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.
August 23, 2016 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - Oren Bracha
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Oren Bracha
William C. Conner Chair in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - paper presented by Oren Bracha, "Not De Minimis: Substantial Similarity in Music Copyright and Beyond"
August 25, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:00pm - 5:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Committee of the Whole Persons - 2015 – 2016 Supreme Court Term
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William E. Forbath
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
University of Texas -
John A. Robertson
Vinson & Elkins Chair
University of Texas -
Stephen I. Vladeck
Charles Alan Wright Chair In Federal Courts
University of Texas
Willy Forbath - Fisher v. University of Texas John Robertson - Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt Steve Vladeck - The Ever-Increasing Logistical, Doctrinal, and Constitutional Shadow of Justice Scalia’s Passing
September 1, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Calvin Johnson
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Calvin H. Johnson
John T. Kipp Chair Emeritus in Corporate and Business Law
University of Texas
Capital Gain
September 8, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Bruce Green // Fordham University
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Bruce Green
Professor, Fordham University
Commentator: Susan Klein
September 22, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Jennifer Laurin
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Jennifer E. Laurin
The Wright C. Morrow Professor
University of Texas
Accounting for Indigent Defense
Commentator: Maria Marsh
September 26, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Jason Cons
Sumudu Atapattu: "Extractive Industries and Inequality: Intersections of Environmental Law, Human Rights and Environmental Justice"
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Sumudu Atapattu
Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law School
The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.
September 29, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Robert Bone
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Robert Bone
Professor, University of Texas
Tyson Foods and the Future of Statistical Adjudication
Commentator: Patrick Woolley
Drawing Board Lunch - Abraham Wickelgren
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Abraham Lee Wickelgren
Fred And Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Abraham Wickelgren
October 6, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- “Digital Privacy, Present and Future: A Conversation on the Shifting Legal and Policy Frontier”?
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Robert M. Chesney
John Jeffers Research Chair in Law
Honorable James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs
Dean
University of Texas -
Stephen I. Vladeck
Charles Alan Wright Chair In Federal Courts
University of Texas -
Amie Stepanovich
AccessNow
October 10, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - Ronen Avraham
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Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Ronen Avraham
October 10, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Isabel Feichtner: "The Exploitation Bias in the Transnational Law of Natural Resource Extraction"
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Isabel Feichtner
Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, Goethe University, Frankfurt
The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.
October 13, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Jill Fraley // Washington & Lee
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Jill Fraley
Professor, Washington & Lee
October 14, 2016 Friday
JON 5.25711:30am - 2:30pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Third Annual Graduate Conference in Public Law: Methodologies in Comparative Constitutionalism
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Zachary S Elkins
Associate Professor (Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts)
University of Texas -
Gary J Jacobsohn
Professor of Government
Professor of Law
University of Texas -
Anna Fruhstorfer
Professor, Humboldt-Univerität Zu Berlin
This is the Third Annual Graduate Conference in Public Law! The topic that will be discussed is "Methodologies in Comparative Constitutionalism." Speakers for this special panel will include: Zach Elkins, Anna Fruhstorfer, Gary Jacobsohn.
October 17, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - Susan Morse
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Susan C. Morse
Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Susan Morse
October 17, 2016 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))4:00pm - 6:00pm
Patricia Tobón Yagarí: "Extraction, Indigenous Rights and Prior Consent"
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Patricia Tobón Yagarí
Emberá indigenous activist and lawyer, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia
The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.
October 20, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Frederick Vars // University of Alabama
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Frederick Vars
Professor, University of Alabama
October 24, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - Susan Klein
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Susan R. Klein
Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Susan Klein
October 27, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Christopher Robertson // University of Arizona
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Christopher Robertson
Professor, University of Arizona
October 31, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - Jens Dammann
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Jens Christian Dammann
Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Jens Dammann
November 4, 2016 Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:00pm - 5:30pm
Bookfest -- Jack Getman // The Supreme Court on Unions: Why Labor Law Is Failing American Workers
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Julius G. Getman
Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Emeritus
University of Texas
Commentators: Lance Compa - Cornell University Cindy Estlund - NYU
November 7, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:00pm - 5:00pm
Lucie E. White and William E. Forbath: "Using Ghana’s Oil Wealth to Promote Social Rights: A Vanishing Dream?"
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Lucie E. White
Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School -
William E. Forbath
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
University of Texas
The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.
Drawing Board Lunch - Jennifer Laurin
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Jennifer E. Laurin
The Wright C. Morrow Professor
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Jennifer Laurin
November 10, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Sam Bray // University of Texas
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Sam Bray
Professor, University of Texas
November 15, 2016 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - Melissa Wasserman
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Melissa F. Wasserman
Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Research
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by Melissa Wasserman
November 17, 2016 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium -- Ryan Calo // University of Washington
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Ryan Calo
Professor, University of Washington
November 21, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Lunch - H.W. Perry
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H W. Perry Jr
Associate Professor of Law
Associate Professor of Government
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
University of Texas
Drawing Board Lunch - paper presented by H.W. Perry
Law and Economic Seminar -- Max Schanzenbach
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Max Schanzenbach
Professor, Northwestern University
November 21, 2016 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Penelope Simons: "Violence Against Women and Resource Extraction"
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Penelope Simons
Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
The Colloquium on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality & Human Rights will address the human rights issues that arise in the context of natural resource extraction and governance, especially in relation to resources such as fossil fuels, minerals and timbers. Natural resource governance is fundamentally about who can decide which resources can be used by whom and about how decision-making around these questions should be undertaken. The outcomes of such decision-making have profound consequences for the distribution of wealth, power, authority and risk exposure at the local, national and international levels. Lectures will examine how persistent inequalities between and within countries pose additional challenges for the realization of human rights in relation to natural resource extraction.
Law and Economic Seminar -- Jennifer Bennet Shinall
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Jennifer Bennet Shinall
Professor, Vanderbilt