Consistent with its longstanding commitment to fostering a communal environment of intellectual engagement, the Law School is pleased to host countless colloquia, conferences, and guest lectures throughout the school year. Many of these events are specially scheduled, one-time affairs. In addition, the school runs the following regularly scheduled series, which cover a range of formats and scholarly areas.
Date | Speaker / Institution | Event / Title | Time / Location |
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Aug. 30 Fri. |
Profs. Engle, Klein, Laycock, Steiker, & Young, UTLaw | 2001-02 Supreme Court Roundup & Meeting of the Committee of the Whole Person |
3:00 p.m., Connally Center Kraft Eidman Courtroom |
Sept. 6 Fri. |
Susan Klein, UTLaw, with Michael Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Dept. of Justice |
"Independent-Norm
Federalism in Criminal Law" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Sept. 13 Fri. |
Michele Landis Dauber, Stanford |
"Special
Pleading: Disaster Narratives in Individual Relief Requests" Book Prospectus: "Helping Ourselves" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Sept. 20 Fri. |
TLR Symposium | "Precommitment
Theory, Bioethics, and Constitutional Law" |
8:30a.m., Connally Center, Kraft Eidman Courtroom |
Sept. 21 Sat. |
TLR Symposium | "Precommitment
Theory, Bioethics, and Constitutional Law" |
8:30a.m., Connally Center Kraft Eidman Courtroom |
Sept. 27 Fri. |
Scot Powe & H. W. Perry, UTLAW |
"The Two Parties' Constitutions" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Sept. 30 Mon. |
Oren Gross, Univ. of Minnesota |
Con Law Luncheon Colloquium: "Should Responses to Violent Crises Always be Constitutional?" |
11:45 p.m., Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
Oct. 4 Fri. |
Inga Markovits, UTLAW |
"Justice in Lüritz: A Grass-root History of Socialist Law in East Germany" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Oct. 11 Fri. |
Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA |
"Law and
the Shaping of American Foreign Policy: The Twenty Years' Crisis" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.124 |
Oct. 14 Mon. |
Noah Feldman, NYU |
Con Law Luncheon Colloquium: "After Jihad: The Possibility of Islamic Constitutionalism" |
11:45 p.m., Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
Oct. 18 Fri. |
Joel Handler, UCLA |
"Social
Citizenship and Workfare in the U.S. and Western Europe: From Status to Contract" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Oct. 25 Fri. |
James Gibson, Washington University |
"Does Truth
Lead to Reconciliation?: Testing the Causal Assumptions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Nov. 1 Fri. |
Allen Buchanan, Duke |
"The Morality
of International Legal Reform" and "Synopsis" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Nov. 8 Fri. |
Stephanie Gore, Florida State/Visiting UT |
Rescheduled for Spring 2003 |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Nov. 15 Fri. |
Lewis Kornhauser, NYU |
"The
Many As One: Group Choice in Paradoxical Cases" |
3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Nov. 19 Tues. |
Gary J. Jacobsohn, Williams College |
Con Law Luncheon Colloquium: "Adjudicating Secularism: Political Liberalism or Religious Revivalism?" |
11:45 p.m., Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
Nov. 22 Fri. |
Texas Journal of Women & the Law |
Conference on Gender Equality "Subversive Legacies: Learning From History/Constructing the Future" | 9:00a.m., Connally Center Kraft Eidman Courtroom |
Nov. 22 Fri. |
Susan Estrich, USC |
The Alexander Terrell Centennial Lecture |
8:30 p.m., Townes Hall Atrium |
Nov. 23 Sat. |
Texas Journal of Women & the Law |
Conference on Gender Equality "Subversive Legacies: Learning From History/Constructing the Future" | 9:00a.m., Connally Center Kraft Eidman Courtroom |
Nov. 29 Fri. |
No Colloquium | – | Thanksgiving Holiday |
Dec. 6 Fri. |
Lee Fennell, UTLAW |
"Contracting Communities" | 3:00 p.m., Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, Rm. 3.214 |
Dec. 9 Mon. |
Kim Scheppele, University of Pennsylvania |
Con Law Luncheon Colloquium: "A Realpolitik Defense of Social Rights" |
11:45 p.m., Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |