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November 30, 2010
Professor Dan Rodriguez discusses gay marriage litigation from the last decade and previews potential outcomes of California’s Proposition 8 case. -
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 29, 2010
Law School Community Mourns the Loss of Noted Appellate Lawyer Gregory S. Coleman, ’92
It is with deep sadness and regret that the Law School has learned that Gregory Scott Coleman, ’92, died November 23, 2010, when the plane he was piloting crashed in the waters of Choctawhatchee Bay near Destin, Florida. -
November 23, 2010
Professor Emily Kadens Awarded Sutherland Prize, Recognizing Best Article in English Legal History
Professor Emily Kadens, Baker and Botts Professor in Law, was been awarded the Sutherland Prize, which recognizes the person or persons who wrote the best article on English legal history published in the previous year. The Prize was awarded to Kadens for her article, “The Puzzle of Judicial Education: The Case of Chief Justice William de Grey,” 75 Brooklyn Law Review 143 (2009). -
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 19, 2010
Opinion: Professor Robert Chesney on the mixed verdict in the Ghailani case
Robert M. Chesney, the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, took part in two online debates over the mixed verdict in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. -
November 19, 2010
The University of Cambridge has bestowed a remarkable honor on two UT Law professors, Jane Stapleton and Peter Cane, by electing them to the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professorship of Legal Science, one of the most prestigious visiting chairs in the common law world. -
November 18, 2010
Transnational Worker Rights Clinic Files Lawsuits on Behalf of Austin Low-wage Workers
The Law School’s Transnational Worker Rights Clinic, in cooperation with Austin’s Equal Justice Center, is providing legal representation to twenty Austin-area workers who are filing two separate wage-theft law suits challenging their employers’ failure to pay them the wages they were owed. -
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 17, 2010
Lulu Flores, ’80, was recently named National Latina Lawyer of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association, a new height in a career defined by public service. -
November 17, 2010
Two UT Law graduates earn highest scores on the Texas Bar Exam
Two UT Law graduates, Kathleen Ryan McCabe and Eric Christopher Greig, recently learned from the Texas Board of Law Examiners that they tied for the top score on the July 2010 Texas bar exam. Both earned 863 on the exam, and were recently interviewed about their reactions to their scores in the November 15, 2010, edition of Texas Lawyer. -
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.
