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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Sep. 2 Friday |
Faculty Colloq/SCOTUS Round-Up (UT School of Law) Below is the video link of the event: |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
William Forbath |
Sep. 8 Thursday |
Alan Miller (University of Haifa Faculty of Law and Department of Economics) |
Lecture | TNH 3.127 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Lunch will be served. |
Matthew L. Spitzer |
Sep. 13 Tuesday |
Susan R. Klein (UT School of Law) |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM. |
Mitch Berman |
Sept. 22 Thursday |
Richard S. Markovits (UT School of Law) Abstract of Paper: Paper: |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
William Forbath |
Sept. 22 |
Chad Flanders (Law, St. Louis University) |
Law & Philosophy Workshop | Susman Academic Center 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Sep. 29 Thursday |
Eric Talley (Berkeley) |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Mira Ganor |
Oct. 3 Monday |
Ken Feinberg (Administrator of 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund & Gulf Coast/BP Compensation Fund) Ken Feinberg will talk and Professor Mullenix and Professor Robertson will comment on the topic of “Compensation Funds to Resolve Mass Tort Claims: Model for Judicial Efficiency or Symptom of the Erosion of Justice?” Following are links to: |
Faculty Colloquium | Susman Academic Center Light refreshments will be served. |
Melinda Taylor |
Oct. 4 Tuesday |
Louise Weinberg (UT School of Law) |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM. |
Mitch Berman |
Oct. 6 Thursday |
Gerald Frug (Harvard Law School) |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Nadav Shoked |
Oct. 6 Thursday |
Kimberly Ferzan (Rutgers, Law) "Culpable Aggression: The Moral Basis for a Liability to Defensive Force" |
Law & Philosophy Workshop | Susman Academic Center 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Oct. 11 Tuesday |
Daniel B. Rodriguez Barry R. Weingast "A Positive Political Theory of the Reformation of Administrative Law" |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Daniel B. Rodriguez |
Oct. 13 Thursda |
Mira Ganor (UT School of Law) |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
William Forbath |
Oct. 13 Thursday |
Robin Kar (Law, University of Illiniois, Urbana) |
Law & Philosophy Workshop | Susman Academic Center 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Oct. 18 Tuesday |
James C. Spindler (UT School of Law) |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM. |
Mitch Berman |
Oct. 20 Thursday |
Carissa Hessick (Arizona State University) |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Angie Littwin |
Oct. 27 Thursday |
Amalia Amaya (UNAM, Research Institute in Philosophy) |
Law & Philosophy Workshop | Susman Academic Center 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Oct. 28 Friday |
I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law School) |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Sean Williams |
Nov. 3 Thursday |
Elizabeth Emens (Columbia Law School) |
Faculty Colloquium | Susman Academic Center 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Cary Franklin |
Nov. 10 Thursday |
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke, Philosophy) |
Law & Philosophy Workshop | Susman Academic Center 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Nov. 11 Friday |
Please note that the following event has been canceled. It is hopeful that the workshop will be rescheduled for the Fall 2012 semester. Erin Murphy (NYU Law) "The Politics of Privacy in the Criminal Justice System: Information Disclosure, the Fourth Amendment, and Statutory Law Enforcement Exemptions" |
Faculty Colloquium | Susman Academic Center 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Jennifer Laurin |
Nov. 17 Thursday |
Thomas Christiano (Arizona, Philosophy) |
Law & Philosophy Workshop | Susman Academic Center 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Dec. 1 Thursday |
Trevor Morrison (Columbia Law School) "Historical Gloss, the Separation of Powers, and Institutional Acquiescence" |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Justin Driver |
Dec. 2 |
Cary Franklin (UT School of Law) |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
William Forbath |
Dec. 6 Tuesday |
Thomas O. McGarity (UT School of Law) "Administrative 'Law' as 'Blood Sport': An Essay on Policy Erosion in a Partisan Age" |
Drawing Board Luncheon | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM. |
Mitch Berman |
Dec. 8 Thursday |
Vicki Schultz (Yale Law School) "Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples Less Egalitarian? |
Faculty Colloquium | Sheffield Room 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Joseph Fishkin |