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2007 News and Events

December

• Professor Sanford Levinson Featured on Bill Moyers Journal
• Professor Ernest Smith to teach first-ever Wind Law course
• Clinic students champion clients’ employment rights
• Law students to assist devastated Gulf Coast communities
• Law School clinic asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear major juvenile justice case
• Henry Hu on NPR’s Marketplace re Sovereign Wealth Funds and re Hedge Funds
• “Other George’s” exhibition unveiled at Law School
• Austin American-Statesman reports: UT Law students collect toys for detained children [PDF]
• Commentary: Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, Bar President Gibson Walton, and Dean Lawrence Sager on Pakistan and the rule of law [PDF]
• Professor Mitch Berman receives teaching award
• Austin American-Statesman reports: UT Law students take part in high court debate [PDF]
• Commentary: Four UT Law Students on Habeas Corpus Protections
• Commentary: Professor Thomas McGarity on the danger in defective medical devices [PDF]

November

• UT Law School Welcomes Denise Gilman
• The National Security & Human Rights Clinic goes to the United States Supreme Court, December 5
• Law School students sponsor toy drive for children at Hutto immigrant detention center
• UT Law hosts national Oil and Gas Taxation Conference
• UT Law alum, Scott Caven, elected Chairman of Board of Regents
• Joseph D. Jamail Honored by Law School
• Texas Law Fellowships hosts fall auction to fund public interest work
• Tarlton Law Library Publishes Inaugural Rare Books Lecture
• UT Law Welcomes Ariel Dulitzky

October

• Professor Linda Mullenix to speak at annual class actions conference in San Francisco
• Professor Thomas McGarity featured in CNN documentary, “Planet in Peril”
• In Memoriam: Professor William A. McCormack Jr.
• Career Services Office hosts 10th annual mentor reception, November 1
• Tracie Washington to speak on legal needs in Louisiana’s Gulf Coast region, November 5
• Capital Punishment Center to host review of landmark death penalty cases, November 2–3
• Professor Sanford Levinson reviews two books on the Constitution [PDF]
• Rapoport Center Announces 2007–2008 Human Rights Scholars
• Tarlton Law Library hosts “Teaching the Teachers” Conference
• Professor H.W. Perry’s book on the U.S. Supreme Court recognized as a classic with lasting impact
• Professor Rob Owen interviewed by CBS about the practice of lethal injection in death penalty cases
• Texas Law Student Chapter of TTLA/AAJ presents a talk on the Texas Supreme Court, Oct. 2
• Five Students named Public Service Scholars

September

• Professors Rob Owen and Jordan Steiker discuss capital punishment issues and the U.S. Supreme Court, Oct. 1
• UT Law welcomes detainee law expert Kristine Huskey
• UT Law Day, Friday, October 5, 2007
• Rob Owen quoted on death penalty in Austin murder trial
• Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger litigation documents published
• French Justice appointed to teach international commercial arbitration
• Six UT Law students receive Baron & Budd Public Interest Scholarships
• Noted Civil Rights Lawyer, Author to Speak on UT Campus
• First-year law students volunteer for public service projects
• Professors Mullenix and Westbrook to deliver reports at XIII World Congress on Procedural Law in Brazil
• UT Law launches National Security and Human Rights Clinic
• Strauss Center presents Stephen Cohen, speaking on “Beyond Today’s Crisis: South Asia in 2015”
• Public law expert Daniel B. Rodriguez joins Law School faculty

August

• Settlement reached in federal litigation challenging conditions at immigrant detention center
• Sarah Buel Receives Prestigious ABA Award
• Professor Robert Owen interviewed on “Art and the Death Penalty”
• Dean Sager to Speak on Constitutional Challenges
• UT Law’s Third Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Kyle Marie Stock
• Professor Jay Westbrook comments on the Bear Sterns bankruptcy at Bloomberg.com
• Innovative program helps UT Law students secure judicial clerkships

July

• Meet us in Atlanta
• Professor Julius Getman reads from his first novel, Strike!, in Maine, July 25
• Rapoport Center announces: the papers of George Lister now available online
• In Memoriam: Robert E. Keeton, 1919–2007
• Tarlton Law Library Receives National Honor
• Professor Katherine Litvak presented at Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum
• In Memoriam: The Honorable John L. Hill, 1923–2007
• Professor Sanford Levinson Discusses Our Undemocratic Constitution at Barnes & Noble Westlake, July 7
• Ideas: Sanford Levinson calls for the abolition of the vice presidency in The Boston Globe
• UT Law ranked fifth in graduating leading judges and lawyers

June

• Tex Lezar papers donated to Tarlton Law Library
• Justices of Texas 1836–1986: Online resource spotlights the Texas judiciary
• Nurturing Scholarship: UT Law’s Emerging Scholars Program
• Dean Lawrence Sager’s latest book, Religious Freedom and the Constitution
• David Anderson to Discuss Shield Laws with Leading Journalists, June 12
• Collaborative Internship Sends More Law Students to Communities Needing Assistance

May

• Texas-Harvard Joint Conference on Commercial Realities Develops Young Scholars
• Oxford publishes collection of Brian Leiter’s jurisprudential papers
• The Honorable Ron Kirk, ’79, Delivered Keynote Address at Sunflower Ceremony on May 19
• Professors Rob Owen and Jordan Steiker to Discuss Recent U.S. Supreme Court Victories, May 17
• Articles by Professors Bernard Black and Henry Hu Named in the Top 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2006
• Selina Llaguno and Elizabeth Wagoner Receive UT Law Faculty Fellowships
• Dean Lawrence Sager Presents New Book at Barnes & Noble Westlake, May 6

