Events Calendar

The University will be closed.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/02/77931/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/03/78011/

If you are interested in learning about Texas Law's Interscholastic Moot Court Program (tryout process, competitions we attend, etc.) please join us for this informational session.

If you would like to be added to the Interscholastic Moot Court (IMC) Canvas site, please contact Marla Massin, mmassin@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/03/78551/

A breakfast for Texas Law alumni attending the Annual Judicial Education Conference hosted by the Texas Center for the Judiciary.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/77708/

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 and registering for Judicial Clerkship Applications: Getting Started

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/78630/

Welcome back and what's next (academics, careers, bar exams) for 3Ls

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/78134/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/78034/

Western District of Texas Happy Hour in San Antonio, TX.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/78090/

2Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Kastner Gravelle to learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/05/78413/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/05/77847/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Kirkland & Ellis to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/05/78358/

All admin contacts for each student organization should attend this meeting to review accounting and finance processes and procedures for the 2024-2025 school year.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/06/78311/

All admin contacts for each journal should attend this meeting to review accounting and finance processes and procedures for the 2024-2025 school year.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/06/78295/

Started by students in 2013, Change It Up! is Texas Law’s annual public-interest orientation. Our Friday afternoon program gives us a chance to welcome law students into the social justice community at the law school, and to strengthen our networks and resources among public-interest students, organizations, faculty, staff, alumni, and local attorneys.

CIU 2024! will begin with formal remarks, followed by lunch and conversation at subject-specific tables, a panel featuring recent graduates who practice public interest law, and opportunities to connect with like-minded students, faculty, staff and attorneys. The formal program at the law school will be followed by a student-organized happy hour off campus. Check-in starts at 12:45pm. Everyone is asked to be seated for lunch by 1:15pm.

Registration: https://changeitup2024.eventbrite.com

Space is limited. Registration begins on August 1.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/06/77527/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/09/78631/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/09/78546/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/09/77887/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/09/78518/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78531/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78254/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78458/

Open house event for prospective students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78070/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78548/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78331/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/78359/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/78415/

Join ACS and UT Law professors for a discussion on the Supreme Court’s most recent rulings and their impact on our democracy. Lunch from Peace Bakery will be served!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/78513/

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/

Prize-winning poet and physician Fady Joudah will read from his visionary sixth collection of poems, [...], and engage in conversation with UT professor and poet Roger Reeves. This event is free and open to the public.

Fady Joudah is the author of […], his sixth collection of poetry. He has also translated several works of poetry from the Arabic, including those by Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan, and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award for his translation, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He was born in Austin, Texas, and currently lives in Houston with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/78670/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/13/77974/

Enjoy a boat cruise with your Society on Lady Bird Lake

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/13/78472/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/14/78512/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/16/77971/

Please RSVP by Sunday, September 15, on TEX.

Hear Texas Law 2Ls and 3Ls discuss their summer internships with private sector employers and how they secured their positions during this panel discussion. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/16/78610/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/16/78485/

Support your society and wear your society shirt! These points go toward the Society Cup Champion! 1Ls will be counted in their classrooms, but 2Ls and 3Ls are encouraged to wear their shirts and stop by the table to be counted.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/17/78442/

Please RSVP by Monday, September 16, on TEX.

Learn more about summer internship opportunities in the government and public interest sectors, including application procedures, hiring criteria, and general internship descriptions. This program will feature a panel of students discussing their summer internship experiences in the government and public interest sectors.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/17/78549/

A conversation with Allan Rock, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Canada (retired), on the cases he litigated and laws he sponsored in connection with Quebec’s attempted secession from Canada in 1995. Moderator: Richard Albert

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/17/78452/

Panel with NRF attorneys for members of TLVA

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/17/78370/

Come out to learn the flag football rules + play a scrimmage game before the regular season starts next week.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/17/78482/

We encourage 100% of our students to enroll in a bar prep program, so come and talk to representatives from: BarBri - Themis - Kaplan - Helix.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/78443/

IPLS is hosting an information session on the organization and IP Law. We will go over different aspects of IP Law and different opportunities available to students interested in IP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/78416/

Participating law firms will present on a topic of business law. Law students are encouraged to attend and learn more about that law firm and its business law practice. Lunch, and options for those with dietary restrictions, is provided. RSVP is required, but membership in TBLS is not.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/78537/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/19/77849/

Enjoy a boat cruise with your Society on Lady Bird Lake

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/19/78473/

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/

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/2024/09/20/77975/

Enjoy a boat cruise with your Society on Lady Bird Lake

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/20/78474/

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/

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/

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.

Robyn Powell, Assistant Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law, will present.

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/

Drawing Board Luncheon: Karen Engle, Jennifer Laurin, & Blake Rocap

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/24/78230/

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

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/

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/

ACS presents a talk about the future of DEI on law school campuses. ACS will also offer lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78339/

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/

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/

Participating law firms will present on a topic of business law. Law students are encouraged to attend and learn more about that law firm and its business law practice. Lunch, and options for those with dietary restrictions, is provided. RSVP is required, but membership in TBLS is not.

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/

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/

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/

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/2024/09/27/78534/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Foley & Lardner to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/30/78357/

Take a break and experience the therapeutic joy of petting adorable dogs during Wellness Week! Don't miss out on this paws-itively uplifting experience—come pet a pup and boost your mood!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/30/78291/