Events Calendar

Undergraduate interscholastic mock trial competition. During the fall and early spring, invitational tournaments are held around the country to allow teams to practice and prepare for AMTA-sanctioned tournaments in February through April.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/17/77941/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/79735/

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!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/80016/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/80075/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/78801/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/79756/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/79916/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/80155/

Join WLC and Paul Hastings LLP for a snack break!

Mix and mingle with attorneys and recruiters.

Learn tips and tricks about the 1L final memo, outlining for exams, interview strategies, and more with the WLC Board.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/78920/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/78457/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/78352/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/18/79297/

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

Coffee Hosted by the Animal Law Student Organization and Sponsored by ALDF

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/79264/

Event for OUTLaw students to get breakfast and assemble finals survival kits!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/79360/

Grab some breakfast and coffee and mingle with Mayer Brown attorneys!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/79640/

Come meet our new Executive Director, Jennifer Banda! Swing by the CWIL suite and grab some breakfast pastries and coffee while you meet our new Director! Suite is located at TNH 3.119!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/80098/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/79987/

Zachary, an accredited financial aid counselor from AccessLex, will be leading a workshop for students to better understand their finances and budgeting for the spring semester and beyond.

Lunch will be provided for attendees.

Attendees will also be entered into a drawing on February 1st for a MAX by AccessLex scholarship.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/79819/

Join the Justice Center's Student Advisory Board as we begin our monthly Public Interest Office Hours! These sessions are aimed at providing peer support for students who want to learn more about public interest lawyering. This month, members of the Student Advisory Board will be available to answer any questions students have about internships, classes, and more. If you're a 1L who is not sure where to begin on your public interest journey, this is also for you! Your Student Advisory Board is here to support you in forging that path. Stop by the Jamail Pavilion on Tuesday, October 29 from 12-1PM for conversation, coffee, and kolaches!

Please save the dates for our future Public Interest Office Hours, Dec. 19 (virtual), Jan. 14, and Feb. 11.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/79920/

Unleashed: Survivors of Trafficking

Despite the fact that experts estimate that the US is the world’s second largest sex trafficking market, myths and misconceptions about trafficking persist, among them the assumptions: - that only foreign nationals smuggled into the US are victims of this insidious crime - that victims can simply leave their traffickers - that once victims have been “rescued” their lives are immediately restored

This film focuses on ten courageous and gritty women who have survived trafficking, examining the myths about sex trafficking and illuminating the societal factors that contribute to domestic girls getting trapped in the “Life.” More importantly, it presents these women’s stories of the huge obstacles they faced and overcame in exiting the “Life” and offers encouragement to viewers to become involved in addressing this national disgrace.

Q&A with the documentarian to follow.

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/19/80055/

Creature Coffee Hosted by SBA

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/20/78974/

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/2024/11/20/78890/

Coffee Hosted by the Animal Law Student Organization and Sponsored by ALDF and PETA

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/20/80115/

Event for APALSA members to meet attorneys from Norton Rose Fulbright. Lunch is provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/20/79283/

Join us for a discussion of Fish & Richardson's practice and relevant IP topics. Lunch will be provided.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/20/79315/

This fall, Hurricanes Helene and Milton have served as powerful reminders of how devastating major storms can be—devastation that is only likely to grow more common with climate change. Natural disasters intersect with the legal system in surprising and important ways, shaping everything from who's impacted by storms to which communities can access recovery resources. Come hear Madison Sloan, the Director of the Disaster Recovery and Fair Housing Project at Texas Appleseed, and Brittanny Perrigue Gomez, the Team Manager for Texas RioGrande Legal Aid's Disaster Team discuss their work and the role of lawyers in disaster recovery. November 20, 11:50 AM-12:50 PM. Lunch provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/20/79915/

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/2024/11/20/79615/

Come join TLDNA for a fun, accessible alternative bar review. The shiftmakers will be providing mocktails and there will also be snacks! The event is open to everyone and should provide a nice wind-down in the buildup to finals.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/20/80175/

Join Bracewell LLP for breakfast treats from Bird Bird Biscuit and coffee on Thursday, November 21 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. in the Jamail Pavilion. This is a come-and-go event and an opportunity to meet Bracewell’s attorneys and Recruiting and Diversity Departments to learn more about their 2025 Summer Program and Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship.

Bracewell is a proud sponsor of the National LGBT Bar Association’s Lavender Law Conference, the Houston Bar Association LGBTQ+ Committee, and counts among their clients, The Trevor Project, which is the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention organization.

In the 2025 Vault Survey, Bracewell’s Summer Associate Program was ranked #1 for social experiences and the #2 best overall summer associate program nationwide. Reflecting their commitment to recruiting and developing the best and brightest legal talent, Bracewell was also recognized in the Vault Survey as an “Elite Firm” for quality of life and the #10 overall best law firm to work for nationwide.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/21/79459/

1Ls: Stop by to meet attorneys from Bracewell to learn more about their firm and grab lunch.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/21/79232/

Research faculty meeting to discuss faculty appointments after job talks.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/21/79917/

Enjoy some food and hear students share their experiences working with sports and entertainment law over the summer! Add your questions before the panel here: https://forms.gle/7v3tzk26Qro2wo3eA

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/21/80095/

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. Laptop and copy or resume needed for workshop.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/21/79696/

Texas Law Alumni in New York!

The New York Regional Committee is excited to invite you to a pre-game happy hour as we gear up for the Syracuse vs. Texas men’s basketball game at Barclays Center. Whether you’re reconnecting with old classmates or meeting fellow Texas Law alumni for the first time, it’s a great chance to grab a drink, expand your network, and enjoy some Longhorn spirit.

Bring a guest and share this page to invite your fellow Texas Law alums in the NYC area to join the fun! Hosted at Morgan's Brooklyn Barbecue, November 21st, 5-7pm EDT.

Questions? Please contact us at events@law.utexas.edu.

Texas Law is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible event. Please contact events@law.utexas.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation. All requests must be made by November 19.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/21/79855/

Continue your law school preparation journey with the Pipeline Program. Learn what resources are available to you and what you can come to expect in the admissions process.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/22/78441/

The Texas Law Pipeline Program is hosting a one-day in person workshop aimed at preparing undergraduate and recent graduate attendees for the law school application process. Session includes:

Law School Admissions Council and Preparing for the LSAT Law School Admissions Dean Panel and Mock File Review Writing A Personal Statement Resources For Applicants

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/22/78414/