2005 News and Events
December
November
- Duke Ligon, '69, Receives Eugene
Kuntz Award for Work in Oil & Gas
- Environmental Program Director
and Fellow-in-Residence Join the Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution
- Inaugural Empirical Legal Studies
Conference: Call for Papers
- Professor Robert J. Peroni
Receives Texas Exes Faculty Teaching Award
- Commentary: Dix on Changing the
Texas Definition of Insanity in The Austin American-Statesman
- Cultural Historian
Discusses "The Googlization of Everything," Nov. 14
- UT Law to Host Talk by the
National Legal Reporter for The New York Times, Nov. 16
- Texas Trial Attorney George
Fleming,'71, Pledges $1 Million to Law School
- Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments at UT Law, Nov. 7–10
- Fulbright & Jaworski
L.L.P. named Gold Law Partner
- UT Law Dedicates Teaching Courtroom
to James Sales, '60
- Court TV Films "Protecting
Intellectual Property" Discussion at UT Law with Government, High-Tech and
Academic Experts
- Law Professors Receive Grant
to Support Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation and Invitation to Present
Research
- UT Law's Justice Center Honors
Three Alumni for Public Service
- Professors Owen and Sharlot
Lead Discussion of Film at UT Law-Court TV's Film Festival, Nov. 1
October
- UN Secretary-General Nominee
to Speak at UT Law
- Professor Tony Reese Named One of
the 100 Most Innovative in Technology Field
- "Representing Culture,
Translating Human Rights" Symposium, Nov. 3–4
- Alumnus David J. Beck, '65, Named
President-Elect of the American College of Trial Lawyers
- Travis County Courthouse Renamed in
Honor of Heman Marion Sweatt
- Court TV's Jack Ford and UT's Bill
Allison Kick Off Film Festival, Oct. 30
- TMLS, ACS, and V&E Host "Contempt
of Court" Lecture, Oct. 26
- Hundreds Register to Attend UT
Law Day 2005, Oct. 28
- Two UT Law Grads Selected
for Equal Justice Works Fellowship Class of 2005
- Texas Appleseed Honors Joe Jamail,
'52, with 2005 Good Apple Award
- Career Services Office Hosts Eighth
Annual Mentor Reception, Oct. 27
- Human Rights Focus: Guest Speaker
Susan Marks Calls for Defusing of "Ticking Bomb" Myth
- UT's Institute of
Transnational Law Posts Translated Foreign Judgments and Statutes
- Event: Oct. 11 Texas Law Fellowships
Auction
September
August
July
June
May
April
- Texas Supreme Court Chief
Justice Jefferson, '88, to Speak at Sunflower Ceremony
- In Memoriam: Wallace H. Scott
Jr., ’48, 1920-2005
- Tower to be Lighted in Honor
of UT Law's Moot Court National Champions, April 29
- Anthropologist and Writer
to Lecture at UT Law on the Environmental Politics of India, April 28
- UT Law Wins National Championship
at 2005 Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition
- Preeminent Civil War Historian
to Speak at UT Law, April 28
- Bronwyn Blake Receives
First UT Law Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law
- TESLA Sponsors Professor John
Robertson's Talk on Embryonic Stem Cell Research, April 20
- UT School of Law Dedicates
Susman Godfrey Atrium
- 2Ls Teresa Chin and Natasha
Self Win 2005 Admiralty Moot Court Competition
- Alumna Linda Addison, '76,
Presents Paper at Oxford Round Table
- Bobbitt National Poetry Prize
Announced by Library of Congress
- Prof. Markovits speaks
at UT-Austin forum on the Religious and Secular bases for Moral Commitments
- UT Law Hosts Major Symposium
on Sovereignty, April 13–16
- UT Law's Rapoport Center
for Human Rights and Justice Awards First Summer Fellowships
- Prof. Linda Mullenix in
The New York Law Journal on the Class Action Fairness Act
- The Chicano/Hispanic Law Students
Association Banquet, April 9
- Children's Rights Clinic
Director Bree Buchanan, '89, Honored for Outstanding Public Service
March
-
Public Memorial Service to Celebrate the Life of Professor Robert
O. Dawson, April 2
- Prof. John Robertson in The
Austin American-Statesman on the Schiavo Case
- Strasburger Establishes Scholarship
in Memory of Partner and UT Law Alumnus, Mike Joplin
- Professor Douglas Laycock
in The Austin American-Statesman on the Top 10-Percent Law
- Fifth Annual Symposium on
Dispute Resolution, April 8
- Professor Sarah Cleveland
in The Washington Post: "Is There Room for the World in Our
Courts?"
- 3L Seth Belzley's Paper on
Internet Intermediary Liability Presented at Texas and Harvard
- Thurgood Marshall Legal Society
Banquet, April 8
- President of the Universidad
de las Americas in Mexico City to Speak at UT Law
- Professor Robert Peroni Named
Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel
- Buckingham Palace Investiture
for Sir Basil Markesinis
- UT Law Professors Douglas
Laycock and Louise Weinberg, and BYU Professor Richard Wilkins, to Conduct
Debate on Same-Sex Marriage
- The New York Times Op-Ed:
Black, Silver, and Co-Authors on Texas Medical Malpractice Claims
- Professors Black, Silver
Release Major Study of Texas Medical Malpractice Claims
- Hutchison
Chair in Latin American Law Sponsors Labor in the Americas Conference, March
10-11
- Review of Litigation Symposium:
Litigation in the Digital Age (Cancelled)
- 2005 Chancellors Announced
- Colleagues' Statements
about Robert Dawson
- Linda Mullenix named Fellow
of the Texas Bar Foundation
- Law Dean Bill Powers
Chairs Explore UT 2005
- UT Law Announces Public
Service Program for First Year Students
- Travis County Honors Civil
Rights Pioneer Heman Sweatt
February
January
- Dean
Powers Heads Task Force on Curricular Reform
- Levinson's
Torture: A Collection in The New York Times Book Review,
Jan.23 (free reg. req.)
- "Working Borders"
Conference on Immigration and Labor Policy, Feb. 10-11
- Black on "Why directors'
damages may harm investors" in the Financial Times, Jan. 20
- People’s Law School Offers
Public Free Legal Education, Feb. 26
- Susman Godfrey LLP
Fund for Faculty Excellence Established
- UT Law Alumni to be Honored
at Austin Bar Foundation Gala
- TLR Symposium: “Of
Water Banks, Piggybanks, and Bankruptcy: Changing Directions in Water Law”
- In Memoriam: Browne B. Rice,
Jr., 1921-2005
- Jane Stapleton Elected
to the Council of The American Law Institute
- UT Law Hosts Excellence
in Diversity Weekend Celebration, Jan. 14-15
- In Memoriam: Justice Mack Kidd,
1941-2005
- H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
Confers Knighthood on Professor Basil Markesinis
- President Torres, Professors
and Staff Member to Speak at 2005 AALS Meeting
- UT
Law's Actual Innocence Clinic Searches for Prisoners Who May be Innocent
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