Events Calendar

Students will have the opportunity to explore academic and wellness resources that offer support.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/01/78290/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/01/78153/

SBA Creature Coffee cart sponsored by Haynes Boone

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/02/78810/

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/2024/10/02/78863/

This will be an event will veteran attorneys from HB, Winstead, and McKool Smith

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/02/78445/

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/2024/10/02/78752/

Participating law firms will present on a topic of business law. Law students will have the opportunity to learn more about that law firm and their business law practice. Lunch will be provided, along with options for those with dietary restrictions. RSVP is required, but membership in the Texas Business Law Society is not.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/02/78550/

Take a break from the hustle and bustle of your day and join us for a serene mindfulness classical music performance under the trees. Let the calming melodies and the rustling leaves transport you to a place of peace and relaxation. Whether you bring your lunch, a good book, or simply yourself, this is the perfect opportunity to nourish your mind and soul. Give yourself the gift of tranquility and recharge for the rest of your week. We’ll see you there!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/02/78650/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Willkie Farr & Gallagher to learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/03/78724/

2Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Bojorquez Law Firm to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/03/78723/

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/2024/10/03/78750/

RSVP for this exclusive and limited opportunity to hear from TedTalk speaker Gloria Chan Parker. Gloria is the owner of Recalibrate, a leading provider of corporate mindfulness and mental wellness, using a uniquely modern and science-based approach to empower go-getters with busy lives. Gloria opened Recalibrate after an unexpected medical battle amidst an established career in management consulting that ultimately led her to discover the gap in everyday mental wellness. Gloria holds a Mindfulness Teaching Certificate from The Mindfulness Center in Washington, D.C., has completed Coherence Therapy training with Deep Eddy Psychotherapy, has completed Executive Education in Corporate Strategy from Columbia Business School, and holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas Austin.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/03/78444/

TJOGEL will be hosting 5-8 transactional, regulatory, and litigation energy lawyers in a Q&A for 1Ls interested in working at a large law firm, learning about energy law, or potentially having an energy-related practice. Our speakers will cover a variety of practices in the energy law field: upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas work; power and regulatory work; as well as renewables and project development work. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions at the event as well as network with the attorneys. There are a limited number of available spots, so please RSVP via a form that will be sent out 1-2 weeks prior to the event to TJOGEL Society Members.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/03/78552/

Join alumni, prospective students, and friends for paella, drinks and networking! Hosted by Trey Martinez JD '96 and Rolando Rubiano BS '93, with paella from Ralph Vela, CEO Workforce Solutions Cameron and award-winning paella chef.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/03/78170/

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/2024/10/04/77977/

The Second Cohort Academy for the Gamma Cohort will take place on October 5th. The Gamma Cohort will reconnect on campus for the second time in-person to learn more about statements/essays, application preparation, and will be matched with their law student mentor.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/05/78438/

In the fall semester, the Texas Business Law Society hosts an intramural competition for first-year and upper-level students known as the Texas Transactional Skills Competition(TTSC). The competition provides an opportunity for students to draft and negotiate a transactional document, such as a term sheet or an agreement, in a manner that mirrors corporate legal practice. The competition is judged by corporate partners and associates from firms all over the state of Texas. This is an excellent opportunity for students to gain exposure to real practical documents and experience the role of a transactional attorney. Additionally, the TTSC provides students with networking and mentorship opportunities with practicing transactional attorneys.

The 2024 competition will be held Saturday, October 5th. During the competition, participants compete against their peers over two rounds of negotiation. The goal is to reach a deal by demonstrating your negotiation skills and articulating your client’s needs. TBLS will host a reception for the judges and participants following the competition. This year, we are excited to host the competition in-person!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/05/78292/

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/78334/

Book Launch: “The Constitution of the War on Drugs” (Oxford University Press, 2024) Participants:

David Pozen, Columbia University | Presenter Jennifer Laurin, The University of Texas at Austin | Discussant Richard Albert, The University of Texas at Austin | Moderator

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/77907/

A conversation with David Pozen, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University, on his new book “The Constitution of the War on Drugs” (Oxford University Press), with comments from Jennifer Laurin, William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. Moderator: Richard Albert

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/78453/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/78030/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/78795/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/78487/

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

Abstract: In only 15 years, Colombia underwent a remarkable transformation in its abortion laws, transitioning from one of the most stringent to one of the most permissive. This significant shift was accomplished through successful Constitutional litigation led by feminist organizations. From 2005, exploiting momentum created by a 1991 reform, feminist NGO’s have worked to build a framework for the decriminalization of abortion and increased access to abortion services. In 2020, under the umbrella of the Fair Indication or Causa Justa campaign, they asked the Court to eliminate the crime of abortion. In 2022, the Constitutional Court determined that abortion would be free up to week 24. Women in Colombia now have a fundamental right to abortion, and it shows in the numbers. Although complete access to abortion services is not yet assured, especially for late-term procedures, there has been a notable surge in demand since the recent reforms.

Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra is Professor of Law and Director of the Jurisprudence Department at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She also acts as general coordinator of the Latin American Network of Feminist Legal Scholars- RED ALAS (www.redalas.net). She has written extensively on feminist legal reform and its impact on women, with particular attention to reforms related to quotas, abortion, and violence. Relevant works in English include “The New Colombian Law on Abortion" in International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2022) and "Abortion Reform in Colombia: From Total Prohibition to Decriminalization up to Week Twenty-Four" in The South Atlantic Quarterly (2023). She has worked as a consultant for the National Government and the Judicial Branch on gender and human rights issues; served as an expert before the Congress of the Republic; and worked as an Ad Hoc Judge for the Constitutional Court and the State Council. In 2017, she was nominated (but not elected) by President Juan Manuel Santos to the Constitutional Court. She earned her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. with Honors from Universidad de los Andes.

Co-sponsored by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Latin America Initiative at Texas Law

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/07/78332/

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/08/78335/

BOA is hosting a breakfast meet-and-greet with Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF). Students can stop by for breakfast to chat with attorneys from NRF about their practice and learn more about NRF.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/08/78831/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/08/77973/

Presented each fall by the CSO, the Public Service Expo offers Texas Law students an opportunity to informally meet with government agencies and public interest organizations to learn about the employers and available internship and job opportunities.

This year's Expo will be held over two days in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 8, 2023 and Wednesday, October 9, 2024.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/08/78471/

This is the first round of the Foley & Lardner Novice Mock Trial Competition. The round will be held at 6:00PM. This competition is for those who have not competed in a Texas Law intramural mock trial competition before. Please contact Kacey Simmons (kacey.simmons@utexas.edu) for more information.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/08/78832/

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/09/78336/

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/2024/10/09/78864/

Presented each fall by the CSO, the Public Service Expo offers Texas Law students an opportunity to informally meet with government agencies and public interest organizations to learn about the employers and available internship and job opportunities.

This year's Expo will be held over two days in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 8, 2023 and Wednesday, October 9, 2024.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/09/78455/

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/2024/10/09/78753/

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/10/78337/

Learn about the Justice Center and the support and resources we provide for students interested in nonprofit, government, and legislative service. Chat over lunch with Justice Center staff and students who are involved in our projects.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/10/78872/

This is the second round of the Foley & Lardner Novice Mock Trial Competition. The round will be held at 6:00PM. This competition is for those who have not competed in a Texas Law intramural mock trial competition before. Please contact Kacey Simmons (kacey.simmons@utexas.edu) for more information.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/10/78833/

The Fall Interview Program welcomes employers to recruit 2Ls, 3Ls, domestic and foreign-trained LL.M.s, and recent graduates (up to one year after graduation) for summer clerkships or postgraduate positions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/11/78338/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/11/78510/

1L students who are participating in the Alumni Mentoring Program are encouraged to attend one orientation meeting, either 10/14 or 10/15. Lunch will be provided. If you are unable to attend, please contact mentoring@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/14/78470/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/14/78796/

A conversation with Andrea Scoceria Katz, Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, on how the U.S. Constitution changes without an alteration to its text—and the costs to this form of constitutional change.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/14/78447/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/14/78488/

1L students who are participating in the Alumni Mentoring Program are encouraged to attend one orientation meeting, either 10/14 or 10/15. Lunch will be provided. If you are unable to attend, please contact mentoring@law.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/15/78454/

Learn more about the Pipeline Program and the services we have to offer. This info session and panel will take place virtually.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/16/78439/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Winston & Strawn and learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/16/78911/

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/2024/10/16/78865/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/16/78154/

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/2024/10/16/78754/

Join CHLLSA and Vinson & Elkins for a 1L Memo Writing Workshop and free lunch. This memo can feel daunting, but this workshop will help develop the skills you need to succeed.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/16/78773/

Participating law firms will present on a topic of business law that their firm practices. 1Ls can meet attorneys and learn more about business law. RSVP required, but membership in TBLS is not.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/16/78806/

This is the final round of the Foley & Lardner Novice Mock Trial Competition. The round will be held at 6:00PM. This competition is for those who have not competed in a Texas Law intramural mock trial competition before. Please contact Kacey Simmons (kacey.simmons@utexas.edu) for more information.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/17/78834/

This is the final round of the Foley & Lardner Novice Mock Trial Competition. The round will be held at 6:00PM. This competition is for those who have not competed in a Texas Law intramural mock trial competition before. Please contact Kacey Simmons (kacey.simmons@utexas.edu) for more information.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/17/78853/

Join Norton Rose Fulbright as their recruiters and attorneys provide a delicious lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/18/78483/

2Ls + 3Ls, come chat with SAO about early registration for spring 2025

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/21/78541/

TIPLJ and IPLS will be hosting a panel of students who have spent their summers working in different areas of Intellectual Property Law. The students will answer questions about getting jobs, networking, and what things to focus on heading into Final Exams.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/21/78392/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/21/78797/

