Events Calendar

This moot court competition is open to all UT law students. The moot court format follows the format of an attorney arguing a case on appeal in front of a panel of judges. Competitors will compete as individuals, and this competition will not require a brief to be written.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78535/

TMLS x LS4BL Roundtable

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/79023/

Swing by to kick off a great start of the week by joining Jackson Walker attorneys in conversation over free Creature coffee and pan dulce!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78870/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/77972/

Attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis' IP Litigation and Technology Transactions teams will be on campus to discuss life as an associate in the IP space.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/79094/

Table promoting PALS events and membership

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/79194/

1Ls: Stop by to meet members from Latham & Watkins to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/79211/

A book drive tabling event for local elementary, middle, and high schools in the Austin community. The book drive tabling event is in partnership with UT Austin’s NAACP undergraduate chapter.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/79198/

Please join the Catholic Law Student Society in praying the Rosary. All are welcome!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78793/

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

ACS presents a talk on policing and police accountability.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78914/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78486/

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

RSVP

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/

This moot court competition is open to all UT law students. The moot court format follows the format of an attorney arguing a case on appeal in front of a panel of judges. Competitors will compete as individuals, and this competition will not require a brief to be written.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/24/78532/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Gibson Dunn to learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Later that evening, please feel free to join them at their happy hour from 4:30-6:30pm at Bar Peached.

RSVP online.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/24/78876/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/24/78012/

On Tuesday, September 24, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Clements Center for National Security, will host Ambassador Larry André and Sarah Harrison to discuss "Rising Tensions in Northeast Africa." Millenia old hydrology worries, centuries old national rivalries, and a decades old secessionist movement converge to generate rising tensions in Northeast Africa. Hear from Sarah Harrison of the International Crisis Group and Ambassador Larry André on the potential conflict involving Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Somalia's secessionist state of Somaliland. This discussion will be moderated by Professor Stephen Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project. 

Biographies

Ambassador (ret.) Larry E. André, Jr., Professor of Practice at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, retired from the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service in May 2023 after a 38-year career in global public affairs.  During his 33 years at the U.S. State Department, he served in a mix of leadership, policy, and management positions.   Ambassador André's leadership positions included Ambassador to Somalia, Ambassador to Djibouti, and Ambassador to Mauritania.  He also served as Chargé d’affaires, U.S. Embassy South Sudan; Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Tanzania; Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Sierra Leone; Director, Office of the Presidential Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, and Deputy Director, Office of West African Affairs. Ambassador André's management positions included Deputy Director, African Affairs Executive Office; Management Officer, U.S. Embassy Guinea; Administrative Officer, U.S. Consulate Kaduna (northern Nigeria); Deputy Management Counselor, U.S. Embassy Iraq; and Supervisory General Services Officer, U.S. Embassy Bangladesh. 

Prior to joining the State Department’s Foreign Service, Ambassador André worked in Chad for USAID as an institutional contractor assisting refugees returning home following the war with Libya.  Before that, he served both as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and as Peace Corps staff in Washington, DC. As an undergraduate, he was a researcher at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government in Claremont, California.  

Sarah Harrison is a Senior Analyst at Crisis Group. Before starting at Crisis Group, Sarah served for more than four years as Associate General Counsel at the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of General Counsel (OGC), International Affairs, where she advised on domestic and international legal issues related to U.S. national security and the activities of the U.S. armed forces. Sarah was the lead OGC attorney for the planning and conduct of DoD activities on the continent of Africa and was counsel to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs. From 2020 to 2021, Sarah taught international law as an adjunct professor for the Georgetown University Law Center. From 2015 to 2017, Sarah served as Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Stephen B. Slick is the inaugural Director of the Intelligence Studies Project. He retired in 2014 after 28 years as a member of CIA’s clandestine service. Between 2005 and 2009, Steve served as a special assistant to the president and the Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform on the staff of the National Security Council. He was previously the Director for Intelligence Programs at the NSC.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/24/79138/

A conversation with Carlos Bernal, Justice (retired) of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, on his scholarship and judicial opinions on the doctrine of an unconstitutional constitutional amendment.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/24/78446/

TJOGEL Society members can stop by from 8:00am to 9:00am to talk with representatives from a law firm and for some coffee and breakfast tacos.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78727/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Katten Muchin Rosenman to learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78722/

Room reservation for LexisNexis Tabling Event. Hosted by law school representative Paul Cooper and student representatives, this session provides students with assistance on research queries and training on LexisNexis research tools.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78862/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Jackson Walker to learn more about their firm and grab lunch and snow cones.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78725/

