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July

• Sixth Equal Justice Scholarship Awarded to Erin Gaines
• Opinion: Susan Klein and Charles Silver on Criminal Probe into Gulf Oil Spill in Huffington Post
• Opinion: Stefanie Lindquist in the Austin American-Statesman on "Judging the activist label"
• The American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics honors Professor John Robertson with Special Lifetime Achievement Award

June

• Professor Ariel Dulitzky appointed to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
• Video: Professor Norma Cantu previews Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Fox 7’s “Good Day Austin”
• UT Law Class Composites 1884–1959 available through Tarlton Law Library Digital Collections
• National Security Clinic wins D.C. Circuit appeal, Guantánamo detainee’s habeas case goes forward
• Opinion: It’s Alive: Can Elena Kagan save the legal left?, by Justin Driver in the New Republic
• Opinion: A New Model for Mass Torts?, by
  Charles M. Silver at Huffington Post
• Bill and Stephanie Whitehurst fund
  summer fellowships
• Video: Clinical Professor Denise Gilman discusses myths about U.S. immigration policy, on UT’s Know online magazine
• Professor Julius Getman’s new book chosen as best on union organizing by AFL-CIO
• UT Law School hosts 2010 Health Law Professors Conference
• Recent Graduate William Peterson to become U.S. Supreme Court clerk

May

• Capital Punishment Clinic heads back to U.S. Supreme Court for the fourth time in four years
• Graduating Law School student Andres Dura awarded Equal Justice Works scholarship
• Stephen Susman, '65, gives $5 million to University of Texas School of Law

April

• Capital Punishment Clinic Wins New Penalty Trial for Client
• Graduating Law Students Receive University Co-op Public Interest Awards
• Paul Begala, ’90, to deliver keynote address at Sunflower Ceremony, May 22, 2010
• Energy Center, UTCLE cosponsor “Arbitration and National Courts: Conflict and Cooperation” symposium, May 13–14, 2010
• Harrington Fellows Program Presents “Just Ethics” Workshop at UT Law, May 1–2, 2010
• UT Tower Lit for Bankruptcy Moot Court team’s National Championship April 27, 2010
• Opinion: The case against partisan judicial elections, by Professor Dan Rodriguez
• Opinion: Assistant Professor Justin Driver on “The Stevens Myth,” in the New Republic
• Opinion: “Next justice could be an alumna of UT-Austin” by Professor Dan Rodriguez, in the Houston Chronicle
• Six Law School students named University Co-op Public Interest Summer Fellows
• The School of Law and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies will present two public lectures by Holocaust, law and history expert Michael Marrus, April 22 and 23, 2010
• Judge William Wayne Justice's papers donated to the Tarlton Law Library
• Opinion: Professor Willy Forbath on how not to use history to argue about the Constitution and the Supreme Court, on Politico (PDF)
• Opinion: Professor Melinda Taylor on Obama's offshore drilling proposal, in the Houston Chronicle (PDF)
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Cecilia Medina to speak on “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Reflections on a Joint Venture—Twenty Years Later,” April 19, 2010
• Environmental law expert Gabriel Eckstein to speak on “Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Security in a Climate Change World,” April 16, 2010
• Federalist Society hosts debate on the separation of church and state, April 14, 2010
• University of Texas School of Information and School of Law launch new joint degree in Legal Information Studies
• New Leader for Tarlton Law Library
• Judge William Wayne Justice cenotaph dedication at the Texas State Cemetery, April 16, 2010
• Panel to discuss Judge William Wayne Justice's legal legacy, April 15, 2010
• Law Students for the Arts cosponsors free legal clinic for local artists, April 8, 2010
• Colloquium on Professor Scot Powe's recent book on the history of the United States Supreme Court, April 2, 2010
• Jack Goldsmith to give keynote address at “Executive Power” symposium cosponsored by the LBJ Library and School of Law
• Capital Punishment Center to host conference on legislative developments on the death penalty April 9–10, 2010

