Events Calendar

The university will be closed.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/01/82675/

Join Dean Bobby Chesney and Texas Law alumni for breakfast at the Annual Judicial Education Conference.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/03/82619/

Started by students in 2013, Change It Up! is Texas Law’s annual public-interest orientation. The signature event welcomes new students into Texas Law’s vibrant public interest community.

The afternoon begins with opening remarks, followed by a community lunch featuring conversation tables themed around various practice areas. Participants will hear from a dynamic panel of recent graduates working in public interest law and have the opportunity to connect with fellow students, faculty, staff, and local attorneys committed to using law to advance justice.

Check-in will open at 12:45 pm and the formal program will begin at 1:15 pm.

Registration: Registration is open and space is limited. Register by no later than noon on August 25: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dhQxWm7qKGhTZB4

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/05/82795/

The American Constitution Society's annual recap and discussion of Supreme Court related news from the past year.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/08/82775/

Texas Federalist Society is hosting a debate on whether states should be actively regulating Big Tech companies, especially in light of the recent NetChoice Supreme Court case. We will host Thomas Berry from the Cato Institute to present about the First Amendment concerns on this issue, and former Texas Solicitor General and current Texas Law Professor Aaron Nielson will respond. Chick-fil-a will be provided!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/11/83917/

The KBH Energy Center’s Annual Symposium brings together leading industry executives, policymakers, and faculty for a dynamic day of forward-looking dialogue on the future of energy.

This year’s program will feature conversations with distinguished experts exploring global energy outlooks, the growing role of nuclear and AI, energy’s ties to national security, data infrastructure demands, capital markets, and media coverage. Join us as we examine the transformative forces reshaping the energy landscape and the innovation, investment, and policy strategies that will guide the road ahead.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/12/83448/

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/

TJOGEL's annual Ladies & Law-ttes event from 8:00 - 10:00am in the Jamail Pavilion. Come to network, have a free Creature Coffee latte, and grab some free food!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/29/83775/

Texas Federalist Society is hosting a debate on different constitutional interpretation methods, namely originalism compared with living constitutionalism. We will host Professor Ilan Wurman from the University of Minnesota School of Law and Professor William Forbath from 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/2025/09/29/84217/

Join us for a conversation with Professor Corinna Barrett Lain on her new book, Secrets of the Killing State, which exposes the hidden history of lethal injection in America. Drawing on years of meticulous research, Professor Lain reveals a system marked by secrecy, law-breaking, and systemic failures. Her work challenges the widely held belief that lethal injection is a humane and reliable method of execution.

The book has already received wide acclaim. Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, calls it “disturbing, devastating and an urgent must read.”

Professor Lain is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond, one of the nation’s leading authorities on capital punishment. A former prosecutor and U.S. Army sergeant, she lectures widely and has published extensively in top law journals on criminal justice and the death penalty.

The event is free and open to the public.

Hosted by the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/29/84396/

Join the Animal Legal Defense Fund for a morning of vegan-friendly bites and good conversation! Come chat with us about our mission to protect animal rights through the legal system, learn what our org is all about, and find out how you can get involved. Whether you’re passionate about animal welfare or just curious, all are welcome!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/30/84395/

Details coming soon.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/30/83480/

Join us to celebrate the conclusion of the 2025 1L cohort.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2025/09/30/82895/