Faculty Events Calendar: Colloquia, Workshops, Lectures and Conferences
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.
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Lynn Stout
Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law, Cornell University
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
January 14, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - Calvin Johnson
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Calvin H Johnson
John T. Kipp Chair Emeritus in Corporate and Business Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon
January 16, 2014 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
January 21, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
January 28, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
January 28, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Timothy Werner
Assistant Professor of Business, Government & Society, McCombs School of Business at UT
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
"Human Rights and the Politics of Migration: A Latin American Perspective"
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Pablo Ceriani
Professor of Law and Coordinator of the Migration & Human Rights Program, National University of Lanús
Please join us for a talk by Pablo Ceriani, Professor of Law and Coordinator of the Migration & Human Rights Program at the National University of Lanús (Argentina). The talk is entitled "Human Rights and the Politics of Migration: A Latin American Perspective," and is co-sponsored by LLILAS BENSON. Light refreshments will be served.
January 30, 2014 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
January 30, 2014 Thursday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Heather Gerken "The Loyal Opposition"
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Heather Gerken
Professor, Yale Law School
Prof Heather Gerken presents "The Loyal Opposition" sponsored by the Tom Sealy lecture series
Attend “The Loyal Opposition,” a special presentation beginning at 5:30 p.m. by Heather Gerken, the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Gerken will discuss her research on democracy, including the importance of constructing institutions that allow for systematic dissent with a focus on American federalism. UT Austin professor of government and law Jeffrey Abramson will also offer comments on the subject. This endowed lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Government and is preceded by a reception at 5 p.m. In the Jamail Pavilion outside the Eidman Courtroom.
January 31, 2014 Friday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
9:00am - 5:15pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Is Democracy Desirable?
conference hosted by Sanford Levinson and co-hosted by Jeffrey Abramson
“Is Democracy Desirable?” is a one-day symposium exploring three recent books about democracy through discussion and panel presentations. Featured speakers and panelists in attendance from UT Law, Harvard, Yale and Stanford include Dennis Thompson, Heather Gerken, Joseph Fishkin, Paul Woodruff, Sanford Levinson, Jim Fishkin, Jeffrey Abramson and others.
Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights: Counter-terrorism
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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law / Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School / University of Ulster -
Aziz Rana
Associate Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
Please join us for the inaugural event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. The first event, co-sponsored by the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, will focus on “Approaches to Counter-terrorism.” Light refreshments will be served.
Faculty Colloquium - Stefanie Lindquist, Lawrence Solum (Georgetown), and Stephen Griffin (Tulane)
- Stefanie Lindquist
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Lawrence Solum
Georgetown -
Stephen Griffin
Tulane
Bookfest for Frank Cross
February 10, 2014 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
February 10, 2014 Monday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Adam Pritchard
Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law, University of Michigan
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
February 13, 2014 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Bill Sage
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William M Sage
James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence
Professor (Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care)
Dell Medical School
University of Texas
Colloquium
Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights: Race, Citizenship and Immigration
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Liz Fekete
Executive Director, Institute of Race Relations -
Leti Volpp
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Please join us for the next event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. This event is co-sponsored by Ethnic and Third World Literatures and will focus on “Approaches to Race, Citizenship and Immigration.” Light refreshments will be served.
February 18, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - James Spindler
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James C Spindler
Mark L. Hart, Jr. Endowed Chair in Corporate and Securities Law
Professor, McCombs School of Business
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon
February 20, 2014 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - David Adelman
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David E Adelman
Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law
University of Texas
Colloquium
February 24, 2014 Monday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Anthony Casey
Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Chicago School of Law
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
February 25, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Constitutional Studies Luncheon
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Anna Law
Assoc. Prof., CUNY Brooklyn College
Constitutional Studies luncheon hosted by Sanford Levinson featuring Anna Law as presenter.
"19th century immigration federalism--When the division of labor was as clear as mud"
Abstract: The right to determine who enters and exits the nation is a fundamental aspect of national sovereignty. In AZ v U.S. in 2012, the federal government asserted its "preeminent" authority to manage immigration policy. The Court agreed in that particular case, but in the 19th century, the question of which level of government ran immigration policy was not a forgone conclusion. States and local government ran immigration policy for well over 100 years before the federal government took over. Why did it take so long, until 1891, for the federal government to consolidate control over immigration and what can this time period teach us about contemporary immigration federalism?
