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.
Faculty Colloquium -- Supreme Court Review: Obergefell v. Hodges, Michigan v EPA, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commisison & Committee of the Whole Persons
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Cary Franklin
W. H. Francis, Jr. Professor
University of Texas -
Joseph R Fishkin
The Marrs McLean Professor in Law
University of Texas -
Thomas O. McGarity
William Powers, Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law
University of Texas
September 10, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - “ 'Troll' Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation"
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John M. Golden
Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - paper presented by John Golden: “ 'Troll' Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation"
September 17, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Justice and the Distribution of Educational Opportunity
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Justice Goodwin Liu
California Supreme Court Justice, California Supreme Court
September 17, 2015 Thursday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)4:00pm - 5:30pm
PUBLIC LECTURE -- A Conversation with California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu
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Justice Goodwin Liu
California Supreme Court Justice, California Supreme Court
September 21, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Explaining Race Gaps in Policing: Normative and Empirical Challenges
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Sonja Starr
Professor, University of MIchigan
September 24, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Accidents of Federalism: Rate Design and Policy Innovation in Public Utility Law
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William Boyd
Professor, Colorado University -
Ann Carlson
Professor, UCLA
September 25, 2015 Friday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
8:00am - 5:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
UT Graduate Conference in Public Law
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Kim Lane Scheppele
Professor, Princeton
UT Graduate Conference in Public Law featuring Keynote speaker, Kim Lane Scheppele.
September 26, 2015 Saturday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
8:00am - 4:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
UT Graduate Conference in Public Law
UT Graduate Conference in Public Law featuring Keynote speaker, Kim Lane Scheppele.
September 28, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Innovation Sticks: The Limited Case for Penalizing Failures to Innovate
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Ian Ayres
Professor, Yale Law School
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “A New Greek Tragedy?: Inequality, Human Rights and Democracy”
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James Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, LBJ School, UT Austin -
Alvaro Santos
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center -
Philomila Tsoukala
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “A New Greek Tragedy?: Inequality, Human Rights and Democracy”
Drawing Board Luncheon - "Consequentialist Corrective Justice and Deontological Deterrence"
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Sean H. Williams
F. Scott Baldwin Research Professor in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper presented by Sean H. Williams: "Consequentialist Corrective Justice and Deontological Deterrence". Please note different time, day and location
Faculty Colloquium -- Organizational Capital: The Most Important Unsettling Issue in Tax
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Calvin H. Johnson
John T. Kipp Chair Emeritus in Corporate and Business Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - "Investor State Arbitration and National Courts"
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Patricia I. Hansen
J. Waddy Bullion Professor
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - paper presented by Patricia I. Hansen: "Investor State Arbitration and National Courts"
October 8, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Judicial Control of Administrative Interpretation in Australia and the United States
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Peter Cane
Professor, University of Texas
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Safe Harbors, Sure Shipwrecks
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Susan C. Morse
Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
University of Texas
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Croesus' World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality”
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Samuel Moyn
Professor of Law and History, Harvard University
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Croesus' World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality”
Faculty Colloquium -- Meritocracy and its Discontents
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Daniel Markovits
Professor, Yale Law School
Bookfest -- ECONOMICS AND THE INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF U.S. AND E.U. ANTITRUST LAW
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Richard S. Markovits
John B. Connally Chair
University of Texas -
Timothy Brennan
Professor, University of Maryland -
Herb Hovenkamp
Professor, University of Iowa
October 19, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- How(else) do physicians respond to malpractice liability?
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Eric Helland
Professor, Claremont McKenna
Drawing Board Luncheon
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Robert G. Bone
G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair Emeritus in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - - Please note different time, day and location
Faculty Colloquium -- Leniency in Punishment
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John Deigh
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Law
University of Texas
October 22, 2015 Thursday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Inaugural Sissy Farenthold Endowed Lecture featuring Mark Danner
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Mark Danner
Chancellor’s Professor of English and Journalism; James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities, UC Berkeley; Bard College
Please join us for the Inaugural Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights, which will feature journalist and author Mark Danner, Chancellor’s Professor of English and Journalism at UC Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College. His talk is entitled “Spiraling Down: Human Rights, Endless War.” The event is co-sponsored by Houston's Rothko Chapel.
Mark Danner is a writer, journalist and professor who has written for three decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans, Iraq and the greater Middle East, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy during the late Cold War and afterward, with a focus on human rights violations during that time. His books include Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War (2009), The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History (2006), Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror (2004), The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travel's Through the 2000 Florida Vote Recount (2004), and The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (1994). Danner was a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is Chancellor's Professor of English and Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College.
Danner's work has been honored with a National Magazine Award, three Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In June 1999, Danner was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2006 he was awarded the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association to honor that year's “major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” In 2008 he was named the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome, a post he took up again in 2010. Danner has had a longtime association with the Telluride Film Festival, where he introduces films and conducts interviews; in 2013, he became a resident curator at Telluride. Danner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Century Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of the Humanities at New York University.
October 26, 2015 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - “Innovation and Taxation at Startup Firms”
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Susan C. Morse
Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
University of Texas
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Right to Development After the Collapse of Development”
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Associate Professor of Law and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Founding Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Right to Development After the Collapse of Development”
October 29, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain
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Ilya Somin
Professor of Law, George Mason University
November 2, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Progress in the Useful Arts: Foundations of Intellectual Property Law in Growth Theory
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Robert Cooter
Professor, Berkeley Law School
November 5, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- The Einsatzgruppen Trial: The Defense of Following Orders Shattered
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Frank Tuerkheimer
Professor, University of Wisconsin
November 9, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- “No-Size-Fits-None”: Adverse-Selection in Private Ordering of Corporate Law and Governance
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Michal Barzuza
Professor, University of MIchigan
November 10, 2015 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Karen Engle
- Joseph Berra
Oscar Romero Award Series: “Rights, Resources, Territory: The Struggles of the Garifuna and Lenca in Honduras"
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Berta Cáceres
Consejo Civil de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras -
Miriam Miranda Chamorro
Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña
A Dialogue with the 2015 Rothko Chapel Oscar Romero Award Recipients
Berta Cáceres
The Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras / Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH)
Miriam Miranda Chamorro
The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras / Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH)
Moderator: Joseph Berra, Attorney, Caribbean American Research Council and Texas Civil Rights Project
Supported by The Rothko Chapel, LLILAS Benson, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association
Free and open to the public. Simultaneous translation provided.
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"
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Naomi Klein
C.L. and Henriette Cline Visiting Professor in the Humanities, UT Austin
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"
Co-sponsored with the Humanities Institute and supported by the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies
November 12, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- MIXED SPEECH: When Speech is Both Private and Governmental
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Caroline Corbin
Professor, University of Miami Law School
November 16, 2015 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon
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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
November 19, 2015 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Unorthodox Lawmaking, Unorthodox Rulemaking
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Abbe Gluck
Professor, Yale Law School
November 23, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Noncompetes in the U.S. Labor Force*
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J.J. Prescott
Professor, University of MIchigan
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Sustainable Development Goals: A Course Correction?"
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Sustainable Development Goals: A Course Correction?"
November 30, 2015 Monday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- "Bankruptcy on the Side"
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Ken Ayotte
Professor, Berkeley Law School
December 2, 2015 Wednesday
TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)11:45am - 1:45pm
Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- The Value of A Statistical Judgment: A New Approach to the Insurer’s Duty to Settle
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Ezra Friedman
Professor, Northwestern University
Faculty Colloquium -- Technology Disruption and Legal Institutions in Nigeria
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Funmi Arewa
Professor, University of California, Irvine