April 24th, 2013
Center for Women in Law Founder Janiece Longoria will be honored as the 2013 Strong, Smart, and Bold Winner by Girls Inc. of Greater Houston at the 17th Annual Smart, Strong, and Bold Celebration Luncheon on Thursday, May 9.
Attended by nearly 500 business and community leaders, the Smart, Strong, and Bold Celebration [...]
April 19th, 2013
Center for Women in Law Executive Director Linda Chanow will receive the 2013 Advancement of Women Award by the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association and the Travis County Women Lawyers’ Foundation at the 2013 Annual Grants and Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 26 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. The [...]
April 17th, 2013
Center for Women in Law Student Intern Maggie Cheu published her article Now and Then: How Coverture Ideology Informs the Rhetoric of Abortion in the Texas Journal of Women and the Law. The article posits that the ideology in support of early America’s laws of coverture impacts contemporary society’s assessment of issues relating to [...]
March 8th, 2013
On Thursday, April 11, 2013, the Center for Women in Law will welcome Professor Mahzarin Banaji, a foremost leader on the science behind unconscious thinking and feeling as they unfold in social context and the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.
Professor Banaji will speak [...]
March 8th, 2013
The Center for Women in Law will convene women leaders in law for the 2013 Women’s Power Summit on Law & Leadership on April 10-12th, 2013, at the Four Seasons in Austin, TX.
Held every two years, the Women’s Power Summit is one of the most significant gatherings of women attorneys in the country. Featured [...]
March 8th, 2013
The Center for Women in Law will host its 4th Annual Women in Law Institute, formerly Leadership Boot Camp, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 22, 2013.
The Women in Law Institute is a limited enrollment, all-day, intensive workshop for second and third-year law students, judicial clerks, and LL.M. students. Participants will [...]
March 1st, 2013
Center for Women in Law Founding Member Linda Addison will be honored by Girls Inc. at the 29th Annual Girls Inc. New York Luncheon- Celebrating Women of Achievement on Wednesday, March 13 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
The event honors the success of four exceptional women executives and one corporate honoree whose remarkable vision and [...]
March 1st, 2013
Director of the Center for Women in Law Linda Chanow has been selected to join an elite network of more than 5,000 women as a member of the Leadership Texas Class of 2013. Leadership Texas, now in its 31st consecutive year, is the first statewide program for women’s leadership development. The theme [...]
February 8th, 2013
Executive Director Linda Chanow was interviewed by DRI Publications in reference to the instrumental work that the Center for Women in Law accomplishes in association with the Consortium for Advancing Women Lawyers. Citing several instances of the Consortium’s success, including the 2011 Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership, Linda [...]
February 1st, 2013
Pamelya Herdon, executive director of the Southwest Women’s Law Center, is speaking at the University of Texas School of Law about her work using legal advocacy, research, and collaboration to improve opportunities for girls and women on February 5, 2013. Read more about this event here.