Events Calendar

Now viewing: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

12:00pm1:15pm
EmPOWERed for Public Interest Welcome Lunch

Goodwin Conference Room (CCJ 1.312)

This event is part of the Justice Center initiative designed to support students whose lived experiences intersect with the legal systems they aspire to challenge in their careers. For example, students who have themselves or had family members become entangled in the criminal legal system and 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; and low-income students seeking to challenge laws and policies that further marginalize poor people, such as predatory lending, cash bail, etc.

EPI gatherings serve as a space for dialogue, mentorship, and resource-sharing tailored to the needs and strengths of students whose work as public interest law students and future attorneys may directly relate to their own lived experiences or those of their loved ones.

Please RSVP by noon on Friday, September 13th: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5A15NALbEAOfqhU

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/79053/
12:00pm12:50pm
Animal Law Workshop: Perspectives of an Animal Law Attorney: Farmed Animals, the Law, and Careers in the Field

TNH 3.142 (Walker Classroom)

This week we will have Will Lowrey as our guest speaker. He will share his experience as an animal law attorney with us. We will cohost this event with the University of Oklahoma.

Will Lowrey is the founder and Legal Counsel for Animal Partisan, a legal advocacy organization focused on challenging unlawful conduct at farms, slaughterhouses, and laboratories. Will previously spent several years as Legal Counsel for Animal Outlook, a national nonprofit farmed animal protection organization, where he divided his time between civil litigation and undercover investigations. Will has engaged in numerous lawsuits, as well as criminal and administrative enforcement actions against the government, industrial agriculture, and research laboratories, including cases involving federal slaughter laws, public records, false advertising, public nuisance, animal cruelty, and others. Will has taught Animal Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Vermont Law and Graduate School, and the University of St. Thomas School of Law.

For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/79096/