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.

Upcoming Events

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January 25, 2019
Friday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Moderator:

Jeffrey Bruce Abramson

Committee of the Whole Person reception, with conversation between Doug Laycock & Larry Sager on religious liberty

Speakers:

Lawrence Sager
Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
University of Texas
Douglas Laycock
Alice McKean Young Regents Chair Emeritus
University of Texas

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Commission on Civil Rights

January 31, 2019
Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Jens Christian Dammann

Faculty Colloquium - Jeffery Abramson // UT Law

Speaker:

Jeffrey Bruce Abramson
Professor of Government
Professor of Law
University of Texas

Challenging Federal Jury Selection

February 5, 2019
Tuesday

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
12:15pm - 1:45pm

A Conversation with Shirin Sinnar

On Tuesday, February 5, 2019, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law is pleased to present Shirin Sinnar, Associate Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. This is part of the Brumley Speaker Series.

Shirin Sinnar is Associate Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. Her scholarship focuses on the role of institutions, including courts and executive branch agencies, in protecting individual rights and democratic values in the national security context. Her scholarship also addresses the procedural dimensions of civil rights and national security litigation, domestic intelligence-gathering and terrorist watchlists, and the impact of terrorism law and policies on U.S. minority and immigrant communities. Sinnar’s articles have been published or are forthcoming in the California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and other journals. In 2017, she was the co-recipient of the inaugural Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship for her article, The Lost Story of Iqbal. From 2004 through 2009, she represented individuals facing discrimination based on government national security policies and unlawful employment practices, first as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco and then as a staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus. Sinnar previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.D. 2003), Cambridge University (M. Phil. International Relations 1999), and Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges (summa cum laude, A.B. History 1998).