Faculty Events Calendar: Colloquia, Workshops, Lectures and Conferences
Consistent with its longstanding commitment to fostering a communal environment of intellectual engagement, the Law School is pleased to host countless colloquia, conferences, and guest lectures throughout the school year. Many of these events are specially scheduled, one-time affairs. In addition, the school runs the following regularly scheduled series, which cover a range of formats and scholarly areas.
October 22, 2019
Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation: Brian T. Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt Law School)
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Brian Fitzpatrick
Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
Colloquium for the Current Issues in Complex Litigation course with guest speaker Brian Fitzpatrick.
Faculty Colloquium - John Golden & Tom Lee
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John M Golden
Loomer Family Professor in Law
University of Texas -
Tom Lee
Professor, Special Counsel to the General Counsel, Department of Defense; Leitner Family Professor of Law, Fordham University
Public Rights and Non-Article III Adjudication
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - KEVIN TOH
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Kevin Toh
Senior Lecturer: Philosophy of Law/Jurisprudence/Constitutional Theory, University College London, Faculty of Laws
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
October 24, 2019
Thursday
CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
4:00pm - 8:00pm
Graduate Conference in Public Law Keynote
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Julie Novkov
Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
The Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin will hold the sixth annual Graduate Conference in Public Law on October 24-25, 2019. Reflecting the growing prominence of public law in political science, the conference will provide a forum to engage with common questions in the field.
The conference will consist of thematic panels, each featuring 4 papers and comments by a faculty discussant. Julie Novkov, Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, will deliver the keynote address the evening of October 24 in the School of Law.
October 28, 2019
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
October 31, 2019
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Law and Economic Seminar - Guiseppe Dari-Mattiacci // Columbia University
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Guiseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Professor, Columbia University
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Yvonne Tew (Georgetown University)
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Yvonne Tew
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Professor Yvonne Tew writes and teaches in the areas of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and religion and law. Prior to joining the Georgetown Law faculty, she taught at Columbia Law School as an Associate-in-Law and was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at the New York University School of Law. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Professor Tew received her first law degree from the University of Cambridge graduating with Double First Class Honors in 2007 and completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Virginia Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Washington International Law Journal, American Journal of Comparative Law, Cambridge Law Journal, and in several book collections published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Edward Elgar Publishing.
November 5, 2019
Tuesday
JON 6.206 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Howard M. Erichson (Fordham Law School)
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Howard M. Erichson
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
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Faculty Colloquium - Talha Syed // Berkeley
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Talha Syed
Professor, Berkeley
Making Better, not Whole: Pain and Suffering Damages as Distributive Equity
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - SOPHIA REIBETANZ MOREAU
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Sophia Reibetanz Moreau
Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
November 11, 2019
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - Abe Wickelgren, Contractual Conditions
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Abraham Lee Wickelgren
The Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - Abe Wickelgren, Contractual Conditions (co-author Ian Ayres)
Law and Economic Seminar - Time Friehe // University Marburg
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Time Friehe
Professor, University of Marburg
November 11, 2019
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: David Landau (Florida State University)
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David Landau
Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs, Florida State University
Professor David Landau is the Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs at Florida State University College of Law. He is the co-author, with Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa, of Colombian Constitutional Law, co-editor, with David Bilchitz, of The Evolution of the Separation of Powers, and co-editor with Hanna Lerner of Comparative Constitution-Making. He has published in various journals including the University of Chicago Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of International Law. Since 2012, he has been a founding editor of IConnect, the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
November 14, 2019
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
November 19, 2019
Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Rivka Weill (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya)
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Rivka Weill
Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Professor Rivka Weill of the Harry Radzyner Law School, IDC, was a Visiting Law Professor at Cardozo Law School (2016-2017), David R. Greenbaum and Laureine Knight Greenbaum Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School (Fall 2017) and Visiting Law Professor at Yale Law School (Spring 2018). In recent years, she received three times the IDC’s “Best Researcher in Law School” award (2012, 2015, 2017) as well as the IDC’s “Best Lecturer in Law School” award (2010). Her work focuses on constitutional law as well as administrative law with a focus on theoretical and comparative dimensions.
November 19, 2019
Tuesday
JON 6.206 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Maureen Carroll (Michigan)
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Maureen Carroll
Assistant Professor, Univ. of Michigan Law School
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November 21, 2019
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Jennifer Nou // University of Chicago
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Jennifer Nou
Professor, University of Chicago
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - REBECCA STONE
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Rebecca Stone
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
November 25, 2019
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Law and Economic Seminar - Cheri Metcalf // Queens University
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Cheri Metcalf
Professor, Queens University
December 3, 2019
Tuesday
JON 6.206 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Richard J. Arsenault; Elizabeth J. Cabraser; James F. Murdica
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Richard J. Arsenault
Partner, Neblet, Beard & Arsenault (LA) -
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Partner, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (CA) -
James F. Murdica
Partner, Barnes & Thornburg (IL)
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LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - MARK GREENBERG
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Mark Greenberg
Professor of Law; Professor of Philosophy, UCLA School of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
Law and Economic Seminar - Kathy Spier // Harvard Law School
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Kathy Spier
Professor, Harvard Law School
January 23, 2020
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Elizabeth Harmon // Harvard
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Elizabeth Harmon
Professor, Harvard Law School
January 31, 2020
Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:00pm - 5:00pm
Richard Albert Bookfest
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Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law
University of Texas -
Ran Hirschl
Professor, University of Toronto -
Tom Ginsburg
Professor, University of Chicago
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press, 2019)
February 6, 2020
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Corinna Lain // University of Richmond
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Corinna Lain
Professor, University of Richmond
February 13, 2020
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
February 21, 2020
Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)2:00pm - 4:00pm
Bookfest - John Deigh - From Psychology to Morality: Essays in Ethical Naturalism
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John Deigh
Professor of Philosophy and Law
University of Texas
From Psychology to Morality: Essays in Ethical Naturalism
Faculty Colloquium - Ronen Avraham // UT
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Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas
The Spectrum of Procedural Flexibility
April 16, 2020
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Emily Ryo // USC
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Emily Ryo
Professor, University of Southern California