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 2023

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August 14, 2023 Monday

11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Susan C Morse

Chalkboard: Fall Kickoff

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/93704159090?pwd=ejVlcExpV1UxbEdBOWlLNzY2R2Mzdz09

Meeting ID: 937 0415 9090

Passcode: 247564

August 31, 2023 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

William E Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - James Spindler, UT Austin

Speaker:

James C Spindler
Mark L. Hart, Jr. Endowed Chair in Corporate and Securities Law
Professor, UT McCombs School of Business
University of Texas

Wage Signaling, Salary History Bans, and Equality

2023.08.31 Informative Wages and Equality.pdf

September 5, 2023 Tuesday

JON 6.207 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers (6.207 / 6.208))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Abraham Lee Wickelgren

(NEW TIME & ROOM) Law and Economics Seminar - Manisha Padi

Speaker:

Manisha Padi
P, UC Berkeley

PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME AND LOCATION 3:55 to 5:45 in JON 6.207/8

September 7, 2023 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

William E Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - Salome Viljoen, University of Michigan

Speaker:

Salome Viljoen
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Valuing Social Data

2023.09.07 Valuing Social Data.pdf

September 11, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

John M Golden

Drawing Board Luncheon: Ronen Avraham

Speaker:

Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas

Drawing Board Luncheon: Ronen Avraham

September 11, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Rachel Rebouche: Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series

Join us for our first Fall 2023 Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Event, presented by Rachel Rebouche, Dean and the James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law. Kari White, Associate Professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, will respond.

Abstract: Antiabortion activists attempt to stop medication abortion by any means necessary, including through criminalization. They aim to redefine abortion’s location to criminalize abortion travel, information, and supply chain bans, and even to revive the long-unenforced and arguably repealed Comstock Act’s ban on mailing anything that induces an abortion. Some even attempt to target directly those who take abortion pills. This talk considers the reproductive justice implications for some of these efforts, with a focus on the ways in which attempts to punish people who provide or use pills will exacerbate the public health and criminal justice consequences that new abortion bans have wrought, entrenching existing class and race differences. It encourages abortion rights advocates to keep these implications at the fore of their own efforts to increase access to abortion pills through federal and state advocacy, including through FDA regulation, state abortion shield laws that protect cross-border telehealth, and pharmacist prescriptions of abortion pills.

September 12, 2023 Tuesday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Richard Albert

Lecture - "A Global Perspective on Unconstitutional Amendments"

Guest Lecture in Constitutional Law II course “Constitutional Amendments in the United States and the World.”:

Carlos Bernal

Justice (Retired)

Constitutional Court of Colombia

Current Commissioner on the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights

September 12, 2023 Tuesday

JON 6.207 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers (6.207 / 6.208))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Abraham Lee Wickelgren

Law and Economics Seminar - Emily Owens, University of California Irvine

Speaker:

Emily Owens
Professor, University of California Irvine

September 18, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Richard Albert

Constitutional Studies Luncheon - "Wither Republicanism in the Commonwealth Caribbean?"

Speaker:

Cynthia Barrow-Giles

Professor of Political Science

The University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Barbados

Cynthia Barrow-Giles (Whither Republicanism in the Commonwealth Caribbean).pdf

September 18, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation -- Jessica Erickson, University of Richmond Law School

Speaker:

Jessica Erickson
Professor, University of Richmond Law School

Guest speaker Jessica Erickson (University of Richmond Law School) -- The Business Of Securities Class Action Lawyering

This Article looks inside the black box of securities class action lawyering to explore the business behind these cases. Our study includes hand-collected data on all securities fraud class actions against public corporations filed between 2005 and 2018, a total of nearly 2500 cases. We find that the business of securities class action lawyering is far more complex than prior scholarship has recognized. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there are not two tiers of plaintiffs’ law firms; instead, there are multiple tiers of firms, each with its own client base, litigation patterns, and revenue model. Our study gives lead plaintiffs and judges the data and tools they need to understand these tiers and to compare the performance of the law firms within them. We also examine how these law firms are compensated, finding that judges’ fee awards fail to account for the difficulty of cases or the risk of non-recovery in any systematic way. These fees are crucial to ensuring that law firms pursue the right cases on behalf of shareholders, so we suggest ways that judges can use data to improve fee awards. As we will see, the path to reforming securities class actions starts with understanding the business behind them.

