Events Calendar
The TEXAS JOURNAL ON CIVIL LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS invites you to participate in its Spring 2015 Write-On Competition. We are seeking 1Ls, 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLMs with outstanding writing and editing skills and a demonstrated interest in civil liberties and civil rights.
If you are interested in applying for a position on the journal, please contact Amanda Moon at amandamoon@utexas.edu, or pick up an application at the circulation desk in the atrium.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Applications are due via email to amandamoon@utexas.edu no later than Friday, FEBRUARY 6TH, 2015, at 11:59 PM.
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/02/03/20171/JON 5.257
Roundtable discussion with AK lawyers.
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/02/03/20041/TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
Welcome back and grades discussion luncheon for 1Ls of the Sheffield Society.
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/02/03/20176/TNH 2.123 (Beck Classroom)
Solitary confinement is the practice of isolating prisoners from any human contact for 22-24 hours a day. Join ACS for a talk on the constitutionality and the effects of solitary confinement practices with Burke Butler of the Texas Civil Rights Project, Cindy Eigler, Director of Nation Inside, and Jennifer Carreon of the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. Alycia Welch, Legislative Aide to Rep. Elliott Naishtat, will also be in attendance to answer any questions; Alycia used to work with the LBJ School of Public Affairs and co-authored an investigative report on the safety and security of TJJD state secure facilities. Food provided!
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/02/03/20042/TNH 3.126 (Ratliff Classroom)
Join us for the first LSftA meeting of the semester on Tuesday, February 3rd, 12:30-1 in TNH 3.126. We'll be discussing our plans for the semester, including art excursions, the annual clinic in the spring, and volunteer opportunities. And lunch will be served!
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/02/03/20169/TNH 2.123 (Beck Classroom)
Screening of Aquí y Allá (Here and There), a 2012 drama film directed by Antonio Méndez Esparza. The film is about a Mexican immigrant who returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US, and struggles to rebuild his family and follow his dream of starting a band: the Copa Kings. The film won the International Critics' Week Grand Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
The event is hosted by the Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association, the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy, the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, and the Bernard & Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice.
For more information visit https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/02/03/19807/