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.

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October 2, 2020
Friday

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Moderator:

Bookfest - Karen Engle

Speaker:
  • Karen Engle
    Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law
    Founder and Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
    University of Texas

https://utexas.zoom.us/s/95425405986

COMMENTATORS

* Lila Abu-Lughod Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science Columbia University Department of Anthropology

* Janet Halley Royall Professor of Law Harvard Law School

* Samuel Moyn Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence Yale Law School, and Professor of History, Yale University

October 5, 2020
Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Prabha Kotiswaran: “An Ode to Altruism: How Indian Courts Value Unpaid Domestic Work”

Speaker:
  • Prabha Kotiswaran
    Professor of Law & Social Justice, King’s College London

This is the second lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

October 6, 2020
Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Michal Gal // University of Haifa

Speaker:
  • Michal Gal
    Professor, University of Haifa

October 13, 2020
Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Florian Baumann // University of Bonn

Speaker:
  • Florian Baumann
    Professor, University of Bonn

October 15, 2020
Thursday

11:45am - 1:30pm

Moderator:

Bookfest - Samy Ayoub Bookfest

Speaker:
  • Samy Ayoub
    Assistant Professor of Law and Middle Eastern Studies
    University of Texas

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October 19, 2020
Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Adelle Blackett: “Racial Capitalism’s Challenge to Labor Law in the Age of Pandemic”

Speaker:
  • Adelle Blackett
    Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labor Law and Development, McGill University

This is the third lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

October 23, 2020
Friday

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Moderator:

Bookfest - Jordan and Carol Steiker Bookfest

Speakers:
  • Jordan M Steiker
    Judge Robert M Parker Endowed Chair in Law
    Director - Capital Punishment Center
    University of Texas
  • Carol Steiker
    Professor, Harvard Law School

Meeting Topic: Jordan and Carol Steiker Bookfest Meeting Time: Oct 23, 2020 02:45 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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October 27, 2020
Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Andrea Chandrasekher // UC Davis

Speaker:
  • Andrea Chandrasekher
    Professor, University of California @ Davis

ZOOM TBD

October 29, 2020
Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Sanjukta Paul // Wayne State

Speaker:
  • Sanjukta Paul
    Professor, Wayne State

Meeting Topic: Faculty Colloquium https://utexas.zoom.us/s/99431477976

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November 2, 2020
Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Juan De Lara: “Essential Workers or Disposability Politics? Organizing in the Age of Pandemic Capitalism”

Speaker:
  • Juan De Lara
    Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California

This is the fourth lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

November 3, 2020
Tuesday

11:45am - 1:15pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Adi Leibotich // Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Speaker:
  • Adi Leibovitch
    Professo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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November 5, 2020
Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Jody Armour // USC Gould

Speaker:
  • Jody Armour
    Professor, USC Gould

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November 5, 2020
Thursday

12:30pm - 1:45pm

Lives in the Law with climate justice activist Colette Pichon Battle

Founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, Battle focuses on equitable disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development, climate justice and energy democracy. For more information about Battle and her organization, see https://www.gcclp.org/

For more information about the event and to register, visit https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/lives-in-the-law-colette-pichon-battle/.

Q&A led by Kelly Haragan of the Texas Law Environmental Clinic

Sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and Career Services Office

November 10, 2020
Tuesday

11:45am - 1:15pm

Moderators:

Law and Economics Seminar - Fernando Gomez // Universidad Pompeu Fabra

Speaker:
  • Fernando Gomez
    Professor, Universidad Pompeu Fabra

November 12, 2020
Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Erik Encarnacion // UT Law

Speaker:

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November 16, 2020
Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Jean Comaroff & John Comaroff: “After Labor”

Speakers:
  • Jean Comaroff
    Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Research Fellow, Harvard University
  • John Comaroff
    Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Research Fellow, Harvard University

This is the fifth and final lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

November 17, 2020
Tuesday

11:45am - 1:30pm

Moderators:

Law and Economics Seminar - Rick Brooks // NYU Law

Speaker:
  • Rick Brooks
    Professor, NYU Law

November 19, 2020
Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Emily Ryo // USC

Speaker:
  • Emily Ryo
    Professor, USC Gould

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December 1, 2020
Tuesday

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Margherita Saraceno // University of Pavia

Speaker:
  • Margherita Saraceno
    Professor, University of Pavia

ZOOM TBD