The Business Of Securities Class Action Lawyering

September 21, 2023 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

William E Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - Brittany Farr, New York University Law

Speaker:

Brittany Farr
Assistant Professor of Law, New York University Law

The Other Walker-Thomas: Reading Race in Contracts

2023.09.21 The Other Walker Thomas_UT draft.pdf

September 25, 2023 Monday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Richard Albert

Lecture - "The Moral Code of the U.S. Constitution"

Guest Lecture in Constitutional Law II course “Constitutional Amendments in the United States and the World.”

Franciska Coleman

Assistant Professor of Law; Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center

University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law

September 25, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Cynthia Conti-Cook: Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series

Join us for the second event in our Fall 2023 Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series presented by Cynthia Conti-Cook, Technology Fellow at the Ford Foundation. Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, will respond.

Abstract: Our digital devices and the corporate archives that support them have given police and other system state actors profound access to the details of our daily lives through legal maneuvers designed to circumvent constitutional protections from search, seizure and self-incrimination. All of this is happening in an ecosystem of data sharing across jurisdictions, state actor membership in corporate surveillance networks, and through new requirements for digital sharing of medical records. People forced into self-managed care for issues related to everything between birth through burial will increasingly need to rely on their digital bodies’ ability to safely traverse digital borders.

September 26, 2023 Tuesday

JON 6.207 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers (6.207 / 6.208))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Abraham Lee Wickelgren

Law and Economics Seminar - Ben Pyle, Boston University

Speaker:

Ben Pyle
Professor, Boston University

October 2, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Pamela Foohey, Cardozo School of Law

Speaker:

Pamela Foohey
Professor, Cardozo School of Law

Guest speaker -- Pamela Foohey

October 3, 2023 Tuesday

JON 6.207 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers (6.207 / 6.208))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Abraham Lee Wickelgren

Law and Economics Seminar - Adriana Robertson, University Of Chicago

Speaker:

Adriana Robertson
Professor, University of Chicago

October 5, 2023 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

William E Forbath

Faculty Colloquium - Henry Hu, Texas Law

Speaker:

Henry T C Hu
Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance
University of Texas

Decoupling and Motivation: Re-Calibrating Standards of Fiduciary Review, Rethinking 'Disinterested' Shareholder Decisions, and Deconstructing 'De SPACs'

October 9, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Aziza Ahmed: Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series

Join us for our 3rd event in the Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series presented by Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar at the Boston University School of Law Aziza Ahmed.

Abstract: Professor Aziza Ahmed’s talk interrogates the relationship between scientific expertise, evidence, and lawmaking. Largely through the example of the highly controversial forensic method known as the “floating lungs” test in the context of self-induced abortion and stillbirths, Ahmed argues that contestation around medical and epidemiological evidence shapes the regulation and criminalization of pregnancy-related outcomes. The stakes are high. Although in Dobbs, the Supreme Court ignored the role of experts and claimed to throw the question of who should decide when and how a person has an abortion to the people, tensions over science and medicine preceded the case and will continue. Abortion rights advocates, in part by attending to ways that science has been (mis)used in the criminalization of pregnant persons in the past need to examine purportedly neutral scientific and expert-based justifications in the legal regulation of the practice of medicine and medication more closely. Doing so will create new and necessary avenues for legal advocacy, including challenging when and where legal institutions legitimate misinformation about abortion or limit access to abortion based on science and evidence.

