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November

• Lives in the Law: Nina Perales of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund to speak on November 10, 2009
• 2010 Chancellors announced
• UT Law partners with University of St. Gallen’s Executive Master of Business Law Program; Texas Lt. Governor is featured speaker at judicial luncheon
• Commentary in Detroit News: Charles Silver and coauthor David Hyman write “Only pay for health care that works” (PDF)

October

• Professors Jeffrey Abramson and Lucas A. Powe Jr. present their latest books at Texas Book Festival, October 31–November 1, 2009
• Professors Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner win grand prize at Hamilton Book Awards for their book, Bending Science
• Texas Law Fellowships hosts annual auction to fund public interest law projects, November 5, 2009
• Human Rights Clinic at UT Law releases report on human rights violations in Argentine mining community
• Classics, law professors to debate merits of big time college football, October 28, 2009
• Michael J. Sandel to speak on "Just Discrimination: Is it Ever Right to Discriminate?" at UT Law, Friday, October 30, 2009
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Murhabazi Namegabe to speak on "Children and Armed Conflict," Monday, October 26, 2009
• Actual Innocence Clinic helps exonerate wrongfully convicted men
• Author interview in the Austin American-Statesman: Professor Kristine Huskey traces her journey from Alaska to Gitmo in new book (PDF)
• Professor Kristine Huskey to discuss new book, Justice at Guantanamo, October 21, 2009
• William Sage, Law School professor and vice provost, elected to Institute of Medicine
• In Memoriam: The Honorable William Wayne Justice, 1920–2009
• Law student John Chen awarded a Gordon Barrows scholarship from the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
• Henry Hu testifies for SEC on derivatives regulation before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services
• Study Abroad Fair, October 7, 2009
• Five students named Public Service Scholars with the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law
• Four UT Law students receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
• New academic and clinical faculty at the School of Law

September

• National Security clinic obtains release and resettlement for Guantanamo client
• United States signs U.N. Convention that UT Professor Michael Sturley played a key role in negotiating and drafting
• UT Law’s Texas Law Veterans Association cosponsors free legal clinic for veterans, October 2, 2009
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Lisa Hajjar to speak on “Does Torture Work?” Monday, September 28, 2009
• Discussion on capital punishment and the Supreme Court, September 30, 2009
• UT Law launches mobile web app for the iPhone
• Shakespeare & the Law: scenes and panel on legal issues from King Lear, September 23, 2009
• UT Law Professor Henry Hu named first director of the SEC’s new Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation
• MALDEF to honor Professor Barbara Hines with Excellence in Legal Service Award, September 18, 2009
• UT Law Day, annual Admissions open house, to be held October 2, 2009
• Town hall meeting with Dean Larry Sager,
  Tuesday, September 15, 2009
• The Least of These, a documentary on the Immigration Clinic’s work at the T. Don Hutto detention center, to screen at UT Law September 17, 2009
• Opinion: Robert Chesney on counterterrorism and the detention debate in The Washington Post (PDF)
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Sarah Snyder to speak on “The Development and Influence of Helsinki Watch,” Monday, September 14, 2009
• Student Organization Fair, Tuesday, September 1, 2009

August

• Opinion: Charles Silver on malpractice litigation and health care reform in the Washington Times (PDF)
• Professor Robert Chesney appointed as advisor to President Obama’s Detainee Policy Task Force
• Law School and LBJ collaboration results in national study on juvenile offenders
• Energy Law Evolves: Law School launches the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law
• Immigration Clinic celebrates success with closure of Hutto immigration detention center

July

• UT Law’s Fifth Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Jordan Pollock
• Opinion: Professor Ronen Avraham on the private regulation of medicine in the Huffington Post
• National leaders to provide training in collaboration and conflict resolution, July 29–31, 2009
• Professor Charles Silver to receive award from American Bar Association
• Professor William Forbath becomes a regular contributor to the Arena at Politico.com
• Professor Cantu discusses the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor on “Good Day Austin”

June

• CNN Commentary: Lucas A. Powe on Sotomayor’s reversal
• A Message from the Dean
• Center for Women in Law hosted “Women’s Power Summit on Law and Leadership”
• Opinion: Is Judge Sotomayor a judicial activist? Professors Cross and Lindquist, authors of Measuring Judicial Activism, weigh in (PDF)
• CNN Commentary: Jay Westbrook on “What bankruptcy could do for GM”
• Professors Graglia and Torres debate Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor on “Good Day Austin”

May

• Law student Hannah Miller profiled in class of 2009 graduates for her work reshaping the future of the juvenile justice system
• Texas Access to Justice Commission honors three UT Law alumni for major contributors to Texas legal aid efforts
• Professor Katherine Litvak to present at Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
• Tarlton Law Library publishes Anthony Taussig’s Blackstone and His Contemporaries
• The Honorable Edward C. Prado to deliver keynote at the 2009 Sunflower Ceremony, May 23, 2009
• Ronald Mann, ’85, leading commercial law scholar, to join UT Law faculty
• Terry O. Tottenham, ’70, president elect of Texas State Bar
• Professor Scot Powe discusses, signs new book about history of Supreme Court, May 4, 2009
• Jim Lehrer NewsHour interview: Professor Jay Westbrook analyzes Chrysler’s move to file for federal bankruptcy protection

