Events Calendar

Come hang out with Latham & Watkins and grab some free breakfast!

All members of the Law School community are invited to stop by the Atrium to write a thank you note (or two or three) to those who have made a difference in your law school experience this semester.

And to show the SAO's gratitude to you, there will be pie!

Come discuss the 2024 election with Celia Israel, Sarah Chen, and Mimi Marziani! Lunch provided.

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

On Monday, November 18, join the Strauss Center and the International Association of Privacy Professionals for an engaging Q&A session with experienced privacy and cybersecurity lawyers who will share their journeys, insights, and practical advise for aspiring legal professionals. Panelists will include Tyler Bridegan, Director of Privacy & Tech Enforcement for the Texas Attorney General’s Office, Drew Concannon, an Intelligence and Data Privacy Law Fellow at the Strauss Center, Colleen García, Counsel with Tannenbaum Helpern’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice, and David Springer, an Adjunct Professor at UT Law. This event offers the law students and the community a chance to learn about the skills, strategies, and career paths that lead to success in privacy and cyber law.

RSVP's strongly encouraged. Please RSVP your attendance directly to Ali Prince Ponce at ali.prince@austin.utexas.edu.

Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Ali Prince Ponce.

Faculty meeting for research faculty to discuss faculty appointments after job talks.

What does it mean to be pro-life? Join us as Students for Life of America’s Faith Elwonger presents some common arguments about abortion and discusses the pro-life response to those arguments. Lunch will be provided.

Snack & Study with WLC and Paul Hastings

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: Equality as well as liberty arguments can structure the debate about abortion that continues after Dobbs, in litigation and in legislation, in state and federal arenas. This book chapter draws on case law and history to show that principles of equal citizenship require government to protect potential life in different ways today than it has in the past, when criminal bans on abortion enforced caste-based understandings of women’s roles. While states enforcing gender status roles have long assumed that government can coerce the labor of pregnancy and lifegiving, equal protection commitments give rise to an anti-carceral presumption in regulating abortion. As state laws inside and outside the abortion context attest: States that respect women as equal citizens do not turn, as a matter of first resort, to coercive measures when there are numerous less discriminatory and less restrictive ways to protect potential life. Reaching for carceral solutions perpetuates the forms of inequality that are the central concern of sex-based equal protection law. To opt for the maximally coercive approach—forced pregnancy and childbirth—when there are alternative means for enabling families to flourish is neither constitutional nor plausibly characterized as promoting life. New efforts by anti-abortion forces to interpret the Comstock Act as a national abortion ban are a case in point: these efforts seek to criminalize reproductive healthcare in ways that disregard half a century of sex equality law.

Cary Franklin is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She is also the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law, Faculty Director of the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy, and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute. Her research focuses on the historical development of conceptions of equality in American law and how this history influences the shape of contemporary legal protections in the contexts of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race. She has published extensively in major law reviews. Her article “The Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law” (New York University Law Review, 2010), was awarded the Kathryn T. Preyer Prize by the American Society for Legal History. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, she was the W.H. Francis, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Texas. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in English and History from Yale University.

All Texas Law alumni in the Chicago area are welcome. More details to come.