Events Calendar
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
Join us for a conversation with Azadeh Shahshahani as she talks about her work in the U.S. South and support for social movements in the Global South as a movement lawyer. She will discuss the theory of change behind movement lawyering, what movement lawyering looks like in practice, and how to prepare for a career as a movement lawyer during law school.
The event will take place in the Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306) from 11:50 AM to 12:50PM. Lunch will be provided in the Jamail Pavilion immediately following the discussion.
About Azadeh Shashahani and her visit to Texas Law as the Justice Center’s fourteenth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.
Open to the public. Please RSVP for lunch by noon, October 12.
https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7TrMh9SjScmn54
Contact Information:
Liza Soria (Center Coordinator/Event Organizer) liza.soria@law.utexas.edu
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2026/10/13/89297/TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
Azadeh is the Legal and Advocacy Director at Project South, where she leads work focused on immigrant rights and racial justice. Before joining Project South, she spent approximately a decade as an immigrants’ rights attorney with the ACLU of Georgia and the ACLU of North Carolina. A past president of the National Lawyers Guild, Azadeh currently serves on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists. She has authored or edited numerous human rights reports, law review articles, and book chapters addressing movement lawyering, immigrants’ rights, the surveillance of Muslim Americans, and the use of international human rights frameworks as tools for liberation.
The reception will offer an informal opportunity to meet Azadeh Shahshahani, learn more about her work, and connect with other students interested in public interest law.
We ask each person who plans to attend to RSVP by 11:59PM on October 7.
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2026/10/13/90999/