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.
| Date | Speaker / Institution | Event / Title | Time / Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 8 Fri. |
Profs. Sarah Cleveland, Patricia Hansen, Sandy Levinson, Louise Weinberg and Ernie Young, UT Law | Panel Discussion: The Burma Decision & Meeting of the Committee of
the Whole Person Reading: 120 S.Ct. 2288 |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Sept.15 Fri. | Lars Noah, Florida/Visiting at UT |
"Civil Jury Nullification" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Sept.22 Fri. |
Susan Klein, UT & Nancy King, Vanderbilt | "Essential Elements" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Sept. 28 Thurs. |
Jack Goldsmith, University of Chicago | "Treaties, Human Rights and Conditional Consent" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Sept. 29 Fri. |
TILJ Symposium honoring Prof. Hans Baade | "Teaching and Practicing Law in the 21st Century" | 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Bass Lecture Hall, 2314 Red River (Parking available behind LBJ) |
| Oct. 6 Fri. |
Profs. Jay Westbrook, Terry Sullivan, UT and Elizabeth Warren, Harvard | "The Fragile Middle Class" Book Symposium |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Oct. 7 Sat. |
Profs. Jay Westbrook, Terry Sullivan, UT and Elizabeth Warren, Harvard | "The Fragile Middle Class" Book Symposium |
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.124 |
| Oct. 13 Fri. |
John Robertson, UT Law | "Precommitment Strategies and Frozen Embryos" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Oct. 16 Mon. |
Judith Baer, Texas A&M | "Our Lives Before the Law: Constructing A Feminist Jurisprudence" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Oct. 20 Fri. |
Owen Jones, Arizona State | "Law and The Biology of Sexual Aggression" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Oct. 27 Fri. |
Jim Rossi, Florida State/Visiting at UT | "Disentangling Deregulatory Takings" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Nov. 2 Thurs |
Bob Ellickson, Yale | The Terrell Lecture: Property Rights Among Housemates | 3:30 p.m., Townes Hall John Jeffers Courtroom Rm. 3.140 |
| Nov. 3 Fri. |
Bob Ellickson, Yale | "A Market for Social Norms" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Luncheon Colloquium |
| Nov. 6 Mon. |
Randy Kennedy, Harvard University | "The Politics of Adoption: Reflections on the Indian Child Welfare Act" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Nov. 10 Fri. |
Capital Punishment Symposium with the Hon. Patrick Higginbotham, Circuit Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals | "Texas Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism: Exploring the Death Penalty Frontiers" | 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., Symposium, John Jeffers Courtroom, Townes Hall, Rm. 3.140; 5:00 Reception, Sheffield Rm. |
| Nov. 13 Mon. |
Jack Rakove, Stanford | "Madison Theorizing:(a.k.a. Reading Madison's Mind)" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Nov. 17 Fri |
Adrian Vermeulé, University of Chicago | "The Cycles of Statutory Interpretation" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Nov. 24 Fri. |
No Colloquium | – | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Dec. 1 Fri. |
Jane Cohen, Boston University | "Immigrants, Agency and Allegiance: Some Notes from Anthropology and from Law" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Dec. 4 Mon. |
Larry Sager, NYU | "The Birth Logic of a Democratic Constitution" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Dec. 8 Fri. |
Bill Novak, University of Chicago | "The Legal Origins of the Modern American State" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |