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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 16 Thurs. |
Yochai Benkler, NYU School of Law |
Information & Communication Policy: "Some Economics of Wireless Communication" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Jan. 17 Fri. |
Stephanie Gore, Florida State/UTLaw |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "'A Rose by Any Other Name': Judicial Use of Metaphors for New Technologies" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge 3.214 |
| Jan. 23 Thurs. |
Manuel Oropeza, National Autonomonous University of Mexico |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: "Federalism in the United States & Mexico: A Comparative Perspective" |
11:45a.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room |
| Jan. 24 Fri. |
Charles Silver, UTLaw |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "We're Scared to Death: Class Certification and Blackmail" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Jan. 30 Thurs. |
Adrian Vermeule, University of Chicago |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: "The Constitutional Law of Congressional Procedure" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Jan. 30 Thurs. |
Thomas Hazlett, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research |
Information & Communication Policy: "The U.S. Digital TV Transition: Time to Toss the Negroponte Switch" |
3:30p.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room |
| Jan. 31 Fri. |
Leandra Lederman, Visiting at UT |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Tax Compliance and the Reformed IRS" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Feb. 6 Thurs. |
Larry Kramer, NYU John Ferejohn, Stanford & Larry Sager, UTLaw |
Constitutional & Legal Theory: "Ever Since Marbury-The Assault on Popular Constitutionalism & A Matter of Sensibility Popular Constitutionalism Circa 2003" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Jeffers Courtroom 3.140 |
| Feb. 6 Thurs. |
William Landes, University of Chicago |
Information & Communication Policy: "Indefinitely Renewable Copyright" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Feb. 7 Fri. |
Richard Banks, Stanford |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Anti-Racial Profiling and the Functions and Limits of the Anti-Discrimination Framework" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Feb. 13 Thurs. |
Jean Lanjouw, UC Berkeley and The Brookings Institute |
Information & Communication Policy: "Intellectual Property and the Availability of Pharmaceuticals in Poor Countries" |
3:30p.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room |
| Feb. 14 Fri. |
Sara Sun Beale, Duke |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "News Media Coverage of Crime: How, Why, and Who Cares?" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Feb. 20 Thurs. |
Victor Ferreres, Pompeou Fabra Universidad |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: "The Eurpean Model of Constitutional Justice – In Crisis?" |
11:45a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Feb 20 Thurs. |
William Freehling, University of Kentucky, Dept. of History |
The Weil Centennial Endowed Lecture: "The Slaveholders' (Amazing) Theory of Secession and the Renewal of U.S. Constitutional History" |
4:30p.m. Connally Center Eidman Courtroom 5:45p.m. Public Reception in the Jamail Pavillion |
| Feb 21 Fri. |
Bicentennial Symposium, UT Austin |
"The
Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion" |
9:00a.m. Connally Center Eidman Courtroom |
| Feb 22 Sat. |
Bicentennial Symposium, UT Austin |
"The
Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion" |
10:00a.m. Connally Center Eidman Courtroom |
| Feb. 27 Thurs. |
Samuel Bagentos, Harvard |
Constitutional & Legal Theory: "Antidiscrimination, Accommodation, and the Politics of (Disability) Civil Rights" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Feb. 28 Fri. |
Stephen Morse, UPenn |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Guiding Goodness" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Mar. 6 Thurs. |
John Allison and Emerson Tiller, UT Business |
Information & Communication Policy: "Internet Business Method Patents: Law, Policy, and Politics" |
3:30p.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room |
| Mar. 7 Fri. |
Rebecca Brown, Vanderbilt |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Liberty, The New Equality" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Mar. 14 Fri. |
No Colloquium | -- | Spring Break |
| Mar. 20 Thurs. |
Kent Greenawalt, Columbia Chris Eisgruber, Princeton |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: "Establishing Religious Ideas: Evolution, Creationism, and Intelligent Design" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 5:30p.m. Public Reception in the Jamail Pavillion |
| Mar. 20 Thurs. |
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton |
Sealy Lecture on Law & the Free Society: "A New World Order" |
6:15p.m. Connally Center Eidman Courtroom |
| Mar. 21 Fri. |
Sanford Levinson, UT Law |
Legal Studies Luncheon: "'Precommitment' and 'Post-Commitment': The Ban on Torture in the Wake of September 11" |
11:30a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Mar. 21 Fri. |
Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton & Larry Sager, UTLaw |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Civil Liberties in the Dragon's Domain: Negotiating the Blurred Boundary Between Domestic Law and Foreign Affairs After 9/11" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Mar. 22 Sat. |
Andrew Moravcsik, Harvard Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton |
New Book Colloquium: Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History |
9:00a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Mar. 22 Sat. |
James Woolsey, CIA |
New Book Colloquium: Philip Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles |
12:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Mar. 24 Mon. |
Roger Noll, Stanford Economics |
Information & Communication Policy: "Napster's Copyright Abuse Defense" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Mar. 25 Tues. |
Don Fullerton, UT Dept. of Economics |
Legal Studies Luncheon:
"The Progressivity of Social Security" |
11:45a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Mar. 28 Fri. |
Alan Schwartz, Yale |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Contract Theory and the Limits of Contract Law" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| April 1 Tues. |
Calvin Johnson, UTLaw |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: "Homage to Clio: The Continuity from the Articles of Confederation into the Constitution" |
11:45a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 3 Thurs. |
Jules Coleman, Yale |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: "The Grounds of Welfare" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 3 Thurs. |
Howard Shelanski, UC Berkeley |
Information & Communication Policy: "The Policy Limits of Markets: Antitrust Law as Mass Media Regulation" |
3:30p.m. Connally Center Eidman Jury Room |
| Apr. 4 Fri. |
Jules Coleman, Yale |
Leon Green '15 Lecture in Jurisprudence: "The Point of Tort Theory" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 7 Mon. |
Bernie Black, Stanford |
Legal Studies Luncheon: "Does Corporate Governance Affect Firm Value? Evidence from Korea" |
11:45a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 8 Tues. |
Emerson Tiller, UT Business |
Legal Studies Luncheon: "Internet Business Method Patents: Law, Policy, and Politics" |
11:45a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| April 11 Fri. |
No Colloquium | – | UT Law Reunion Weekend 2003 |
| April 15 Tues. |
Daniel Markovits, Yale |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon: "Contract and Collaboration" |
11:45a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 17 Thurs. |
Joseph Raz, Oxford University |
Constitutional & Legal Theory Colloquium: "Even Judges Are Humans," "Theory of Interpretation--What is Interpretation," and "Why Interpret? How to Interpret?" |
3:30p.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 18 Fri. |
Troy Duster, NYU |
Rescheduled for Fall '03 |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| Apr. 18 Fri. |
Joseph Raz, Oxford University |
Law & Philosophy: "The Force of Numbers" |
3:30p.m. Waggener Hall Conference Room 316 |
| Apr. 19 Sat. |
Lani Guinier, Harvard Gerald Torres, UTLaw |
Rescheduled for Fall '03 The Miner's Canary |
9:00a.m. Townes Hall Sheffield Room 2.111 |
| Apr. 25 Fri. |
Robert Bone, Boston University |
Friday Afternoon Faculty Colloquium: "Enforcement Costs and Trademark Puzzles" |
3:00p.m. Townes Hall Faculty Lounge, 3.214 |
| April 29 Tues. |
Profs. Steve Ratner, Paul Woodruff, James Loehlin UT Guy Roberts, ASF |
Law & Other Performing Arts: "Henry V and The Law of War" Reading: Shakespeare's Henry V (First folio) |
6:30p.m. Connally Center Kraft Eidman Courtroom 6:30p.m. Hospitality, Jamail Pavillion 7:00p.m. Presentation, Eidman Courtroom |