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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August 27th Friday |
Doug Laycock UT School of Law |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium "The Supreme Court & Religious Liberty: Mostly Avoiding the Extremes & Often Missing the Liberty" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
August 27th Friday |
– | Meeting of the Committee of the Whole Person | 4:30 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
September 9th Thursday |
Tom McCaffrey 1985 UT Grad Haynes & Boone Houston |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Townes Hall Room 3.124 |
September 14th Tuesday |
Mark Gergen UT School of Law |
Drawing Board Luncheon "Electronic Intrusions in Tort Law" |
11:30 a.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room 2.310 |
September 14th Tuesday |
University of Texas – Professors – Sandy Levinson Alan Friedman James Loehlin Guy Roberts of the Austin Shakespeare Festival |
Shakespeare & The Law |
6:30 p.m Hospitality Jamail Pavillion 7:00 p.m. Presentation Eidman Courtroom Connally Center |
September 17th Friday |
John Fabian Witt Visiting Professor Columbia Law School |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium "Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
September 20th Monday |
Suzanna Scotchmer Berkeley (Economics) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
September 21st Tuesday |
Michael Lind | Constitutional Studies Luncheon | 11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
September 24th Friday |
Bill Sage Columbia Law School |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: Medical Malpractice Reform as a Research and Policy Problem |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
October 1st Friday |
Christopher McCrudden University of Oxford |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Buying Social Justice" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
October 4th Monday |
Greg Sidak American Enterprise Institute |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 7th Thursday |
Josh Lerner Harvard (Business) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 8th Friday |
Gillian Lester UCLA |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "In Defense of Paid Family Leave" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
October 11th Monday |
Eric Talley USC Law School |
"Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation and Securities Litigation" |
11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 12th Tuesday |
Chantal Thomas Visiting Professor |
Drawing Board Luncheon "On Constitutional Democracy and Globalization, with Special Attention to International Trade Agreements" |
12:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 15th Friday |
Moderator: |
ACS Panel: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 18th Monday |
Rebecca Eisenberg University of Michigan (Law) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 19th Tuesday |
Jeff Rosen GWU (Law) |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | 11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
October 28th Thursday |
John Duffy GWU (Law) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
November 1st Monday |
Debora Spar Harvard (Business) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
November 5th Friday |
Richard Markovits UT School of Law |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Memorandum to Colleagues" "Predatory Investments" "Predatory Systems Rivalry and Predatory Aftermarket Conduct" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
November 8th Monday |
Douglas Lichtman Chicago (Law) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
November 9th Tuesday |
Richard Markovits UT School of Law |
Drawing Board Luncheon: "Liberalism and the Common Law of Torts" |
11:30 a.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room 2.310 |
November 12th Friday |
Jules Lobel Pittsburgh (Law) |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium "Courts as Forums for Protest" "Suggested Reading Memo" "Losers, Fools and Prophets" "Courts as Forums For Protest" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
November 15th Monday |
Petra Moser MIT (Economics) |
CLBE Workshop on Innovation | 3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
November 16th Tuesday |
David Dyzenhaus | Constitutional Studies Luncheon | 11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
November 19th Friday |
Mark Graber Professor Department of Government & Politics University of Maryland |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium "Legal, Strategic or Legal Strategy: Deciding to Decide During the Civil War and Reconstruction" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
November 26th Friday |
No Colloquium | – | Thanksgiving Holiday |
December 7th Tuesday |
Paul Woodruff Department of Philosophy University of Texas |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon |
11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
December 10th Friday |
J. Morgan Kousser Division of Humanities & Social Sciences California Institute of Technology |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium "Are Expert Witnesses Whores" |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |