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March 7, 2011
Human Rights Happy Hour: Nostalgia de la Luz to screen with discussion following, March 7, 2011
On Monday, March 7, 2011, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice will host the second Human Rights Happy Hour of the spring semester: a screening of the film Nostalgia de la Luz (Memory of the Light). The screening, which is free and open to the public, will take place this afternoon at the University of Texas School of Law, TNH 2.140 from 3:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. -
March 7, 2011
Supreme Court decides Switzer v. Skinner in favor of Capital Punishment Clinic client
The Supreme Court has issued its decision in Skinner v. Switzer in favor of Hank Skinner, who is represented by the Law School’s Capital Punishment Clinic. -
March 7, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City have announced a new dual-degree program that will allow students to earn both a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law and a Licenciatura en Derecho (Mexican professional degree in law) from ITAM. Lawrence Sager, dean of the UT Law School, and Jorge Cerdio, dean of the Department of Law at ITAM, signed the agreement at a ceremony in UT Law’s Susman Academic Center on March 5, 2011. -
March 3, 2011
This year, Assault & Flattery presents Motion's 11, a new satirical musical written, directed, and performed entirely by UT Law students. -
February 28, 2011
Law School hosts events for children and teens as part of Explore UT, Saturday, March 5, 2011
On Saturday, March 5, 2011, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the University of Texas at Austin will host “the biggest open house in Texas”—Explore UT. This annual event is a hands-on introduction to the University to schoolchildren from kindergarten through high school through a variety of events, performances, lectures, exhibits, and other activities. -
February 28, 2011
Renowned attorney, author, and professor Lawrence Lessig will give the keynote address, “The ‘Corruption’ of our System of Money and Politics,” at an event hosted at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, February 28, 2011. -
February 24, 2011
The University of Texas School of Law’s Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights and the Immigration and Nationality Section of the State Bar of Texas will cosponsor a symposium about the controversial immigration issues on the United States-Mexico border on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. -
February 24, 2011
Third-year law student awarded Julius Glickman Fellowship to pursue worker rights project
The University of Texas School of Law’s Justice Corps program recently awarded the Julius Glickman Fellowship in Public Interest Law to third-year student Claire Rodriguez. The two-year fellowship provides $45,000 per year for full-time legal work on a project sponsored by an existing public-interest legal organization and supervised by a licensed attorney. -
February 22, 2011
Professor Henry Hu, who holds the Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the Law School, served as the guest host of CNBC’s flagship morning program Squawk Box on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. -
February 17, 2011
The Law School’s interscholastic team won a national championship at the John L. Costello National Criminal Law Trial Advocacy Competition, held in Fairfax, Virginia, February 10–13, 2011. -
February 14, 2011
Justin Driver, an assistant professor at the Law School, has written a review of Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel's Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion in the New Republic. -
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.
