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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 Fri. |
Paul Mahoney, University of Virginia |
"Competing Norms and Social Evolution Is the Fittest Norm Efficient?" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Jan. 26 Fri. |
Richard Markovits, UT Law |
"On the Allocative Efficiency and Distributional Desirability of Shifting from Contributory to Comparative Negligence" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Jan. 29 Mon. |
Stuart Benjamin, USD/Visiting at UT |
"Proactive Legislation and the First Amendment" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Feb. 2 Fri. |
Arti Rai, USD |
"The Information Revolution Reaches Pharmaceuticals: Balancing Innovation Incentives, Costs, and Access in The Post-Genomics Era" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Feb. 9 Fri. |
Leo Katz, University of Pennsylvania |
"Why is the Law so Either/Or?" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Feb. 16 Fri. |
Clyde Spillenger, UCLA |
"The Judge's Two Bodies: Persona and Authority in the Twentieth-Century Judicial Tradition" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Feb. 23 Fri. |
Steven Ratner, UT Law |
"Corporations and Human Rights: Toward a Theory of International Legal Responsibility" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Mar. 2 Fri. |
Charles Silver, UT Law David Hyman, U. Maryland/Visiting at George Washington |
"Just What the Patient Ordered: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Mar. 5 Mon. |
Adrienne Stone, ANU/Visiting at Columbia |
"Constitutional Free Speech in Australia: A Sceptical Overview of the First Nine Years" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Mar. 9 Fri |
No Colloquium | – | Spring Break Begins |
| Mar. 16 Fri. |
No Colloquium | – | Spring Break |
| Mar. 20 Tues. |
Paul McGreal, South Texas |
"Texas' Entry into the Union: A Constitutional Inquiry" | 12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Mar. 23 Fri. |
Peter Spiro, Hofstra/Visiting at UT |
"Globalization and the Constitution" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Mar. 30 Fri. |
Paul Stephan, University of Virginia |
"Redistributive Litigation" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Apr. 6 Fri. |
Vicki Been, NYU |
"Eroding the Boundaries Between Environmental Law and Land Use Law: Leveling Up or Down?" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Apr. 9 Mon. |
John McGinnis, Cardozo |
"We the Primates" Reading: Primacy of Nature in Politics |
12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Apr. 10 Tues. |
Liz Fisher, Paul Craig, and Adam Tomkins, Oxford University |
Oxford - University
of Texas Faculty Interchange |
12:30 p.m., Luncheon Connally Ctr, Jamail Pavilion 1:45 - 5:50 p.m., Conference Townes Hall, Sheffield Rm. |
| Apr. 13 Fri. |
Vicki Jackson, Georgetown |
"Holistic Interpretation: Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer and Our Bifurcated Constitution" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| Apr. 19 Thus. |
Heman Sweatt Symposium |
"Legal Perspectives on Capital Punishment" |
6:00 p.m., Connally Center Eidman Courtroom |
| Apr. 20 Fri. |
Jeremy Waldron, Columbia |
"An Essay on Basic Equality" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
| April 23 Mon. |
Michael Rosen, Oxford University |
"Liberalism, Republicanism and the Public Philosophy of American Democracy" |
12:15 p.m., Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
| Apr. 27 Fri. |
Steve Shiffrin, Cornell |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |