Events Calendar

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!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/03/26/20285/

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.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/03/26/19529/

Texas Law Fellowships' biggest fundraiser!

Make a donation to TLF online or in the atrium from March 30-April 3 to support Texas Law students doing unpaid legal work in the public interest this summer.

Stop by the atrium to see the impressive summer work Texas Law students have committed to and to see the swag your donation can get you!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/03/30/20278/

Texas Law Fellowships' biggest fundraiser!

Make a donation to TLF online or in the atrium from March 30-April 3 to support Texas Law students doing unpaid legal work in the public interest this summer.

Stop by the atrium to see the impressive summer work Texas Law students have committed to and to see the swag your donation can get you!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/03/31/20328/

Texas Law Fellowships' biggest fundraiser!

Make a donation to TLF online or in the atrium from March 30-April 3 to support Texas Law students doing unpaid legal work in the public interest this summer.

Stop by the atrium to see the impressive summer work Texas Law students have committed to and to see the swag your donation can get you!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/04/01/20329/

Texas Law Fellowships' biggest fundraiser!

Make a donation to TLF online or in the atrium from March 30-April 3 to support Texas Law students doing unpaid legal work in the public interest this summer.

Stop by the atrium to see the impressive summer work Texas Law students have committed to and to see the swag your donation can get you!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/04/02/20330/

The Texas Journal of Women, Gender, and the Law is proud to present its 2015 Symposium, "In the Limelight: Changing Legal and Ethical Implications of Publicizing Domestic Violence". This Symposium will examine the increasing public backlash and subsequent legal and non-legal consequences of publicizing accusations, charges, and convictions of domestic violence, focusing on several recent high-profile situations. The Symposium will consist of our first speaker at 10.30am, our Keynote Speaker, Rita Smith, at 11.45am, and our afternoon panel at 1pm. Lunch will be provided during the Keynote. Registration and coffee will start at 9.45am.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/04/02/20336/

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. If in doubt, verify with the web-based events calendar.

Join ACS for a lunch talk in honor of the 110th anniversary of Lochner v. New York. Speaker TBA.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/04/02/20337/

This Thursday, April 2nd, come to Youth Court's Trivia Night at the Gibson Room inside of Maggie Mae's! Professor Bob Bone is the emcee, and there will be plenty of prizes and fun questions to answer. Bring a group to help support Youth Court's continuing efforts to keep kids engaged in the classroom and out of the school-to-prison pipeline. Tickets are $5 and will be sold in the Susman Godfrey Atrium from 9am-2pm on Monday through Thursday. The event is from 8-10pm. Come on out with us, have fun, show off your knowledge or lack of, and support a good cause!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/04/02/20347/

Texas Law Fellowships' biggest fundraiser!

Make a donation to TLF online or in the atrium from March 30-April 3 to support Texas Law students doing unpaid legal work in the public interest this summer.

Stop by the atrium to see the impressive summer work Texas Law students have committed to and to see the swag your donation can get you!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2015/04/03/20331/