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 2020

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September 3, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Katie Eyer // Rutgers

Speaker:

Katie Eyer
Professor, Rutgers University

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Claiming Disability

September 10, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Zachary Clopton // Northwestern

Speaker:

Zachary Clopton
Professor, Northwestern University

Topic: Faculty Colloquium

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September 14, 2020 Monday

11:45am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

John M Golden

Drawing Board: Larry Sager

Speaker:

Lawrence Sager
Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
University of Texas

Drawing Board with paper presented by Professor Lawrence Sager. This Drawing Board will be held over Zoom.

September 15, 2020 Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Tali Regev // IDC Herzliya

Speaker:

Tali Regev
Professor, IDC Herzliya

September 17, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Fred Smith // Emory University

Speaker:

Fred Smith
Professor, Emory University

https://utexas.zoom.us/s/99431477976

Time Equality and Death_9.10.20.pdf

September 21, 2020 Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Karen Engle

Aaron Benanav: “Automation and the Future of Work in the Global Pandemic Economy”

Speaker:

Aaron Benanav
Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin

This is the first lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

September 22, 2020 Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Rosa Ferrer // U Pompeu Fabra

Speaker:

Rosa Ferrer
Professor, University of Pompeu Fabra

Consumers' Costly Responses to Product-Harm Crises

September 24, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Curtis Milhaupt // Stanford University

Speaker:

Curtis Milhaupt
Professor, Stanford Law School

https://utexas.zoom.us/s/99431477976

Shifting Influences on Corporate Governance: Capital Market Completeness and Policy Channeling

October 2, 2020 Friday

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Bookfest - Karen Engle

Speaker:

Karen Engle
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law
Founder and Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
University of Texas

https://utexas.zoom.us/s/95425405986

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* Lila Abu-Lughod Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science Columbia University Department of Anthropology

* Janet Halley Royall Professor of Law Harvard Law School

* Samuel Moyn Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence Yale Law School, and Professor of History, Yale University

October 5, 2020 Monday

11:45am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

John M Golden

Drawing Board: Getting Derivative Works Straight by Oren Bracha

Speaker:

Oren Bracha
William C. Conner Chair in Law
University of Texas

Drawing Board Getting Derivative Works Straight presented by Oren Bracha

October 5, 2020 Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Karen Engle

Prabha Kotiswaran: “An Ode to Altruism: How Indian Courts Value Unpaid Domestic Work”

Speaker:

Prabha Kotiswaran
Professor of Law & Social Justice, King’s College London

This is the second lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

October 6, 2020 Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Michal Gal // University of Haifa

Speaker:

Michal Gal
Professor, University of Haifa

Radical Restorative Remedies for Digital Markets

October 8, 2020 Thursday

11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Crystal Yang // Harvard Law

Speaker:

Crystal Yang
Professor, Harvard Law School

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Equal Protection Under Algorithms: A New Statistical and Legal Framework

October 12, 2020 Monday

11:45am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

John M Golden

Drawing Board: Denise Gilman

Speaker:

Denise L Gilman
Clinical Professor
Co-Director, Immigration Clinic
University of Texas

Drawing Board with paper presented by Denise Gilman

October 13, 2020 Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Florian Baumann // University of Bonn

Speaker:

Florian Baumann
Professor, University of Bonn

October 15, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:30pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Bookfest - Samy Ayoub Bookfest

Speaker:

Samy Ayoub
Assistant Professor of Law
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas

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October 19, 2020 Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Karen Engle

Adelle Blackett: “Racial Capitalism’s Challenge to International Labor Law: Addressing Prison Labor in the U.S."

Speakers:

Adelle Blackett
Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labor Law and Development, McGill University
Respondent: Bedour Alagraa
Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin

This is the third lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

October 23, 2020 Friday

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Moderator:

William E Forbath

Bookfest - Jordan and Carol Steiker Bookfest

Speakers:

Jordan M Steiker
Judge Robert M Parker Endowed Chair in Law
Co-Director - Capital Punishment Center
University of Texas
Carol Steiker
Professor, Harvard Law School
Sandra Babcock
Professor, Cornell
Karen Engle
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law
Founder and Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
University of Texas
Ariel E Dulitzky
Clinical Professor
Director, Human Rights Clinic
University of Texas

Meeting Topic: Jordan and Carol Steiker Bookfest Meeting Time: Oct 23, 2020 02:45 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Comparative Capital Punishment - Chapter 19

October 26, 2020 Monday

11:45am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

John M Golden

Drawing Board: presented by Jens Dammann, “Taming the Corporate Leviathan: Codetermination and the Democratic State” (coauthored with Horst Eidenmüller)

Speaker:

Jens Christian Dammann
Ben H. and Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law
University of Texas

Drawing Board “Taming the Corporate Leviathan: Codetermination and the Democratic State” (coauthored with Horst Eidenmüller) presented by Jens Dammann

October 27, 2020 Tuesday

12:00pm - 1:45pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Andrea Chandrasekher // UC Davis

Speaker:

Andrea Chandrasekher
Professor, University of California @ Davis

ZOOM TBD

October 29, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Sanjukta Paul // Wayne State

Speaker:

Sanjukta Paul
Professor, Wayne State

Meeting Topic: Faculty Colloquium https://utexas.zoom.us/s/99431477976

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Solidarity in the Shadow of Antitrust: Labor and the Legal Idea of Competition

October 30, 2020 Friday

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Moderator:

Lawrence Sager

Special Election Colloquium

Speakers:

Joseph R Fishkin
The Marrs McLean Professor in Law
University of Texas
Sean Theriault
Professor, UT Government
Joshua Geltzer
Professor, Georgetown University
Myrna Perez
Professor, The Brennan Center

Registration required.

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92519601722

November 2, 2020 Monday

4:15pm - 6:15pm

Moderator:

Karen Engle

Juan De Lara: “Essential Workers or Disposability Politics? Organizing in the Age of Pandemic Capitalism”

Speakers:

Juan De Lara
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Respondent: Sharmila Rudrappa
Professor of Sociology, Director of the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin

This is the fourth lecture in our Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

November 3, 2020 Tuesday

11:45am - 1:15pm

Moderators:

Law and Economic Seminar - Adi Leibotich // Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Speaker:

Adi Leibovitch
Professo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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November 5, 2020 Thursday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Oren Bracha

Faculty Colloquium - Jody Armour // USC Gould

Speaker:

Jody Armour
Professor, USC Gould

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November 5, 2020 Thursday

12:30pm - 1:45pm

Moderator:

Gladys Sarabia

Lives in the Law with climate justice activist Colette Pichon Battle

Lives in the Law with Colette Pichon Battle, Founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy.

Colette Pichon Battle, Founder and Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, will speak on "Climate Justice as Racial Justice" and answer questions about her work.

Battle's work focuses on equitable disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development, climate justice and energy democracy. For more information about Battle and her organization, see https://www.gcclp.org/

For more information about the event and to register, visit https://law.utexas.edu/publicinterest/events/lives-in-the-law-colette-pichon-battle/.

Q&A led by Kelly Haragan of the Texas Law Environmental Clinic

Sponsored by the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and Career Services Office

Co-sponsored by the Center for Women in Law, Public Interest Law Association, and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society