Events Calendar

The Premiere Trial Competition is an interscholastic mock trial competition created by UCLA School of Law. It is limited to students making their "premieres" -- students who have never participated in an external law school trial competition.

Texas Law will be one of three host sites for this year's Premiere competition (the other sites will be in Los Angeles & Philadelphia).

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/02/77938/

The Premiere Trial Competition is an interscholastic mock trial competition created by UCLA School of Law. It is limited to students making their "premieres" -- students who have never participated in an external law school trial competition.

Texas Law will be one of three host sites for this year's Premiere competition (the other sites will be in Los Angeles & Philadelphia).

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/03/77939/

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: This talk will present the preliminary findings of a national research study tracking prosecutions for pregnancy-related conduct in the first year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It will contextualize them within larger conversations about pregnancy criminalization and the relationships among victimhood, care, and punishment in U.S. criminal systems.

Wendy Bach is a Professor of Law and co-Director of the Appalachian Justice Research Center at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of poverty law, criminal law, social welfare provision, law and society, and community lawyering. Professor Bach is the author of a number of law review articles and Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care (Cambridge University Press, 2022). She is currently leading a national study of the criminalization of pregnancy in a post-Dobbs world. She received a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, as well as an M.A. and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/04/78351/

The Alumni Association Executive Committee will meet on November 8, 2024 for their biannual meeting.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/08/78310/

A highly-anticipated in-person celebration to honor our 2024 Alumni Award winners. Attendance by invitation only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/08/78210/

Join us for the 26th annual alumni tailgate with delicious food from the Rodriguez family (Eduardo Rodriguez '68 and Michael Rodriguez '94).

Alumni, faculty, and 3Ls are welcome to attend. RSVP by Sunday, Nov. 3 http://tiny.cc/TexasLawTailgate

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/09/78152/

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: In 2022, in Dobbs, the Court held that the Due Process Clause does not protect a right to abortion. Dobbs unleashed a tidal wave of old and new laws criminalizing abortion, including the Comstock Act of 1873, reviving a criminalization regime Roe had held in abeyance. But questions have arisen about the constitutionality of reviving regulations that were created at a time when women and people of color were not viewed as equal members of the polity. Reproductive justice advocates have argued that the revival of this regime violates equal protection law, and that even if due process no longer protects reproductive rights, equal protection often does.

This paper examines growing efforts to enable the revival of old regulatory regimes by extending the Court’s new “history and tradition” doctrine (which replaced traditional due process doctrine in Dobbs) to equal protection as well. “History and tradition” doctrine gauges a law’s constitutionality by asking whether the law would have been considered constitutional in 1791 or 1868. This approach sidelines concerns about equality, public health, and social wellbeing—and courts are adopting it not only in the context of reproductive rights, but in the context of guns as well. This new approach subverts 50 years of equality law, aggrandizes judicial power, and buries the value judgments that continue to influence major constitutional battles over guns and abortion.

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/

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

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

The University will be closed.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/28/77932/

The University will be closed.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/11/29/77933/