April

• Future Latino Leaders Law Day, April 28–29, 2007
• Professor Kate Litvak Receives Best Paper Award for Special Issue of the Journal of Corporate Finance
• Professor Barbara Hines Honored
• School of Law Capital Punishment Clinic Wins Three Cases at the U.S. Supreme Court
• Texas Senate Commends Legislative Internship Program
• Seventh Annual Symposium on Dispute Resolution, April 27
• Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
• Capital Punishment Clinic Assists in Panetti Case before U.S. Supreme Court
• Professor Linda Mullenix Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law in Italy
• Symposium Features Discussion on Civil Rights and the Prison System, April 17
• Tarlton Law Library Creates Actual Innocence Awareness Database to Access Information about Wrongful Convictions
• Rapoport Cosponsors Conference on Gender, Globalization, and Governance, April 12–13
• Adjunct Professor Steve Bickerstaff’s Op-ed in Austin American-Statesman: “For Putting Politics First, Gonzales Should Resign”
• New Tarlton Publication Examines Medieval Law Libraries
• Environmental Law Clinic Helps Travis County Residents Obtain Clean Drinking Water
• UT Law Hosts Judicial Clerkship Workshop
• UT Law Students Host Gay, Lesbian Advocacy Conference, April 13
• Justice Center Selects University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
• Austin American-Statesman Op-ed: Professor Jack Getman on Protecting Interests of U.S. Workers

March

• New Survey of Academic Reputation Rates UT Law 14th in the Nation
• Students Return from Colombia Fact-Finding Trip on Afrodescendant Rights
• Adjunct Professor Steve Bickerstaff Speaks on Politicization of the DOJ at National Press Club, March 30
• Law Student Organizations to Host Immigration Debate, April 5
• Commentary in The Guardian: Professor Sanford Levinson on “All the President’s Privileged Men”
• Public Hearings at UT Law: Lockups, Native American Detention Facilities and Texas Penal Systems, March 26–27
• TILJ, Robert Strauss Center Host Symposium on the Military Commissions Act
• Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association Banquet on Saturday, March 31
• Thurgood Marshall Legal Society’s 26th Annual Banquet on March 30
• Chief Justice of the United States Keynotes at Tex Lezar Memorial Lecture Series
• Ian Spechler, ’07, Awarded Skadden Fellowship to Advocate Legal Rights of Children with Disabilities
• Products Liability: Litigation Trends on the 10th Anniversary of the Third Restatement – March 22 & 23
• Immigration Law Clinic, ACLU and International Law Firm Challenge Illegal Detention of Immigrant Children
• Professor Norma Cantu Featured in UT Faculty “Take-Five” Video
• UT Law Opens its Doors to Thousands of Visitors at Explore UT 2007, March 3

February

• Event: CSO Hosts 7th Annual Small & Mid-Size Firm Reception, March 8
• Assault & Flattery 2007
• SBA Honors Professor Patrick Woolley, Office of Student Life Assistant Paula Taylor for Contributions to Law School
• UT Law Wins Regional Championship at 2007 Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition; Advances to National Rounds, March 21–25
• Attorneys to Discuss the Supreme Court and Diversity in Public Schools, Feb. 21
• New Book, Symposium Chronicles 2003 Congressional Redistricting in Texas, March 2
• Student Bar Association Hosts Law Week, Feb. 19–24
• The Dallas Morning News Profiles Professor Sarah Buel
• Young Muslims Look to New Careers to Gain Ground in Public Debates: Austin American Statesman Talks to UT Law Students
• Civil Rights Legend Morris Dees to Discuss Litigating Against Hate Groups, March 1
• Oil and Gas Law Week Features Career Fair, Symposium & Banquet, Feb. 14–16
• Emerging Energy Technologies Symposium, Feb. 15–16
• Commissioner for Trademarks to Address Intellectual Property Symposium, Feb. 9
• UT Law, State Bar to Co-Host Law Firm Practice Seminar, Feb. 17
• General Counsel of ExxonMobil to Speak at UT Law, Feb. 1

January

• Tarlton Law Library Presents Third Annual Rare Book Lecture
• UT Law Professors Powe, Forbath, Weinberg and Young Featured in PBS Supreme Court Series
• Research by Professors Henry Hu and Bernard Black Featured on Front Page of The Wall Street Journal
• The Wall Street Journal’s Page A1 Story Highlighting Professors Hu and Black’s “Empty Voting” Research
• Washington Post Columnist E. J. Dionne Speaks on “Religion, Social Justice and the Welfare State,” Feb. 1
• Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Delivers Keynote Talk at International Conference at Law School, Feb. 2
• Britain’s Telegraph: Professor Sir Basil Markesinis Earns Rare French Honor
• UT Law Awards Equal Justice Scholarship to Amber VanSchuyver, ‘08
• Capital Punishment Center Co-Directors Jordan Steiker and Rob Owen Discuss Recent U.S. Supreme Court Experience
• UT Law's Highest Honor Society Installs 2007 Chancellors
• New Student Group Helps Bring Animal Law Class to UT Law
• International Conference at Law School Addresses Future of the Welfare State, Feb. 1–3
• UT Law School's Capital Punishment Clinic Argues Three Cases Before U.S. Supreme Court
• Tarlton Law Library Celebrates Alumni Diversity Weekend with Two New Exhibits
• UT Law Students, Professors Persuade Top Court to Review Transportation Case
• Newly Formed Supreme Court Clinic Persuades U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case
• UT Law Presents Symposium on Legal Representation in Capital Cases, Feb. 8

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