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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Jan. 19 |
David Hyman (Illinois), Bernie Black, Charlie Silver & Bill Sage (all UT) title: "Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award?" Followed by the Committee of the Whole Person |
Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
Jan. 22 |
John Armour Cambridge University, UK "The Costs and Benefits of Secured Creditor Control in Bankruptcy: Evidence from the UK"
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| Jan. 26 Friday |
Eric Posner University of Chicago Law School "The Second-Order Structure of Immigration Law" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00-4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
| January 30 Tuesday |
Jens Dammann University of Texas "A New Look at Delaware" |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Feb. 1 Thursday |
Stephen Gardbaum UCLA "Limiting Constitutional Rights" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium | Faculty Lounge 3.214 3:30-5:30 p.m.
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Mitch Berman |
Feb. 1 Thursday |
E.J. Dionne Religion, Social Justice, and the Welfare State |
Future of the Welfare State Conference opening address
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Frank Erwin Center, Lone Star Room 6 p.m.
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Sanford Levinson William Forbath Betty Sue Flowers |
Feb. 2 |
Betty Sue Flowers, Director, LBJ Library and Larry Sager, Dean UT School of Law Willy Forbath, UT Law
*Sanford Levinson, moderator Michael Walzer, Nancy Rosenblum, E.J. Dionne
Theodore Marmor, Ken Apfel, Bill Sage, Jill Quadagno
David Abraham, Ernesto Cortes, Jorge Casteneda, Gary Freeman
Joseph Stiglitz |
Welcome to "Future of the Welfare State Conference" (9:30 a.m.) The Future of the Welfare State: Introductory Remarks (9:45 a.m.)
What Goods and to Whom? (10 a.m. to noon)
Lunch (noon to 1 p.m.)
Health Care: The Problem of Rationing Social Goods (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.)
Coffee Break (3 to 3:30 p.m.)
Global Labor Migration and National Welfare Regimes: Doing Justice on Two Fronts (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.) Coffee Break (5:30 to 5:50) Tom Sealy Lecture on Law & Free Society: Title TBA (6 p.m.) |
Eidman Courtroom
Sheffield Room
Eidman Courtroom
Jamail Pavilion
Eidman Courtroom
Jamail Pavilion LBJ or Law School Auditorium |
William Forbath/ Sanford Levinson |
Feb. 3 |
Joseph Stiglitz, Claus Offe, Jacob Hacker, Jamie Galbraith
Rory O'Donnell, John Sweeney, Joel Handler and Charles Sabel, Philip Bobbitt
Frank Michelman, Ulrich Preuss, Mark Tushnet, Frank Cross
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Future of the Welfare State Conference continues Redistribution and Social Provision in the 21st Century -- National and Transnational Prospects and Problems (10 a.m. to noon)
Lunch: noon to 1
Designing the New Welfare State (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.)
Coffee Break (3 to 3:30 p.m.)
Constitutionalizing Welfare States (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.)
Reception (5:30 to 6:30 p.m). |
Eidman Courtroom
Sheffield Room
Eidman Courtroom
Jamail Pavilion
Eidman Courtroom
Jamail Pavilion |
William Forbath/ Sanford Levinson |
Feb. 5 |
Jay Winter, Department of History, Yale The Birth of the European Human Rights Movement "Dreams of Peace and Freedom in the Twentieth Century" (Intro and Chapter 4) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) Full Text |
Law, History, & Humanities Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
Feb. 5 |
Vic Khanna University of Michigan Law School
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CLBE Workshop | TNH 3.127 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 9 |
Ryan Goodman Harvard Law School "Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
Feb. 12 |
Vladimir Atanasov The College of William & Mary, Mason School of Business
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 16 |
David Rabban UT Law "The Historical Turn in Late Nineteenth-Century American Legal Scholarship"
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Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
Feb. 19 Monday |
Daniel J. Hulsebosch NYU School of Law "Writs to Rights: The Transformation of the Anglo-American Common Law, 1790-1850" Hulsebosch, Intro. & Chapter I, Writs to Rights: Legal Culture in the Early Republic (work-in-progress) [OPTIONAL READING ] Hulsebosch, Chapter 9, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 ( 2005). . |
Law, History, & Humanities Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
Feb. 19 |
Kate Litvak University of Texas
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CLBE workshop | TNH 3.127 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| Feb. 20 Tuesday |
Richard Markovits University of Texas "Law-related theory as an obstacle to empirical legal studies" |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Feb. 21 Wednesday |
Ken Ayotte Columbia Business School Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of "Bankruptcy Remoteness |
CLBE Workshop | Faculty lounge 4 to 5 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 22 |
Trevor Morrison Cornell University "Suspension and the Extrajudicial Constitution" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Feb. 23 |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig University of Iowa College of Law "The Admission of Legacy Blacks" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
Feb. 26 |
Michael Perino St. John's University School of Law "Institutional Activism through Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Public Pension Fund Participation in Securities Class Actions"
