Faculty Events Calendar: Colloquia, Workshops, Lectures and Conferences

September 26, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Paige Skiba

• Paige Skiba
  Professor, Vanderbilt

• The Consequences of Online Payday Lending

September 26, 2016
Monday

• Jason Cons

Sumudu Atapattu: "Extractive Industries and Inequality: Intersections of Environmental Law, Human Rights and Environmental Justice"

• Sumudu Atapattu
  Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law School

The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.

September 29, 2016
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - Robert Bone

• Robert Bone
  Professor, University of Texas

Tyson Foods and the Future of Statistical Adjudication

Commentator: Patrick Woolley

• Tyson Foods and the Future of Statistical Adjudication

October 3, 2016
Monday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - Abraham Wickelgren

• Abraham L. Wickelgren
  Bernard J. Ward Professor in Law, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Abraham Wickelgren

October 6, 2016
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium -- “Digital Privacy, Present and Future: A Conversation on the Shifting Legal and Policy Frontier”?

• Robert M. Chesney
  Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Charles I. Francis Professor in Law, University of Texas
• Stephen I. Vladeck
  Professor, University of Texas
• Amie Stepanovich
  AccessNow

October 10, 2016
Monday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - Ronen Avraham

• Ronen Avraham
  Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Ronen Avraham

October 10, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Ariel Porat

• Ariel Porat
  Professor, Tel Aviv University

October 10, 2016
Monday

• David E. Adelman

Isabel Feichtner: "The Exploitation Bias in the Transnational Law of Natural Resource Extraction"

• Isabel Feichtner
  Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, Goethe University, Frankfurt

The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.

October 13, 2016
Thursday

• Jane M. Cohen

Faculty Colloquium -- Jill Fraley // Washington & Lee

• Jill Fraley
  Professor, Washington & Lee

October 14, 2016
Friday

Third Annual Graduate Conference in Public Law: Methodologies in Comparative Constitutionalism

• Zachary S. Elkins
  Associate Professor (Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts), University of Texas
• Gary J. Jacobsohn
  Professor of Government; Professor of Law, University of Texas
• Anna Fruhstorfer
  Professor, Humboldt-Univerität Zu Berlin

This is the Third Annual Graduate Conference in Public Law! The topic that will be discussed is "Methodologies in Comparative Constitutionalism." Speakers for this special panel will include: Zach Elkins, Anna Fruhstorfer, Gary Jacobsohn.

October 17, 2016
Monday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - Susan Morse

• Susan C. Morse
  Professor, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Susan Morse

October 17, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Jacob Goldin

• Jabob Goldin
  Professor, Stanford University

October 17, 2016
Monday

Patricia Tobón Yagarí: "Extraction, Indigenous Rights and Prior Consent"

• Patricia Tobón Yagarí
  Emberá indigenous activist and lawyer, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia

The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.

October 20, 2016
Thursday

• Sean H. Williams
• John A. Robertson

Faculty Colloquium -- Frederick Vars // University of Alabama

• Frederick Vars
  Professor, University of Alabama

October 27, 2016
Thursday

• John A. Robertson

Faculty Colloquium -- Christopher Robertson // University of Arizona

• Christopher Robertson
  Professor, University of Arizona

October 31, 2016
Monday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - Jens Dammann

• Jens C. Dammann
  William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Jens Dammann

November 4, 2016
Friday

• William E. Forbath

Bookfest -- Jack Getman

• Julius G. Getman
  Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Emeritus, University of Texas

Commentators: Lance Compa - Cornell University Cindy Estlund - NYU

November 7, 2016
Monday

Lucie E. White and William E. Forbath: "Using Ghana’s Oil Wealth to Promote Social Rights: A Vanishing Dream?"

• Lucie E. White
  Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
• William E. Forbath
  Associate Dean for Research Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, University of Texas

The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.

November 7, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Lee Fennell

• Lee Fennell
  Professor, University of Chicago

November 8, 2016
Tuesday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - Jennifer Laurin

• Jennifer E. Laurin
  Professor, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Jennifer Laurin

November 10, 2016
Thursday

• Stephen I. Vladeck

Faculty Colloquium -- Sam Bray // University of Texas

• Sam Bray
  Professor, University of Texas

November 15, 2016
Tuesday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - Melissa Wasserman

• Melissa F. Wasserman
  Professor, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Melissa Wasserman

November 17, 2016
Thursday

• Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium -- Ryan Calo // University of Washington

• Ryan Calo
  Professor, University of Washington

November 21, 2016
Monday

• Susan C. Morse

Drawing Board Lunch - H.W. Perry

• H. W. Perry Jr.
  Associate Professor of Government; Associate Professor of Law, University of Texas

Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by H.W. Perry

November 21, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Max Schanzenbach

• Max Schanzenbach
  Professor, Northwestern University

November 21, 2016
Monday

• David B. Spence

Penelope Simons: "Violence Against Women and Resource Extraction"

• Penelope Simons
  Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.

November 28, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Jennifer Bennet Shinall

• Jennifer Bennet Shinall
  Professor, Vanderbilt

December 5, 2016
Monday

• Ronen Avraham

Law and Economic Seminar -- Eric Talley

• Eric Talley
  Professor, Columbia Law

December 8, 2016
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - Louise Weinberg

• Louise Weinberg
  William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice, University of Texas

• Luther v. Borden: A Taney Court Mystery Solved

January 26, 2017
Thursday

• Jeffrey B. Abramson

Faculty Colloquium -- Shari Diamond // Northwestern University

• Shari Diamond
  Professor, Northwestern University

February 2, 2017
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium -- Ronald Krotoszynski // University of Alabama School of Law

• Ronald Krotoszynski
  Professor, University of Alabama

February 10, 2017
Friday

• William E. Forbath

Bookfest - Jordan Steiker & Carol Steiker

• David Slansky
  Professor, Stanford University
• Tracey Meares
  Professor, Yale Law

11:30 - 1:00pm Lunch -- Sheffield Massey 1:30pm - 3:00pm Public - Lincoln Caplan & Dick Burr -- Eidman Courtroom 3:00 - 4:30 Reception -- Jamail Pavilion

February 14, 2017
Tuesday

G. Rollie White Scholar in Residence Janelle Orsi

GRW Scholar in Residence Janelle Orsi

February 14, 2017
Tuesday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - Avraham & Yuracko

• Ronen Avraham
  Thomas Shelton Maxey Professor in Law, University of Texas
• Kimberly Yuracko
  Professor, Northwestern University

February 16, 2017
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium -- Wendy Gordon // Boston University

• Wendy Gordon
  Professor, Baylor University

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March 2, 2017
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium -- Richard Hasen // University of California Irvine

• Richard Hasen
  Professor, UN Irvine

March 30, 2017
Thursday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium -- Richard Painter // University of Minnesota

• Richard Painter
  Professor, University of Minnesota

April 7, 2017
Friday

• William Fisher

Bookfest - Oren Bracha

• Oren Bracha
  Howrey LLP and Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor, University of Texas

August 25, 2017
Friday

• William E. Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - SCOTUS Review - Committee of the Whole Persons

Supreme Court Review Committee of the Whole Persons