2004 News and Events
December
November
October
September
August
July
June
- Cleveland on the Supreme
Court Detention Cases in The Dallas Morning News
- Professor Philip Bobbitt
Named One of Britain's Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine
- Tarlton
Law Library Receives Library Public Relations Council Award
- Capital Punishment Clinic
Wins Case in United States Supreme Court
- Professor Roy Mersky Releases
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
- Alumni Joe K. Longley, ’69,
and Philip K. Maxwell, ’69, Donate Legislative History Materials to
the Texas Legislative Reference Library
- Fulbright & Jaworski Fellowship
Awarded to UT Law Student for Summer Public Interest Work
- Alumnus Curtis W. Meadows,
Jr., '62, Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Commentary: Ratner on Abiding
by the Rules of War in the Austin American-Statesman
- The Future of Labor Unions
Edited by Getman, Marshall
- Professor Roy Mersky Releases
The First 108 Justices
- Clark Fellow Charles Still,
'68, Honored by Three Groups
- Harry Reasoner, Class of
1962, receives the 2004 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for
the Fifth Circuit
- UT Law Receives $500,000 Grant
from Rapoport Foundation to Create Human Rights Initiative, Transnational
Worker Rights Clinic
- International War Crimes
Trials Conference Proceedings Published
- Faculty Activities, April-May
2004 (PDF requires Acrobat
Reader)
May
- Jury Trial of King Foundation Execs Begins on June 1, Live Webcast Available
- Mersky and Hankins in the Austin American-Statesman:
"In the Age of Google, Will Libraries Become Extinct?"
- Professor Berman on Partisan Gerrymandering in The Los Angeles Times
- Four Law Professors Honored
with Chair Appointments
- Major Annual Fund Gift
- Law Students Selected to Intern on Yugoslavia,
Rwanda War Crimes Tribunals
- Assistant
Dean Alemán and Sunflower Tradition Profiled in Austin American-Statesman
- Graduating Law Student Awarded
Fulbright, Pursuing Career in War Crimes Prosecution
- Professor David Rabban Honored
with First Massey Teaching Excellence Award
- University of Pennsylvania
Law School Honors Yudof with Prestigious Award
- Professor Robert Hamilton
to Retire from Teaching
- Statement from Robert
Hamilton upon Retiring from Teaching
- UT Law Establishes William
Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law
- Ten Graduating Law Students
Receive UT Co-Op Public Interest Law Awards
- Levinson in The Village
Voice: The Legal Underpinnings of Torture
- UT Law and University
College London Release New Comparative Law Book Series
- Alum Eduardo Rodriguez,
'68, Elected State Bar President for 2005-06
- Event, Friday May
7: UT Remembers Those We Lost this Year, Including Professor Ken Schubb,
3L Charles Spears
- Four UT Law Professors to Present
Papers at American Law and Economics Association Conference
- Professor Bobbitt Receives
Highest U.S. Academic Honor
- Alumna and Judge Diane Wood,'75,
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April
- UT Law Wins National Championship at 2004 Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition
- Tower to be Lighted in Honor of UT Law's Moot Court National Champions, April 28
- Texas Exes Reunion: UT Class of 1954, April 29-30
- UT Law Makes “Elite Eight” Among International Arbitration
Teams
- UT Law Hires Montoya, ’95,
as Assistant Dean of Career Services
- Leading Corporate Law Scholar
Bernard Black to Move from Stanford to UT Law
- UT Law Hosts Conference
on "The State of Environmental Enforcement in Texas," April 16
- Dean Powers To Present "The
Ethics of Enron: Lessons for the Future" at UT Ethics Conference, April
15
- UT Wins Intellectual Property
Moot Court Regional Championship
- International Symposium: The
Death Penalty and Mexico-U.S. Relations, April 14
- UT Claims Third Place Nationally
in ABA Appellate Advocacy Competition
- Commentary: Bobbitt on the
Politics of Western Power in The New York Times Sunday
Book Review Section
- Law School Establishes John
L. Hill Trial Advocacy Center, Honors Distinguished Graduate
- UT
Wins Fifth National Admiralty Law Competition Title
- UT Launches
the Center for Law, Business, and Economics
- Professor
Brian Leiter's Nietzsche on Morality Honored at Hamilton Book Awards
March
- Fifth Circuit Judge Edward Prado to Speak at Prospective Students Day, April 2
- McGarity
to Deliver National Order of the Coif Lecture, April 2
- Symposium
Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Hernández
- Symposium
on Consumer Racial Profiling, March 30
- Symposium:
"Litigating Business Ethics," March 25 & 26
- CHLSA
2005 Cultural Celebration & Awards Banquet
- Photography
Exhibit: "The Human Experience of Human Rights"
- Six-year-old
David Pratter-Avila Donates Children's Rights Books to UT Law
- NAACP Chairman
Julian Bond to Speak at UT Law, April 9
- Symposium
Keynote: Dr. Joseph Folger on Transformative Mediation, March 26
- UT Appellate
Advocacy Team Wins Washington, D.C., Competition
- UT Law
Students Work on Three Cases Before the U.S. Supreme Court
- Capital
Punishment Faculty and Students Take Case to U.S. Supreme Court, March 22
- Professor
Guy Wellborn Receives 2004 Outstanding Faculty Member Award From Student
Bar Association
- Event: Career
Services Office Hosts Fourth Annual Small & Mid-Size Firm Reception, March
11
- Jessup
International Moot Court Team Wins Regional Tournament
- 2004 Law Alumni Association Awards and
Honorary Order of the Coif
- Commentary: Powe on Constitutional Amendments
in The Village Voice
- Markesinis Elected a Corresponding
Fellow of the French Academy
- Immigration Expert Barbara Hines Awarded
Fulbright Scholarship
- Assault & Flattery Present "Star Crossed
Lawyers" Musical, March 2-6
- TLF Pledge Drive for Summer Public Interest
Fellowships, March 8 - 26
February
- France Bestows Its Highest Award
to Gib Gayle For Role in UT Law's Institute of Transnational Law
- SROC Hosts
UT Law Academy, Feb. 27
- International
Public Law Internship Opportunities for UT Law Students
- Texas
Law Review Conference, Feb. 27-28: Comparative Avenues in Constitutional
Scholarship
- Cleveland
and Sievert to Speak at War on Terror Symposium, Feb. 18
- People's
Law School Offers Public Free Legal Education, Feb. 28
- TMLS/SBA
Black Arts & Jazz Festival, Feb. 26
- Commentary:
Prof. Thomas McGarity on the Bush Administration and Mad Cow Disease in
the Austin American-Statesman
- Public
Lecture, Feb. 19: Cesar Jauregui, Vice President of the Mexican Senate,
on "Political Change in Mexico"
- UT
Law's Highest Honorary Organization Installs 2003 Chancellors
- Philip
Bobbitt speaks on "Modernism: War and Peace" at Ransom Center, Feb. 9
- McFarland
Pleads Guilty - No Trial
- McFarland
Murder Trial Begins Feb. 9 at UT Law
- Feb.
23: Tarlton Law Library Rare Books Lecture
- Symposium,
Feb. 26: Terrorism & the War on Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, and Immigrants
After 9/11
January
- CLE Conference, Feb. 19-20: Dean Powers, SEC Commissioner Glassman, Attorney Lerach to Speak on Securities Regulation at Dallas Conference
- IP
Symposium: "Protecting and Exploiting Ideas: Staying Ahead of the IP Curve"
- Prof.
Cantú and Judge Furgeson, '67, Receive ABA's 2004 Spirit of Excellence
Awards
- Diversity
Symposium Marks 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education,
Jan. 29-30
- Event: American Constitution Society
Presents Death Penalty Forum, Jan. 26
- Bill Allison, ’71, to Lead Criminal
Defense Clinic
- Scholarly Leadership: The UT Law Faculty
at the AALS Conference
- In Memoriam: Jacob H. Carruthers,
Jr., 1930-2004, One of Six African American Men to Integrate UT Law in 1950
- Islam and the Law: The Question of Sexism?
- Why UT Law is #1 For Hispanics
- Viewpoint: Prof. Thomas McGarity on
Protecting Consumers from Mad Cow Disease in The Dallas Morning News
View the Archive
*Some documents are in PDF format
which require the Acrobat
Reader)
The UT Law Communications Department
