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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.

Events for Fall 2015

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August 28, 2015 Friday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Supreme Court Review: Obergefell v. Hodges, Michigan v EPA, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commisison & Committee of the Whole Persons

Speakers:
  • 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

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon - “ 'Troll' Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation"

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Justice and the Distribution of Educational Opportunity

Speaker:
  • Justice Goodwin Liu
    California Supreme Court Justice, California Supreme Court

September 17, 2015 Thursday

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Moderators:

PUBLIC LECTURE -- A Conversation with California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu

Speaker:
  • Justice Goodwin Liu
    California Supreme Court Justice, California Supreme Court

September 21, 2015 Monday

TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)
11:45am - 1:45pm

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Explaining Race Gaps in Policing: Normative and Empirical Challenges

Speaker:
  • Sonja Starr
    Professor, University of MIchigan

September 24, 2015 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Accidents of Federalism: Rate Design and Policy Innovation in Public Utility Law

Speakers:
  • 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

Moderator:
  • Gladys Sarabia

UT Graduate Conference in Public Law

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:
  • 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

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Innovation Sticks: The Limited Case for Penalizing Failures to Innovate

Speaker:
  • Ian Ayres
    Professor, Yale Law School

September 28, 2015 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Moderator:

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “A New Greek Tragedy?: Inequality, Human Rights and Democracy”

Speakers:
  • 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”

September 29, 2015 Tuesday

TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)
11:45am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon - "Consequentialist Corrective Justice and Deontological Deterrence"

Speaker:
  • 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

October 1, 2015 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Organizational Capital: The Most Important Unsettling Issue in Tax

Speaker:
  • Calvin H Johnson
    John T. Kipp Chair Emeritus in Corporate and Business Law
    University of Texas

October 5, 2015 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon - "Investor State Arbitration and National Courts"

Speaker:

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

Moderators:

Faculty Colloquium -- Judicial Control of Administrative Interpretation in Australia and the United States

Speaker:
  • Peter Cane
    Professor, University of Texas

October 12, 2015 Monday

TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)
1:45pm -

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Safe Harbors, Sure Shipwrecks

Speaker:
  • Susan C Morse
    Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
    University of Texas

October 12, 2015 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Moderator:

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Croesus' World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality”

Speaker:
  • Samuel Moyn
    Professor of Law and History, Harvard University

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Croesus' World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality”

October 15, 2015 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Meritocracy and its Discontents

Speaker:
  • Daniel Markovits
    Professor, Yale Law School

October 16, 2015 Friday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:00pm - 5:30pm

Moderator:

Bookfest -- ECONOMICS AND THE INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF U.S. AND E.U. ANTITRUST LAW

Speakers:
  • 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

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- How(else) do physicians respond to malpractice liability?

Speaker:
  • Eric Helland
    Professor, Claremont McKenna

October 20, 2015 Tuesday

TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)
11:45am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon

Speaker:
  • 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

October 22, 2015 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Leniency in Punishment

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:

Inaugural Sissy Farenthold Endowed Lecture featuring Mark Danner

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon - “Innovation and Taxation at Startup Firms”

Speaker:
  • Susan C Morse
    Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence
    Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
    University of Texas

October 26, 2015 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Moderator:

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Right to Development After the Collapse of Development”

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderators:

Faculty Colloquium -- The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain

Speaker:
  • Ilya Somin
    Professor of Law, George Mason University

November 2, 2015 Monday

TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)
11:45am - 1:45pm

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Progress in the Useful Arts: Foundations of Intellectual Property Law in Growth Theory

Speaker:
  • Robert Cooter
    Professor, Berkeley Law School

November 5, 2015 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- The Einsatzgruppen Trial: The Defense of Following Orders Shattered

Speaker:
  • Frank Tuerkheimer
    Professor, University of Wisconsin

November 9, 2015 Monday

TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)
11:45am - 1:45pm

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- “No-Size-Fits-None”: Adverse-Selection in Private Ordering of Corporate Law and Governance

Speaker:
  • Michal Barzuza
    Professor, University of MIchigan

November 10, 2015 Tuesday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Moderators:

Oscar Romero Award Series: “Rights, Resources, Territory: The Struggles of the Garifuna and Lenca in Honduras"

Speakers:
  • 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.

November 11, 2015 Wednesday


7:00pm - 9:00pm

Moderator:

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- MIXED SPEECH: When Speech is Both Private and Governmental

Speaker:
  • Caroline Corbin
    Professor, University of Miami Law School

November 16, 2015 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Unorthodox Lawmaking, Unorthodox Rulemaking

Speaker:
  • Abbe Gluck
    Professor, Yale Law School

November 23, 2015 Monday

TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)
11:45am - 1:45pm

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- Noncompetes in the U.S. Labor Force*

Speaker:
  • J.J. Prescott
    Professor, University of MIchigan

November 23, 2015 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Moderator:

Colloquium on Inequality & Human Rights: “Sustainable Development Goals: A Course Correction?"

Speaker:
  • 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

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- "Bankruptcy on the Side"

Speaker:
  • Ken Ayotte
    Professor, Berkeley Law School

December 2, 2015 Wednesday

TNH 3.129 (Atlas Seminar Room)
11:45am - 1:45pm

Moderator:

Law, Business, and Economics Workshop -- The Value of A Statistical Judgment: A New Approach to the Insurer’s Duty to Settle

Speaker:
  • Ezra Friedman
    Professor, Northwestern University

December 3, 2015 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium -- Technology Disruption and Legal Institutions in Nigeria

Speaker:
  • Funmi Arewa
    Professor, University of California, Irvine