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 | Faculty moderator/Coordinator |
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August 26 Friday |
Highlights from the 2004 Supreme Court Term Panel: Doug Laycock, Larry Sager, Sandy Levinson, Jordan Steiker |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Sept. 7 Wednesday | Linda Greenhouse, New York Times reporter: Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Lynn Blais, moderator |
Supreme Court Colloquium | Eidman Courtroom, 3:00-6:00 p.m. Reception and book sale/signing to follow in Eidman foyer and Jamail Pavilion |
Lynn Blais/Mary Hopkins McDonald Jointly sponsored by UT School of Law Faculty Colloquia/The American Constitution Society/Tarlton Law Library |
Sept. 9 Friday |
Ernie Young (UT) Foreign Law and the Denominator Problem |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium Meeting of the Whole Person |
Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall, 3.214, 3:00-4:30 p.m. 5:00-7:00 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Sept. 13 Tuesday |
Kathryn Zeiler, Charles Silver, Bernie Black, Bill Sage (UT) Paper title TBA |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Sept. 19 Monday |
Michelle White, Department of Economics, University of California- San Diego "Personal Bankruptcy: Insurance, Work Effort, Opportunism and the Efficiency of the 'Fresh Start' " |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Sept. 23 Friday |
Brian Leiter "Why Evolutionary Biology is (so far) Irrelevant to Law." |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Sept. 29 Thursday | Avery Katz, Columbia University Law School "Is Electronic Contracting Different? Contract Law in the Information Age" |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 7 Friday |
Louise Weinberg The Supreme Court and the Election of 1860 |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 10 Monday | Oren Bar-Gill, NYU Consumer Misperceptions and Market Reactions: The Case of Competitive Bundling |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | Ronald J. Mann /Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 11 Tuesday | Oren Bracha "Standing Copyright Law on its Head? The Googlelization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property" |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room, 11:25 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Mitch Berman/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 14 Friday |
Keith Whittington (Visiting at UT from Princeton) "Interpose Your Friendly Hand': Political Supports for the Exercise of Judicial Review by the United States Supreme Court" |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 14 Friday |
Larry Sager "Justice in Plain Clothes: Theory of American Constitutional Practice" |
Book presentation | Book People, 603 N. Lamar (512 )472-5050 (800) 853-9757 7:00 p.m. |
Larry Sager/James Cogburn |
Oct. 17 Monday | Omri Ben Shahar, University of Michigan "Boilerplate and Economic Power in Auto Manufacturing Contracts" |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m. | Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 24 Monday | Bob Rasmussen, Vanderbilt University Private Debt and the Missing Lever of Corporate Governance |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m. | Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 27 Thursday | Political Science panel: Jeffrey Tulis, moderator (UT); Keith Whittington (UT); Dean Burnham (UT); Sot Barber (Notre Dame) |
Righteous Anger at the Wicked States Symposium | Eidman Courtroom, 3:30-5:30 p.m. | Calvin H. Johnson/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 28 Friday | John Kaminski, luncheon speaker (U. of Wisconsin) |
Righteous Anger at the Wicked States Symposium | Sheffield Room 11:35-12:50 p.m. | Calvin H. Johnson/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 28 Friday | History panel: Jack Greene (Johns Hopkins); Alan Tully, moderator, (UT History); Robin Einhorn (UC-Berkeley History); Jack Rakove (Stanford--by video link) |
Righteous Anger at the Wicked States Symposium | Eidman Courtroom 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
Calvin H. Johnson/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Oct. 28 Friday | History panel: Lynn Baker (UT); Ernest Smith (UT); Larry Sager (UT); Mitch Berman (UT); Jordan Steiker, moderator (UT) |
Righteous Anger at the Wicked States Symposium | Eidman Courtroom 3:15-4:45 p.m. |
Calvin H. Johnson/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Nov. 4 Friday |
Samuel Issacharoff |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 2:00-3:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Nov. 7 Monday |
Teresa Sullivan, Jay Westbrook "Twenty-First Century Bankruptcy: Two Decades of Evidence About Consumer Debt and The Stigma of Bankruptcy" |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:00 p.m. |
Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Nov. 8 Tuesday |
Lonny Hoffman (UT) "Litigating Before Litigation: An Unconventional Look at the Debate Over 'Frivolous' Litigation" |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room, 11:25 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Nov. 14 Monday
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Siva Vaidhyanathan "The Googlization of Everything" |
Public Lecture | Sheffield Room Townes Hall 2.111 2:00 p.m. |
Oren Bracha /Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Nov. 18 Friday
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Seth Chandler, University of Houston "The Network Structure of the Uniform Commercial Code" |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Nov. 21 Monday |
Albert Yoon, Northwestern University "Offer-of-Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Automobile Insurance Litigation in the East" |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m. | Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Nov. 25 Friday |
University holiday
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No Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium |
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Nov. 28 Monday | Jacob Ziegel, University of Toronto "Facts on the Ground and Reconciliation of Divergent Consumer Insolvency Philosophies" |
CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m. | Ronald J. Mann/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Dec. 2 Friday |
Philip Bobbitt --canceled Title TBA |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Dec. 9 Friday |
Speaker TBA Title TBA |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge, Townes Hall 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker/Mary Hopkins McDonald |
Dec. 16 Friday |
Final Exams
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end of fall semester--see spring 2005 for continued colloquia listings |