Events Calendar

Join us for a talk on "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" with author, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Rapoport Center faculty affiliate Mónica A. Jiménez.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/04/80587/

PILA is collaborating with several local public interest attorneys so students can learn more about what a career in public interest law looks like! Join us for some free food and hear from Austin-based attorneys in different areas of public interest law.

RSVP by noon, Feb. 3: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3yEogOA0SNS6erA

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/05/81135/

On Wednesday, February 5, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and Clements Center for National Security will host a fireside chat with former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation John Sullivan about his experiences in this role and his memoir, “Midnight in Moscow: Lessons from the Front Lines of Russia’s War Against the West.” The talk will be moderated by Strauss Center Director Adam Klein.

In addition to discussing the powerful anecdotes within his book on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 from his perspective on the ground, Sullivan will also share his perspectives on contemporary topics, including the prospects for ending the Russia-Ukraine war, the future of Russia under and after Putin, the foreign policy outlook for President Trump’s second term, and more.

This event is free and open to the public and registration is REQUIRED. Please note: Registration does not guarantee admission, as seating will be available on a first come, first served basis. Doors will open at 5:00 pm. A government-issued photo ID matching your registration will be required to enter (UT Austin students, faculty, and staff may use their UT Austin photo ID, if needed).

Garage parking is available for a fee at the Manor Garage and the San Jacinto Garage. Parking will not be validated.

For any questions about this event, contact Brittany Horton at brittany.horton@austin.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/05/80738/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/06/80744/

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/

MENALSA is excited to host public interest attorneys from Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds to discuss their experiences of working in their respective fields.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/13/81236/

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/

Join the Justice Center’s Student Advisory Board for our monthly Public Interest Office Hours! These sessions are aimed at providing peer support for students who want to learn more about public interest lawyering. This month, members of the Student Advisory Board will be available to answer any questions students have about internships, classes, and more. If you’re a 1L who is not sure where to begin on your public interest journey, this is also for you! Your Student Advisory Board is here to support you in forging that path. Stop by the atrium for conversation, coffee, and kolaches!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/17/80836/

In 2011, the University of Texas School of Law established the Virgil C. Lott Medal to honor our first African American graduate. The medal is presented at a gala dinner, and recipients are chosen by a distinguished committee headed by Dean Bobby Chesney, former Dean Larry Sager, and previous winners. Dean Chesney describes the mission of the award and ceremony thusly: “Virgil C. Lott ’53 was the first African American graduate of The University of Texas School of Law. The Law School commissioned the Virgil C. Lott Medal to honor the memory of this pioneer and distinguished alumnus. This award honors men and women who, like Mr. Lott, have made significant contributions to the legal profession and to the improvement of understanding among all peoples.”

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/19/80536/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/20/80746/

On Thursday, February 20, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center welcome former U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette for a moderated conversation as part of the KBH Energy Center’s Focus on Energy Speaker Series.

This discussion will include valuable insights from Secretary Brouillette’s leadership in shaping U.S. energy policy, addressing global energy challenges, and navigating the evolving energy landscape.

This event is free and open to the public and registration is required. Please note: Registration does not guarantee admission, as seating will be available on a first come, first served basis. Doors will open at 5:00 pm.

The moderated conversation will occur from 5:30-6:30 pm with a networking reception to follow from 6:30-7:30 pm. Parking is available at the Rowling Hall Garage for a fee. Parking will not be validated.

For any questions about this event, contact Brittany Horton at brittany.horton@austin.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/20/81199/

GRITS is a student-run, public interest law conference that focuses on the difficulties and constraints inherent to social justice work in the South, and the unique strategies that legal practitioners and other public interest workers have developed to meet those needs.

The conference emphasizes innovative, progressive, and even radical approaches to building community among students, practitioners, and community activists in the South to bring about social change.

The conference is an opportunity for law students, lawyers, and activists to build coalitions, share strategies for progressive lawyering, and develop new approaches for the future.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/21/79130/

This is TIPLJ’s annual Symposium. During the event, we will discuss ongoing/emerging topics of interest within Intellectual Property law. Several of the topics will provide CLE credit. This year's topic is "The Cost of Innovation" and focuses on different costs associated with building, maintaining, and enforcing an IP portfolio. We will also discuss ways to monetize IP.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/21/78571/

TYLA National Trial Competition - Region 10

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/21/79895/

TYLA National Trial Competition - Region 10

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/22/79896/

TYLA National Trial Competition - Region 10

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/23/79897/

Join us for a discussion exploring how pregnancy centers are making a real-world impact, providing essential services to women, and supporting the pro-life mission. There will be free food for attendees!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/24/81499/

Join Neville Hoad, Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and co-director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, for a discussion of his new book, Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS. Hoad’s book talk will explore how cultural production—novels, poems, films—about the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa supplemented public discourse. Tracing long historical imaginaries of race, empire, and sex in Botswana, Kenya, and South Africa, Hoad shows that these imaginaries underwrote all attempts to bring the pandemic into public representation. The discussion will be of interest to those interested in the HIV/AIDS pandemic, public health, law, journalism, literature, film, and popular culture. Ann Cvetkovich, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, will serve as respondent.

RSVP: https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/pandemic-genres-imagining-politics-in-a-time-of-aids-with-neville-hoad/

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/25/81477/

On Wednesday, February 26, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law and LBJ School of Public Affairs will host a discussion with environmental journalist and researcher Peter Schwartzstein about his new book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Front Lines of Climate Violence.” This talk will be moderated by Strauss Distinguished Scholar and LBJ Professor Joshua Busby.

In this conversation, Schwartzstein and Busby will discuss how climate change can often exacerbate existing tensions, leading to conflict of varying levels at the interpersonal, community, national, and global levels. They will discuss what can be done to cool this simmering challenge and how cooperation on climate may help mitigate other pressing issues in our world.

This talk will be held from 5:15 to 6:30 pm at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in first floor classroom SRH 3.124. Parking is available for a fee at the Manor Garage and the San Jacinto Garage. Parking will not be validated.

For any questions about this event, contact Brittany Horton at brittany.horton@austin.utexas.edu.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/26/80837/

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

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/27/80747/

Immigration Court Trial Skills: Telling your Client's Story.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/28/81375/

Immigration skills conference

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/02/28/81376/