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
Aug. 31 Fri.	Profs. Stuart Benjamin, Mitch Berman, Lynn Blais, Susan Klein, and Ernie Young, UT Law	"Supreme Court 2000 Term Review: With Attention to the Fourth Amendment, Speech, and Administrative Law" & The Meeting of the Committee of the Whole Person	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Sept. 7 Fri.	Jack Balkin, Yale and Sandy Levinson, UT (Larry Sager, Discussant)	"Understanding the Constitutional Revolution"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Sept. 14 Fri.	Reva Siegel, Yale (Jordan Steiker, Discussant)	"She, the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Sept. 21 Fri.	Deborah Weiss, George Mason (Mark Gergen, Discussant)	"Entrepreneurial Employees"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Sept. 28 Fri.	Hugh Baxter, Boston University	"Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Oct. 4 Thurs.	Philip Glass, NYC & Sandy Levinson, UT Law	"The Composer as Performer, The Composer as Listener"	12:00 p.m., Townes Hall Francis Auditorium, Rm. 2.114
Oct. 4 Thurs.	Judge Richard Posner, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals	The Sealy Lecture: "Kelsen or Hayek?"	4:00 p.m., Townes Hall Francis Auditorium, Rm. 2.114
Oct. 5 Fri.	Judge Richard Posner, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals	Humanities Institute Luncheon Colloquium	10:00 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room
Oct. 5 Fri.	Donald Braman and Dan Kahan, Yale	"More Statistics, Less Persuasion: A Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Oct. 12 Fri.	Owen Jones, Arizona State/Visiting at UT	"Time-Shifted Rationality and The Law of Law's Leverage: Behavioral Economics Meets Behavioral Biology"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.124
Oct. 18 Thurs.	Calvin Johnson UT Law	"The Modest and Mercantile Commerce Clause" Introduction Chapter 5	11:45 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon
Oct. 19 Fri.	Louise Weinberg, UT Law	"When Courts Decide Elections"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Oct. 26 Fri.	H. W. Brands, History, Texas A&M	"The Strange Death of American Liberalism"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Nov. 2 Fri.	Steve Bickerstaff, Recent Visitor to UT	"Counts, Recounts and Election Contests: Lessons From the Presidential Election in Florida"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Nov. 9 Fri.	Lynn Blais, UT Law	"Valuing Priceless Resources"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Nov. 15 Thurs.	Stephen Feldman, University of Tulsa	"The Constraints of Judicial Minimalism:Toward an Understanding of Stare Decisis (or Why 'Anything Goes' at the Supreme Court)"	11:45 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon
Nov. 16 Fri.	Gerard Hertig, New York University	"An Anatomy of Corporate Law: Related Party Transactions"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Nov. 23 Fri.	No Colloquium	–	Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 30 Fri.	Dwight Pitcaithley, Chief Historian, National Park Service	"Civil War History in a New Century: The National Park Service as an Educational Institution"	3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214
Dec. 7 Fri.	Conference on Legal Language	"Language & the Law"	8:30 a.m., Connally Center Eidman Courtroom