March

• Tenth annual dispute resolution spring symposium features keynote on the future of civil justice, March 31, 2010
• Roundtable colloquium on “Climate Change Law and Policy after Copenhagen” to be held at Law School Thursday, April 1, 2010
• Center for Women in Law hosts inaugural Leadership Boot Camp, April 9, 2010
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Adeno Addis of Tulane Law School to speak on “Neither Members nor Strangers: Imagining ‘The People’ in the Age of the Diaspora,” March 29, 2010
• Third annual National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop, April 1–2, 2010
• Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights and the American Journal of Criminal Law to host “Juvenile Justice: the Rights of Minors in the American Criminal Justice System,” March 29, 2010
• Law School students win top honors at Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition
• Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law to host “The Implications of the NFL and NBA's Expiring Collective Bargaining Agreements,” March 25, 2010
• Opinion: Assistant Professor Justin Driver reviews Barry Friedman’s “The Will of the People” in The New Republic (PDF)
• Opinion: Professor Charles Silver recommends against arbitrarily slashing the 9/11 plaintiffs’ lawyers fees, in the New York Daily News (PDF)
• University of Texas School of Law and USC-Caltech Center on the Study of Law and Politics hold conference on “Measuring the Rule of Law” March 26-27
• Opinion: Professor Tom McGarity writes in the Austin American-Statesman that Texas's plan to downgrade water quality standards is unjustifiable (PDF)
• Professor Henry Hu interviewed by CNN on derivatives and the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation
• Community Development Clinic creates toolkit for Texas communities to combat problem properties
• Alumni Association President Jack Balagia, '76, appointed vice president and general counsel for Exxon Mobil Corporation
• Professor Henry Hu explains credit default swaps and “empty creditors” on CNNMoney
• Opinion: Professor Calvin Johnson on McDonald v. Chicago, arguing that digital searches show the Second Amendment can’t legitimately be imposed against the states, in the National Law Journal (PDF)
• Opinion: Professor Mitch Berman asks “Hasn’t Kesen Hu suffered enough?” in the Austin American-Statesman (PDF)
• UT Law's fifth annual Judicial Clerkship Workshop, March 5, 2010
• Law School hosts events for children and teens as part of Explore UT, Saturday, March 6, 2010
• Kathryn S. Fuller, ’76, chair of the Ford Foundation and former president of the World Wildlife Fund, is the inaugural G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence, March 8–10, 2010

February

• UT Law’s highest honor society installs 2010 Chancellors
• People’s Law School offers free legal education, February 27, 2010
• Law and Philosophy Program sponsors annual Leon Green, '15, Lecture in Jurisprudence, March 4, 2010
• Steikers’ study cites obstacles to fair administration of death penalty, supports American Law Institute decision to repudiate model death penalty provision
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Eduardo Restrepo of Pontifica Universidad Javeriana to speak on “Armed Conflict and Collective Rights in the Southern Pacific Region of Colombia,” February 22, 2010
• UT Law's Federalist Society to host talk by former Justice Department official John Yoo, February 25, 2010
• Two UT Law students awarded Justice Corps Fellowships to pursue public-interest legal projects
• Passport Day: February 18, 2010
• Supreme Court of Texas oral arguments open “Pursuing Justice through Legal Innovation” symposium at UT Law, February 18, 2010
• Access to Justice Scholarship awarded to Adriana Rodriguez, '11
• Human Rights Happy Hour: Elizabeth Bartholet of Harvard Law School to speak on “A Human Rights Perspective on Unparented Children & International Adoption” February 8, 2010
• Law School to host National Trial Competition February 4-6
• Natural Resources Defense Council’s S. Jacob Scherr to speak on the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit on Friday, February 5, 2010

January

• Texas Law Review, Strauss Center to host “Law at the Intersection of National Security, Privacy, and Technological Change,” February 5–6, 2010
• University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers coauthors tort law restatement for the American Law Institute
• Judicial admiration: Q&A with Professor Lucas A. Powe Jr.
• Professor Henry Hu, head of the SEC's new Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, profiled in the Wall Street Journal
• Robin Steinberg, founder and executive director of the Bronx Defenders, to speak on indigent defense and social justice
• Sixth annual Rare Book Lecture, “What Was It Like to be a Lawyer in Fourteenth-century England?” to be held February 11, 2010
• Law School to host conference on judicial biography and the Supreme Court in honor of Roy M. Mersky, January 29, 2010
• Timothy J. Unger, ’74, receives the Ernest E. Smith Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the energy law field
• Fifth Annual Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Symposium to be held January 21-22, 2010
• Center for Women in Law names new executive director
• Opinion: Professor Mitch Berman looks to the law for proposed changes to the NFL’s instant replay system in Slate (PDF)
• Author Mimi Clark Gronlund to read from and sign her book about her father, Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark: A Life of Service
• American Law Institute appoints Professor Alan Rau an adviser for the Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration

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