Events Calendar

The University will be closed.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/02/77931/

A breakfast for Texas Law alumni attending the Annual Judicial Education Conference hosted by the Texas Center for the Judiciary.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/77708/

Western District of Texas Happy Hour in San Antonio, TX.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/04/78090/

This week the ALDF student chapter at Texas Law will host a webinar watch party on 9/5 from 12 pm - 1 pm, TNH 3.124, Sweetgreen will be provided for those who RSVP.

The webinar this week aims to delve deeply into the complexities and incongruities of U.S. legislation concerning animal cruelty, focusing specifically on the Animal Welfare Act and First Amendment protections. Attendees will gain a nuanced understanding of how existing laws may or may not effectively counter instances ranging from animal exploitation that some may view as innocuous to commodified torture proliferating in our digital age.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/05/78954/

Started by students in 2013, Change It Up! is Texas Law’s annual public-interest orientation. Our Friday afternoon program gives us a chance to welcome law students into the social justice community at the law school, and to strengthen our networks and resources among public-interest students, organizations, faculty, staff, alumni, and local attorneys.

CIU 2024! will begin with formal remarks, followed by lunch and conversation at subject-specific tables, a panel featuring recent graduates who practice public interest law, and opportunities to connect with like-minded students, faculty, staff and attorneys. The formal program at the law school will be followed by a student-organized happy hour off campus. Check-in starts at 12:45pm. Everyone is asked to be seated for lunch by 1:15pm.

Registration: https://changeitup2024.eventbrite.com

Space is limited. Registration begins on August 1.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/06/77527/

On Tuesday, September 10, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law will join the Clements Center for National Security in hosting Robert D. Kaplan. Not since the end of the Cold War has the world faced such danger. War rages in Europe and the Middle East. The U.S. and a rising China face off across the Taiwan Strait. American policy has struggled to deter or manage these conflicts and struggles to grasp the tumultuous internal dynamics of societies in the Mideast and “Global South.”

On September 10, Robert D. Kaplan, bestselling author of twenty-three books on foreign policy, will discuss how our leaders can come to grips with a world seemingly in disarray. Kaplan’s most recent book, The Loom of Time, examines the history and geopolitics of the vast region between the Mediterranean and China, encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia. With the dissolution of empires in the twentieth century, postcolonial states have endeavored to maintain stability in the face of power struggles and arbitrary borders drawn by departing imperial rulers. In The Loom of Time, Kaplan makes the case for historically informed foreign-policy as an approach to the Greater Middle East.

Light refreshments will be provided. Paid visitor parking is available at the Manor Garage, Brazos Garage, and the San Jacinto Garage. Email Susan Crane at scrane@austin.utexas.edu with questions.

Biography: Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty-two books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Loom of Time, The Tragic Mind, Adriatic, The Good American, The Coming Anarchy, Balkan Ghosts, Asia’s Cauldron, and The Revenge of Geography. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic.

A senior adviser at Eurasia Group, he was chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor, a visiting professor at the United States Naval Academy, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a member of both the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U. S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called Kaplan among the four “most widely read” authors defining the post-Cold War (along with Stanford Professor Francis Fukuyama, Yale Professor Paul Kennedy, and the late Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington). Kaplan’s article, “The Coming Anarchy,” published in the February, 1994 Atlantic Monthly, about how population rise, ethnic and sectarian strife, disease, urbanization, and resource depletion is undermining the political fabric of the planet, was hotly debated in foreign-language translations around the world. So was his December, 1997 Atlantic cover story, “Was Democracy Just A Moment?” That piece argued that the democracy now spreading around the world would not necessarily lead to more stability. According to U. S. News & World Report, “President Clinton was so impressed with Kaplan, he ordered an interagency study of these issues, and it agreed with Kaplan’s conclusions.”

In the 1980s, Kaplan was the first American writer to warn in print about a future war in the Balkans. Balkan Ghosts was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of t

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/10/78548/

Professor Greil and Professor Farnsworth discuss originalism. Lunch will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/11/78930/

Prize-winning poet and physician Fady Joudah will read from his visionary sixth collection of poems, [...], and engage in conversation with UT professor and poet Roger Reeves. This event is free and open to the public.

