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 |
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Jan. 4-11 | Center for American and International Law |
Capital Trial Advocacy Program | Connally Center for Administration of Justice |
Jan. 18 Fri. |
Einer Elhauge, Harvard |
"Current Preferences Statutory Default Rules" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Jan. 24 Thurs. |
Casiano Hacker-Cordon, Yale |
"Justifying Global Basic Income" |
11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
Jan. 25 Fri. |
Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern |
"Legal Phenomena, Knowledge, And Theory: A Cautionary Tale of Hedgehogs and Foxes" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Feb. 1-2 Fri.-Sat. |
Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice & the Media, and Texas Law Review |
"What We Know and Don't Know About the Impact of Legal Services on the American Economy & Polity" | Connally Center for Administration of Justice Eidman Courtroom |
Feb. 8 Fri. |
Rae Langton, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh |
"Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Sheffield Room |
Feb. 15 Fri. |
Ernie Young, UT Law |
"Protecting Member State Autonomy in the European Union: Some Cautionary Tales from American Federalism" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Feb. 18 Mon. |
Ajume Wingo, Univ. of Massachusetts |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon Colloquium |
11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room |
Feb. 22 Fri. |
George Fletcher, Columbia University |
"The American Prospect" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Feb.28-Mar.9 Thurs.-Sat. |
National Law & Arts Symposium | "From
Text to Performance: Law & Other Performing Arts" |
Multiple Venues UT Austin Campus |
Mar. 15 Fri. |
No Colloquium | – | Spring Break |
Mar. 19 Tues. |
Karen Engle, University of Utah, Visiting at UT |
"The Rise of the Personal Animosity Presumption in Title VII and the Return to 'No Cause' Employment" |
11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Luncheon Colloquium |
Mar. 22 Fri. |
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Hebrew University |
"Inequality and Indignation" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Mar. 27 Wed. |
Thomas Merrill, Northwestern University |
"Agency Rules with the Force of Law: The Original Convention" | 11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Luncheon Colloquium |
Mar. 28 Thurs. |
Stephen Perry, University of Pennsylvania |
First Annual Leon Green '15 Lecture in Jurisprudence "The Normativity of Law" |
4:00 p.m., Townes Hall Sheffield Room |
Mar. 29 Fri. |
Les Green, Visiting at UT |
"Law and the Causes of Judicial Decisions" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
April 1 Mon. |
Gretchen Ritter, UT Government Department |
"Gender, Citizenship and the Vote: The Failure of the Nineteenth Amendment and the Transition to Liberal Constitutionalism in the United States" |
11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
Apr. 5 Fri. |
Richard Markovits, UTLaw |
"On the Prescriptive-Moral Import of the Double-Distortion Argument and Its Extra-Distortion Analog: An Explication and Critique of Kaplow & Shavell's 'Double-Distortion Argument' Articles" | 3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Apr. 8 Mon. |
Amos Shapira, Tel-Aviv University/ Visiting at Brooklyn |
"Recognition of Foreign Same-Sex Adoption and Domestic Public Policy" |
11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
Apr. 12 Fri. |
John Deigh, Philosophy, Northwestern University |
"Moral Agency and Criminal Insanity" | 3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Apr. 19 Fri. |
Johnnie Cochran, Defense Attorney |
16th Annual Heman Sweatt Symposium: "Reparations: Does America Owe African Americans a Debt?" |
7:00 p.m. LBJ Auditorium |
Apr. 19 Fri. |
Richard McAdams, University of Illinois |
"An Uneasy Case for Undercover Operations and the Entrapment Defense: Economic and Institutional Perspectives" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
Apr. 22 Mon. |
John Robertson, UTLaw |
"The Constitutionality of Racial Classifications in Pharmacogenetic Medicine" |
11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |
Apr. 26 Fri. |
Evan Caminker, University of Michigan |
"Playing with Voting Protocols on the Supreme Court" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
May 6 Mon. |
Larry Sager, UTLaw |
"Military Courts and Constitutional Justice" |
11:45 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room Con Law Luncheon |