Events Calendar

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/79053/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/79096/

The Scholarship Celebration is an opportunity to gather both scholarship supporters and student recipients of this year's scholarships. By invitation only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/20/76426/

This speaker series considers the criminalization of reproduction—historical and contemporary, local and global—largely through the lens of reproductive justice.

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Abstract: People with disabilities face structural, legal, and institutional barriers to accessing reproductive health services and information, including contraception and abortion care. They also experience high rates of violence and reproductive coercion, as well as stigma and discrimination from health providers. They are more likely to experience maternal morbidity and mortality, rendering pregnancy particularly dangerous for some. Mounting abortion restrictions after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will result in some disabled people being forced to carry pregnancies to term, notwithstanding serious health risks. Should they choose to raise their children after childbirth, they will likely encounter ongoing threats to their parental rights because of laws, policies, and practices that assume incompetence among disabled parents. Thus, the ruling creates a paradox for disabled people where they may be forced to bear children but subsequently denied the opportunity to rear them, perpetuating a historical pattern of exploitation and subjugation. This paper identifies and responds to this paradox by providing and applying a disability reproductive justice framework.

Robyn Powell is Professor of Law at Stetson University. Her work examines the intersection of disability justice and reproductive justice, with a focus on disability law and policy, health law and policy, and family law. She is a leading authority on the rights of parents with disabilities and has served as an Attorney-Advisor at the National Council on Disability. Her forthcoming publications include “Disabling Abortion Bans” (UC Davis Law Review) and “Forced to Bear, Denied to Rear: The Cruelty of Dobbs for Disabled People” (Georgetown Law Journal). She received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Social Policy from Brandeis University, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and a B.S. in Social Work from Bridgewater State University.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78350/

Join CHLLSA as we host attorneys from different legal practice areas to hear about their work in the legal industry. This panel is geared toward first-generation students who want to learn more about the different practice areas in the legal community, but all are welcome to join and ask questions over free lunch!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78730/

Opposing Wisconsin's Unconstitutional Hunter Protection Laws

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/79260/

Tailgate on George's Patio to bring Plaintiffs' side attorneys and interested students together to celebrate Longhorn Football's debut in the SEC.

Note that kickoff for the game hasn't been announced yet so I put noon - 2 for now but that might need to be adjusted down the line.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/28/79063/