Fady Joudah is the author of […], his sixth collection of poetry. He has also translated several works of poetry from the Arabic, including those by Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan, and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award for his translation, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arab American Book Award. He was born in Austin, Texas, and currently lives in Houston with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/12/78670/

Join TJOGEL and TLF for a Tailgate at George's Patio!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/14/78512/

This event is part of the Justice Center initiative designed to support students whose lived experiences intersect with the legal systems they aspire to challenge in their careers. For example, students who have themselves or had family members become entangled in the criminal legal system and are interested in public defense work; immigrant students or students who are the children or family members of immigrants seeking to challenge the immigration system; and low-income students seeking to challenge laws and policies that further marginalize poor people, such as predatory lending, cash bail, etc.

EPI gatherings serve as a space for dialogue, mentorship, and resource-sharing tailored to the needs and strengths of students whose work as public interest law students and future attorneys may directly relate to their own lived experiences or those of their loved ones.

Please RSVP by noon on Friday, September 13th: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5A15NALbEAOfqhU

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/79053/

This week we will have Will Lowrey as our guest speaker. He will share his experience as an animal law attorney with us. We will cohost this event with the University of Oklahoma.

Will Lowrey is the founder and Legal Counsel for Animal Partisan, a legal advocacy organization focused on challenging unlawful conduct at farms, slaughterhouses, and laboratories. Will previously spent several years as Legal Counsel for Animal Outlook, a national nonprofit farmed animal protection organization, where he divided his time between civil litigation and undercover investigations. Will has engaged in numerous lawsuits, as well as criminal and administrative enforcement actions against the government, industrial agriculture, and research laboratories, including cases involving federal slaughter laws, public records, false advertising, public nuisance, animal cruelty, and others. Will has taught Animal Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Vermont Law and Graduate School, and the University of St. Thomas School of Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/18/79096/

The Scholarship Celebration is an opportunity to gather both scholarship supporters and student recipients of this year's scholarships. By invitation only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/20/76426/

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: People with disabilities face structural, legal, and institutional barriers to accessing reproductive health services and information, including contraception and abortion care. They also experience high rates of violence and reproductive coercion, as well as stigma and discrimination from health providers. They are more likely to experience maternal morbidity and mortality, rendering pregnancy particularly dangerous for some. Mounting abortion restrictions after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will result in some disabled people being forced to carry pregnancies to term, notwithstanding serious health risks. Should they choose to raise their children after childbirth, they will likely encounter ongoing threats to their parental rights because of laws, policies, and practices that assume incompetence among disabled parents. Thus, the ruling creates a paradox for disabled people where they may be forced to bear children but subsequently denied the opportunity to rear them, perpetuating a historical pattern of exploitation and subjugation. This paper identifies and responds to this paradox by providing and applying a disability reproductive justice framework.

Robyn Powell is Professor of Law at Stetson University. Her work examines the intersection of disability justice and reproductive justice, with a focus on disability law and policy, health law and policy, and family law. She is a leading authority on the rights of parents with disabilities and has served as an Attorney-Advisor at the National Council on Disability. Her forthcoming publications include “Disabling Abortion Bans” (UC Davis Law Review) and “Forced to Bear, Denied to Rear: The Cruelty of Dobbs for Disabled People” (Georgetown Law Journal). She received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Social Policy from Brandeis University, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and a B.S. in Social Work from Bridgewater State University.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/23/78350/

Join CHLLSA as we host attorneys from different legal practice areas to hear about their work in the legal industry. This panel is geared toward first-generation students who want to learn more about the different practice areas in the legal community, but all are welcome to join and ask questions over free lunch!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/25/78730/

Opposing Wisconsin's Unconstitutional Hunter Protection Laws

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/26/79260/

Tailgate on George's Patio to bring Plaintiffs' side attorneys and interested students together to celebrate Longhorn Football's debut in the SEC.

Note that kickoff for the game hasn't been announced yet so I put noon - 2 for now but that might need to be adjusted down the line.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/09/28/79063/