Faculty Colloquia and Events

We are excited to announce that the Robert Strauss Center at The University of Texas at Austin is partnering with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative to host a “regional” round of the Atlantic Council’s renowned cybersecurity policy competition. This stand-alone event will take place at the University of Texas School of Law on January 10th and 11th, with up to 20 teams vying for a title that includes not just bragging rights but also a cash prize for the top three teams (not to mention a deeply-enriching learning experience for all participants). Included in the two-day event will be a keynote speaker, as well as opportunities for professional development.

We are excited to announce that the Robert Strauss Center at The University of Texas at Austin is partnering with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative to host a “regional” round of the Atlantic Council’s renowned cybersecurity policy competition. This stand-alone event will take place at the University of Texas School of Law on January 10th and 11th, with up to 20 teams vying for a title that includes not just bragging rights but also a cash prize for the top three teams (not to mention a deeply-enriching learning experience for all participants). Included in the two-day event will be a keynote speaker, as well as opportunities for professional development.

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Commission on Civil Rights

Second-Best-Theory and the Determination of Legal Entitlements

• Second Best Theory

On Tuesday, February 5, 2019, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law is pleased to present Shirin Sinnar, Associate Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, for a talk on "Political Violence in the Age of Trump." From Charlottesville to Pittsburgh, resurgent white nationalism and new acts of domestic terrorism have prompted calls for new laws to respond to political violence. Should there be new domestic terrorism laws? Are hate crimes laws a useful response to violence directed at victims’ identities? Professor Sinnar will address how the law should—and should not—adjust to evolving threats while protecting core values of liberty, equality, and accountability. This is part of the Brumley Speaker Series.

• THE CONSTITUTION OF PARENTHOOD

Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the Era of FinTech

• Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the Era of FinTech

Urska Velikonja from Georgetown University will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Description: Drawing Board Luncheon - "Reverse Break-up Fees as Antitrust Signals" presented by Abe Wickelgren

• MAKING CONSUMER FINANCE WORK

Quinn Curtis of the University of Virginia will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Conference hosted by Prof. Sanford Levinson, Prof. Richard Albert, and Prof. Gary Jacobsohn.

The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1

The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1

Counterfeiting Confidence

• Counterfeiting Confidence

Description: Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Ronen Avraham

Joshua Mitts of Columbia will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Impeachment 2019

• Impeachment 2019

Description: Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Melinda Taylor

Pitfalls of Global Harmonization of Systemic Risk: Regulation in a World of Financial Innovation

• pitfalls_rev_texas.pdf

Constitutional Studies Luncheon, presenter Professor Gregory Downs, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

Professor Amnon Reichman will present "Constitutional Law and Politics in Israel: Illiberal Pressures, Campaign Finance Indictments and the Upcoming Elections" during our Constitutional Studies Breakfast.

Amnon Reichman, ’94, holds an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LL.M. from Boalt Hall, and an S.J.D. from the University of Toronto. His main areas of interest are constitutional theory, theories of regulation, adjudication and interpretation, comparative constitutional law (and human rights) and Law and Cyber. Prior to pursuing graduate work, he clerked for Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court, and worked as an associate at Abramson and Co. LLP. In Jerusalem. He recently served as the President of the Israeli Law and Society Association, and has published in the area of law and society (and law and culture).

Reichman has been on the faculty of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law since 2001. He teaches courses in constitutional and administrative law, and seminars on theories of judicial review, interpretation and judicial discretion, and law and cyber. He was a visiting professor at the National Judicial College (University of Nevada) in 2007, in Boalt Hall in 2006-7, in Cardozo School of Law in 2004, and a faculty fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) at Harvard University in 2000-01. He is currently a PI (Principle Investigator) at the Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law Under Extreme Condition, at the University of Haifa.

Reichman has published numerous articles on comparative and Israeli issues, including an article in CLR (examining the relationship between public confidence, the judicial role and the role of scholarship). His current project under submission analyzes different models of regulating judges and the production of justice.

Professor Justin Driver, “Are the public schools becoming constitution-free zones?”

Building Coalitions out of Thin Air: Rethinking Transferable Development Rights and “Constituency Effects” in Land Use

• Building Coalitions out of Thin Air: Rethinking Transferable Development Rights and “Constituency Effects” in Land Use

Eric Talley from Columbia will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Sean Williams

Immigration Federalism in the Weeds

• ImmigrationFederalismintheWeeds_March27TX (002).pdf

Horst Eidenmueller from Oxford University will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by John Golden, Due Process and Impartiality: A Troubled Pair?

A Meditation on Juliana v. United States

• Juliana - Texas.pdf

Drawing Board Luncheon - McCulloch After 200 Years presented by Sandy Levinson

Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, visiting Texas Law as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence, will speak on “Access to Democracy: Race, Citizenship, & Voting”

Lunch provided

Student Organization Cosponsors: American Constitution Society, The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association, and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society

Nelson’s visit as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence is supported by a generous gift from the G. Rollie White Trust. The program brings outstanding legal scholars, practitioners and advocates from the field of public service to Texas Law to foster discussion of issues related to public interest law, to raise the profile of lawyers working in this area, and to encourage students to view public service as an honored and expected part of every legal career. Nelson is Texas Law’s eighth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.

The Art of Fixing Prices: Ways of Price Making and the Problem of Markets in U.S. Energy Law

• The Art of Fixing Prices: Ways of Price Making and the Problem of Markets in U.S. Energy Law

Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Heather Way

Emotional Bargaining After Litigation: An Experimental Study of the Coase Theorem

Controlling the Enforcement Bureaucracy

• Controlling the Enforcement Bureaucracy

Stephen Choi from NYU will be the guest speaker at today's meeting of the Business Law Seminar, hosted by Professors James Spindler and Mira Ganor.

Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans

Constitutional Studies Luncheon, presenter Professor Joshua Braver, Harvard Law School. Talk Titled: We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making as Extra-ordinary Adaptation.

Joshua is Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law and received his Ph.D from Yale Political Science and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His research includes court-packing and conflicts over how to make constitutions. Joshua’s work has been published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the Georgetown International Law Review and his co-authored casebook, the U.S. Constitution and Comparative Constitutional Law was published by Foundation Press. He has also published shorter pieces in a variety of outlets, such as Politico, Dissent and Talking Points Memo.

Process as Product, Process as Punishment: Algorithmic Adjudication and Enforcement in the Administrative State

• Process as Product, Process as Punishment: Algorithmic Adjudication and Enforcement in the Administrative State1

Disagreement and Capital Structure Complexity

Find more information here: https://law.utexas.edu/2019-comparative-law-roundtable/