Events Calendar

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.

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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.

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

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

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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/

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/

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/