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February 14, 2011
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright will deliver the keynote address at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center’s seventh annual multidisciplinary conference, “Aftershocks: Legacies of Conflict,” on February 17 and 18, 2011. -
February 8, 2011
Law School to host “Federalism and Its Future” conference, February 10-12, 2011
Nationally and internationally acclaimed scholars and lawyers will discuss recent significant scholarship on the topic of federalism, both in the United States and abroad, at a three-day conference, “Federalism and Its Future,” hosted at the University of Texas School of Law on February 10–12, 2011. -
February 7, 2011
People’s Law School offers free legal education, February 26, 2011
People’s Law School offers free legal education, February 26, 2011. -
February 7, 2011
The Law School’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and Career Services Office will present speaker Jonathan Rapping, founder and CEO of the Southern Public Defender Training Center, on Tuesday, February 14, 2011, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Sheffield Room at the Law School. -
February 3, 2011
Law School cosponsors inaugural University of Texas Energy Forum, February 3-4, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law’s Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law is a major sponsor of the inaugural University of Texas Energy Forum, a student-initiated conference on February 3–4, 2011, that brings together a cross-section of the University of Texas’s faculty, students, and staff with industry, government, and NGO partners to explore today’s most pressing energy challenges. -
January 31, 2011
The Law School’s Actual Innocence Clinic and William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law will co-present a book talk with Dorothy Budd, author of Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope, on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Sheffield Room at the Law School. Christopher Scott, one of the men profiled in the book, will join her. -
January 31, 2011
On Monday, January 31, 2011, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice will host the first Human Rights Happy Hour of the spring semester. Dr. Claudia Briones from the National University of Río Negro in Argentina will present a lecture entitled “Bringing Anthropology to Court: The Promotion of Trialogues for the Enforcement of Indigenous Rights.” -
December 1, 2010
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law invites you to a talk, “Transatlantic Relations in the New Decade,” presented by Dr. Klaus Scharioth, German ambassador to the United States, on Thursday, December 2, 2010, at 1:15 p.m. in the LBJ Library Brown Room, 10th Floor. -
November 30, 2010
Oral arguments in Kristin M. Perry, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, et al. will be heard by a panel of three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday, December 6, 2010, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time, noon Central. The panel has given consent for live broadcast of the proceeding and the Law School will make this broadcast available in room 5.206 of the Susman Academic Center in Jones Hall. Refreshments will be available. -
November 22, 2010
On Monday, November 22, 2010, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice will host the final Human Rights Happy Hour of the fall semester. Professor Paola Bergallo, from the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will present a lecture entitled “Cycles of Right to Health Litigation: The Elusive Argentine Experience.” -
November 17, 2010
Sean Hagan, the general counsel of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C., will deliver the University of Texas School of Law’s Akard Lecture at the Four Seasons Hotel Austin on Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. Hagan, who is also the director of the IMF’s Legal Department, will speak on “Restructuring Corporate Debt in the Course of a Systemic Crisis.” -
November 16, 2010
Yale University Professor of Philosophy Thomas Pogge will lead a workshop discussion on his paper, “TRIPS, Human Rights, and the Health Impact Fund,” on Thursday, November 18, 2010, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., in TNH 3.124 at the University of Texas School of Law.
