Events Calendar

TIPLJ is currently seeking applicants for the 2015 Summer Staff positions. This is a great opportunity for students to get involved with the journal early and to gain editing experience before Fall OCI.

Clinical faculty, staff and students will be on hand to discuss UT Law's clinical program. Lunch provided!

3Ls and LLMs are invited to get a jump on studying for the bar with these skills based sessions. Learn how to effectively write bar exam essay answers. TX bar questions will be used as examples. Sessions take place on Tuesdays at noon in TNH 2.124 and repeat Thursday at noon in TNH 2.124

Join ACS and criminal justice advocates for a conversation about the private detention industry in the United States. Experts and advocates will discuss the proliferation of the for-profit incarceration model, the consequences for detained individuals and targeted communities, and the challenges the industry poses to advocates and attorneys.

Our conversation will include Bob Libal, Executive Director of Grassroots Leadership. Grassroots Leadership fights to end for-profit incarceration and reduce reliance on criminalization and detention through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. We will also have a speaker from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition (TCJC). TCJC advances solutions that transform the adult and youth justice systems to strengthen families and foster safer communities.

Lunch will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!

Meeting to discuss Trivia Night, progress in the classroom, next year's board election and Webb field trip.

Using cognitive strategies and relaxation techniques, this interactive workshop will teach you how to relax your muscles and your mind. Presented by the Counseling and Mental Health Center.

3:30 pm to 5 pm in the Eidman Courtroom - reception to follow in the Jamail Pavilion

Join us for a talk by Lucas Guttentag on developments in immigration since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 and his experiences battling for immigrants’ rights as a litigator and advocate and, of late, inside government.

Guttentag is the founder and former national director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, who is currently serving in the Obama administration as Senior Counselor to the Director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services at the Department of Homeland Security, on leave from his positions at Yale and Stanford Law Schools. Guttentag is also a former law clerk to Judge William Wayne Justice, and his talk will kick off the 10th anniversary celebration for the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.

Guttentag’s visit as a G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar is supported by a generous gift from the G. Rollie White Trust. The program brings outstanding legal scholars, practitioners and advocates from the field of public service to Texas Law to foster discussion of issues related to public interest law, to raise the profile of lawyers working in this area, and to encourage students to view public service as an honored and expected part of every legal career. Guttentag is Texas Law’s fourth G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar.

Early registration for Fall 2015 is March 30-April 3. Come learn about the early registration system works and how to best maximize your chances to get all of the courses you would like. Session will repeat Friday, March 27, at noon in TNH 2.140.