Faculty Colloquia and Events

Join us for a book talk with Lina-Maria Murillo, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, on "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US–Mexico Borderlands" (University of North Carolina Press, 2025). The book explores nearly a century of reproductive care and control in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, revealing how Mexican-origin women navigated and resisted powerful institutions seeking to govern their reproductive lives. Rachel Rebouché, G. Rollie White Chair in Law and Professor of Law, will join Professor Murillo as a respondent for the conversation.

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.

Reuven Avi-Yonah presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Drawing Board Luncheon: Richard S. Markovits

Law & Economics Workshop: Omri Ben Shahar, The University of Chicago Law School

Sean Seymore - Centennial Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School. This colloquium begins at 3:55pm.

Hillary Sale presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Law & Economics Workshop: Daniel Hemel, New York University School of Law

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Join us for a book talk with Rachel Rebouché and Mindy Jane Roseman, editors of "Accessing Abortion: Global and Comparative Perspectives."

Mindy Jane Roseman is the Director of International Law Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights at Yale Law School. Rachel Rebouché is the G. Rollie White Chair in Law and a Professor of Law, and the faculty lead of the Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project at Texas Law’s Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

Michael Abramowicz - Associate Dean for Strategy and Innovation; Oppenheim Professor of Law, George Washington University. This colloquium begins at 3:55pm.

Victor Fleicsher presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Law & Economics Workshop: Dane Thorley, Brigham Young University Law School

Talia Gillis presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Presented to George Tsebelis for his book Changing the Rules: Constitutional Amendments in Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2025), with comments from Zach Elkins, Ashley Moran, and Larry Sager.

Lunch will be served. All are welcome.

Law & Economics Workshop: Meirav Furth, Tel-Aviv University Law School

Sari Mazzurco - Assistant Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law. This colloquium begins at 3:55pm.

Planet Texas 2050 will host a symposium titled Genres of Environmental Justice, co-sponsored by the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

Additional details will be announced soon.

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Drawing Board Luncheon: Elizabeth Sepper

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Anthony Casey presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

“The Growing Danger of Nuclear War: What We Must Do to Prevent It” — A Lecture by Dr. Ira Helfand, Hosted by the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

“The Growing Danger of Nuclear War: What Students Can Do to Prevent It” — A Lecture by Dr. Ida Helfand, Hosted by the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

More details available soon.

Law & Economics Workshop: Ben Pyle, Boston University School of Law

Shyam Balganesh - Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. This colloquium begins at 3:55pm.

Robert Thompson presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture Series in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights | Presented in partnership with the Rothko Chapel

Please join us for the tenth annual Sissy Farenthold Endowed Lecutre in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights, which will be presented by Pulitizer Prize–winning author Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nguyen is University Professor and the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at the University of Southern California. His celebrated work includes To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (Harvard University Press, 2025), A Man of Two Faces (Grove Press, 2023), The Refugees (Grove Press, 2017), and The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015), which received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The lecture will take place at the University of Texas at Austin on the evening of March 26, 2026. Additional details will be available soon.

Drawing Board Luncheon: Oren Bracha

Law & Economics Workshop: Eleanor Wilking, Cornell Law School

Stacey Dogan - Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. This colloquium begins at 3:55pm.

Robert Bartlett presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Drawing Board Luncheon: Susan Yorke

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Allen Farrell presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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Law & Economics Workshop: Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College

Stephen Choi presenting an original paper in the Business Law Seminar.

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All are welcome to the second annual Levinson Lecture, to be delivered by Vikram Amar, Daniel J. Dykstra Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, with a response from Jonathan Marshfield, Professor of Law at the University of Florida. Professor Amar’s lecture will focus on state constitutions.

Lunch will be served.

David Schwartz - William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law, Northwestern Law. This colloquium begins at 3:55pm.

Law & Economics Workshop: Maya Shaton, Ben-Gurion University