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.
SCOTUS - Committee of the Whole
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Joseph R Fishkin
The Marrs McLean Professor in Law
University of Texas -
Mechele Dickerson
Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
University of Texas -
Jeffrey B Abramson
Professor of Government
Professor of Law
University of Texas -
Elizabeth W Sepper
Professor of Law
University of Texas
Joseph Fishkin Rucho v. Common Cause
Mechele Dickerson Lamps Plus Inc. v. Varela
Jeffrey Abramson Flowers v. Mississippi
Elizabeth Sepper American Legion v. American Humanist Association
September 5, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Andrew Koppelman // Northwestern
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Andrew Koppelman
Professor, Northwestern
The Corruption of Libertarianism: How a Philosophy of Freedom was Betrayed by Delusion and Greed
September 9, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - Susan C. Morse, Robots as Lawmakers, Robots as Lawbreakers (featuring TurboTax)
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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 Luncheon - Susan C. Morse, Robots as Lawmakers, Robots as Lawbreakers (featuring TurboTax)
September 10, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Andrew Young (Texas Tech University)
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Andrew Young
Director of Graduate Students, Research Fellow and Professor of Economics, Texas Tech University
Andrew Young is the director of graduate students and a research fellow at the Free Market Institute. He is also professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. He is a co-editor of the journal Contemporary Economic Policy and an associate editor for the Southern Economic Journal. He earned his B.A. in economics from the College of the Holy Cross and his Ph.D. in economics from Emory University. Prior to joining Texas Tech University, he taught economics at West Virginia University, University of Mississippi and Emory University. Prof. Young is the author of more than 60 scholarly articles and book chapters. His primary fields of research are constitutional political economy, institutional economics, and economic development. His recent research focuses on the political economy of late antiquity and medieval Europe.
September 12, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Stephen Vladeck // UT Law
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Stephen I Vladeck
Charles Alan Wright Chair In Federal Courts
University of Texas
September 13, 2019 Friday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
6:30pm - 9:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Shakespeare and the Law -- Twelfth Night
Free Admission. Reception followed by panel on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Panel members include David Kornhaber, Coordinator, AFTLS; David Kornhaber, Coordinator, AFTLS; Professors Angela Littwin, UT Law; James Loehlin, Director, Shakespeare at Winedale, and the Spirit of Shakespeare's players.
September 19, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP-LESLIE KENDRICK
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Leslie Kendrick
Vice-Dean and David H Ibbeken Professor of Law, University of Virginia, School of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
Law and Economic Seminar - Weijia Rao // University of Chicago
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Weijia Rao
Professor, University of Chicago
September 24, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Justin Collings (Brigham Young University)
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Justin Collings
Associate Professor of Law, Brigham Young University
Justin Collings is Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where he teaches constitutional law and torts. He is the author of Democracy’s Guardians: A History of the German Federal Constitutional Court, 1951-2001 (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Scales of Memory: Constitutional Justice and the Burdens of the Past (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2020). He holds doctorates in law and history from Yale and clerked for the Honorable Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
September 24, 2019 Tuesday
JON 6.206 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Teddy Rave (University of Houston)
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Teddy Rave
George A. Butler Research Professor and Associate Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
"It's Good to Have the 'Haves' on Your Side: A Defense of Repeat Players in Multidistrict Litigation" (with Andrew D. Bradt) -- forthcoming Georgetown L. J. 2019
ABSTRACT
Repeat players in multidistrict litigation (MDL) get a bad rap. When thousands of cases from all over the country are consolidated for pretrial proceedings, it's no wonder that the judge assigned to manage the litigation picks experienced lawyers to lead the effort. But critics argue that the small group of elite lawyers who show up again and again in leadership positions on the plaintiffs’ side of MDLs can collude with each other and with repeat players on the defense side to restrict competition and shape the rules of the game to their advantage—all to the detriment of the one-shotter clients that they represent. Those criticisms have gotten louder as MDL has grown to make up more than one-third of the federal civil docket and encompass some of the nation’s largest controversies, such as the opioid epidemic, the BP oil spill, the NFL concussion litigation, and many defective product cases. In this Article, we challenge this narrative, drawing on Marc Galanter’s seminal explanation for why the haves” come out ahead in litigation. Although the risks they pose are real, we argue that repeat players add significant value when they represent one-shotter plaintiffs, and that value may be worth running the risks. We show how MDL’s unique structure—its formal commitment to individualism but functional operation as a tight aggregation—allows repeatplayer plaintiffs’ lawyers to “play for rules” more effectively than either the class action or traditional one-on-one litigation. And with potential reforms to MDL procedure on the agendas of both the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and Congress, we urge policymakers and scholars not to lose sight of the significant benefits to plaintiffs of having repeat players on their side.