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

Abstract: President Trump’s harsh, exclusionary anti-immigrant policies were bolstered by rhetoric that demonized migrant pregnancy and motherhood. including tropes like “birth tourism,” “anchor baby,” “chain migration,” and “public charge.” The Obama and Biden administrations, in contrast, enacted and publicized policies excepting pregnant women from otherwise intensive immigration enforcement regimes, projecting an image of humanitarian concern. This paper uses critical feminist ethnography to study the impact of pregnancy-related immigration policies on the lived experiences of pregnant migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border from 2017-2022. It documents the impacts of a shifting landscape of exclusion, expulsion, deportation, detention, and release during an era of rapid migration policy change. The findings are clear: under every policy regime, pregnant women are negatively impacted. During periods characterized by increased detention, detention conditions are poor. During periods characterized by exclusion and expulsion, pregnant women are forced to wait in dangerous, precarious conditions in Northern Mexico, increasing the likelihood that they will attempt a perilous desert crossing into the United States. And during periods characterized by a greater chance of receiving humanitarian parole due to pregnancy, parole is seldom granted to partners and family members, making family separation inseparable from a supposedly humanitarian exception.

Amanda Heffernan is a nurse midwife and Assistant Professor at Seattle University College of Nursing, where she is also Clinical Placement Coordinator for the Midwifery Program. In addition, she is a Seattle University PACE (Partnership for Advancing Community Engagement) Fellow and a faculty fellow at the Seattle University Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture. Her research interests sit at the intersection of migration and reproductive justice, including the impact of detention on families and the experiences of pregnant migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. She is author of “Pregnancy in United States Immigration Detention: The Gendered Necropolitics of Reproductive Oppression” in International Feminist Journal of Politics. She received a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of New Mexico, an MSN in Nurse-Midwifery from Frontier Nursing University, a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Washington, and a B.A. in History from Whitman College.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/21/78333/

This consultation, co-hosted by the Immigration Clinic at Texas Law , will contribute to a United Nations (UN) initiative to address xenophobia and human rights violations against migrants. A public panel (time TBA) will feature several UN experts, academics, and policymakers.

(Sponsored by the Immigration Clinic, Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis, Latin American Initiative at UT School of Law, Latino Studies, Rapoport Center, and William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law)

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/22/78430/

2Ls + 3Ls, come chat with SAO about early registration for spring 2025

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/22/78542/

Faculty and staff will be on hand to discuss clinic and internship courses for spring 2025. Lunch provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/22/78481/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/22/78530/

Come watch the Championship IM Football Game!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/22/78545/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Hunton Andrews Kurth and learn more about their firm and grab breakfast.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/23/78851/

2Ls + 3Ls, come chat with SAO about early registration for spring 2025

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/23/78543/

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/2024/10/23/78866/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from DLA Piper to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/23/78412/

Join CHLLSA and several distinguished judges from the Central Texas region for a panel discussion about their progressive work and their law school and legal experiences as first-generation Latinos. Panelists include Judge Bianca Garcia (misdemeanor criminal court), Judge Brad Urrutia (felony criminal court), Judge Maria Cantu Hexsel (civil district court), and Justice Gisela Triana (3rd Court of Appeals). The panel is moderated by Jackson Walker's Josh Romero.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/23/78805/

Attorneys from a variety of firms and companies will be in attendance for a networking happy hour. The event is jointly sponsored by all of the IP, Technology, and Sports/Entertainment law organizations.

RSVPs will be required before the event.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/23/78391/

2Ls + 3Ls, come chat with SAO about early registration for spring 2025

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/24/78544/

Students will learn about opportunities in the plaintiffs' bar and personal injury law from Arnold & Itkin attorneys Kurt Arnold, Jason Itkin, and others. Students will have an opportunity for Q&A with the attorneys.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/24/78835/

Student Bar Association will be hosting a Pickleball Social Event at Other Racquet Social Club on October 24, 2024 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. This event is open to all students.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/24/78270/

2L and 3L TIPLJ/IPLS Board Members will be available to help 1Ls with editing their resumes or preparing cover letters.

Students are encouraged to come by at a time that works for them. Requesting a time slot ahead of time guarantees less of a wait once you arrive.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/25/78393/

Join Norton Rose Fulbright as their recruiters and attorneys provide the 1L class a delicious lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/25/78484/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/28/78798/

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/28/78031/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/28/78489/

WLC invites you to an evening (6:00-8:00 p.m. on October 29) at Antonelli's Cheese House (500 Park Blvd.) to indulge in wine and cheese while networking with Jackson Walker attorneys. This is a popular and fun event every year! It's a great way to hone your networking skills and make connections with attorneys at a big law firm.

RSVP necessary.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/29/78912/

SBA Creature Coffee cart sponsored by Haynes Boone

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/30/78811/

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/2024/10/30/78867/

A lunch event where law students can learn more about a specific topic of business law by attorneys from participating law firms. RSVP required.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/30/78756/

Hex Parte is the annual Texas Law Halloween party brought to you by the Student Bar Association! Please join us for a night of dancing and fun with your fellow LawHorns. Location is tba.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/10/31/78298/