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.
February 1, 2023
Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Julie Suk | Fordham Law
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Julie Suk
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Julie Suk | Fordham Law
February 6, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation – Saul Levmore // University of Chicago
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Saul Levmore
Prof., University of Chicago
Saul Levmore
February 7, 2023
Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Connie Rosati, UT Austin
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Connie Rosati
Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
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.
February 8, 2023
Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Lydia Tiede | University of Houston
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Lydia Tiede
Associate Professor, University of Houston
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Lydia Tiede
Constitutional Studies | Book Launch “Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution” (Cambridge University Press)
Join the Constitutional Studies Program over lunch for a special event to launch “Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution” (Cambridge University Press), featuring three of the authors discussing their chapters.
Details on the book are available here: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/constitutional-and-administrative-law/amending-americas-unwritten-constitution?format=HB
SPEAKERS:
Vikram Amar, Dean, Iwan Foundation Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair, University of Texas School of Law
Mark Tushnet William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus Harvard Law School
DISCUSSANT:
Rhonda Evans, Senior Lecturer and Director-Edward A. Clark Center for Australia and New Zealand Studies, University of Texas at Austin
MODERATOR:
Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law
February 20, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Meghan Morris
SPEAKER:
Meghan Morris
Assistant Professor of Law
Cincinnati College of Law
DISCUSSANT:
Susie Morse
Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
University of Texas School of Law
MODERATOR:
Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law
University of Texas School of Law
February 20, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Jonathan Lipson // Temple
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Jonathan Lipson
Prof., Temple Law School
Jonathan Lipson // Temple
February 22, 2023
Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Jill Lepore | Harvard Law School
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Jill Lepore
Professor of History, Harvard University
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Jill Lepore
February 23, 2023
Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Ayelet Shachar // University of Toronto
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Ayelet Schahar
P, University of Toronto
February 28, 2023
Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Doug Husak
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Douglas Husak
Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, Rutgers
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.
March 6, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Maria Glover // Georgetown
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Maria Glover
Prof., Georgetown Law
Maria Glover
March 8, 2023
Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Asli Bâli | Yale Law
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Asli Bâli
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Asli Bâli
Faculty Colloquium - JB Ruhl / Vanderbilt University
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JB Ruhl
Professor, Vanderbilt University
March 16, 2023
Thursday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism | Day 1
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism
March 17, 2023
Friday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism | Day 2
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism
March 18, 2023
Saturday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism | Day 3
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism
March 21, 2023
Tuesday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)11:30am - 1:30pm
Public Lecture - Justin Driver
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Justin Driver
Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean, Yale Law School
Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. The book was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. The Schoolhouse Gate also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law, and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award. A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. An elected member of the American Law Institute and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Driver is also an editor of the Supreme Court Review. In 2021, President Biden appointed Driver to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Driver is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver clerked for then-Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.), and Justice Stephen Breyer.
March 21, 2023
Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Barbara Herman, UCLA
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Barbara Herman
Prof, Dept. of Philosophy, UCLA
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.
Faculty Colloquium - Richard Re // University of Virginia
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Richard Re
Professor, University of Virginia
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Hoi Kong
SPEAKER
Hoi Kong Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
DISCUSSANT:
Sandy Levinson
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair
University of Texas School of Law
MODERATOR:
Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law
University of Texas School of Law
March 27, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Adam Zimmerman // Loyola LA
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Adam Zimmerman
Prof., Loyola LA
Adam Zimmerman
March 31, 2023
Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Jamein Cunningham // Cornell University & Jennifer Doleac // TAM
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Jamein Cunningham
Professor, Cornell University -
Jennifer Doleac
Professor, Texas A&M University
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | The Hon. Russell Brown
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The Hon. Russell Brown
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Constitutional Studies Luncheon
April 4, 2023
Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Nicolaos Stavropoulos, Oxford Law
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Nicolaos Stavropoulos
Prof. of Law and Philosophy, Faculty of Law, Oxford University
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.
Faculty Colloquium - Brishen Rogers // Georgetown University
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Brishen Rogers
Professor, Georgetown University
April 10, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Danny Wilf-Townsend // Georgetown
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Danny Wilf-Townsend
Prof., Georgetown Law
Jonathan Lipson
Faculty Colloquium - Jessica Roberts // University of Houston
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Jessica Roberts
Professor, University of Houston
April 18, 2023
Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - ROBERT BONE
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Robert G Bone
G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law
University of Texas
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.
April 24, 2023
Monday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 24
April 24, 2023
Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
April 25, 2023
Tuesday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 25
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 26
April 27, 2023
Thursday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 27
April 28, 2023
Friday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 28
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 28