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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January 21st Friday |
Russell Muirhead Harvard University Department of Government |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
January 21st Friday |
– | Meeting of the Committee of the Whole Person | 4:30 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
January 24th Monday |
David Dana Northwestern University (Law) |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 3rd Thursday |
Larry Sager UT School of Law |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium:
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3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 4th Friday |
Schedule | Texas Law Review Symposium on Water Law |
1:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Connally Hall |
February 5th Saturday |
Schedule | TLR Symposium on Water Law "Of Water Banks, Piggybanks, and Bankruptcy: Changing Directions in Water Law, a Symposium on New Approaches to Institutional Management and Design" |
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Connally Hall |
February 7th Monday |
Ehud Kamar University of Southern California, visiting New York University |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 8th Tuesday |
Dan Rodriguez | Drawing Board Luncheon | 11:30 a.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room 2.310 |
February 11th Friday |
Steven Lubet Northwestern University |
Friday Afternoon Faculty
Colloquium: Trial of Wyatt Earp |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
February 14th Monday |
Clayton Gillette New York University |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 15th Tuesday |
Jack Cloonan | Constitutional Studies Luncheon: |
11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 17th Thursday |
John Goldberg Vanderbilt University |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 18th Friday |
Garrett Epps University of Oregon School of Law |
Friday Afternoon Faculty
Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
February 21st Monday |
Kate Litvak |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 22nd Tuesday |
John Dzienkowski, presenter | Drawing Board Luncheon: |
11:30 a.m.to 12:20 p.m. and Townes Hall |
February 25th Friday |
Ronald J. Mann, UT Law |
Center for Law Business and Economics Luncheon: |
11:30 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room, 2.111 |
February 25th Friday |
Thomas Kohler Visiting Professor at UT from Boston College |
Friday Afternoon Faculty
Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
February 28th Monday |
Jennifer Gordon Fordham Law School |
Legal Studies Luncheon: |
11:45 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
February 28th Monday |
Richard Sander University of California at Los Angeles |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
March 3rd Thursday |
Akhil Amar Yale University |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium America's Constitution: A Guided Tour |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
March 4th Friday |
Larry Sager UT School of Law |
Book Fête |
12:15 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
March 7th Monday |
Charles Silver and Bernard Black Tom Baker,
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CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Making Sense with Numbers: The Uses and Abuses of Empirical Research on the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
March 18th Friday |
No Colloquium | - | Spring Break |
March 21st Monday |
Jeffrey Rachlinski Cornell University |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Can Judges Ignore Inadmissable Information? The Difficulty of Deliberately Disregarding" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
March 24th Thursday |
Nicola Lacey London School of Economics & Political Science |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
March 25th Friday |
Nicola Lacey London School of Economics & Political Science |
Leon Green Lecture /Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. |
March 28th Monday |
Kathryn Zeiler Georgetown University |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Assymetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Prospect Theory" (with Charles Plott) |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 1st Friday |
Sarah Gordon University of Pennsylvania School of Law |
Friday Afternoon Faculty
Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
April 4th Monday |
Brian Cheffins Cambridge University, UK | CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Dividends and Politics" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 7th Thursday |
Larry Alexander University of San Diego |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 8th Friday |
Carrie Menkel-Meadow |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
April 11th Monday |
Doron Teichman |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Sex,Shame, and the Law: An Economic Perspective on Megan's Law" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 13th Wednesday |
Sir Neil MacCormick, |
Sovereignty Symposium: "Is European Democracy Possible? Reflections on the Proposed European Constitution" |
5:30 p.m. |
April 14th Thursday |
Michael Gillespie (Duke University); |
Sovereignty Symposium: 9:00-11:00 Conceptualizing Sovereignty: 11:15-12:30 Law and “The Emergency”: 12:30-1:30 Lunch: Connelly Center 1:45-3:30 On the Idea of Popular (or “Democratic” Sovereignty: On the meaning of “Democratic Sovereignty”: Ken Anderson (American University); Jed Rubenfeld (Yale); Sarah Cleveland (UT); Richard Markovits (UT) 3:45-5:00 |
First session: Second session: Lunch: Third sesssion: 1:45-3:30 p.m. Fourth session: |
April 15th Friday |
Ernest Young (UT); |
Sovereignty Symposium: 9:30-11:30 On the Meaning of “Dual Sovereignty” Within Federal Systems: Ernest Young (UT); Lynn Baker (UT); Neil MacCormick (Edinburgh) 11:30-12:15 Lunch 12:15-1:15 Arthur Cockfield, Queens University, Ontario, Canada: "The Rise of the OECD as Informal 'World Tax Organization' through the Shaping of National Responses to E-commerce Taxation" 1:30-3:00 "The Privatization of Sovereignty" (Fabrizio Cafaggi, EUI); Jay Westbrook (UT) 3:15-4:45 "Negotiated Sovereignty over Common Spaces: The Case of Antarctica" (Patrizia Vigni); "Shared Sovereignty in the External Environmental Policies of the European Union" (Prof. Montini); Tom McGarity (UT) |
First Session: Lunch: Second session: Third session: Fourth session: 3:15-4:45 p.m. |
April 15th |
Arthur Cockfield |
CLBE luncheon talk/Sovereignty Symposium: "The Rise of the OECD as Informal 'World Tax Organization' through the Shaping of National Responses to E-commerce Taxation" |
11:30 a.m.-12:15 (Luncheon) |
April 16th Saturday |
F. Lenzerini (Siena); Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado); Riccardo Pavoni (Siena); Karen Engle (UT); Gerald Torres (UT) |
Sovereignty Symposium: 9:45-11: 45 The “sovereignty” of native peoples. "Parallel Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples" (F. Lenzerini, Siena); "A Narrative of Sovereignty: Illuminating the Paradox of the Domestic Dependent Nation," Sarah Krakoff (University of Colorado); "Shared Sovereignty and Community Interests in the Management of Cultural Heritage" (R. Pavoni, Siena; Karen Engle (UT); Gerald Torres (UT) Lunch |
First Session: Lunch |
April 18th Monday |
Reinier Kraakman |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "CEO Job Tenure, Equity Ownership, and the Decision to Sell the Company" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 19th Tuesday |
Salameh Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Hayat |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon |
11:25 a..m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 21st Thursday |
Rick Hills |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium "Two Concepts of ‘The Economic’ in Constitutional Law: The Underlying Unity of Due Process and Federalism Jurisprudence" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 22nd Friday |
Adrienne Davis |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
April 25th Monday |
John Mayer |
Technology in Legal Education--It's Not the Technology That Matters> | 11:30 a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 25th Monday |
Michael Heise |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Judges, Juries, and Punitive Damages: Empirical Analyses" (with Ted Eisenberg)" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
April 28th Thursday |
David Blight Yale University Department of History |
Will E. Orgain Lectureship: |
3:30 p.m. |
April 29th Friday |
David Blight Yale University Department of History |
Friday Afternoon Faculty
Colloquium: |
3:00 p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
May 2nd Monday |
Guhan Subramanian |
CLBE Law and Economics Workshop: "Fixing Freezeouts" |
3:30 p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
May 3rd Tuesday |
David Faigman |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: |
11:45 a..m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
May 6th Friday |
Bill Eskridge |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: |
3:30 p.m. |
May 10th Tuesday |
Sam Buell, Visiting Professor, UT Law |
Drawing Board Luncheon: |
11:30 a..m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room, 2.111 |
Future Events to be Announced |