Faculty Colloquium - David Sklansky (Berkeley)
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David Sklansky
Yosef Osheawich Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Colloquium
March 3, 2014 Monday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
3:45pm - 6:45pm
Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights: Religious Freedom and Secularism
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Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7 -
Hilal Elver
Research Professor in Global Studies and Co-director of the Project on Climate Change, Human Security and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara -
Richard Falk
Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University
Please join us for the next event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. This event, co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Institute for Historical Studies, will focus on “Approaches to Religious Freedom and Secularism.”
March 4, 2014 Tuesday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:45pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Timothy Werner
Assistant Professor of Business, Government & Society, McCombs School of Business at UT
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
Faculty Colloquium - Bob Bone
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Robert G Bone
G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair Emeritus in Law
University of Texas
Colloquium
March 17, 2014 Monday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Henry Hansmann
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law, Yale University
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights: Employment Discrimination
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Laura Carlson
Associate Professor of Law, Stockholm University School of Law -
Samuel Bagenstos
Professor, University of Michigan School of Law
Please join us for the next event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. This event will focus on “Approaches to Employment Discrimination.” Light refreshments will be served.
March 27, 2014 Thursday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)11:45am - 1:00pm
Government Prayer and the First Amendment: Town of Greece v. Galloway
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Douglas Laycock
Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Thursday, March 27, 11:45 to 1 in the Sheffield Room Lunch provided
Join us for a talk by Professor Douglas Laycock, one of the nation’s leading constitutional law scholars and advocates. Professor Laycock will discuss Town of Greece, currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which involves the legal limits on public prayer in government meetings. He argued before the Court on behalf of Galloway last fall.
Douglas Laycock, one of the nation's leading authorities on the law of remedies and also on the law of religious liberty, visits the law school as the G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence. He will discuss Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last fall that may clarify the legal limits on public prayer in government meetings.
Laycock has testified frequently before Congress and has argued many cases in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of the leading casebook Modern American Remedies; the award-winning monograph The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule; and many articles in the leading law reviews. He has co-edited a collection of essays, Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty, and he recently published Religious Liberty, Volume I: Overviews and History, and Volume II: The Free Exercise Clause. These two volumes are the first half of a four-volume collection of his many writings on religious liberty.
Laycock is vice president of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2009 winner of the National First Freedom Award from the Council on America's First Freedom.
March 28, 2014 Friday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
- Gladys Sarabia
Conference: Diversity in Higher Education Post-Fisher
This all-day conference will bring together scholars, advocates, educators and students to examine contemporary debates involving diversity in higher education. Noted Princeton sociologist Marta Tienda will provide a keynote address at lunch. For more information and to register, please visit the conference website.
March 31, 2014 Monday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Chris Brummer
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
Faculty Colloquium – John Golden (UT) and Hannah Wiseman (Florida State)
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John M Golden
Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation
University of Texas -
Hannah Wiseman
Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Faculty Colloquium – John Golden (UT) and Hannah Wiseman (Florida State)
Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights: Universal Jurisdiction
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Juan Garcés
Spanish Attorney -
Michael Tigar
Emeritus Professor of the Practice of Law / Professor Emeritus of Law, Duke Law School / Washington College of Law, American University
Please join us for the next event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. This event will focus on “Approaches to Universal Jurisdiction.” Light refreshments will be served.
Faculty Colloquium - Evan Mandery (CUNY)
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Evan Mandery
Professor and Chairperson, Dept. of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Colloquium
Professor Hans Baade -- Nazi-Looted Art
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Hans W. Baade
Hugh Lamar Stone Chair Emeritus in Civil Law
University of Texas
Professor Hans Baade -- Nazi-Looted Art
Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights: Labor Rights
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Mitchel Lasser
Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies, Cornell Law School -
Kerry Rittich
Professor, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Please join us for the next event in the Rapoport Center’s 2014 Colloquium on Comparing European and North American Approaches to Human Rights, organized in collaboration with the Center for European Studies and funded in part by a grant from the European Union. This event will focus on “Approaches to Labor Rights.” Light refreshments will be served.
Faculty Colloquium - Lani Guinier (Harvard) and Cynthia Estlund (NYU)
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Lani Guinier
Harvard -
Cynthia Estlund
NYU
Bookfest for Joey Fishkin’s 'Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity'
April 28, 2014 Monday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
The Law, Business and Economics Workshop
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Henry T C Hu
Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance
University of Texas
The Law, Business, and Economics Workshop Series serves as an important focal point at the University of Texas for research on the economic analysis of law and business. The workshop generally involves presentations by guests from outside the University community. Students can take the workshop as a course, which focuses on their presentation of written critiques of each of the papers presented in the workshop series.
Drawing Board Luncheon - John Golden
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John M Golden
Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon