Events Calendar

The UT Law Career Services Office, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, and Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Jus

Come enjoy lunch and hear Professor Rob Owen talk about his experiences with the Capital Punishment Clinic. Sponsored by ACS.

The Career Services Office invites UT Law students and faculty to visit with both Dean Farnsworth and employers who will be participating in Public Service Table Talk.

Breakfast will be held from 8:30-9:30 a.m. in the Sheffield Room. Public Service Table Talk will be held in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and is open to all UT Law students.

Join leading business lawyers and academics at LLCs, LPs and Partnerships. The program provides great forms, model agreements, coverage of best practices for key clauses and provisions, and analyzes issues faced by practitioners.

View program and register online at www.utcle.org/conferences/PA12

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Join nationally-recognized construction lawyers and liability and insurance experts for the 2011 Construction Law conference.

View program and register online at www.utcle.org/conferences/CL12

Representatives from dozens of public interest organizations as well as federal and state government agencies will be on hand to answer questions about what they do and how you can assist them. Find out about volunteer opportunities, summer internships and paid positions with a variety of nonprofits, legal services providers and government agencies. All UT Law students are encouraged to attend.

The Environmental Law Society is hosting its first happy hour of the year on Thursday, September 13th at 6:00pm at Crown & Anchor, 2911 San Jacinto Boulevard. Come and meet other students interested in environmental law.

Join leading business lawyers and academics at LLCs, LPs and Partnerships. The program provides great forms, model agreements, coverage of best practices for key clauses and provisions, and analyzes issues faced by practitioners.

View program and register online at www.utcle.org/conferences/PA12

Join nationally-recognized construction lawyers and liability and insurance experts for the 2011 Construction Law conference.

View program and register online at www.utcle.org/conferences/CL12

ELS Speaker Series on Tuesday, September 18th at 12:00 pm in the Eidman Jury Room featuring Adam Abrams of the Texas Environmental Law Center. Mr. Abrams will talk about climate change litigation and the public trust doctrine. Lunch will be served.

The Student Affairs Office is holding a mandatory student organization meeting at 2:15 on Tuesday, Sept 18 in the Auditorium. All UT Law student organizations must have representation at the meeting. We’ll go over events, accounting, rules for publicizing events and how to use the many resources available to you as student orgs.

Please join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary, MISS REPRESENTATION, for the UT Community in the Francis Auditorium (TNH 2.114) on September 20. We will gather at 5:30 pm, followed by the moving screening at 6:00, and a brief discussion after the movie. SPONSORED BY: Center for Women in Law and Texas Wall Street Women

An Expert Panel to Consider: Do copyright protections hamper free speech? or facilitate it? Is a mash-up plagiarism? or creative expression? Does digitalization change the old rules?

Robert Levine, Editor and Author covering the culture business Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, George Mason University Neil Netanel, Professor of Law, UCLA

Created in response to the Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was borne of the Dodd-Frank Act, the most significant piece of financial regulation since the Great Depression. Together, the legislation and the agency that it created are supposed to make the financial system safer, but critics claim it is too convoluted to understand, let alone implement. Rob Ellsworth and Chris DiAngelo will explain how the Act came to fruit