October 13, 2023 Friday

CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)
10:00am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

D Theodore Rave

Bookfest - Bob Bone, "Justifying Litigation Reform"

"Justifying Litigation Reform"

Lunch following in the Jamail Pavilion from 12-1pm

October 16, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Bob Bone, Texas Law

Speaker:

Robert G Bone
G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair Emeritus in Law
University of Texas

Guest speaker Bob Bone

October 17, 2023 Tuesday

JON 6.207 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers (6.207 / 6.208))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Abraham Lee Wickelgren

Law and Economics Seminar - Kyle Rozema, Washington University in St Louis

Speaker:

Kyle Rozema
Professor, Washington University in St Louis

October 23, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:45am - 1:00pm

Moderator:

Lawrence Sager

Constitutional Studies Luncheon - "What is Constitutional Interpretation?"

Presenter:

Gonçalo Almeida Ribeiro

Justice, Constitutional Court of Portugal

Discussant:

Lawrence Sager

Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair

University of Texas at Austin

October 23, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Ji Seon Sung: Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series

Join us for the 4th event in our Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series presented by Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law Ji Seon Sung.

Abstract: At a time when policing and medicine are colliding in the post-Dobbs landscape, the extent of hospital’s participation in policing and punishment merits attention. This talk argues that hospitals in the “free world” have become part of the carceral infrastructure. They perform functions essential to the operations of mass incarceration by identifying criminals, helping build criminal cases, preparing people for incarceration, and treating and returning people to imprisonment. Carceral authorities alter the complex, structured, and regulated hospital workplace by their immense formal and informal powers. This talk identifies this deference to and incorporation of carceral rules and practices as an expansion of the modalities of policing and custodial practices, pointing in part to the ways that hospitals perpetuate problems of mass incarceration, such as racial subordination and loyalty to carceral logics of “public safety.”

October 24, 2023 Tuesday

JON 6.207 (Susman Academic Center, The Judge William W. and Margaret R. Kilgarlin Chambers (6.207 / 6.208))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Abraham Lee Wickelgren

Law and Economics Seminar - Ken Ayotte, University of California Berkeley

Speaker:

Ken Ayotte
Professor, University of California Berkeley

October 30, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Jennifer E Laurin

Drawing Board Luncheon: John Golden

Speaker:

John M Golden
Edward S. Knight Chair in Law, Entrepreneurialism and Innovation
University of Texas

Drawing Board Luncheon: John Golden

October 30, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Joshua Macey, University of Chicago

Speaker:

Joshua Macey
Professor, University of Chicago

Guest speaker Joshua Macey

October 30, 2023 Monday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderator:

Richard Albert

Lecture - "The Illusion of Amendment Difficulty in Mexico"

Guest Lecture in Constitutional Law II course “Constitutional Amendments in the United States and the World.”

Andrea Pozas Loyo

Associate Professor

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

November 6, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

John M Golden

Drawing Board Luncheon: Elizabeth Sepper

Speaker:

Elizabeth W Sepper
Professor of Law
University of Texas

Drawing Board Luncheon: Elizabeth Sepper

November 6, 2023 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Priscilla Ocen: Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series

Join us for the final event in our Rapoport Center Reproductive Justice Colloquium Series, presented by Professor of Law at Loyola Law School Priscilla Ocen. Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies Nessette Falu will respond.

This event is co-sponsored by the Texas Law Pipeline Beyond Program.

Abstract: Since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, at least 24 states across the country have enacted draconian restrictions on abortion. While the form of these restrictions may vary, many have one thing in common: they are facilitated by the vast network of surveillance and punishment constructed as part of the “war on crime” that produced the largest prison population in the world. At every stage, law enforcement plays a critical role in restricting reproductive autonomy of people capable of pregnancy. Despite that policing is a critical component of anti-abortion restrictions, few pro-choice advocates have embraced critiques of policing or the broad use of law enforcement to address systemic social problems. This is a mistake. In this talk, I argue that to secure the right to reproductive autonomy, advocates and scholars must challenge the role of policing in care settings and question the fundamental role of imprisonment and punishment in our society through an abolitionist lens.

Sponsored by:

• Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice

• Texas Law Pipeline Beyond Program