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.
Faculty Colloquium - Joy Milligan // University Virginia
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Joy Milligan
Professor, University of Virginia
January 19, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
January 23, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Carlos Bernal
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
January 24, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Alan Patten, Princeton
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Alan Patten
P, Princeton Univ.
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.
Faculty Colloquium - Lev Menand // Columbia University
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Lev Menand
Professor, Columbia University
January 26, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
February 1, 2023 Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Julie Suk | Fordham Law
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Julie Suk
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Julie Suk | Fordham Law
February 6, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation – Saul Levmore // University of Chicago
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Saul Levmore
P, University of Chicago
Saul Levmore
February 7, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Connie Rosati, UT Austin
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Connie Rosati
Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
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.
February 8, 2023 Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Lydia Tiede | University of Houston
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Lydia Tiede
Associate Professor, University of Houston
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Lydia Tiede
February 9, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Constitutional Studies | Book Launch “Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution” (Cambridge University Press)
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
February 16, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
February 20, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Jonathan Lipson // Temple
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Jonathan Lipson
Prof., Temple Law School
Jonathan Lipson // Temple
February 22, 2023 Wednesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:30pm
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Jill Lepore | Harvard Law School
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Jill Lepore
Professor of History, Harvard University
Colloquium on Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics | Jill Lepore
February 23, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
February 27, 2023 Monday
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
February 28, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Doug Husak
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Douglas Husak
Prof. of Philosophy, Rutgers
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.
March 2, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
March 6, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Maria Glover // Georgetown
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Maria Glover
Prof., Georgetown Law
Maria Glover
March 7, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))11:30am - 1:15pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Oren Bracha
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Oren Bracha
William C. Conner Chair in Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon: Oren Bracha
March 9, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloquium - JB Ruhl / Vanderbilt University
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JB Ruhl
Professor of law, Vanderbilt University
Zoom link
TBD
March 16, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism | Day 1
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism
March 17, 2023 Friday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism | Day 2
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism
March 18, 2023 Saturday
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)TNH 2.100 (Susman Godfrey Atrium)
8:00am - 5:00pm
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism | Day 3
The Global Summit on Constitutionalism
Chalkboard: Exams, Other Assessments, and ChatGPT
Zoom event for all instructors especially those that give exams, other summative assessments, and discussion on ChatGPT
March 20, 2023 Monday
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
"Schooling Free Speech" - Public Lecture by Justin Driver
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Justin Driver
R, Yale Law School
"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.
March 21, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Barbara Herman, UCLA
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Barbara Herman
Professor of Philosophy and Law, UCLA
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.
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Hoi Kong
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
March 27, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Adam Zimmerman // Loyola LA
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Adam Zimmerman
Prof., Loyola LA
Adam Zimmerman
March 27, 2023 Monday
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
March 31, 2023 Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)1:30pm - 3:30pm
Faculty Colloquium - Jennifer Doleac // A&M
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Jennifer Doleac
Prof., A&M -
Jamein Cunningham
Prof., Cornell
Zoom link
TBD
Constitutional Studies Luncheon | Meghan Morris
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
April 6, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
April 10, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:30pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Larry Sager
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Lawrence Sager
Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon: Larry Sager
April 10, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium on Current Issues in Complex Litigation - Danny Wilf-Townsend // Georgetown
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Danny Wilf-Townsend
Prof., Georgetown Law
Jonathan Lipson
April 10, 2023 Monday
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
April 11, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Tara Grove - UT Law
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Tara Grove
V, UT 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.
April 13, 2023 Thursday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
April 17, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:30pm
Drawing Board Luncheon: Calvin Johnson
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Calvin H Johnson
John T. Kipp Chair Emeritus in Corporate and Business Law
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon: Calvin Johnson
April 17, 2023 Monday
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Law and Economics Seminar - Megan Stevenson //
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Megan Stevenson
Professor of law, Virginia Law
April 18, 2023 Tuesday
JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))3:45pm - 5:45pm
Law & Philosophy Workshop - Robert Bone
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Robert G Bone
G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair Emeritus in Law
University of Texas
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.
April 24, 2023 Monday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 24
April 24, 2023 Monday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Colloquium Seminar on Current Issues in Complex Litigation
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Brent Wisner
Attorney, Wisner Baum
Guest speakers:
Brent Wisner -- Wisner Baum
Richard Meadow -- The Lanier Law Firm
Juge Lee Rosenthal -- United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
April 24, 2023 Monday
TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)3:30pm - 5:45pm
Law and Economics Seminar - Hannah Shaffer //
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Hannah Shaffer
Professor of law, University of Chicago
April 25, 2023 Tuesday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 25
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 26
April 27, 2023 Thursday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation | April 27
April 28, 2023 Friday
CCJ 2.306 (Eidman Courtroom)CCJ 2.300 (Jamail Pavilion)
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
Constitutional Studies Program | Brazilian Judicial Delegation
April 28, 2023 Friday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)11:45am - 1:00pm
Faculty Colloqium – Book Fest – Joseph Fishkin & William Forbath – The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
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Joseph Fishkin
P, UCLA -
Jed Shugerman
P, Fordham -
Laura Kalman
P, U.C. Santa Barbara
A discussion about Joseph Fishkin & William Forbath's book "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution"
May 16, 2023 Tuesday
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)8:45am - 5:30pm
- Gladys Sarabia
Administrative Law Roundtable
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.
May 24, 2023 Wednesday
JON 5.2578:45am - 4:15pm
- Trish D Mair
Intellectual Property Law Roundtable
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
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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: Sanford Levinson
Drawing Board Luncheon: Melissa Wasserman
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Melissa F Wasserman
Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Research
University of Texas
Drawing Board Luncheon: Melissa Wasserman