April

• UT Law’s Jessica Cassidy, ’09, awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowship to practice public-interest law in Austin
• Professor Bernard Black comments on the economic outlook at President Obama’s first 100 days in office
• “Law & Innovation: the Embryonic Stem Cell Controversy” conference, May 1–2, 2009
• Justice Center announces George M. Fleming Public Interest Summer Fellowship
• Rapoport Center presents “Law, Locality, and International Human Rights,” a roundtable discussion with Shirin Ebadi, April 29, 2009
• University of Texas Tower to be lit April 29, 2009, for Law School’s Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court Competition championship
• Austin City Council candidates to face off in Earth Day forum at UT Law, April 22, 2009
• Law Alumni Association announces 2009 award recipients
• Graduating law students receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
• Capital Punishment Center conference on race and the death penalty, April 16, 2009
• Delegation returns from fact-finding trip on the human rights of Afro-Ecuadorians
• Texas Bar Foundation awards Review of Litigation article Outstanding Law Review Article Award
• Wall Street Journal Opinion: Henry Hu on ‘Empty Creditors’ and the Crisis — How Goldman’s $7 billion was ‘not material’ (PDF)
• Ninth Annual Symposium on Dispute Resolution to take place at Law School on April 23, 2009
• UT Law launches Human Rights Clinic
• Criminal Defense Clinic celebrates thirty-five years of teaching students, representing clients
• UT Law wins National Championship in 2009 Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court Competition

March

• Judges in Residence series features U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, March 30–31, 2009
• Justice Center announces University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
• Texas Law Veterans Association presents “In the Boots of a Soldier,” a symposium on veterans law issues
• Three UT Law students awarded Justice Corps Fellowships to pursue public interest legal projects
• Justice Center announces Frank Douglass Public Interest Summer Fellowships
• The Carlos Cadena Society and CHLSA host “A Class Apart” film screening featuring UT Law alumni and faculty, March 24, 2009
• Opinion: Co-author Wendy Wagner on Obama's plan to protect science from politics (PDF)
• Opinion: John Robertson on embryonic stem cell research in Texas (PDF)
• Opinion: Tom McGarity on the Supreme Court’s Wyeth v. Levine ruling
• Rapoport Center announces fifth annual human rights conference, March 26–28, 2009
• Second consecutive UT Law grad earns Bristow Fellowship
• Tarlton Law Library publishes oral history interviews with James W. McCartney and John F. Sutton Jr.
• Steven P. Nichols, ’83, honored with the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award
• “Steps Toward a Sustainable Austin Energy” symposium, March 10, 2009
• “Plebiscites, Proposition 8, and Constitutional Democracy,” a panel discussion on March 10, 2009
• Law School hosts events for children and teens as part of Explore UT, “The Biggest Open House in Texas”, March 7, 2009
• Clark Lyda, ’85, to premiere his documentary on the Hutto detention center at South by Southwest Film Festival, March 16, 2009
• The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights symposium, “Voting Rights in a New Administration,” March 9, 2009
• Access to Justice Scholarship awarded to Jessica Kemp, ’10
• UT Law’s fourth annual Judicial Clerkship Workshop, March 5–6, 2009
• Parisa Fatehi, ’07, awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowship to practice public-interest law
• Assault & Flattery presents “Schiess All That,” March 5–8, 2009

February

• Professor Philip Bobbitt to discuss his book, Terror and Consent, March 2, 2009
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Susan Benesch to speak on “Song as Crime: the Prosecution of a Pop Star, and other New Cases on Incitement to Genocide,” Wednesday, February 25, 2009
• People’s Law School offers free legal education, February 28, 2009
• UT Law’s highest honor society installs 2009 Chancellors
• “The Constitution and the Family in Comparative Perspective” conference, February 20, 2009
• Texas International Law Journal symposium, “China’s Emergence: Effects on Trade, Investment, and Regulatory Law,” February 26–27, 2009
• Rapoport Center forum, “Bringing Human Rights Home,” February 21, 2009
• Third annual lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender legal advocacy conference, March 5, 2009
• UT Law hosts Color of Justice program for local minority high school students
• UT Law School to host Passport Day, Feburary 18, 2009
• “The Debate Over Federal Preemption,” February 19, 2009
• Law and Philosophy Program sponsors annual Leon Green, ’15, Lecture in Jurisprudence, February 13, 2009
• “Musing on Clio and Legal History: Some Whys & Whats,” Tarlton Law Library’s fifth annual Rare Book Lecture
• Professor Tom McGarity will discuss and sign his latest book, The Preemption War, February 7, 2009
• WEBCAST — Seize the Day: A Message from Dean Larry Sager
• Professor Norma Cantú interviewed on Austin’s KEYE-TV (PDF)
• WEBCAST – “The Post-Guantanamo Era: A Dialogue on the Law and Policy of Detention and Counterterrorism”

January

• Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal symposium “Exploring the Obvious: The Evolution of Intellectual Property,” February 6, 2009
• Robert C. Bledsoe, ’55, awarded the Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the oil and gas industry
• Capital Punishment Clinic wins Batson challenge for longtime client
• Inauguration Party at the School of Law, January 20, 2009
• In Memoriam: Willie Kocurek, 1910–2009
• Constitutional Design Symposium, January 29–31, 2009
• Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Symposium, January 22–23, 2009
• The Post-Guantanamo Era: A Dialogue on the Law and Policy of Detention and Counterterrorism, January 28, 2009
• The Review of Litigation symposium: “The Rise of Appellate Litigators and State Solicitors General,” January 22–23, 2009
• Excellence in Diversity Weekend Celebration, January 23–24, 2009

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