2002 Archive

December

• UT Law Announces Its Outstanding Alumni Awards; 2003 Law Alumni Association Awards and Honorary Order of the Coif
• Archbishop of Canterbury Addresses Prof. Bobbitt's Market State Theories in First Major Address
• UT Law Alumni Constitute 34 Percent of Texas Lawyer’s “Top Notch Lawyers” List
• Justice Bea Ann Smith, ’76, Elected President of National Association of Women Judges
• Professor Markesinis honored by Italy's President for Contributions to Comparative Law
• Steven Quiring, '02, Takes Second Place in Tannenwald Tax Scholarship Writing Competition
• UT Law's "Subversive Legacies/Learning from History" Conference a Success

November

• "Subversive Legacies" Explores Feminist Policies, Activism and Scholarship in the Struggle for Gender Equality, Nov. 22-23
• Event: SBA Hosts "Secrets of Success" Discussion with Local Attorneys, Nov. 19
• Event: Prof. Laycock to Discuss Religion and the U.S. Supreme Court at Texas Union, Nov. 15
• The Manhattan Institute to Profile Prof. Stuart Benjamin's Spectrum Research
• UT Law Places Second in 2002 NITA Tournament of Champions
• Professor Bobbitt's Shield of Achilles to be Featured at Texas Book Festival

October

• UT's Free Speech Commission, Chaired by Prof. Laycock, Issues Report
• Hung Jury, Parties Settle in Products Liability Case at UT Law
• Jury is Deliberating for the Products Liability Case at UT Law
• Prof. Sanford Levinson's Legal Scholarship Honored at Tulsa Symposium
• UT Law's African-American Enrollment Jumps 31%; Mexican-American
  Enrollment, 26%
• Event: The Jury Charge, Closing Arguments in Products Liability Case at UT Law, Oct. 29
• Event:Capital Trial Advocacy and Mental Retardation Seminar, Oct. 28
• Event: BOA Hosts NITA's Tournament of Champions at UT Law, Oct. 30 - Nov. 2
• Event: Jury Trial begins Oct. 16 at UT Law, Live Webcast Available
• Event: Texas Law Fellowships Hosts Fall Auction on Thursday, Oct. 17
• Career Services Office Hosts Fifth Annual Mentor Reception on Oct. 10
• Professor Torres Nominated President-Elect of the AALS

September

• David Robertson Inducted into UT's Academy of Distinguished Teachers
• Event: State Bar of Texas President Harrison To Speak at UT Law
• Large Classroom and Computer Lab Renovated; New Interview Suite Opens
• Laycock to Testify to U.S. Congress on School Vouchers
• Professor Philip C. Bobbitt Named to Continuity in Government Commission
• Event: UT Law's 9/11 Commemoration
• Texas-Mexico Bar Association Makes UT Law its New Home
• Texas Law Review Symposium: Precommitment Theory, Bioethics, & Constitutional Law
• UT Law Alumni Deliver Best Orientation Party of Any Law School in the Nation

August

• Legal Aid Program Receives Federal Grant To Open Toll-Free Help Center In Austin To Assist State's Poor
• Event: U.S. Rep. Doggett, Justice Hankinson Announce Technology Grant To Help Poor Texans Obtain Legal Assistance
• Event: UT Law Experts Discuss Supreme Court Term
• Whitehurst to address Incoming Class on the Reards of Pro Bono and Public Interest Law
• Tort Law and Products Liability Expert Jane Stapleton To Join UT Law

July

• Leiter's Article Chosen "One of the Ten Best Philosophical Articles of the Year."
• Texas International Law Journal’s Symposium to Examine Global Judicial Systems
• Adjunct Professor Fred Fuchs Wins Prestigious National Award for Housing Advocacy
• Gibson, '91, and Williams, '85, receive 2002 Outstanding Young Texas Ex Awards
• Tarlton Law Library Wins Nonprint Award for its Texas Constitutions Digitization Project

May

• UT Law Names a New Assistant Dean for Admissions
• Nine Graduating Law Students Will Receive UT Co-Op Public Interest Awards
• UT Regent and Law School Alumnus is Guest Speaker at Sunflower Ceremony
• Three UT Law Scholars to Present Papers at Prestigious Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
• Family Law and Bioethics Expert Jane Cohen to join UT Law
• International Lawyer and Feminist Theorist Karen Engle To Join UT Law
• NYU'S Leading Constitutional Theorist Lawrence Sager to join UT Law
• UT Law Competes in Vienna Moot

April

• UT Law Captures National Title in Intellectual Property Competition
• Educational Policy Expert To Lecture on Reading, Children and Law
• Bioethics Scholar Awarded Grants for Book, NIH Project
• Dean Powers, Professor Mersky Named Life Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
• Renowned Negotiation Expert To Speak at UT Law

March

• Number of Admissions Applications Sets Record High at UT Law
• UT Law's Dispute Resolution Center Begins Registration for Training Programs
• UT Law Students Win National Admiralty Moot Court Competition
• Perry to deliver first annual Leon Green '15 Lecture in Jurisprudence
• Moot Court Team Wins National Frederick Douglass Competition
• Former Presidents of Colombia and Peru To Speak at UT Law
• Four Graduates Receive Distinguished Alumni, Law School Awards
• Mass Tort Litigation Expert Invited to Prestigious Bellagio Center
• Law & Philosophy program announces 2002-2003 events
• UT Law to Host Conference On Brazilian, Mexican and U.S. Environmental Policy
• UT Law Student Helps Free Incarcerated Woman
• UT Law Rated #1 By Hispanic Business Magazine For 2nd Year

February

• UT Law, College of Fine Arts Host Conference On Performing Arts And The Law
• Texas International Law Journal's Symposium to honor Professor Weintraub
• People's Law School offers free legal education
• Professor Bobbitt to deliver Montgomery Fellows lecture at Dartmouth
• Law School accepting applications for summer democratization internships
• UT Law Social Society seeks volunteers for Austin Teen Court program
• Mock Trial Team Wins Regional Tournament
• Moot Court Team Wins Regional Competition
• Four Graduates Receive Distinguished Alumni, Law School Awards