Table promoting PALS membership and events

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/79195/

Join the TJOGEL Society for a Roundtable Lunch with partners and associates from law firms. Please RSVP via a form that will be sent out about a week before each Roundtable to TJOGEL Society Members.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78751/

This event will be a collaboration with all Texas Law student organizations that are interested in registering voters. The event will take place in the law school atrium. Interested student organization can sign up to table here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n5AeF4l_noE2xPNxUvdRknM8Ad8ZaJp735iu1PD5pPk/edit?gid=650339494#gid=650339494.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/79013/

Join the Texas Real Estate Law Society (TRELS) and Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) to learn more about the different practice areas and future of real estate law.

RSVP for a free lunch and networking with attorneys from NRF: https://florecruit.com/v2/app/nrf/registration/events/72069/register

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78517/

Professor Cory Liu and Professor Joshua Sellers discuss the two competing views underlying antidiscrimination law. Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78771/

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/2024/09/25/78632/

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/

This moot court competition is open to all UT law students. The moot court format follows the format of an attorney arguing a case on appeal in front of a panel of judges. Competitors will compete as individuals, and this competition will not require a brief to be written.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78534/

This moot court competition is open to all UT law students. The moot court format follows the format of an attorney arguing a case on appeal in front of a panel of judges. Competitors will compete as individuals, and this competition will not require a brief to be written.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78515/

We are excited to have a new event for our women members of TJOGEL to learn from our alumna. Please join us to meet with some TJOGEL alumna and women in the industry. This is a great way to chat and network with some great women! We will be having an espresso bar come in.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78996/

1Ls: Stop by the Patman Plaza to meet recruiters from Clifford Chance to learn more about their firm and grab a coffee.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78871/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/79070/

Join the TJOGEL Society for a Roundtable Lunch with partners and associates from law firms. Please RSVP via a form that will be sent out about a week before each Roundtable to TJOGEL Society Members.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78729/

A book drive tabling event for local elementary, middle, and high schools in the Austin community. The book drive tabling event is in partnership with UT Austin’s NAACP undergraduate chapter.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/79181/

Haynes Boone attorneys will speak on a topic of business law. RSVP required, but membership in TBLS is not. Free Chick-fil-A!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78516/

Please RSVP by Wednesday, September 25, on TEX.

Join Marilyn Drees (the "introvert") and Mindy Finnigan (the "extrovert") from the CSO to learn practical tips to help anyone have productive conversations and build professional relationships. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78595/

The law school’s writing consultant will cover some of the basic differences between the practical legal writing skills students learned in their first year of law school and the academic writing skills expected for seminar papers and law review notes. We’ll talk through ways to make that transition effectively. Lunch won’t be provided but homemade oatmeal chocolate chips will. Questions? Please email the writing center at writing-center@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78994/

GRITS is a student-run, public interest law conference that focuses on the difficulties and constraints inherent to social justice work in the South, and the unique strategies that legal practitioners and other public interest workers have developed to meet those needs.

The conference emphasizes innovative, progressive, and even radical approaches to building community among students, practitioners, and community activists in the South to bring about social change.

The conference is an opportunity for law students, lawyers, and activists to build coalitions, share strategies for progressive lawyering, and develop new approaches for the future.

Please join us for our first brainstorming session of the year! We will be providing a general orientation on GRITS before discussing possible panel topics and keynote speakers.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/79131/

Opposing Wisconsin's Unconstitutional Hunter Protection Laws

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

Training for TILJ members for future journal editing.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78977/

Enjoy a boat cruise with your Society on Lady Bird Lake

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/78475/

Join us for a Festschrift in honor of Douglas Laycock, Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law.

We are honored to celebrate Professor Laycock’s outstanding contributions to the fields of Law and Religion and Remedies. We look forward to insightful discussions and reflections from distinguished scholars and colleagues, as well as their own new insights as they continue exploration into these fields.

Faculty are cordially invited to attend any (or all) panels, as well as the breakfast and lunch. Students and staff are welcome to attend any (or all) panels. For more information and to RSVP by September 18, please visit the event link. We hope you can participate in this memorable occasion.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/27/78191/

Creature Coffee Hosted by SBA and Sponsored by Sidley

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/27/78972/

The Board of Law Examiners staff will be holding virtual office hours for students with questions about their Declarations of Intention to Practice Law, which are due October 1.

Zoom Meeting ID: 842 9935 3506

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/27/78719/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/27/77976/

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/