Events Calendar

Calling all Dallas-Fort Worth Alumni!

Join us for an evening of engaging conversations at the Texas Law Showcase, featuring Professor Steven T. Collis.

Professor Collis, the founding faculty director of the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, will share insights into his work and discuss his newly published book, Habits of a Peacemaker. We hope you can join us for this fantastic opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni, expand your professional network, and engage in meaningful discussion on timely legal topics.

This is an exclusive event for Texas Law alumni community. Please spread the word!

We can’t wait to see you in Dallas. RSVP now!

https://law.utexas.edu/alumni/event/tls-collis/

Registration is required by Thursday, February 6.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/10/80659/

Details coming soon.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/11/79817/

The Center for Women in Law is excited to host a Power Series conversation with Sandra Phillips, the Senior Vice President, Enterprise Integrity, Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Toyota Motor North America.

In these roles, Phillips helps Toyota navigate significant business and legal challenges while supporting its expansion as a global mobility company, one that is an industry leader in autonomous, connected and sustainable vehicle technologies. She also provides strategic guidance in areas such as global mobility transactions, cybersecurity, complex litigation, information technology and crisis management. Prior to joining Toyota in 2012, Phillips held roles leading litigation management and strategy at global law firms and at Pfizer, Inc.

During this one-hour conversation, Phillips will discuss her legal career, the path to her current role, and the ethical standards and challenges of a corporate general counsel. Phillips will discuss career readiness and the role of a general counsel to help companies navigate regulatory frameworks, engagement with outside counsel, business planning, litigation, and engagement in a global leadership team.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/12/81178/

Dr. Satsuki Ina will discuss her memoir The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest, a compelling story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice and how their story echoes across generations.

Satsuki Ina is an Emmy award-winning documentarian, community activist, and co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity. The Poet and the Silk Girl explores her family’s experience of unjust incarceration during WWII.

Ina links her family’s story to struggles against WWII incarceration camps to ongoing mass incarceration of migrants at the U.S. — Mexico border. Her story and analysis are particularly relevant given national conversations about mass detention camps and invoking the Alien Enemies Act today.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Asian American Studies, Human Rights Watch, Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, the Initiative for Law, Societies, and Justice, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice, Tsuru for Solidarity, and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/12/80707/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/13/80745/