Faculty Events Calendar: Colloquia, Workshops, Lectures and Conferences

Consistent with its longstanding commitment to fostering a communal environment of intellectual engagement, the Law School is pleased to host countless colloquia, conferences, and guest lectures throughout the school year. Many of these events are specially scheduled, one-time affairs. In addition, the school runs the following regularly scheduled series, which cover a range of formats and scholarly areas.

Upcoming Events

March 19, 2024 Tuesday

TNH 3.142 (Walker Classroom)
11:45am - 12:50pm

Faculty meeting

Faculty meeting and lunch

March 21, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Beatrice Fihn: Mobilizing Civil Society to Prohibit and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

Sponsored by Swedish Excellence Endowment, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment, and Texas Global.

Swedish lawyer and nuclear disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn will reflect on her Nobel Peace Prize winning work toward the 2017 adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Fihn led the mobilization of civil society, diplomats, scientists, and legal experts in support of the treaty. In her lecture, Fihn will speak on the ongoing threats posed by nuclear weapons, and on the power of movement-based advocacy to fight them.

March 22, 2024 Friday

Rapoport Center Spring 2024 Conference: Disarming Toxic Empire

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The world is at “90 seconds to midnight,” the closest it has ever been, according to the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. However alarming this prognosis is, nuclear disaster has long been in the making, demonstrated by decades of Indigenous, Third World, and feminist anti-nuclear advocacy. For decades, these advocates have recognized that nuclear and environmental threats and harms are intrinsically connected through legal, political, and economic structures of imperialism.

“Disarming Toxic Empire” will bring fresh, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to peace, nuclear disarmament, and environmental justice. Participants will consider and contest the unjust, imperial histories and geographies of nuclear testing, production, storage, and weaponry. The conference will bring together academics, advocates, and artists working through intergenerational channels of memory and justice to respond to nuclear toxicity in all its forms and manifestations, in sites ranging from the Navajo Nation and the Pacific Islands to Japan, North Africa, and Ghana.

The conference will open with a keynote address by 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). It will end with a performance of A Body in Fukushima by the movement–based interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake.

Hosted by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice of the Rapoport Center, the conference is a collaborative effort among many institutions at the University of Texas and beyond. Fihn’s keynote event is sponsored by the Swedish Excellence Endowment, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment, and Texas Global.

Co-sponsored by the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice; Swedish Excellence Endowment and The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation Excellence Endowment; Texas Global; Center for European Studies and France-UT Institute; Humanities Institute, funding support provided by Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts; the Charles N. Wilson Chair in South Asian Studies and the Department of Government; Planet Texas 2050; Center for East Asian Studies; South Asia Institute; the Oscar Brockett Center for Theatre History and Performance as Public Practice in the Department of Theatre and Dance; Briscoe Center for American History; the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies; and Rude Mechs.

March 25, 2024 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Mechele Dickerson

Speaker:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Mechele Dickerson

March 26, 2024 Tuesday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Law & Philosophy Workshop

Speaker:

The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of seven workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with both law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.

March 26, 2024 Tuesday

TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium - Erin Fuse Brown, Georgia State

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium closely studies the works-in-progress of leading scholars of health innovation from across the country and engages with the authors about their work.

Spring 2024 Speakers:

Feb. 6 – Ameet Sarpatwari – Harvard University Feb. 20 – Matthew Lawrence – Emory University March 5 – Wendy Epstein – DePaul University March 26 – Erin Fuse Brown – Georgia State University College April 9 – Myrisha Lewis – College of William & Mary April 23 – Rachel Sachs – Washington University

March 28, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:50pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania

Speaker:

TBD

March 28, 2024 Thursday

TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)
3:45pm - 5:30pm

Moderator:

Business Law Workshop - Tomer Stein, Tennessee

Tomer Stein presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

April 1, 2024 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon: James Spindler

Speaker:

Drawing Board Luncheon: James Spindler

April 2, 2024 Tuesday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Law & Philosophy Workshop

Speaker:

The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of seven workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with both law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.

April 4, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:50pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - TBD

Speaker:

TBD

April 9, 2024 Tuesday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Law & Philosophy Workshop

Speaker:

The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of seven workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with both law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.

April 9, 2024 Tuesday

TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium - Myrisha Lewis, William & Mary

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium closely studies the works-in-progress of leading scholars of health innovation from across the country and engages with the authors about their work.

Spring 2024 Speakers:

Feb. 6 – Ameet Sarpatwari – Harvard University Feb. 20 – Matthew Lawrence – Emory University March 5 – Wendy Epstein – DePaul University March 26 – Erin Fuse Brown – Georgia State University College April 9 – Myrisha Lewis – College of William & Mary April 23 – Rachel Sachs – Washington University

April 11, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:50pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Danielle D'Onofro, Washington University in St. Louis

Speaker:

TBD

April 15, 2024 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Theodore Rave

Speaker:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Theodore Rave

April 16, 2024 Tuesday

TNH 3.142 (Walker Classroom)
11:45am - 12:50pm

Faculty meeting

Faculty meeting and lunch

April 16, 2024 Tuesday

JON 5.206 (Susman Academic Center, Bryan and Michelle Goolsby Conference Suite (5.206 / 5.207))
3:45pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Law & Philosophy Workshop

Speaker:

The Law and Philosophy Seminar Workshop surveys different topics in legal philosophy and constitutional theory. Organized around a series of seven workshops, each features a different leading scholar who presents and discusses their own work with both law and philosophy faculty and the students in the seminar.

April 18, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:50pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Barry Friedman, New York University

Speaker:

TBD

April 18, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Steve Meili: “The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law: Implications for Refugees”

Professor Steve Meili (University of Minnesota) will present his book, “The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law: Implications for Refugees“.

April 22, 2024 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Jamein Cunningham

Speaker:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Jamein Cunningham

April 23, 2024 Tuesday

TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Moderators:

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium - Rachel Sachs, Washington

Health, Innovation, and the Law Colloquium closely studies the works-in-progress of leading scholars of health innovation from across the country and engages with the authors about their work.

Spring 2024 Speakers:

Feb. 6 – Ameet Sarpatwari – Harvard University Feb. 20 – Matthew Lawrence – Emory University March 5 – Wendy Epstein – DePaul University March 26 – Erin Fuse Brown – Georgia State University College April 9 – Myrisha Lewis – College of William & Mary April 23 – Rachel Sachs – Washington University

April 25, 2024 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:50pm

Moderator:

Faculty Colloquium - Maeve Glass, Columbia Law School

Speaker:

TBD

April 25, 2024 Thursday

TNH 3.124 (Neathery Classroom)
3:45pm - 5:30pm

Moderator:

Business Law Workshop - Edwin Hu, NYU

Edwin hu presenting an original paper in the Business Law Workshop

April 29, 2024 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 12:45pm

Moderator:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Erik Encarnacion

Speaker:

Drawing Board Luncheon: Erik Encarnacion