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May

• The Honorable Diane Wood to deliver keynote at Sunflower Ceremony, May 17, 2008
• Joe Jamail gives $10 million to the School of Law to support faculty excellence
• Law student Agapito Sustaita profiled in class of 2008 graduates who represent “world talent, Texas tradition”
• Opinion: Professor Thomas McGarity on why we should be worried about the recent Vioxx scandal, published in the Dallas Morning News [PDF]
• In Memoriam: Professor Roy M. Mersky, 1925–2008
• Professor Kristine Huskey to receive 2008 Public Interest Award from Travis County Women Lawyers’ Association
• Financial Times op-ed: UT Law Professor Henry Hu and Stanford Finance Professor Darrell Duffie on the Global Derivatives Market

April

• Faculty Focus: Professor William M. Sage
• Tower lighting honors Intellectual Property Moot Court National Champions, April 29, 2008
• Dean Sager to give religious freedom lecture at Austin Seminary, April 30, 2008
• Graduating law students receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
• Dean Larry Sager to address students, answer questions on the state of UT Law School, Thursday, April 17, 2008
• Transnational Worker Rights clinic recovers thousands in unpaid overtime [PDF]
• RELAW presents “An Austin Real Estate Firm Goes Public” on Thursday, April 17, 2008
• Rapoport Center hosts conference on El Salvador’s Civil War, April 17–18, 2008
• UT Law’s third annual Judicial Clerkship Workshop, April 10–11, 2008
• William M. Sage, UT law professor and vice provost for health affairs, co-sponsors lecture series on the ethics of science, April 4, 2008
• Faculty Focus: Meet Professors John Dzienkowski and Robert Peroni

March

• UT Law’s Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard Black featured in The Economist [PDF]
• Professor Jay Westbrook and the Texas International Law Journal to present an April lecture series on international insolvency
• The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice leads UT delegation to Brazil during Spring Break to study Afro-descendant land rights
• Federal Judge Hilda G. Tagle, ’77, to give keynote at 2008 CHLSA banquet, March 29, 2008
• Eighth Annual Symposium on Dispute Resolution, April 4, 2008
• OUTLaw presents Legal Advocacy Conference, April 4, 2008
• Justice Center selects University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
• 2008 Sealy Lecture features NYU Law Professor Burt Neuborne speaking on “Legal Redress Against Holocaust Profiteers”
• Author Susan RoAne to speak on using networking to find jobs, build careers, March 19, 2008
• Career Services Office hosts 8th Annual Small & Midsize Firm Reception, March 20, 2008
• Aaron Johnson awarded Faculty Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Interest Law
• Negotiators of U.N. Convention on Shipping to convene at Texas International Law Journal Symposium, March 27–28, 2008
• Former Guantanamo Bay Army Chaplain to speak at The University of Texas School of Law, March 10, 2008
• The Review of Litigation symposium: “Terror on Trial: Civil Litigation and the War on Terror,” March 27–28, 2008
• Immigration Clinic featured in The New Yorker article, “The Lost Children” [PDF]

February

• UT Law student groups host Progressive Week, March 2–5, 2008
• UT Law hosts Law Academy for minority high school students
• Faculty Focus: Supreme Court Historian Lucas A. “Scot” Powe
• Capital Punishment Center and the Independent Film Channel present death penalty program at the Texas Capitol, March 5, 2008
• Professor Rob Owen, Assistant Dean Rey Ramos, and Senior Office Assistant Michael Saldana honored
• The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights symposium: “The Roberts Court and the Future of the Fourth Amendment,” March 3, 2008
• Explore UT 2008: The Biggest Open House in Texas, Saturday, March 1, 2008
• Former Judge Justice clerks to speak on their lives in the law, March 4, 2008
• Free legal information provided at People’s Law School, February 23, 2008
• 2008 Chancellors
• Conference celebrates UT Law Domestic Violence Clinic’s 10th Anniversary
• UT Law hosts Color of Justice program for local minority high school students
• Janiece Longoria, ’79, named to UT System Board of Regents
• UT Law to host “How to Establish, Organize, and Operate a Successful Law Firm” on Saturday, February 16, 2008
• Research by Professors Henry Hu and Bernard Black on “Debt Decoupling” featured in Financial Times
• Teaching Excellence Award presented to Associate Dean Alexandra Albright
• Law students volunteer to assist devastated Gulf Coast communities
• Ninth Annual Intellectual Property Law Symposium, February 8, 2008

January

• Texas Law Review Symposium: “Harnessing the Power of Information for the Next Generation of Environmental Law,” February 1–2, 2008
• Tarlton Law Library’s Fourth Annual Rare Book Lecture, February 21
• Duke R. Ligon awarded the Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award
• Equal Justice Works Fellowship Class of 2008
• Dean Sager announces commitment to Loan Repayment Assistance Program
• The Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law hosts third annual symposium on international issues and domestic investment
• UT Law Workshop on Law & Economics
• Blogs by professors Brian Leiter and Wayne Schiess make list of ABA Journal’s top 100 law-related blogs
• Professor Mitch Berman leads Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory
• Capital Punishment Clinic named “Impact Player” for 2007 by Texas Lawyer
• Professor Forbath to lead Colloquium on Law, History and the Humanities
• Supreme Court Clinic faculty to discuss juvenile justice case at American Constitution Society event, January 10

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