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 2 |
Steve Bickerstaff UT Law "Lines in the Sand: Redistricting in Texas and the Fall of of Tom Delay" |
Book Colloquium | Location TBD 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Sanford Levinson |
March 5 Monday |
Rebecca J. Scott University of Michigan Law School "'There is no caste here.' Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of the Plessy Challenge" |
Law, History, & Humanities Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
March 5 |
Woochan Kim University of Texas, McCombs School of Business "Who Cares About Control-Ownership Disparities in Emerging Markets--Unbundling Foreign Portfolio Investors"
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CLBE Workshop | TNH 3.127 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 8 |
Pam Karlan Stanford "Taking Politics Religiously: How Free Exercise and Establishment Clause Cases Illuminate the Law of Democracy" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
March 19 |
Robert Hall Stanford University, Department of Economics
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 23 |
Lewis Kornhauser NYU School of Law "Legal Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
March 26 |
Deborah Weiss University of Texas School of Law
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CLBE Workshop | TNH 3.127 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 26 |
Dr. Jane R. Burbank, NYU History Dept. Dr. Frederick Cooper, NYU History Dept. "Empire and Citizenship, 212-1946" |
Law, History, & Humanities Colloquium | Sheffield Room 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
| March 27 Tuesday |
Michael Greve |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Sanford Levinson |
March 29 |
Larry Solum Illinois "Constitutional Possibilities"
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Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 2 |
Ed Iacobucci University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| April 9 Monday |
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University Department of English "Scales of Aggregation: Prenational, Subnational, Transnational" Aiwha Ong, "Experiments with Freedom" and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, "Between Humanities and the Homeland" Wai Chee Dimock, Intro and first chapter of her book "Through
Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time." |
Law, History, & Humanities Colloquium | Sheffield Room 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
April 9 |
David Hyman University of Illinois College of Law
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CLBE Workshop | TNH 3.127 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| April 10 Tuesday |
Marty Lederman |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Sanford Levinson |
April 12 |
Geof Stone Chicago Chapter 2 (March 4) Sexing the Constitution |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall 2.111 3:30-5:30 p.m.
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Mitch Berman |
April 13 |
Sanford Levinson, UT Law Kim Scheppele Walter Murphy "Our Undemocratic Constitution"
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Book Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall 3.214 Friday: 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Lynn Baker/Sanford Levinson |
April 16 |
Calvin Johnson University of Texas School of Law
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| April 17 Tuesday |
Emily Kadens "Blackstone and the Emergence of Contract Law"
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Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 20 |
Clayton Gillette NYU School of Law "Local Redistribution, Living Wage Ordinances, and Judicial Intervention" Author's Memo |
Friday Faculty Colloquium | Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Lynn Baker |
April 23 Monday |
A. W. Brian Simpson University of Michigan Law School "Colonialism and the Rule of Law" (work in progress) "Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Legacy of British Colonialism and the European Convention on Human Rights" 41 Loyala L. Rev. 629 (1996) Excerpts from Human Rights and the End of Empire (2001).
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Law, History, & Humanities Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
April 23 |
Richard Briffault Columbia University Law School
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CLBE Workshop | TNH 3.127 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| April 24 Tuesday |
Daniel Rodriguez Lynn Baker "Comparative Domestic Constitutional Law: Federalism and Localism as a Case Study"
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Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 26 |
Jeremy Waldron NYU "Do Judges Reason Morally?" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 27 |
Leslie Green UT Law
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Leon Green Lecture | Location TBD 3:00 p.m. - TBD |
Brian Leiter |
April 30 |
Laura Beny University of Michigan Law School
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CLBE Workshop | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
| May 1 Tuesday |
Philo Tsoukala University of Texas "Divorcing Family Law from the Nation" |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
| May 8 Tuesday |
Scott Sullivan 'Treaty Interpretation in the Era of the "War on Terror"'
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Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
| May 15 Tuesday |
David Sibley UT "Antitrust Policy Regarding Bundled Discounts"
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Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |