Events Calendar

Table in the atrium where students can learn more about Bloomberg Law and how its tools can be useful. Students can also grab swag and some breakfast foods or snacks.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/84382/

Kick off your morning with APALSA and Jackson Walker! Come enjoy breakfast, meet attorneys from the firm, and hear about their work and experiences. A relaxed way to connect, ask questions, and start your day with good food and great company.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/84075/

1Ls: Stop by to meet recruiters from Mayer Brown to learn more about their firm and grab some breakfast from Chick-Fil-A. LINKto the flyer.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/84297/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/83796/

Please RSVP by Sunday, October 12, on TEX.

Join Marilyn Drees (the "introvert") and Mindy Finnigan (the "extrovert") from the CSO to learn practical tips to help anyone have productive conversations and build professional relationships. Pizza will be served.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/83835/

Weekly meeting for the Catholic Law Student Society (CLSS). Topic to vary and be circulated to members weekly, cycling between Rosary prayer, reflection, discussion, and fellowship.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/83861/

Join us for a presentation on the current state of reproductive healthcare law in Texas. Learn from the If/When/How exec board about your rights as abortion advocates and seekers! Everyone is welcome. Lunch will be served!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/84377/

Come meet and speak to a panel of environmental practitioners from a wide range of practices. Private, Government, and Nonprofit sectors will be represented. Sponsored by Baker Botts.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/84499/

Join WLC & the attorneys of V&E for a lunch panel on interviewing tips!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/84617/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/13/83144/

Foley & Lardner Mock Trial Competition

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/14/83490/

Join SBA Sponsor Baker Botts for coffee to start your day!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/14/84599/

Presented each fall by the CSO, the Public Service Expo offers Texas Law students an opportunity to informally meet with government agencies and public interest organizations to learn about the employers and available internship and job opportunities.

This year's Expo will be held over two days in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 and Wednesday, October 15, 2025. There will be different employers attending each day.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/14/82816/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Present-day jurisprudence primarily limits state power by recognizing rights. Whereas the federal government is considered one of limited, enumerated powers, state governments are understood to have a general and broad “police power,” and thus fewer internal limitations on what they can do. But as the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence on rights evolves, it’s worth rethinking not just how rights protect individuals, but how internal limits on arbitrary exercises of government power can protect them too.

Professor Christina Mulligan (Brooklyn Law) joins us to explore the nature, evolution, and internal limits of the state police power. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP at the link.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/14/82821/

Take a break from your schedule to recharge and connect. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) will be hosting a meditative tea ceremony and dinner from Nori, offering a moment of mindfulness while providing an introduction to ALDF’s mission and work in animal law. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to get involved, network with peers, and explore ways to advocate for animals through the law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/14/84597/

Flag Football at Whittaker Fields!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/14/83065/

Join the Texas Law Veterans Association for coffee and conversation every Wednesday from August 27 to November 19. A great way to connect with fellow veterans, build community, and start your day with good company and caffeine. All Texas Law veteran students, alumni, and friends welcome.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/83528/

Breakfast and Conversations with Bracewell this Wednesday, October 15th. Join members of the recruiting team and attorneys from Bracewell for breakfast and coffee in the Patman Family Plaza!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/84103/

Presented each fall by the CSO, the Public Service Expo offers Texas Law students an opportunity to informally meet with government agencies and public interest organizations to learn about the employers and available internship and job opportunities.

This year's Expo will be held over two days in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 and Wednesday, October 15, 2025. There will be different employers attending each day.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/82817/

Texas Business Law Society's Business Law 101 with DLA Piper. DLA Piper attorneys will give a presentation on a transactional law topic to 1L students with lunch provided by TBLS.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/83899/

Join the Christian Legal Society for Bible study, lunch, and fellowship. This semester, we are studying the book of James each Wednesday. Lunch is provided, and all are welcome.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/84656/

Jennifer Banda, Director of the Center for Women in Law, will host a conversation with Ambassador Carrin F. Patman, former ambassador to Iceland, respected litigator, public service leader and CWIL Founder.

For three decades, Ambassador Patman was a litigator at Bracewell, concentrating on high-stakes litigation, and served on the firm’s management committee. In 2022, President Biden nominated Patman to be the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, and she was confirmed the same year. Ambassador Patman graduated from Duke University and The University of Texas School of Law, where she was a member of the Texas Law Review.

During this one-hour conversation, she will discuss her 30-year litigation career and the criticality of strategic thinking, zealous client representation, ethical integrity, and negotiation and communication skills.

The conversation will also focus on her just completed ambassadorship, with a discussion about the diplomatic role of an ambassador, the path to public service, her specific work fostering the U.S. and Iceland partnership, engagement through NATO and advocacy for U.S. policies on a range of international issues.

Ambassador Patman will also discuss her commitment to public service and leadership and the importance of cultivating future leaders, including discussion of her own community service roles. She has been very active in her local community in Houston, chairing of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County. At the University of Texas, she has served as president of the Law School Alumni Association, president of the Texas Law Review Association, Trustee and Senior Trustee of the Law School Foundation and founding board member of the Center for Women in Law. She and her husband founded The Patman Center for Civil and Political Engagement at the LBJ School.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/84657/

Join WLC for a snack hour with Pillsbury, where you can meeting two of their attorneys, Gabby Regard and Gabby Torres, and grab a post-class bite!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/84476/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/83155/

Join Professor Michel and Professor Rider's Texas Property Taxation class to hear from the most influential voice on tax policy in the Texas Senate, Senator Paul Bettencourt.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/15/84436/

Foley & Lardner Mock Trial Competition

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/83518/

Breakfast and Conversations with V&E this Thursday, October 16th. Join members of the recruiting team and attorneys from V&E for breakfast and coffee in Patman Family Plaza!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/84104/

Law students are invited to grab coffee and chat with attorneys and recruiters from McGuireWoods. Creature Coffee provided! All law students welcome; OUTLaw members highly encouraged!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/84537/

Stop by the Atrium to see what type of resources UT Austin and the community have to offer!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/83061/

Lunch with attorneys from Willkie discussing practice groups and their firms.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/82585/

Note: This event’s full details are restricted to Texas Law faculty and staff members only.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/83057/

Join us for a special discussion featuring Jim Harrington, Retired Founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, in conversation with Professor Helen Gaebler. Together, they will explore Harrington’s career and new book, The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement.  

The event will take place in the Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306) from 11:50 AM to 12:50 PM. Lunch will be provided in the Jamail Pavilion immediately following the discussion.  

Please RSVP  for lunch by noon on Oct 13: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-discussion-with-jim-harrington-author-of-the-texas-civil-rights-project-tickets-1693521260679?aff=oddtdtcreator

About the Author:  

Jim Harrington grew up in Michigan and received his law degree in 1973 from the University of Detroit. Prior to that, he worked seven summers with migrants in southwest Michigan, most of whom traveled from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.  

After law school, Jim served as Director of the South Texas Project for ten years in the Rio Grande Valley. His legal work, some of it class actions, included the rights of farm workers and poor people in Valley to organize, McAllen police brutality, grand jury discrimination in Hidalgo and Willacy Counties, ending the exclusion of farm laborers from the state’s worker compensation and unemployment compensation laws, abolishing the use of “el cortito,” requiring portable toilets and drinking water in the fields during harvest time, and including farm workers under “right-to-know pesticide regulations. He served as César Chávez’ Texas attorney for 18 years. 

In 1983, Jim became Legal Director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union in Austin. In 1990, Jim founded the Texas Civil Rights Project, a non-profit foundation that promotes social, racial, economic justice, and civil liberty for low income and poor persons. By the time he retired in March 2016, the Project had grown to a staff of 40 with offices in six Texas locations, including along the border in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso, and established itself as a strong, community-based proponent of civil rights.  

Jim has handled a wide array of civil rights cases, some precedent-setting, involving voting, free speech and assembly, immigration, capital punishment, police misconduct, student rights, privacy, racial and ethnic discrimination, labor unions, and the rights of persons with disabilities. His suit against the Texas Supreme Court was instrumental in establishing state funding for legal aid programs.  

Jim was an adjunct professor at University of Texas Law School for 27 years and taught undergraduate civil liberties courses at UT. He has served on human rights delegations to Central and South America and Israel and Palestinian territories.  

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/83481/

Join the Texas Real Estate Law Society (TRELS) and Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) to learn more about the different practice areas and future of real estate law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/84090/

Grab lunch and learn about Vorys with Jason Mueller and Jabari Shaw. Jason co-chairs the firm’s trademark and copyright teams, and is a lead trial lawyer for clients involved in patent, copyright, branding and corporate confidential information cases, including trade secret and technology matters. Jabari focuses his practice on intellectual property development, protection, and enforcement, primarily in the areas of trademark and copyright law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/84316/

Texas Federalist Society is hosting a debate on the principles that informed the Founding of the United States - specifically, whether Christianity or the Enlightenment was at the foundation of the country. We will host Professor Justin Dyer and Professor Devin Stauffer, both of whom are from the University of Texas College of Liberal Arts to debate this issue. Chick-fil-a will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/84477/

Join us for a special conversation with the Dean, where you’ll hear directly about upcoming programs, opportunities, and the vision for our community at Texas Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/83486/

Law students are invited to join Foley & Lardner at Butterfly Bar for cocktails and conversation! Attorneys and recruiters will be present. ALL law students welcome; OUTLaw members highly encouraged!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/16/84539/

Foley & Lardner Mock Trial Competition

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/17/83491/

Join Norton Rose Fulbright as their recruiters and attorneys provide a delicious lunch + free sweatshirts.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/17/83138/

A Shabbat meal hosted by JLS for alumni, students, and professors as well as their families. We ask you RSVP by the 14th so we have enough food and drinks, thanks! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBwVr75iEGMT8O2w2Kpf6bndeGZbIPga3Y0mhzbKN90CQRyA/viewform?usp=header

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/17/84192/

Second in-person academy for members of the Pipeline Cohort Program focuses on Application Materials, Selecting Schools, Mentoring, and Admissions Coaching. The day will also include an alumni panel.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/10/18/83438/