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November 30, 2011
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, an award-winning documentary film that chronicles Guatemala’s internal armed conflict, and subsequent efforts to bring the perpetrators of massive human rights violations during that period to justice, will screen at the School of Law at 5:00 p.m. on December 1, 2011. -
November 28, 2011
Professor Linda Mullenix analyzes Mims v. Arrow Financial Services
Linda Mullenix, holder of the Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the Law School, has written an analysis of Mims v. Arrow Financial Services in the recent edition of the American Bar Association's Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. The case is expected to be heard at the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2011. Mullenix's preview is available on the Law School's website as a PDF. -
November 22, 2011
The University of Texas at Austin will launch a digital archive that consists of some twelve million pages of records from the Guatemalan Historical National Police Archive (known as Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional or AHPN), making online resources publicly accessible to researchers, human rights activists, prosecutors, and ordinary citizens. -
November 21, 2011
Professor William Sage receives honorary degree from French university
Professor William Sage, who serves as the University of Texas at Austin’s vice provost for health affairs and holds the James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence at the School of Law, has been awarded the degree docteur honoris causa by the Université Paris Descartes. -
November 18, 2011
Interview with Professor Barbara Hines to air on KLRU TV, November 20, 2011
An interview with Professor Barbara Hines, codirector of UT Law’s Immigration Clinic, will air on Sunday, November 20, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. on KLRU’s Access News. Professor Hines will discuss United States immigration policy and the Dream Act with host Tamara Suiter-Ocuto. More information is available on the Access News website. -
November 14, 2011
The Law School and Robert Brothers, ’11, honored by awards from Texas Access to Justice Commission
The University of Texas School of Law and one of its recent graduates were honored by awards from the Texas Access to Justice Commission on November 14, 2011. Robert Brothers, ’11, received the Law Student Pro Bono Award along with Sarah Loeffler, a recent graduate of the University of Houston School of Law. The Law School received the Commitment to Service Award. -
November 11, 2011
An interview with Sanford Levinson, holder of the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair at the University of Texas School of Law, will be aired on C-SPAN2's BookTV on Sunday, November 13, 2011, at noon Central Time. -
November 11, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to announce members of the centennial class of Chancellors, the Law School’s most prestigious honor society. Since 1912, Chancellors has recognized the law students who have achieved the sixteen highest grade point averages in their class through their second year of school. The most recent Chancellors will be installed as part of a one hundredth anniversary celebration in March 2012, to which all of the nine hundred living Chancellors will be invited. -
November 9, 2011
On Monday, November 14, 2011, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice will host a Human Rights Happy Hour featuring Professor Henry Steiner of Harvard University. Steiner will present a talk entitled “Muslims in Europe: Multiculturalism, Cultural Clash, Human Rights.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) at the University of Texas School of Law. -
November 7, 2011
UT Law examines capital markets, regulation, and the economy, November 11, 2011
The Massey Prize Symposium will bring nationally renowned experts on capital markets, securities markets, and economics to the University of Texas School of Law. The event is free and open to the public. -
November 1, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law and Career Services Office will present speaker Karen A. Lash, senior counsel for access to justice at the U.S. Department of Justice, on Monday, November 7, 2011, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) at the Law School. -
October 28, 2011
On Monday, October 31, 2011, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice will host a Human Rights Happy Hour. Professor John Ciorciari of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor will present a talk entitled “Archiving Memory after Mass Atrocities.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 3:30 p.m.–5:30pm, in the Sheffield Room (TNH 2.111) at the University of Texas School of Law.
