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.
January 10, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)
TNH 2.138 (Blanton Classroom)
TNH 2.139 (Wilson Classroom)
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)
8:15am - 4:15pm
Cyber 9/12 Challenge - Day 1
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.
January 11, 2019 Friday
TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)TNH 2.137 (Gayle Classroom)
TNH 2.138 (Blanton Classroom)
TNH 2.139 (Wilson Classroom)
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)
8:15am - 4:15pm
Cyber 9/12 Challenge - Day 2
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.
January 25, 2019 Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:00pm - 5:00pm
Committee of the Whole Person reception, with conversation between Doug Laycock & Larry Sager on religious liberty
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Lawrence Sager
Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
University of Texas -
Douglas Laycock
Alice McKean Young Regents Chair Emeritus
University of Texas
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Commission on Civil Rights
January 31, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Richard Markovits // UT Law
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Jeffrey B Abramson
Professor of Government
Professor of Law
University of Texas
Second-Best-Theory and the Determination of Legal Entitlements
February 5, 2019 Tuesday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
12:15pm - 1:45pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Political Violence in the Age of Trump
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Shirin Sinnar
Associate Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School
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.
February 7, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Douglas NeJaime // Yale Law School
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Douglas NeJaime
Professor, Yale Law
Law and Economic Seminar - Bobby Bartlett // Berkeley
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Bobby Bartlett
Professor, Berkeley
Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the Era of FinTech
February 11, 2019 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Business Law Seminar presents Urska Velikonja
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Urska Velikonja
Professor, Georgetown University
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.
February 18, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Abe Wickelgren
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Abraham Lee Wickelgren
Fred And Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law
University of Texas
Description: Drawing Board Luncheon - "Reverse Break-up Fees as Antitrust Signals" presented by Abe Wickelgren
February 18, 2019 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Business Law Seminar presents Quinn Curtis
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Quinn Curtis
Professor, University of Virginia
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.
February 21, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
February 21, 2019 Thursday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:00pm - 8:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Keynote
Conference hosted by Prof. Sanford Levinson, Prof. Richard Albert, and Prof. Gary Jacobsohn.
February 22, 2019 Friday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
8:00am - 5:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1
The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1
February 23, 2019 Saturday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
8:00am - 3:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 2
The Future of Constitutional Democracy Conference: Day 1
February 28, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Susanna Blumenthal // Princeton University
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Susanna Blumenthal
Professor, University of Minnesota
Counterfeiting Confidence
March 4, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Ronen Avraham
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Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas
Description: Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Ronen Avraham
Law & Economic Seminar - Aurelie Ouss // University of Pennsylvania
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Aurelie Ouss
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
March 4, 2019 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Business Law Seminar presents Joshua Mitts
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Joshua Mitts
Professor, Columbia
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.
March 7, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:15pm
Faculty Colloquium - Philip Bobbitt // UT
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Philip C Bobbitt
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
University of Texas
Impeachment 2019
March 11, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Melinda Taylor
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Melinda E Taylor
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas
Description: Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Melinda Taylor
Faculty Colloquium - Roberta Romano // Yale
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Roberta Romano
Professor, Yale Law
Pitfalls of Global Harmonization of Systemic Risk: Regulation in a World of Financial Innovation
Constitutional Studies Breakfast with Professor Amnon Reichman, Constitutional Law and Politics in Israel: Illiberal Pressures, Campaign Finance Indictments and the Upcoming Elections
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Amnon Reichman
Professor of Law, University of Haifa and University of California, Berkeley
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.
March 26, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:00am - 1:30pm
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: Professor Gregory Downs
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Gregory Downs
Professor of History, University of California, Davis
Constitutional Studies Luncheon, presenter Professor Gregory Downs, Professor of History, University of California, Davis
Professor Justin Driver, “Are the public schools becoming constitution-free zones?”
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Justin Driver
Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Teaching Scholar, University of Chicago Law School
Professor Justin Driver, “Are the public schools becoming constitution-free zones?”
March 28, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - David Schleicher // Yale
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David Schleicher
Professor, Yale Law
Building Coalitions out of Thin Air: Rethinking Transferable Development Rights and “Constituency Effects” in Land Use
April 1, 2019 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Business Law Seminar presents Eric Talley
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Eric Talley
Professor, Columbia
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: Sean Williams
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William M Sage
James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence
Professor (Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care)
Dell Medical School
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Sean Williams
April 4, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Jennifer Chacon // UCLA
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Jennifer Chacon
Professor, UCLA
Immigration Federalism in the Weeds
April 8, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: John Golden, Due Process and Impartiality: A Troubled Pair?
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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, Due Process and Impartiality: A Troubled Pair?
April 8, 2019 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Business Law Seminar presents Horst Eidenmueller
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Horst Eidenmueller
Professor, Oxford University
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.
April 11, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Lisa Heinzerling // Georgetown Unviersity
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Lisa Heinzerling
Professor, Georgetown University
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States
April 15, 2019 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Sandy Levinson, McCulloch After 200 Years
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Sanford V Levinson
W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair
Professor of Government
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon - McCulloch After 200 Years presented by Sandy Levinson
April 16, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.140 (Wright Classroom)11:45am - 1:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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.
April 18, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - William Boyd // UCLA
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William Boyd
Professor, UCLA
The Art of Fixing Prices: Ways of Price Making and the Problem of Markets in U.S. Energy Law
Drawing Board Luncheon: Heather Way
Drawing Board Luncheon - Paper Presented by Heather Way
Law & Economic Seminar - Yun-chien Chang // Academia Sinica
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Yun-chien Chang
Professor, Academia Sinica
Emotional Bargaining After Litigation: An Experimental Study of the Coase Theorem
April 25, 2019 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:30am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - Cristina Rodriguez // Yale Law
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Cristina Rodriguez
Professor, Yale Law
Controlling the Enforcement Bureaucracy
Law & Economic Seminar - Megan Stevenson // George Mason U
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Megan Stevenson
Professor, George Mason University
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
April 29, 2019 Monday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Business Law Seminar presents Stephen Choi
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Stephen Choi
Professor, NYU
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.
April 30, 2019 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:00am - 1:30pm
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: Professor Joshua Braver, We, the Mediated People: Popular Constitution-Making as Extra-ordinary Adaptation.
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Joshua Braver
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
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.
Faculty Colloquium - David Engstrom // Stanford Law
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David Engstrom
Professor, Stanford Law School
Process as Product, Process as Punishment: Algorithmic Adjudication and Enforcement in the Administrative State
Law & Economic Seminar - Ken Ayotte // Berkeley
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Ken Ayotte
Professor, Berkeley
Disagreement and Capital Structure Complexity
May 21, 2019 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))10:00am - 6:00pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Works-in-Progress Roundtable in Comparative Law
Find more information here: https://law.utexas.edu/2019-comparative-law-roundtable/