September 26, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Law and Economic Seminar - Sepehr Shahshahani // Fordham University
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Sepehr Shahshahani
Professor, Fordham University
October 1, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Julie Suk (The City University of New York)
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Julie Suk
Dean for Master’s Programs, The City University of New York
Julie Chi-hye Suk is dean for master’s programs and professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Liberal Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) – The Graduate Center. She is a scholar of comparative law and society, with a focus on women in comparative constitutional law. Her scholarship brings a global constitutional perspective to the new efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States. Her book on these themes, We the Women: The Forgotten Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment, will be published in 2020.
Professor Suk has authored dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals. Prior to joining The Graduate Center, Dr. Suk was a law professor for 13 years at Cardozo Law School in New York, with visiting professorships at the law schools of Harvard, Columbia, University of Chicago, and UCLA. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe, and has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome. In addition to master’s and doctoral degrees in politics from Oxford University, she holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in English and French Literature from Harvard University.
She has served as the section chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ sections on Employment Discrimination, Comparative Law, and European Law. She is on the Board of the National Center for Access to Justice.
October 3, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Mark Gergen // Berkeley
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Mark Gergen
Professor, Berkeley
Equitable Wrongs in Modern American Law
October 8, 2019 Tuesday
JON 6.206 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Sean Farhang (Berkeley)
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Sean Farhang
Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law, Berkeley
"Politics, Identity, and Class Certification on the U.S. Courts of Appeals" (with Stephen B. Burbank)
ABSTRACT
This article draws on novel data and presents the results of the first empirical analysis of how potentially salient characteristics of Court of Appeals judges influence precedential lawmaking on class certification under Rule 23. We find that the partisan composition of the panel (measured by the party of the appointing president) has a very strong association with certification outcomes, with all-Democratic panels having more than double the certification rate of all-Republican panels in precedential cases. We also find that the presence of one African American on a panel, and the presence of two females (but not one), is associated with pro-certification outcomes. Contrary to conventional wisdom in the scholarship on diversity on the bench, such diversity may be consequential to lawmaking beyond policy areas conventionally thought to be of particular concern to women and racial minorities.
Class action doctrine is a form of trans-substantive procedural law that traverses many policy areas. The effects of gender and racial diversity on the bench, through making more procertification law, radiate widely across the legal landscape, influencing implementation of consumer, securities, labor and employment, antitrust, prisoner’s rights, public benefits, and many other areas of law. The results highlight how the consequences of diversity extend beyond conceptions of “women’s issues” or “minority issues.” The results also suggest the importance of exploring the effects of diversity on trans-substantive procedural law more generally.
October 10, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Michael Sturley // University of Texas
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Michael F Sturley
Fannie Coplin Regents Chair
University of Texas
Making Sense of Batterton
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - LIAM MURPHY
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Liam Murphy
Herbert Peterfreund Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, New York University School of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
October 14, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - Abigail Moncrieff
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Abigail Moncrieff
Visiting Scholar
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - Abigail Moncrieff
October 14, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Michael Pal (Ottawa University)
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Michael Pal
Associate Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
Michael Pal is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and one of Canada’s leading experts on the law of democracy and comparative constitutional law. He has a J.D. and a doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he was a Trudeau Foundation Scholar, and an LL.M in Legal Theory from NYU. He is currently at work on a manuscript on the comparative constitutional politics of election commissions. He was the constitutional advisor for Ontario’s recent campaign finance reforms and is active advising election commissions and constitutional drafters in Asia and Africa.
October 17, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Law and Economic Seminar - Neel Sukhatme // Georgetown University
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Neel Sukhatme
Professor, Georgetown University
October 22, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation: Brian T. Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt Law School)
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Brian Fitzpatrick
Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
Colloquium for the Current Issues in Complex Litigation course with guest speaker Brian Fitzpatrick.
Faculty Colloquium - John Golden & Tom Lee
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John M Golden
Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation
University of Texas -
Tom Lee
Professor, Special Counsel to the General Counsel, Department of Defense; Leitner Family Professor of Law, Fordham University
Public Rights and Non-Article III Adjudication
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - KEVIN TOH
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Kevin Toh
Senior Lecturer: Philosophy of Law/Jurisprudence/Constitutional Theory, University College London, Faculty of Laws
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
October 24, 2019 Thursday
CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
4:00pm - 8:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Graduate Conference in Public Law Keynote
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Julie Novkov
Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
The Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin will hold the sixth annual Graduate Conference in Public Law on October 24-25, 2019. Reflecting the growing prominence of public law in political science, the conference will provide a forum to engage with common questions in the field.
