-Austin National Security Career Fair on Monday, September 9, 2024 from 9:00AM to 3:00PM at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center. This event is cosponsored by the Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Clements Center for National Security, in partnership with Texas Career Engagement and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The event is open to all UT students and the general public.

Meet with federal, state, and private employers from the national security and intelligence enterprise. Learn about their missions and internship and full-time employment opportunities. Participating employers currently include*:

-Air Force Civilian Service – Intelligence (AFCS) -Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) -Applied Research Laboratories at The University of Texas at Austin (ARL) -Army Futures Command, Directorate of Intelligence & Security -Army Futures Command, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate -Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) -Crowdstrike -Defense Intelligence Agency, Analysis Career Field (DIA) -Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) -National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) -Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport (NUWC) -Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) -National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) -Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) -Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) – NNSA Graduate Fellowship Program -Sandia National Laboratories -Texas Army National Guard -Texas Department of Information Resources (TX DIR) -Texas Department of Public Safety, Intelligence & Counterterrorism Division (TXDPS ICT) -The Archer Fellowship Program, UT System -U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Analysis Center (DEVCOM) -U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) -U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) -U.S. Department of State (DOS) -U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps (U.S. Navy JAG Corps) -U.S. Treasury Department, Terrorism, Finance, and Intelligence (TFI) *Please check back for additions to the participating employer list.

*Registration is REQUIRED. Registrants will receive any updates regarding the event.

Please plan to bring resume copies and to dress professionally. Paid visitor parking is available at the Manor Garage, Brazos Garage, and the San Jacinto Garage.

Questions? Email: intelligencestudies@austin.utexas.edu

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A conversation with Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative law at Leiden University, on his book “The Story of Constitutions” (Cambridge University Press), with comments from Zachary Elkins, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Constitutional Studies Program will award its 2023 Book of the Year Award to Professor Voermans at this luncheon.

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Please join us for a riveting discussion with Judge Martinez Jones from the 126th District about her work advocating for parents and children in the child welfare system and co-founding the Child Welfare Race Equity Collaborative. Torchy's Tacos will be served for those who RSVP by September 5th. This event is sponsored by Women's Law Caucus.

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Please join the Student Bar Association in the Atrium for a caffeine boost before heading off to class, sponsored by Vinson and Elkins.

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

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Please RSVP by Monday, September 9, on TEX.

Join us for the CSO Orientation where we will talk about what to expect from the Texas Law CSO during your time as a law student. We will also discuss the 1L summer job search and be available to answer your questions. This is a workshop for 1Ls. Please note that first-year students may receive one-on-one career counseling beginning October 1. Pizza will be served.

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Open house event for prospective students.

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On Tuesday, September 10, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will join the Clements Center for National Security in hosting Robert D. Kaplan. Not since the end of the Cold War has the world faced such danger. War rages in Europe and the Middle East. The U.S. and a rising China face off across the Taiwan Strait. American policy has struggled to deter or manage these conflicts and struggles to grasp the tumultuous internal dynamics of societies in the Mideast and “Global South.”

On September 10, Robert D. Kaplan, bestselling author of twenty-three books on foreign policy, will discuss how our leaders can come to grips with a world seemingly in disarray. Kaplan’s most recent book, The Loom of Time, examines the history and geopolitics of the vast region between the Mediterranean and China, encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia. With the dissolution of empires in the twentieth century, postcolonial states have endeavored to maintain stability in the face of power struggles and arbitrary borders drawn by departing imperial rulers. In The Loom of Time, Kaplan makes the case for historically informed foreign-policy as an approach to the Greater Middle East.

Light refreshments will be provided. Paid visitor parking is available at the Manor Garage, Brazos Garage, and the San Jacinto Garage. Email Susan Crane at scrane@austin.utexas.edu with questions.

Biography: Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Good American, The Coming Anarchy, Balkan Ghosts, Asia’s Cauldron, and The Revenge of Geography. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic.

A senior adviser at Eurasia Group, he was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a member of both the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U. S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called Kaplan among the four “most widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War (along with Stanford Professor Francis Fukuyama, Yale Professor Paul Kennedy, and the late Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington). Kaplan’s article, “The Coming Anarchy,” published in the February, 1994 Atlantic Monthly, about how population rise, ethnic and sectarian strife, disease, urbanization, and resource depletion is undermining the political fabric of the planet, was hotly debated in foreign-language translations around the world. So was his December, 1997 Atlantic cover story, “Was Democracy Just A Moment?” That piece argued that the democracy now spreading around the world would not necessarily lead to more stability. According to U. S. News & World Report, “President Clinton was so impressed with Kaplan, he ordered an interagency study of these issues, and it agreed with Kaplan’s conclusions.”

In the 1980s, Kaplan was the first American writer to warn in print about a future war in the Balkans. Balkan Ghosts was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of t

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Paul Hastings will host a dinner for TLVA members at Salty Sow at 6pm. Specific focus on the class of 2027.

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Student organization will table in the Atrium to recruit new members. Event is sponsored by Sidley Austin LLP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/11/78132/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/77848/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Weil, Gotshal & Manges to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

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IPLS and TIPLJ are hosting a panel of IP In-House and Finnegan attorneys to discuss different careers in Intellectual Property law.

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Join ACS and UT Law professors for a discussion on the Supreme Court’s most recent rulings and their impact on our democracy.

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Associates from participating law firms around Texas will eat lunch with 1Ls and network. It is a casual event to kick-off the fall semester with the Texas Business Law Society. Lunch will be provided, and there will be options for those with dietary restrictions. RSVP required, but membership in TBLS is not.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/78533/

Join the Judicial Clerkship Program for one of our four introductory sessions on Judicial Clerkships. We'll introduce you to the resources and support available to apply to judicial clerkships as well as detailed instructions on how to begin the application process for 2026-term clerkship positions. For 2Ls and 3Ls only. The program will not be recorded.

Attendance will be capped at 30 per session. RSVP on TEX by selecting the Events tab.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/13/78612/

A focused, 4-part introduction to advocacy skills. Open to all second- and third-year law students, the FLI is a hands-on crash course designed to allow students of all experience levels to learn new skills or hone existing ones. Students work directly with Texas Law’s interscholastic mock trial coaches and instructors to focus on skills necessary to communicate effectively as a lawyer as well as successfully compete in a mock trial competition. Even those not interested in competing, but currently enrolled in an advocacy course, may find this program a useful complement to their coursework.

The 2024 Fall Litigation Institute will be held from 1:00-3:00 p.m. (with lunch provided beginning at 12:30 pm) over four Fridays. You are free to participate in any/all sessions but must SIGN-UP to do so. Sign up sheet available at beginning of Fall semester. • Week 1: Friday, September 13th – Public Speaking / Effective Communication • Week 2: Friday, September 20th – Storytelling / Opening Statements • Week 3: Friday, September 27th – Direct Examinations • Week 4: Friday, October 4th – Cross Examinations

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Enjoy a boat cruise with your Society on Lady Bird Lake

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Join TJOGEL and TLF for a Tailgate at George's Patio!

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