Events Calendar

Join us for an insightful discussion with Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder & Co-director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice. Professor Engle will present her latest book, Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court: Rethinking Responses to Gendered and Racialized Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Law Professor Rachel Rebouché, who recently joined Texas Law as the G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law, will serve as respondent.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/15/83964/

Join attorneys from Vinson & Elkins for lunch on Wednesday, September 17th from 11:50am-12:50pm in JON 5.206!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/17/82577/

Learn about the Justice Center and the support and resources we provide for students interested in nonprofit and government service. Chat over lunch with Justice Center staff and students who are involved in our projects.

Register by noon, September 15 at https://justicecenteropenhouse25.eventbrite.com.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/17/83479/

The Center for Women in Law is excited to host Pathways: A Lawyer’s Path to Lobbying and Public Policy. Meet three lawyers who are registered lobbyists engaged in public policy making at the state and federal level. Celeste Embrey ’98, is the General Counsel for the Texas Bankers Association, representing more than 375 Texas banks. Denise Rose, a partner at Jackson Walker, is consistently ranked by Chambers USA as a leading business lawyer. Brandy Marty Marquez, a former Texas PUC Commission and chief of staff to Governor Perry, is a Principal at Marquez Public Affairs. The panelists will discuss their career paths from law school to lobbying, how their work impacts the world of law making and public policy, and the highlights of a career in the halls of the capitals of Austin and Washington, D.C.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/17/83454/

Join attorneys from Norton Rose Fulbright for lunch on Thursday, September 18th from 11:50am-12:50pm in JON 5.206!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/18/82576/

Texas Federalist Society is hosting a debate on the effect of Trump v. CASA, the recent Supreme Court case that severely limited nationwide injunctions. We will host Chance Weldon from the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Texas School of Law to debate this issue. Chick-fil-a will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/18/84117/

AAEC Fall 2025 Meeting

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/19/81558/

Texas Federalist Society will be hosting a special event in the Eidman Courtroom. Professor John Greil will moderate a panel of three federal judges: Reed O'Connor, Brantley Starr, and Charles Eskridge. Chick-Fil-A boxed lunches will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/19/84118/

More information coming soon.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/19/81545/

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Join Texas Law’s chapter of the American Constitution Society for an engaging conversation on birthright citizenship. Texas Law professors will explore the constitutional foundations, historical context, and contemporary debates surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. This event offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of one of the most important and timely issues in constitutional law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/22/83764/

Join attorneys from King & Spalding for lunch on Wednesday, September 24th from 11:50am-12:50pm in JON 5.206!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/24/82578/

Join the Rapoport Center for a presentation led by Texas Law 2L students Camille Meshack and Karla Peredo, who last summer interned in Mauritius with the Chagos Refugees Group (CRG), the largest organization representing the Chagossian people. Meshack and Peredo will briefly review the history of the dispossession of the Chagossians from their ancestral islands and their contemporary fight for reparations, decolonization, and a right to return. They will talk about how their legal training in public international law as well as their first-year courses in property law and constitutional law, helped them better understand and contribute to the development of legal frameworks for Chagossian resettlement. By connecting their studies to international legal practice, the event will highlight the roles that law students can play in partnerships for decolonization and justice. Professor Karen Engle and Cooper Christiancy, who coordinate the CRG’s partnership with the Rapoport Center, will also speak.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/24/84239/

Join attorneys from Baker Botts for lunch on Thursday, September 25th from 11:50am-12:50pm in JON 5.206!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/25/82579/

Details coming soon.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/25/83495/

Texas Federalist Society is hosting a debate on whether DEI initiatives are discriminatory or advancing justice in society. We will host Ilya Shapiro from the Manhattan Institute and local civil rights attorney Austin Kaplan to debate this issue. Chick-fil-a will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/25/84181/