The conference will consist of thematic panels, each featuring 4 papers and comments by a faculty discussant. Julie Novkov, Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, will deliver the keynote address the evening of October 24 in the School of Law.
October 28, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
October 29, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)8:00am - 9:00am
JAG Meeting with Brigadier General Susan Escallier
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Susan Escallier
Assistant Judge Advocate General, Military Law and Operations
Breakfast with BG Susan Escallier.
October 31, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Law and Economic Seminar - Guiseppe Dari-Mattiacci // Columbia University
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Guiseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Professor, Columbia University
November 5, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Yvonne Tew (Georgetown University)
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Yvonne Tew
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Professor Yvonne Tew writes and teaches in the areas of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and religion and law. Prior to joining the Georgetown Law faculty, she taught at Columbia Law School as an Associate-in-Law and was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at the New York University School of Law. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Professor Tew received her first law degree from the University of Cambridge graduating with Double First Class Honors in 2007 and completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Virginia Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Washington International Law Journal, American Journal of Comparative Law, Cambridge Law Journal, and in several book collections published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Edward Elgar Publishing.
November 5, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Howard M. Erichson (Fordham Law School)
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Howard M. Erichson
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
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Faculty Colloquium - Talha Syed // Berkeley
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Talha Syed
Professor, Berkeley
RETHINKING JUSTICE IN EDUCATION: FROM EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY TO DISTRIBUTIVE EQUITY
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - SOPHIA REIBETANZ MOREAU
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Sophia Reibetanz Moreau
Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
November 11, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon - Abe Wickelgren, Contractual Conditions
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Abraham Lee Wickelgren
Fred And Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - Abe Wickelgren, Contractual Conditions (co-author Ian Ayres)
Law and Economic Seminar - Time Friehe // University Marburg
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Time Friehe
Professor, University of Marburg
November 11, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
November 12, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: David Landau (Florida State University)
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David Landau
Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs, Florida State University
Professor David Landau is the Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs at Florida State University College of Law. He is the co-author, with Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa, of Colombian Constitutional Law, co-editor, with David Bilchitz, of The Evolution of the Separation of Powers, and co-editor with Hanna Lerner of Comparative Constitution-Making. He has published in various journals including the University of Chicago Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of International Law. Since 2012, he has been a founding editor of IConnect, the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
November 14, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
November 19, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics: Rivka Weill (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya)
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Rivka Weill
Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
Professor Rivka Weill of the Harry Radzyner Law School, IDC, was a Visiting Law Professor at Cardozo Law School (2016-2017), David R. Greenbaum and Laureine Knight Greenbaum Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School (Fall 2017) and Visiting Law Professor at Yale Law School (Spring 2018). In recent years, she received three times the IDC’s “Best Researcher in Law School” award (2012, 2015, 2017) as well as the IDC’s “Best Lecturer in Law School” award (2010). Her work focuses on constitutional law as well as administrative law with a focus on theoretical and comparative dimensions.
November 19, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Maureen Carroll (Michigan)
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Maureen Carroll
Professor of Law, Michigan Law School
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November 21, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Jennifer Nou // University of Chicago
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Jennifer Nou
Professor, University of Chicago
LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - REBECCA STONE
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Rebecca Stone
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
November 25, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)4:00pm - 6:00pm
Colloquium on Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Human Rights and Global Inequality: Law, History, Politics
Law and Economic Seminar - Cheri Metcalf // Queens University
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Cheri Metcalf
Professor, Queens University
December 3, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:45pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Richard J. Arsenault; Elizabeth J. Cabraser; James F. Murdica
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Richard J. Arsenault
Partner, Neblet, Beard & Arsenault (LA) -
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Partner, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (CA)
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LAW & PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP - MARK GREENBERG
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Mark Greenberg
Professor of Law; Professor of Philosophy, UCLA School of Law
The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with UT law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.
December 6, 2019 Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)8:00am - 6:00pm
December 6, 2019 Friday
CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)1:00pm - 2:15pm
December 7, 2019 Saturday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)8:00am - 6:00pm
Law and Economic Seminar - Kathy Spier // Harvard Law School
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Kathy Spier
Professor, Harvard Law School