Faculty Colloquia and Events

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https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96423889140

• WE (WHO ARE NOT) THE PEOPLE: INTERPRETING THE UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION

SPEAKER:

Carlos Bernal

Justice, Constitutional Court of Colombia

Professor, University of Dayton

Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

DISCUSSANT:

Lawrence Sager

Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair

University of Texas School of Law

MODERATOR:

Richard Albert

William Stamps Farish Professor in Law

University of Texas 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.

• Religious Liberty in the Time of Pandemic

Zoom Link

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92521995992

Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Julie Suk | Fordham Law

Saul Levmore

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.

• Obergefell v. Hodges and Fundamental Rights

Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Lydia Tiede

Zoom link

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/98577523716

Join the Constitutional Studies Program over lunch for a special event to launch “Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution” (Cambridge University Press), featuring three of the authors discussing their chapters.

Details on the book are available here: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/constitutional-and-administrative-law/amending-americas-unwritten-constitution?format=HB

SPEAKERS:

Vikram Amar, Dean, Iwan Foundation Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law

Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair, University of Texas School of Law

Mark Tushnet William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus Harvard Law School

DISCUSSANT:

Rhonda Evans, Senior Lecturer and Director-Edward A. Clark Center for Australia and New Zealand Studies, University of Texas at Austin

MODERATOR:

Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law

Zoom link

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92521995992

Jonathan Lipson // Temple

Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Jill Lepore

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TBD

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.

• Six Questions About Overcriminalization And Decriminalization.pdf

Zoom link

https://utexas.zoom.us/j/97022242289

Maria Glover

Drawing Board Luncheon: Oren Bracha

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TBD

The Global Summit on Constitutionalism

The Global Summit on Constitutionalism

The Global Summit on Constitutionalism

Zoom event for all instructors especially those that give exams, other summative assessments, and discussion on ChatGPT

"Schooling Free Speech" is a public lecture by Justin Driver, Texas Law's inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor and the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School.

Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory and is the author of The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. The book was selected as a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review. The Schoolhouse Gate also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law, and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.

A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. An elected member of the American Law Institute and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Driver is also an editor of the Supreme Court Review. In 2021, President Biden appointed Driver to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Driver is a graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), Duke (where he received certification to teach public school), and Harvard Law School (where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review). After graduating from Harvard, Driver clerked for then-Judge Merrick Garland, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.), and Justice Stephen Breyer.

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.

• Duty and Discipline_The Interior Structures of a Plausible Deontology.pdf

Adam Zimmerman

SPEAKER

Hoi Kong Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

DISCUSSANT:

Sandy Levinson

W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair

University of Texas School of Law

MODERATOR:

Richard Albert

William Stamps Farish Professor in Law

University of Texas School of Law

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TBD

Speaker:

Meghan Morris | Assistant Professor of Law | University of Cincinatti

Discussant:

Susie Morse | Angus G. Wynne, Sr. Professor in Civil Jurisprudence, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs | The University of Texas School of Law

• Paramilitary Property

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TBD

Jonathan Lipson

Drawing Board Luncheon: Larry Sager

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.

• Is Textualism at War with Statutory Precedent?

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TBD

Drawing Board Luncheon: Calvin Johnson

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.

• Justifying Procedural Reform

Guest speakers:

Brent Wisner -- Wisner Baum

Richard Meadow -- The Lanier Law Firm

Juge Lee Rosenthal -- United States District Court, Southern District of Texas

Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 24

Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 25

Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 26

Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 27

A discussion about Joseph Fishkin & William Forbath's book "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution"

Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation

The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to host the eighth annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 16-17, 2023. Texas Law’s Prof. Melissa Wasserman and Prof. Wendy Wagner are organizing the event.

The Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable is an annual event, hosted by a rotating series of law schools, at which approximately 12 authors workshop their papers in a series of individual sessions, one for each paper, over the course of a day and a half. Each paper is introduced by a senior scholar who comments on the work and facilitates discussion of it with all participants. Papers are chosen by the multi-school organizing committee from a public call for proposals that is announced several months in advance of the event. Authors must have less than 10 years of tenure-track teaching.

The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to host the Intellectual Property Law Roundtable on May 24, 2023. Texas Law’s Prof. Melissa Wasserman is organizing the event.

Drawing Board Luncheon: Sanford Levinson

Drawing Board Luncheon: Melissa Wasserman